Editorial Board of World Journal of Surgery
Editor in Chief
Julie Ann Sosa
University of California at San Francisco-UCSF
Dept. of Surgery
513 Parnassus Ave, Suite S320
Box 0104
San Francisco, CA 94143
USA
Managing Editor
Laura Shearer, Portland, OR, USA
Associate Editors
Reid Adams, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Jacques Belghiti, Clichy, France
Dieter Hahnloser, Lausanne, Switzerland
Timothy Hardcastle, Durban, South Africa
Hitoshi Katai, Tokyo, Japan
Anthony Kim, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Charles Mock, Seattle, WA, USA
Janice Pasieka, Calgary, Alb., Canada(IAES)
Danny Rosin, Tel Aviv, Israel
David Watson, Bedford Park, Australia
Sandra Wong, Lebanon, NH, USA
Cheng-Har Yip, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (BSI)
Statistical Consultant
Kyle Hart, Portland, OR, USA
Visual Abstract Editors
Mohammed Abbass, Cleveland, OH, USA
Hari Keshava, Cleveland, OH, USA
Editorial Board
Ahmed Abou-Zamzam, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Hasan Alam, Boston, MA, USA
Yvette Anderson, Västeras, Sweden
Roland Andersson, Linköping, Sweden
Ahmad Assalia, Haifa, Israel
Chad Ball, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Zsolt Balogh, Newcastle, Australia
Savio George Barreto, Adelaide, Australia
Hasan F. Batirel, Istanbul, Turkey
Guido Beldi, Bern, Switzerland
Walter Biffl, Denver, CO, USA
Kenneth D. Boffard, Johannesburg, South Africa
L.D. Britt, Norfolk, VA, USA
F. Charles Brunicardi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jan Brunkwall, Cologne, Germany
Ines Buccimazza, Durban, South Africa
Markus W. Büchler, Heidelberg, Germany
Ruth Bush, Temple, TX, USA
Angelo Caretta, Milan, Italy
Sally Carty, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
François Cauchy, Paris, France
Ivan Cecconello, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Albert Chan, Hong Kong, China
Andrew Chang, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Mark Cheetham, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Herbert Chen, Madison, WI, USA
Alain Chichom-Mefire, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Shah Hwa Chou, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Ian D. Civil, Auckland, New Zealand
D. L. Clarke, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Thomas Cogbill, La Crosse, WI, USA
Raul Coimbra, San Diego, CA, USA
Saxon Connor, Christchurch, New Zealand
Peter Crookes, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sayandev DasGupta, Kolkata, India
Andrew deBeaux, Edinburgh, Scotland
Eduardo de Santibañes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Elias Degiannis, Johannesburg, South Africa
Conor P. Delaney, Cleveland, OH, USA
SVS Deo, New Delhi, India
Daniel Dindo, Zurich, Switzerland
Gerard Doherty, Boston, MA, USA
Quan-Yang Duh, San Francisco, CA, USA
Elizabeth Edstrom Elder, Westmead, Australia
Jonathan Efron, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Sebastian Ekenze, Enugu, Nigeria
Seraina Faes, Lausanne, Switzerland
Piero Marco Fisichella, Maywood, IL, USA
Andrea Frilling, Essen, Germany
Takashi Fujimura, Kanazawa, Japan
Markus Furrer, Chur, Switzerland
Michael Gagner, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Robert Goldman, Portland, OR, USA
Wojciech Gorecki, Krakow, Poland
Adam Gyedu, Kumasi, Ghana
Larry Hadley, Durban, South Africa
Zane Hammoud, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Imran Hassan, Rochester, MN, USA
W. Scott Helton, Seattle, WA, USA
Guo-Wei He, Tiajin, China
Peter Henke, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Andrew Hill, Auckland, New Zealand
Tom Horan, Brasilia, Brazil
Martin Hubner, Lausanne, Switzerland
Seiji Ito, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Yasuhiro Ito, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan
Jacob R. Izbicki, Hamburg, Germany
Samir Johna, Fontana, CA, USA
Christoph Kettelhack, Basel, Switzerland
Saboor Khan, Coventry, United Kingdom
Young-Woo Kim, Gyeonggido, Republic of Korea
Yoram Kluger, Haifa, Israel
Yasuhiro Kodera, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Norihiro Kokudo, Tokyo, Japan
Doron Kopelman, Caesarea, Israel
Brian Lang, Hong Kong, China
Rifat Latifi, Tucson, AZ, USA
Simon Law, Hong Kong, China
Wai-Lun Law, Hong Kong, China
Peter Licht, Odense, Denmark
Olle Ljungqvist, Örebro, Sweden
Chung Yau Lo, Hong Kong, China
Dileep Lobo, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Lars Lundell, Stockholm, Sweden
Gael MacLean, Oxford, United Kingdom
Ronald V. Maier, Seattle, WA, USA
Malek G. Massad, Chicago, IL, USA
Haggi Mazeh, Jerusalem, Israel
Kelly McQueen, Nashville, TN, USA
Sarkis H. Meterissian, Montreal, QC, Canada
Barbra S. Miller, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Pal A. Naess, Oslo, Norway
Rowan Parks, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Marco G. Patti, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Timothy Pawlik, Columbus, OH, USA
Carlos Pellegrini, Seattle, WA, USA
Graeme Pitcher, Iowa City, IA, USA
Henry Rice, Durham, NC, USA
Jean-Marc Regimbeau, Amiens, France
John Reynolds, Dublin, Ireland
Alvaro Sanabria, Medellin, Colombia
Thomas M. Scalea, Baltimore, MD, USA
Markus Schaefer, Zurich, Switzerland
Jonathan Serpell, Melbourne, Australia
Mark Smithers, Brisbane, Australia
Carmen Solorzano, Nashville, TN, USA
Cosimi Sperti, Padova, Italy
Daniel Steinemann, Basel, Switzerland
Steve Swisher, Houston, TX, USA£
Masanori Terashima, Shizouka, Japan
Sarah Thompson, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Selman Uranues, Graz, Austria
David Van der Zee, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jan van Lanschot, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Danielle Saunders Walsh, Greenville, NC, USA
Andrew Tambyraja, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Tracy S. Wang, Milwaukee, WI, USA
David Watters, Geelong, Australia
Sherry Wren, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Han-Kwang Yang, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Michael W. Yeh, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Takaki Yoshikawa, Yokohama, Japan
Omar Youssef, Cairo, Egypt
Victor Zaydfudim, Carlottesville, VA, USA
Urs Zingg, Zurich, Switzerland
Editors in Chief, Emeriti
Marshall J. Orloff, San Diego, CA, USA (Volumes 1 - 4)
James D. Hardy, (Deceased) