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Associate Editor

Mikhail Sinelnikov, MD, PhD, Springer Nature, USA
New Content ItemMikhail joined BMC Series in 2023. He is a Doctor of Medicine with clinical experience centered in oncology and reconstructive surgery, as well as academic experience in anatomy and histology. After completing residency in 2018, he obtained a double PhD in Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Oncology. In line with his clinical and academic work, he led several research projects in the field of regenerative medicine, including a postdoctoral position at Mayo Clinic. Mikhail is passionate about accessibility and transparency in research, both principles upheld by BMC Series journals. His goal as an editor is to promote these principles of open access to help authors maximize the impact of their research and reach a rapidly growing audience.  

Senior Editorial Board Members

Marco Allaix, PhD, University of Turin, Italy
New Content ItemMarco E. Allaix, MD, PhD, was born in Torino in 1977. He obtained the Degree in Medicine at the University of Torino, School of Medicine, in 2002. He spent 18 months as Postgraduate Research Fellow at the University of Chicago in 2012 and 2013. He is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino. He is member of several national and international surgical societies. He serves as Reviewer for 15+ peer-reviewed journals. To date, he has published more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He authored and co-authored more than 30 book chapters. His main research and clinical interests are minimally invasive surgery, colorectal cancer and esophageal disorders.


Mustafa Çelik, MD, Beykent University, Turkey
New Content ItemProf Mustafa Çelik was graduated in Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty and trained in residency program  of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery in Bakırköy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey. He worked as Associate Professor at Kafkas University, Beykent University and Istanbul Gelişim University. He is going on to work at Istanbul Gelişim Universıty. Dr Çelik is an author of several publications in national and international journals and he also served on the editorial board of several highly respected medical journals in the field of otorhinolaryngology. His research interest includes facial plastic surgery, facelift, necklift, rhinoplasty, sinusitis and sleep medicine. He is the last editor-in-chief of BMC Ear Nose and Throat Disorders. He joined the editorial board of BMC Surgery as senior editorial board member in 2020.

René Fahrner, MD, Bürgerspital Solothurn, Switzerland
New Content ItemDr. René Fahrner graduated in medicine at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, and completed his doctoral thesis in the field of liver transplantation. During his surgical education he worked at the University Hospitals in Münster (Germany) and in Switzerland (Bern, Schlieren). As research fellow at the University Hospitals in Bern (Switzerland) and Jena (Germany) he worked and published in basic research in the field of liver injury and regeneration, liver immunology and liver biochip model as well as clinical research of general and visceral surgery. He graduated as a clinical specialist in general, visceral and vascular surgery. Since 2019 he is working in cantonal hospitals in Switzerland.
He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Surgery as Associate Editor in 2015 and became Section Editor for General and Visceral Surgery in 2017.
Dr. Fahrner’s research interests are basic and clinical research in general, visceral and vascular surgery.

Sebastian Fischer, BG Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen, Germany

Gaetano Gallo, MD, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Gaetano GalloGaetano Gallo, MD PhD, is Assistant Professor of Surgery at “La Sapienza” University of Roma, Roma, Italy. He completed his surgical training at the Department of Colorectal Surgery, S. Rita Clinic, Vercelli before being awarded several fellowships in Brazil, France, Japan, UK and The Netherlands. He has a clinical and academic interest in Proctology (Haemorrhoidal Disease, Perianal and Rectovaginal Fistulas, Rectal Prolapse), Functional and Pelvic Floor Disorders, IBD and Microbiome and Colorectal Cancer. He has authored and co-authored more than 250 articles, including several national and international guidelines on colorectal diseases. He is an Executive Member of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR) and is currently a member of the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) Guidelines and Cohort Studies Committees. He is an Editor and Member of several Journal Editorial Boards such as British Journal of Surgery, Surgery, Colorectal Disease, Techniques in Coloproctology and many Journals of BMC and Frontiers Series.

Marco Petrillo, PhD, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy

Pasqualino Sirignano, MD, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

New Content ItemPasqualino Sirignano was born and raised in Italy where he studied at the University of Siena obtaining his medical doctor degree cum laude in 2006. In 2021 Pasqualino Sirignano become a Vascular Surgeon at “Vita Salute” University of Milan.
Pasqualino Sirignano is an Aggregate Professor of Vascular Surgery at Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” – “Sapienza” University of Rome, and a Vascular Surgeon at Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Unit of the Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome.
Pasqualino Sirignano is member of various national and international Scientific Societies, he served as Secretary General of the Italian Society of Young Surgeons (SPIGC), and now as Secretary General of the Italian Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (SICVE).
Pasqualino Sirignano authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and book chapter and his lines of research are mostly related to arterial disease including carotid stenosis, aortic aneurysms, and peripheral arterial disease.

Ai-Min Wu, MD, Wenzhou Medical University Second Affiliated Hospital, China
New Content ItemProf Ai-Min Wu was graduated in Wenzhou Medical University, Post-Doc Training in School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao tong University, and Fellow training in University of Maryland, Harvard Medical School, University of Hongkong. He worked as Researcher, Associate Professor, Associate Chief Surgeon at Orthopedic-Spine Department of 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab of Orthopedics now. Dr. Wu is an author of more than 150+ publications in national and international journals, include Lancet, Lancet Healthy Longevity, Nature, Nature Medicine, Small, Pain, Bone and Joint Journal, Spine, and Spine J etc., he also served on the editorial board of several highly respected medical journals in the field of orthopedics or Spine. His research interest includes Spine Pain, Disc Degeneration, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Scoliosis. He joined the editorial board of BMC Surgery as senior editorial board member in 2020.

Assistant Editors
Shweta Bute, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Anagha Sasane, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India

Manuscript Editors
Nikhil Ghate, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Raunaq Singh Nagi, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pranitha Pandit, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Priya Sharma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, MTech, BTech, Springer Nature, India
Pratibha Verma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India

Editorial Board Members
Ziad Abbassi, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Emad Abdallah, Mansoura University, Egypt
Shalimar Abdullah, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Adam Abu Abeid, MD, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
Gian Luigi Adani, University Hospital Udine, Italy
Harshit Agarwal, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Annamaria Agnes, MD, PhD, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Italy
Antonino Agrusa, University of Palermo, Italy
Vanita Ahuja, MD, MPH, MBA, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Alberto Aiolfi, University of Milan, Italy
Sami Akbulut, MD, PhD, Inonu University, Turkey
Ilker Akcam, Ege University, Turkey
Nezih Akkapulu, PhD, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Laura Alaimo, MD, University of Verona, Italy
Giovanni Alemanno, Careggi University Hospital, Italy
Pier Francesco Alesina, Evang. Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Germany
Sara Alothman, Northwest Hospital, USA
Ahmed Alnajar, MD, MSPH, University of Miami, USA
Pietro Anoldo, MD, University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy
Amedeo Anselmi, University of Rennes, France
Pantelis Antonakis, PhD, Athens Medical School, Aretaieion Hospital, Greece
Theerachai Apivatthakakul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Francesco Ardito, PhD, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Atalel Awedew, MD, MPH, Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia
Mohamed Ibrahim Bahnasy, MD, Alexandria University, Egypt
Lovenish Bains, MD, MS, FNB, FACS, FRCS (Glas), FICS, FIAGES, Maulana Azad Medical College, India
Andreas Bakoyiannis, Bioclinic, City Clinic, Greece
Arjun Ballal, MBBS, MS, Ballals' Healthcare, India
Omar Barakat, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Manuel Barberio, PhD, Card. G. Panico Hospital, Italy
Philip Barie, MD, MBA, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Somprakas Basu, MBBS, MS, MSc, FRCS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Güntuğ Batıhan, MD, Kafkas University, Turkey
Dirk Bausch, Dr. med., University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Augustinas Bausys, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Lithuania
Offir Ben-Ishay, MD, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel
Franck Billmann, MD, PhD, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Germany
Paolo Boffano, MD DDS PhD, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Marco Bononi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Marco Borghesi, MD, University of Bologna, Italy
Giuseppe Borzellino, University Hospital of Verona, Italy
Florin Botea, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Romania
Ismail Bouhout, Institut De Cardiologie de Montreal, Canada
Umberto Bracale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Antonio Brillantino, PhD, "A. Cardarelli" Hospital, Italy
Stefania Brozzetti, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Luigi Brusciano, University of Study of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Italy, Italy
Michael El Boghdady, MBChB, MD, MCh, MHPE, PGDip, PGCAPHE, FHEA, MFSTED, Guy's and St Thomas Hospital, UK
Nikolay Bugaev, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts School of Medicine, USA
Giuseppe Di Buono, PhD, University of Palermo, Italy
Ufuk Çagirici, Dr. med., Ege University, Turkey
Pietro Giorgio Calò, MD, University of Cagliari, Italy
Giovanni Casella, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy
Giovanni Cammaroto, PhD, MD, Morgagni Pierantoni-Hospital, Italy
Alessio Campisi, MD, Aoui Verona, Italy
Gian Luigi Canu, MD, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Italy
Federico Cappellacci, MD, Cagliari State University, Italy
Fabio Cesare Campanile, MD, Ospedale Civita Castellana, Italy
Ludovico Carbone, MD, University of Siena, Italy
Giuseppe Cavallaro, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Marco Ceresoli, MD, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Marcio Chedid, MD, PhD, MSc, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Medical School of UFRGS, Brazil
Marco Chiappetta, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Adrian Chi-heng Fung, MBSS, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Pang-Yun Chou, PhD, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Pasquale Cianci, PhD, ASL BAT-Affiliated University of Foggia, Italy
Francesco A. Ciarleglio, MD, PhD, APSS-Health Care Agency, Italy
Diego Coletta, PhD, San Salvatore Hospital-AST Pesaro-Urbino and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Giovanni Conzo, MD, Second University of Naples, Italy
Gianluca Costa, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy
Daniele Crocetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Derly Cuellar, MD, Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, USA
Giacomo Cusumano, University Hospital Policlinico Vittorio Emanuele, Italy
Fabrizio D'Acapito, PhD, AUSL Romagna, Italy
Anna D'Amore, MD, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Mohammad Daher,MD, Brown University/ Hotel Dieu de France (Lebanon), USA
Arnaldo Dimagli, MD, University of Bristol, UK
Giovanni Docimo, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Gianluca Donatini, MD, PhD, FEBS-ES, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers, France
Agron Dogjani, PhD, University of Medicine of Tirana, Albania
Xing Du, MD, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
Traian Dumitrascu, PhD, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Romania
Aslam Ejaz, MD, MPH, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, USA
Hossam Elfeki, MD, Mansoura University, Egypt
Sameh H Emile, MD, Mansoura University, Egypt
Oliver Eng, MD, University of California, USA
Muhammer Ergenç,,  Marmara University School of Medicine, Turkey
Shai Factor, MD, MBA, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel
Johannes Fakler, University of Leipzig, Germany
Chengming Fan, Dr. med, MD, PhD, Central South University, China
Francesco Ferrara, MD, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Italy
Alfonso Fiorelli, MD, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Michele De Fazio, University "Aldo Moro" of Bari, Italy
Lisa Flynn, Wayne State University, USA
Giampaolo Formisano, MD, FACS, Misericordia Hospital, Italy
Flavio Forte, PhD, MG Vannini Hospital Rome: Sciences Department, Roma TRE University, Italy
Elisa Francone, MD, PhD, The University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Marco Frascio, MD, PhD, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Mahir Gachabayov, New York Medical College and Westchester Medical Center, USA
Claudio Gambardella, MD, PhD, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Liang Gao, MD, Saarland University, Germany
Stephen Gerfer, MD, PhD, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
Mario Giuffrida, MD, Parma University Hospital, Italy
Antonio Giuliani, AOR San Carlo, Italy
Raffaele Grande, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Stefano Granieri, MD,  ASST-Brianza, Vimercate hospital, Italy
Tommaso Greco, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Italy
Mario Gruppo, PhD, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Italy
Raymond Haddad, MD, MSc, M3C-Necker, France
Mohamed Hany, MD, Alexandria University, Egypt
Firdaus Hayati, MD, DrGenSurg, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Ricardo Horta, PhD, São João University Hospital (CHUSJ), Portugal
Shijun Hu, MD, PhD, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China
Wenbin Hua, MD, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Yingqi Hua, Shanghai First People's Hospital, China
ZeYu Huang, MD, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Tzu-Yen Huang, PhD, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Hiroyuki Inose, MD, PhD, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Arda Isik, MD, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
Eugenio Jannelli, MD, University of Pavia, Italy
Howard Jen, MD, MS, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Önder Kavurmacı, Izmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, Turkey
Mufaddal Kazi, MBBS, MS, MCh, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research, and Education in Cancer, India
Dimitrios Kehagias, MD, PhD, University Hospital of Patras, Greece
Kostiantyn Kopchak, Dr. med., National Institute of Surgery and Transplantation, Ukraine
Ioannis Konstantinidis, MD, Texas Oncology, USA
Irmgard Kronberger, Medizinische Universitat Innsbruck, Austria
Raffaele De Luca, MD, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "G. Paolo II", Italy
Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc, Imperial College London, UK
Pierfrancesco Lapolla, MD, University of Oxford, UK
Krzysztof Laudanski, MD, PhD, MHCI, Mayo Clinic, USA
Augusto Lauro, MD, St.Orsola University Hospital, Italy
Krzysztof Letachowicz, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
Guang-Xun Lin, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, China
Xiaokun Lin, PhD, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China
Eleonora Lori, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Luigi Losco, PhD, University of Salerno, Italy
Francesco Saverio Lucido, University of Campania of Naples, Italy
Domenico De Mauro, PhD Candidate, Federico II University, Italy
Marcello Di Martino, PhD, AORN Cardarelli, Italy
Stefano Magnone, MD, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII Bergamo, Italy
Michele Manigrasso, PhD, "Federico II" University of Naples, Italy
Wassim Mansour, MD, PhD, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Guglielmo Mantica, MD, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, Italy
Luigi Marano, MD, PhD, University of Siena, Italy
Michele Marconi, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Italy
David Martin, Priv. Doz., Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Switzerland
Gennaro Martines, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico Bari, Italy
Aleix Martínez-Pérez, PhD, Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Spain
Russell Seth Martins, MD, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Alessandro D. Mazzotta, MD, Biorobotics Institute Sant'anna , Italy
Roberto Luca Meniconi, MD, PhD, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Italy
Giuseppe Ietto, PhD, University of Insubria, Italy
Giovanni Merola, MD,  AOUP Federico II Napoli, Italy
Islam Metwally, PhD, Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS trust, UK
Marco Milone, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Petros Mirilas, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Lucia Moletta, University of Padova, Italy
Sarah Molfino, MD, University of Brescia & Third Division of General Surgery, Brescia Civili Hospital, Italy
Nunzio Montelione, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy
Christian Mpody, MD, PhD, MPH, MBA, Nationwide Childrens Hospital, USA
Ilaria Morelli, MD, UOC Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Ospedale di Legnano, ASST Ovest Milanese, Italy
Xiaoping Mu, Guangxi Academy of Medical Scicences, The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Mario Musella, PhD, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Giuseppe Nigri, MD, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Casimiro Nigro, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Ahmad Ozair, MBBS, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, USA
Ali Fahir Özer, MD, Koc University, Turkey
Christoph Paasch, PhD, University Hospital Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
Mario Pacilli, MD, Medical and Surgical department University of Fooggia, Italy
Marios Papadakis, PhD, University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany
Simona Parisi, University "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Ik Seong Park, MD, PhD, Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon Saint Mary's Hospital, South Korea
Mohit Patralekh, MS(Orthopaedics), DNB(Orthopaedic Surgery), Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, India
Renato Patrone, MD, PhD, IRCCS Pascale INT Naples, Italy
Giovanna Pavone, MD, University of Foggia, Italy
Corrado Pedrazzani, Verona University, Italy
Gianluca Pellino, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCP, FEBS (Coloproctology), FACS, Second University of Naples, Italy
Roberto Peltrini, MD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Dong Peng, PhD, The First Affiliation of Chongqing Medical University, China
Davide Pertile, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Italy
Antonio Pesce, MD, PhD, FACS, Delta Hospital, University of Ferrara, Italy
Andrea Picchetto, MD, PhD, MSc, AOU Policlinico Umberto I, University Hospital, Italy
Arcangelo Picciariello, MD, University "Aldo Moro" of Bari, Italy
Mauro Podda, MD, Cagliari State University, Italy
Alberto Polimeni, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
Andrea Polistena, PhD, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria di Terni, Italy
Nicola Pradegan, MD, Padova University Hospital, Italy
Marco Raffaelli, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Marco Ramera, MD, University of Brescia, Italy
Falk Rauchfuß, University Hospital Jena, Germany
Karol Rawicz-Pruszyński, MD, PhD, Medical University of Lublin, Poland
Elisa Reitano, PhD, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Ottavio Rena, PhD, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Beate Richter, Dr. med., MSc, Hufeland Klinikum GmbH, Germany
Aldo Rocca, Dr. med., Medicine and Health Sciences University of Molise, Italy
Gianluca Rompianesi, MD, PhD, FEBS, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Leonardo Rossi, PhD, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy
