Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

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, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 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 Board

Abbas E. Abbas

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Alberto Aiolfi, MD

University of Milan, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Italy

Ishfaq H Bhat, MD, AGAF, FASGE

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

Wojciech Blonski, MD PhD FACG

Division of Gastroenterology, James A Haley Veterans’ Hospital and University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA

Luigi Bonavina

Division of Foregut Surgery, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Policlinico San Donato, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Velda Ling Yu Chow, MBBS(HK), MS(HK), MRCS(Ed), FCSHK, FHKAM

Division of Head and Neck Surgery & Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. China

Chigozirim N. Ekeke

Department of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Abdul-Rahman Fadi Diab

University of Central Florida/HCA Florida Healthcare GME, Ocala, FL, USA Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA

Timothy M. Farrell, MD

Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

James A. Gossage

Department of General Surgery, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

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

Christopher M. Jones, MD, PhD, FRCR

Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Amrit K. Kamboj, MD

Division of Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ken Kato

Department of Head and Neck, Esophageal Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Dimitrios Kehagias MD, PhD, FEBS

Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, NHS Hull University Teaching Hospitals, UK; Department of Surgery, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.

Biniam Kidane, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

B. Feike Kingma, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht & Meander Medical Center Amersfoort, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Bhaskar Kumar

Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK

Kiran Lagisetty, MD

Department of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

John C. Lipham, MD

Division of Upper GI and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Robert C. G. Martin, II, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA

Kenneth Meredith, MD, FAC

Gastrointestinal Oncology, Florida State University College Of Medicine/Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, FL, USA

Dania Nachira, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli", IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

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

Editorial Team

Honorary Editors-in-Chief

Editor-In-Chief

Editorial Board

Managing Editor

Senior Editors

Corresponding Editor

Science Editors