IATSIC International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care

Editorial Board of the World Journal of Surgery

Editor in Chief	John G. Hunter Department of Surgery Oregon Health & Science University 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L223 Portland, OR 97239-3098 USA Phone: +1 503 494 09 97 Fax: +1 503 274 94 33 Email: worldjsurg@ohsu.edu
Managing Editor	Laura Shearer, Portland, OR, USA
Associate Editor	Gerard M. Doherty, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (IAES) Dieter Hahnloser, Zurich, Switzerland Hitoshi Katai, Tokyo, Japan Ari K. Leppäniemi, Helsinki, Finland (IATSIC) Walter R. Marti, Aarau, Switzerland Ronnie Poon, Hong Kong, China Kerstin Sandelin, Stockholm, Sweden (BSI) Moshe Schein, Ladysmith, WI, USA George Velmahos, Boston, MA, USA Steven Wigmore, Edinburgh, UK
Statistical Consultant	Brian Diggs, Portland, OR, USA
Board Members	Herand Abcarian, Chicago, IL, USA Ahmed Abou-Zamzam, Loma Linda, CA, USA Reid Adams, Charlottesville, VA, USA Gaurav Agarwal, Lucknow, India Göran Akerström, Uppsala, Sweden Hasan Alam, Boston, MA, USA Roland Andersson, Jönköping, Sweden Ahmad Assalia, Haifa, Israel Barbara Bass, Houston, TX, USA Martin Bjorck, Uppsala, Sweden Kenneth D. Boffard, Johannesburg, South Africa Charles Brunicardi, Houston, TX, USA Markus W. Büchler, Heidelberg, Germany Ruth Bush, Temple, TX, USA Angelo Caretta, Milan, Italy Luis Carriquiry, Montevideo, Uruguay Kent Man Chu, Hong Kong, China Ian D. Civil, Auckland, New Zealand Pierre-Alain Clavien, Zurich, Switzerland Saxon Connor, Christchurch, New Zealand Michael Dahn, Farmington, CT, USA Conor Delaney, Cleveland, OH, USA Cornelius H.C. Dejong, Maastricht, The Netherlands Leigh W. Delbridge, Sydney, Australia Eduardo de Santibanes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Henning Dralle, Halle, Germany Mark Duxbury, Edinbourgh, UK Chadli Dziri, Tunis, Tunisia Jonathan Efron, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Joseph Espat, Chicago, IL, USA Abe Fingerhut, Poissy, France Andrea Frilling, Essen, Germany Takashi Fujimura, Kanazawa, Japan Wojciech Gorecki, Krakow, Poland Ian R. Gough, Brisbane, Australia Dirk Gouma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Guo-Wei He, Wuhan, China W. Scott Helton, New Haven, CT, USA René Holzheimer, Munich, Germany Tom Horan, Brasilia, Brazil Danny O. Jacobs, Durham, NC, USA Raimund Jakesz, Vienna, Austria Michio Kaminishi, Tokyo, Japan Andrew Norman Kingsnorth, Plymouth, UK Masaki Kitajima, Tokyo, Japan Seigo Kitano, Oita, Japan Norihiro Kokudo, Tokyo, Japan Doron Kopelman, Caesarea, Israel Jean-Louis Kraimps, Poitiers, France Antonio Lacy, Barcelona, Spain Simon Law, Hong Kong, China Stanley Leong, San Francisco, CA, USA Chung Mau Lo, Hong Kong, China Lars Lundell, Stockholm, Sweden Helen Macrae, Toronto, Canada Michael Maddaus, Minneapolis, MN, USA Ronald V. Maier, Seattle, WA, USA Bob Martindale, Portland, OR, USA Malek G. Massad, Chicago, IL, USA Fabrizio Michelassi, New York, NY, USA Ernest E. Moore, Denver, CO, USA Bruno Niederle, Vienna, Austria Yuji Nimura, Nagoya, Japan Patricia J. Numann, Syracuse, NY, USA Rowan Parks, Edinburgh, UK Marco Patti, Chicago, IL, USA Jeffrey Peters, Rochester, MN, USA Graeme Pitcher, Iowa City, IA, USA B. Ramana, Kolkata, India Bradley Rodgers, Charlottesville, VA, USA Danny Rosin, Tel Hashomer, Israel Michael G. Sarr, Rochester, MN, USA Markus Schaefer, Zurich, Switzerland Martin Johannes Schindl, Vienna, Austria Anthony Senagore, Grand Rapids, MI, USA Hiroshi Shimada, Yokohama, Japan Mark Smithers, Brisbane, Australia Nathaniel Soper, Chicago, IL, USA Hubert J. Stein, Nürnberg, Austria Hiroshi E. Takami, Tokyo, Japan Donald D. Trunkey, Portland, OR, USA Selman Uranues, Graz, Austria David Watson, Bedford Park, Australia John A. Windsor, Auckland, New Zealand Omar Youssef, Cairo, Egypt
Editors in Chief, Emeriti	Marshall J. Orloff, San Diego, CA, USA (Volumes 1 - 4) James D. Hardy, (deceased) Jackson, MI, USA (Volumes 5 and 6) Samuel A. Wells Jr., St. Louis, MO, USA (Volumes 7 - 16) Ronald K. Tompkins, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Volumes 17 - 28)