EDITOR IN CHIEF Marc Basson, MD, PhD, MBA
Dean, College of Medicine
Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, USA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Roberto Anaya-Prado, MD, MSc, PhD, FACS - Academic Research, Professor of Surgery, Research Scientist, Surgeon, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
José Miguel Lloris-Carsi, MD, PhD - Full Professor of Surgery, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
NORTH AMERICA Harvey L. Bumpers, MD, FACS - Professor of Surgery, Director of Breast Surgery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
James P Byrne, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Cornelius (Mac) Dyke, MD - Chair of the Department of Surgery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Antonio Forte, MD, PhD - Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, Vice Chair of Research and Innovation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Chris Gayer, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP - Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Rainer W.G. Gruessner, MD, FACS - Professor of Surgery, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA
Steven M. Kuhlman - Consultant, Merck Research Laboratories, New Jersey, Rahway, NJ, USA
Saad Shebrain, MD, MMM, FACS - Program Director, Professor of Surgery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
M. Michael Swindle, DVM, DACLAM - Professor Emeritus, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Xiao-Di Tan, MD, PHD – Gastroenterologist, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
John T. Vetto, MD, FACS, RAACE - Professor of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Jian-Ying Wang, MD, PhD - Professor of Surgery and Pathology, Associate Chair for Basic Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Stan Ward, MD - Orthopedic Surgeon, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
William Xu, MD - Anaesthesiology Specialist, University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City, IA, USA
Ping Zhang, MD, PhD - Watanakunakorn Chair and Professor, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, USA
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Aldo Cunha Medeiros, MD - General Surgeon, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Lagoa Nova, Natal – RN, Brazil
EUROPE
Erling Aarsaether, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Fabio Barra, MD - Resident in Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Genoa, Genova GE, Italy
Luigi Della Corte, MD - Assistant Professor, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli NA, Italy
Roberto Cuomo, MD - Professor or Plastic Surgery, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Patrick Czorlich, MD - Senior Physician, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Andrea Furka, PhD - Associate Professor of Oncology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Egyetem Tér 1, Hungary
Gaetano Gallo, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Dimos Karangelis MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupoli, Greece
Michalis Kontos, MD - Associate Professor of General and Breast Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Martin Pouw, MD, PhD – Researcher, Radbound University Hospital, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Maja Surbatovic, MD, PhD - Faculty of Medicine of the Military Medical Academy, University of Defence, Belgrade, Serbia
Georgios Tsoulfas, MD, PhD, FICS, FACS - Professor of Transplantation Surgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
Edoardo Virgilio, MD, PhD - Researcher, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
AFRICA Pradeep H Navsaria, MBChB, MMed, FCS, FACS - Professor of Surgery, University of Cape Town, Specialist Trauma Surgeon, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
ASIA Mustafa Arslan, MD - Professor, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
Asan Batirel, MD, PhD - Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Biruni University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey
Bulang Gao, MD, PhD - Professor, Henan Provincial People's Hospital and Shijiazhuang People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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