Former Editorial Board
Sami R. Achem, MD, MACG, AGAF, ASGEF, FACP
Departamento de Gastroenterología, Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Michael Bouvet, MD, FACS
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
Marc P. Buise, MD PhD
Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Yin-Kai Chao, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan
Tong Chen, MD, PhD
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Xiaoxin Luke Chen, MD, PhD
Cancer Research Program, Julius L Chamber Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA
Philip Wai-yan Chiu, MD(CUHK), MBChB(CUHK), FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery)
Department of Surgery, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Denis Collet
Department of Digestive Surgery, University Hospital of Bordeaux, Maison du Haut-Lévêque, Bordeaux, France
Miguel A. Cuesta, MD
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guy D. Eslick, DrPH, PhD, MMedStat, MMedSc(Clin Epi), FACE, FFPH
The Whiteley-Martin Research Centre, Discipline of Surgery, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Clinical Building, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, Australia
Peter W. Dettmar, PhD, CBiol, FSB, FRSPH (1944-2021)
Technostics Ltd & RD Biomed Ltd, Castle Hill Hospital, East Yorkshire, UK
Xavier Benoit D’Journo, MD, PhD, FEBTCS
Aix-Marseille University, Thoracic Surgery Department, North Hospital, Marseille, France
Ronnie Fass, MD
The Esophageal and Swallowing Center, Digestive Health Center, MetroHealth Medical System, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Lorenzo Ferri, MD, PhD
Departments of Surgery and Oncology, McGill University, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Takeo Fujita, MD, PhD, FACS
Department of Esophageal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Peter Grimminger
Minimal-invasive Surgery and Robotics, Case Observation Center for Robotic Esophageal Surgery, Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Tomasz Grodzki, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Regional Hospital for Lung Diseases, Szczecin-Zdunowo, Poland
Kishore Guda, DVM, PhD
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
Mark Hennon, MD, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, MBA, FACS, FCCP
Clinical Division of Thoracic Surgery, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
Janusz Jankowski, MSc, MD, PhD, AGAF, FRCP, FACG, SFHEA, PGME
RCSI Office of Research & Innovation, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ardilaun House, Dublin, Ireland
Kazuo Koyanagi, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
Wayne L. Hofstetter, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
J.J.B. (Jan) van Lanschot, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Centre and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Chia-Chuan Liu, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Koo-Foundation Sun Yat-sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Lars Ragnar Lundell, MD, PhD
Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
Hiroshi Makino MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tama-Nagayama Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Daniela Molena, MD
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Ikenna C. Okereke, MD, FACS
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Soji Ozawa, MD, DMSc, FACS
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
Amit Patel, MD
Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Marco G. Patti, MD
Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Alexander W Phillips, MD, MA, FRCSEd, FFSTEd, FHEA
Northern Oesophagogastric Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle University NHS Foundation Trust Hospitals, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Vignesh Raman, MD
Department of Surgery, Duke University Health System, Durham, NC, USA
Jari V. Räsänen, MD, PhD
Department of Esophageal and Thoracic Surgery, Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
John V. Reynolds, PhD
Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin and St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Franco Stella, MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Yuji Tachimori, MD
Department of Surgery, Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan
Ming-Ho Wu, MD
Department of Surgery, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Show Chwan Medical Care Corporation, Tainan
Tomonori Yano
Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan
Bruno Zilberstein MD, PhD, TCBCD, ECBC, FACS
Gastrointestinal Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, Cancer Institute, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil