Editorial Team
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Jie He, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
Toni Lerut, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
Editor-In-Chief
Yin Li, MD, PhD, FRCS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; National Cancer Center, Beijing, China
Editorial Consultants
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
David Watson, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRACS, FRCSEd (hon), FAHMS
Department of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
Editorial Board
Abbas E. Abbas
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Seiichiro Abe, MD, PhD, FASGE
Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Sami R. Achem, MD, MACG, AGAF, ASGEF, FACP
Departamento de Gastroenterología, Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Marc P. Buise, MD PhD
Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Luigi Bonavina, MD, FACS
Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Division of General Surgery, University of Milano Medical School, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
Michael Bouvet, MD, FACS
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, MBA, FACS, FCCP
Clinical Division of Thoracic Surgery, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
Xiaoxin Luke Chen, MD, PhD
Cancer Research Program, Julius L Chamber Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA
Tong Chen, MD, PhD
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 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
Madhav Desai, MD, MPH
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA
Peter W. Dettmar, PhD, CBiol, FSB, FRSPH
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
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
Timothy M. Farrell, MD
Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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, FEBS (hon.), FACS
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
Naoki Hashimoto, MD, PhD
Department of ER, Sanda City Hospital, Hyogo Japan
Mark Hennon, MD, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Fernando A. M. Herbella, MD
Department of Surgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Toshiro Iizuka
Department of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Biniam Kidane, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Jae Y. Kim, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA
Kazuo Koyanagi, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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
Kenneth Meredith, MD, FAC
Gastrointestinal Oncology, Florida State University College Of Medicine/Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, FL, USA
Daniela Molena, MD
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Christopher R. Morse, MD
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Dania Nachira, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli", IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
Magnus Nilsson
Division of Surgery, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Alejandro Nieponice, MD, PhD
Esophageal Division, Hospital Universitario Fundacion Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Soji Ozawa, MD, DMSc, FACS
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
Ikenna C. Okereke, MD, FACS
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Marco G. Patti, MD
Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Amit Patel, MD
Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 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
Jose M. Pimiento, MD, FACS
Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA
Jianjun Qin, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
John V. Reynolds, PhD
Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin and St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Vignesh Raman, MD
Department of Surgery, Duke University Health System, Durham, NC, USA
Riccardo Rosati
Gastrointestinal Surgery, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
Jari V. Räsänen, MD, PhD
Department of Esophageal and Thoracic Surgery, Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Inderpal (Netu) S. Sarkaria, MD, FACS
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Francisco Schlottmann, MD, MPH
Department of Surgery, Hospital Alemán of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sebastian F. Schoppmann, MD
Department of Surgery, Upper-GI-Service, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Franco Stella, MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Masahiro Tajika, MD, PhD
Department of Endoscopy, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
René Thieme, PhD
Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Sarah K. Thompson, MD, PhD, FRACS, FRCSC
Department of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre & Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
Mark Ivo van Berge Henegouwen, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, (UMC) location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abraham Wu, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Ming-Ho Wu, MD
Department of Surgery, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Show Chwan Medical Care Corporation, Tainan, Taiwan
Yukinori Yamagata, MD, PhD
Department of Gastric Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Tomonori Yano
Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan
Xuchen Zhang, MD, PhD
Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Bruno Zilberstein MD, PhD, TCBCD, ECBC, FACS
Gastrointestinal Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, Cancer Institute, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Language Editors
Jeremy Dean Chapnick
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; United States University Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA (Sept. 2012 to May 2016)
John Ayric Gray
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Sept. 2004-June 2009)
Academic Editors
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