Giuseppe Rovere, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCSS and Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Paweł Rynio, MD, PhD, Pomeranian Medical University, Poland
Veronica De Simone, Policlinico Universitario Fondanzione Agostino Gemelli, Italy
Shekhar Saha, MD, PhD, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Taimur Saleem, MD, The Rane Center for Venous and Lymphatic Diseases at St Dominic Hospital, USA
Giuseppe Sammarco, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Gabriel Sandblom, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Gregorio Santori, MD, University of Genoa, Italy
Asahi Sato, Shiga General Hospital, Japan
Vinno Savelli, University of Siena, Italy
Stefano Scabini, MD, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Italy
Kevin Schuster, MD, MPH, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Juan José Segura-Sampedro, PhD, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Giuseppe Sena, MD, Azienda Ospedaliera "Pugliese-Ciaccio" of Catanzaro, Italy
Raffaele Serra, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Giuseppe Filiberto Serraino, Magna Graecia University, Italy
Alberto Settembrini, MD, FEBVS, FACS, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Policlinico, Italy
Mostafa Shalaby, MBBCh, MSc, MD, PhD, FACS, Mansoura University, Egypt
Sherif Shehata, MCh, MD (Surg), PhD, Tanta University, Egypt
Chaoyong Shen, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, China
Na Shen, MD, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, China
Dongquan Shi, Drum Tower Hospital affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, China
Pin-Keng Shih, PhD, China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
Laurențiu Simion, PhD, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy & Bucharest Oncological Institute, Romania
Amarildo Smakaj, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Amir Sohail, MD, MSc, University of New Mexico, USA
Salvatore Sorrenti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Giulio Sozzi, MD, University of Palermo, Italy
Cesare Stabilini, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Davor Stamenovic, Dr. med., Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Felix Strübing, MD, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Germany
Marco La Torre, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Antonio Tarasconi, Parma University Hospital, Italy
Mikhail Tavobilov, Botkin's Municipal Hospital, Russian
Giovanni Domenico Tebala, MD, FACS, FRCS, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Flavio Tirelli, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Italy
Valeria Tonini, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Bart Torensma, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Salvatore Tramontano, MD, University Hospital of Salerno, Italy
Akif Turna, MD, PhD, FETCS, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Türkiye
Giulia Turri, University of Verona, Italy
Roberta Tutino, PhD, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Molinette Hospital, Italy
Mikko Uimonen, MD, PhD, Tampere University Hospital, Heart Hospital, Finland
Tevfik Kıvılcım Uprak, PhD, Marmara University, School Of Medicine, Surgical Medical Sciences, Department Of General Surgery, Turkey
Massimiliano Veroux, PhD, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico Vittorio Emanuele Catania, Italy
Leonardo Vincenti, Hospital IRCCS Saverio De Bellis, Italy
Antonio Vitiello, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Imtiaz Wani, MD, Government Gousia Hospital, India
Ulrich Friedrich Wellner, UKSH Campus LübecK, Germany
Michael White, MD, MSc, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Janus Wong, University of Hong Kong, China
Kai Pun Wong, MBBS, MSurg, The University of Hong Kong, China
Zhouqiao Wu, MD, PhD, Peking University Cancer Hospital, China
Chao Xie, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Jincai Yang, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, China
Mehmet Ali Yesiltas, PhD, Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital, Türkiye
Kanhua Yin, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Peng Yin, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, China
Naoyuki Yokoyama, PhD, Niigata City General Hospital, Japan
Marcin Zeman, PhD, MD, National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Poland
Segii Zemskov, Bogomolets Natioanl Medical University, Ukraine
Yunpeng Zhu, MD, Ruijin Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
Joel Zindel, University Clinic for Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Canada
Tobias Zingg, MD, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
Carmine Zoccali, PhD, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Italy
Jun Zou, MD, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China

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Markus Buchler, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Nigel Bundred, South Manchester University Hospital, UK
Carlos A Muro-Cacho, University of South Florida, USA
Robert Sawyer, University of Virginia, USA

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