Giammauro Berardi

Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: surgical oncology; hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; liver transplantation

C. E. Boru

Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, University La Sapienza of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: bariatric surgery; hiatal hernia surgery; diabetes surgery; general surgery; abdominal wall surgery

Stephen Chang

National University of Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore

Research Interests: minimally invasive surgery, liver, pancreas gallbladder surgeries, medtech research

Enrico Checcucci

Department of Surgery, FPO IRCCS Candiolo Cancer Institute, Turin, Italy.

Research Interests: prostate cancer; robotic surgery; uro-oncology; augmented reality; artificial intelligence

Changmeng Cui

Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, Shangdong, China

Research Interests: minimally invasive neurosurgery, neurological injury and regeneration, traumatic brain injury, potential targets for neuroprotection

Luigi Della Corte

Department of Neuroscience, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: gynaecological surgery; oncological gynecology; endometriosis; clinical research

Zhaoqing Du

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, China

Research Interests: liver abscess, portal hypertension, surgery, alcoholic liver, liver failure, serum markers, prognosis

Hussein Elkhayat

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Assiut University, Asyut, Egypt.

Research Interests: thoracic surgery; VATS; lung cancer

Michail Galanis

Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Johannes Wesling Minden, Minden, Germany.

Research Interests: esophagus; esophagectomy; thoracoscopy; segmentectomy; lobectomy; VATS; minimal-invasive surgery; laparoscopy; robotic surgery

Mingzheng Hu

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Yichang Central People's Hospital, Hubei, China

Research Interests: liver transplantation, liver regeneration, minimally invasive techniques, biliary reconstruction

Ting Hu

Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Research Interests: cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer

Giuseppe Ietto

Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy

Research Interests: robotic surgery, transplantation, MIS and robot-assisted donor nephrectomy, MIS and robot-assisted abdominal wall surgery, MIS and robot-assisted adrenalectomy, MIS and robot-assisted HPB surgery

Hitoshi Igai

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Maebashi, Japan.

Research Interests: minimally invasive surgery; uniportal VATS; pulmonary segmentectomy; lung cancer

Xing Kang

Department of Pancreatic and Metabolic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: bariatric metabolic surgery, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), metabolic syndrome, obesity, bariatric surgery

Jianqiu Kong

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Research Interests: urological surgery, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, renal tumors, imaging techniques, artificial intelligence in medicine, surgical innovation, and precision medicine

Wenjun Mao

The Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu, China

Research Interests: lung cancer, thoracic surgery, tumor immune microenvironment

Haibo Ni

The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Jiangsu, China

Research Interests: neuroendoscopy, intracranial haemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, craniotomy, biomarker, neuroprotection

Savio Domenico Pandolfo

Department of Urology, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.

Research Interests: urologic oncology; robotics & minimally invasive urology; robotic surgery; laparoscopic surgery; prostate cancer; bladder cancer; kidney cancer; RCC; transurethral resection of prostate; nephrectomy; abdominal surgery; endourology; urolithiasis

Marcos Perini

Austria Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Research Interests: Liver surgery, liver transplantation, onco vascular surgery, colorectal liver metastases, hilar cholangio carcinoma, hepatoclular carcinoma

Stefano Restaino

Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: gynaecological surgery; obstetrics and gynecology; health care; clinical research; public health; medicine

Sara Ricciardi

Department of Thoracic Surgery, RCCS University Hospital of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: NSCLC; malignant pleural mesothelioma; thymic malignancies; pneumothorax; pleural infection

Aram Rojas

Department of Surgery, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.

Research Interests: minimally invasive surgery; abdominal surgery; colorectal surgery; hernia surgery; robotic surgery

Sofia Rozani

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Research Interests: General Surgery, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Liver Transplantation Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Global Surgery

Andrea Scotti

Department of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy.

Research Interests: heart valve disease; percutaneous coronary intervention; percutaneous mitral repair; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; cardiovascular therapy; heart failure

Federico Jose Serrot

Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Research Interests: bariatric surgery; hernia repair; endoscopy; robotic surgery

Alessandro Veccia

Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona, Verona, Italy

Research Interests: minimally invasive surgery; kidney cancer; upper tract urothelial carcinoma; bladder cancer; prostate cancer

Benjamin Wei

Department of Surgery, University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Research Interests: robotics; lung surgery; esophageal surgery; mediastinum; chest wall

Ory Wiesel

Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Research Interests: general thoracic surgery; esophageal cancer; esophageal disease; lung cancer

Guangzhen Wu

Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Liaoning, China

Research Interests: kidney cancer, urological oncology, bioinformatics, lipid metabolism, post-translational modifications

Shu Zhang

Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Research Interests: robotic surgery, surgical oncology, minimal invasive surgery, ERAS, artificial intelligence, tele-surgery, medical law, public health