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

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

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

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

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

Naoki Hashimoto, MD, PhD
Department of ER, Sanda City Hospital, Hyogo Japan

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

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
1- Esophageal Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2- Instituto de medicina traslacional, trasplante y bioingeniería (IMETTYB), Universidad Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
3- McGowan Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 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

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

Riccardo Rosati
Gastrointestinal Surgery, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

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

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

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
Science Editors
Wei-En Fan
Editorial Office, Annals of Esophagus
Skylar F. Gao
Editorial Office, Annals of Esophagus
Molly J. Wang
Editorial Office, Annals of Esophagus