Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Zenichi Morise MD., Ph.D., FACS
Professor and Chairman, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Okazaki Medical Center, Japan
Research Areas: Liver, Liver surgery, Minimally-invasive liver surgery, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Colorectal liver metastases, Chronic liver disease, Pancreatic surgery
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Associate Editors

Takafumi Ando, MD, PhD, Senior Researcher
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Research Areas: Esophagus, Stomach, Liver, intestines, Pancreas, Biliary, Inflammatory bowel disease, GERD, Stomach
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Hassan Ashktorab, PhD, Professor
Howard University, USA
Research Areas: Colorectal genetic and epigenetic, H. pylori cell death and host genetic response
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Peter Draganov, MD, Professor
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Research Areas: Achalasia, Colorectal cancer, ERCP, Endoscopy, Stomach cancer
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Timothy B. Gardner, MD, MS, Professor 
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USA
Research Areas: Pancreas, Biliary, Advanced Endoscopy (EUS/ERCP), General Outcomes Research
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Nirag C. Jhala, MD, FICP, MIAC, Professor
Professor & Vice Chair for Clinical Operations, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (Rutgers University), New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Research Areas: Gastrointestinal tract pathology, Endoscopically guided fine needle aspirates, Refining diagnostic algorithms based on morphology, Translating and validating biomarkers
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Xiuli Liu, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
Research Areas: Gastrointestinal and liver pathology, Clinical and translational research in Barrett’s esophagus, Inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, Inflammatory bowel disease, Pancreatic cancer and liver diseases
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Bo Shen, MD, Professor
The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA
Research Areas: IBD, Gastroenterology
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Editorial Board

Ludovico Abenavoli, MD, PhD, MSc, Professor
University Magna Graecia, Italy
Research Areas: Non alcoholic fatty liver disease, Alcoholic fatty liver disease, Primary biliary cirrhosis, Transiet elastography, Celiac disease, Extraintestinal manifestations of celiac disease
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Akira Andoh, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan
Research Areas: Intestine, Especially IBD, Intestinal mucosal immunology, Dysbiosis in pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease, Cytokine network in mucosal immunology
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Stelios F. Assimakopoulos, MD, PhD,  Professor
Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
Research Areas: Bacterial translocation, Endotoxemia, Intestinal barrier

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Paola Balestrieri, MD, PhD, Dr., Senior Research Scientist
Department of Gastroenterology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
Research Areas:  Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) (primary area), Functional gastrointestinal disorders, Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders
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Weibiao Cao, MD, Professor
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Research Areas: Barrett esophagus, Esophageal adenocarcinoma
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Damiano Caputo, MD, FACS, Associate Professor
Department of Surgery University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy
Research Areas: Gastrointestinal surgery
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Flair José Carrilho, MD, PhD, Professor
University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil
Research Areas: Hepatology (Liver diseases)
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John O’Brien Clarke, MD,  Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Research Areas:  Gastroenterology and hepatology, Motility disorders
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Mark Richard Deneau, MD, MS, Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Research Areas: Pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology, Autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases, Inflammatory bowel disease
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Konstantinos (Costas) Fragkos, MBBS, MSc, MPhil, 
GI Services, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Research Areas: Clinical nutrition, Short bowel syndrome, Parenteral nutrition, Enteral nutrition, Radiation enteropathy, Systematic review, Meta-analysis, Statistics
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Sabha Ganai, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Surgery, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, North Dakota, USA
Research Areas: Surgical oncology, GI surgery, GI oncology
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Davide Ghinolfi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Pisa Medical School Hospital, Pisa, Italy
Research Areas: Liver transplantation, Organ donation, Ex-vivo machine perfusion, Ischemia referfusion injury, Marginal donors, Liver surgery, Quality assessment
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Mario Guslandi, MD, Adjunct Professor
S.Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy
Research Areas: Inflammatory bowel disease, Probiotics; NSAID gastropathy; IBS; Diverticular disease
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Sen-Yung Hsieh, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuna, Taiwan
Research Areas: Tumor biology, Functional genomics, Hepatoma, Molecular and cellular biology
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Yuji Ishii, MD, PhD, Professor
Internal Medicine & Surgery Clinic, Department of Gastroenterology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Research Areas: Hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery, Liver transplantation, Bio-artificial liver
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Arda Isik, MD, FACS, FEBS, Professor
Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Director, Institute of Health Sciences, Erzincan, Turkey
Research Areas: Gastrointestinal surgery
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Fady M. Kaldas, MD, FICP, MIAC, Professor
Department of Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Research Areas: Liver transplant, Pediatric liver transplant, Cholangiocarcinoma, Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), Hepatobiliary surgery
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Shahzeer Karmali, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Professor
University of Alberta, Canada
Research Areas: Gastroenterology, Surgery
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Sahil Khanna, MBBS, MS, FACG, Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
Research Areas: Gastroenterology and Hepatology
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Jinping Lai, MD, PhD, Dr. 
Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
Research Areas: Gastroenterology
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Sun-Young Lee, MD, PhD, Professor
Konkuk University School of Medicine, South Korea
Research Areas: Hepatology and Gastroenterology
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Amedeo Lonardo, MD, Dr., Professor
Dept. Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Ospedale Vivile di Baggiovara (-2023) Modena, Italy
Research Areas: MASLD,sex medicine, Precision medicine, Internal medicine.
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Alberto Maringhini, MD
Unit of Internal Medicine 1, A.R.N.A.S. Civico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Research Areas: Biliary and pancreatic disease, Cirrhosis and hepatic disease, Hepatocellular carcinoma
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Yasunobu Matsuda, MD, PhD, Professor
Niigata University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Japan
Research Areas: Liver
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Yuji Naito, MD, PhD, Professor
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
Research Areas: Gastric mucosal injury, Gastrointestinal Inflammation, NSAIDs-induced GI injury, Helicobacter pylori, Oxidative stress, Ischemia-reperfusion, Endoscopic surgery for gastric cancer, Endoscopic surgery for colon cancer, Inflammatory bowel disease
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Oliviero Riggio, MD, Professor
University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Research Areas: Liver
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Vinod K Rustgi, MD, MBA, Professor
Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine (Rutgers), New Brunswick, Canada
Research Areas: Pathology and laboratory medicine, Epidemiology, Medicine, Clinical GI, Hepatology
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Yan-Shen Shan, MD, PhD, Professor
National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Research Areas: Stomach, Intestine, Pancreas
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Jesus Simal-Gandara, PhD, Professor
Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Research Areas: Metabolomics, Proteomics, Bioactive peptides, Gut bacteria, Immunomodulatory effects
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Prashanthi N. Thota, MD, FACG
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
Research Areas: Gastroenterology and Hepatology
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