Associate Editors
Trauma care and orthopedic surgery
Faiz Ahmad, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Hagen Andruszkow, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
Theerachai Apivatthakakul, Dept of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Kao-Ping Chang, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
Derly Cuellar, Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, USA
Adrien Daigeler, BG-University Hospital, Germany
Johannes Fakler, University of Leipzig, Germany
Mariano Fernandez-Fairen, Instituto de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología de Barcelona, Spain Michael Flierl, University of Colorado, USA
Lisa Flynn, Wayne State University, USA
Boris Michael Holzapfel, Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Yingqi Hua, Shanghai First People's Hospital, China
Stefan Huber-Wagner, Technical University Munich, Germany
Cyril Mauffrey, Denver Health Medical Centre, USA
Xiaohui Niu, Beijing Ji Shui Tan Hospital, Peking University, China
Miren A Schinco, Univerity of Florida, USA
Dongquan Shi, Drum Tower Hospital affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, China
Clement M.L. Werner, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland 
Tobias Zingg, Yale University, USA
Carmine Zoccali, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Italy

Vascular and thoracic surgery
Bahaaldin Alsoufi, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Saudi Arabia
Amedeo Anselmi, University of Rennes, France
Carlo Banfi, Hopitaux Universitaire Genève, Switzerland
Ismail Bouhout, Institut De Cardiologie de Montreal, Canada
Ali Can Hatemi, Istanbul University, Institute of Cardiology, Turkey
Wolfram Karenovics, University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland
Marzia Leacche, Vanderbilt Medical Center, USA
Malek Massad, University of Illinois, USA
Amine Mazine, Montreal Heart Institute, Canada
Patrick Olivier, Myers Children's Hospital Boston, USA
Alberto Polimeni, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
Ufuk Çagirici, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey

Video articles
Salomone Di Saverio, Maggiore History of Bologna, Italy

Visceral and general surgery
Luca Ansaloni, Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Italy
Andreas Bakoyiannis, Bioclinic, City Clinic, Greece
Omar Barakat, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Dirk Bausch, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Franck Billmann, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Germany
Marco Borghesi, University of Bologna, Italy
Giuseppe Borzellino, University Hospital of Verona, Italy
Florin Botea, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Romania
Stefan Breitenstein, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Switzerland
Fabio Cesare Campanile, Ospedale Civita Castellana, Italy
Giovanni Conzo, Second University of Naples, Italy
Gianluca Donatini, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers
Traian Dumitrascu, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Romania
Michael Froehner, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Clemens Gerstenkorn, German Healthcare, EU, Germany
Ali Guner, Trabzon Numune Training and Research Hospital, Turkey
Reto Kaderli, University of Bern, Switzerland
Harsh Kanhere, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Australia
Kostiantyn Kopchak, National Institute of Surgery and Transplantation, Ukraine
Sven Arke Lang, University of Freiburg, Germany
Kerstin Lorenz, University Hospital Halle, Germany
Goran Marjanovic, University of Freiburg, Germany
Petros Mirilas, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Giuseppe Nigri, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Gianluca Pellino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Marco Petrillo, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Marco Raffaelli, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Falk Rauchfuß, University Hospital Jena, Germany
Beate Richter, Hufeland Klinikum GmbH, Germany
Lizong Shen, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, China
Mikhail Tavobilov, Botkin's Municipal Hospital, Russian
Markus Ivo Trochsler, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Australia
Antonio C Valezi, State University of Londrina, Brazil
Nereo Vettoretto, M.Mellini Hospital, Italy
Ernst von Dobschuetz, University of Freiburg, Germany
Ulrich Friedrich Wellner, UKSH Campus LübecK, Germany
Uwe A Wittel, Universitätsklinik Freiburg, Germany
Kai Pun Wong, The University of Hong Kong, China

Editorial Advisors
Markus Buchler, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Nigel Bundred, South Manchester University Hospital, UK
Michael Diamond, Wayne State University, USA
Jonathan Friedman, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USA
Karsten Junge, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
Carlos A Muro-Cacho, University of South Florida, USA
Robert Sawyer, University of Virginia, USA
Francis Seow-Choen, Seow-Choen Colorectal Centre, Singapore