Editor-in-Chief

Zenichi Morise, M.D., Ph.D., FACS
Professor and Chairman of the department (Surgery) in Fujita Health University School of Medicine Okazaki Medical Center.
Founding director of Fujita Health University Okazaki Medical Center. 
Program officer of Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
International Laparoscopic Liver Society, Founding member and Committee member (education)
International Society of Digestive Surgery, Committee member of education
Fujita Medical Journal (Official journal of Fujita Health University), Deputy Chief Editor

Biography
Dr. Morise, who received his medical degree and PhD from Keio University (Japan), had been working on hepato-pancreato-biliary, mainly liver, diseases and surgeries. Currently, his main research interest is minimally invasive liver surgery, especially for HCC. 

He published the world-first paper describing the novel concept of “Caudal approach” in laparoscopic liver surgery in 2013, which was defined as a main conceptual change in minimally-invasive liver surgery in the 2nd international consensus conference and followed by many papers including his own works. He had been doing research about the advantages of minimally invasive liver surgery, such as for patients with impaired liver function and repeat liver resection. Including those topics, he conducted several ILLS-related projects and published the papers.

He has published more than 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, Annals of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery, Cancers and many others. His current h-index is 31.

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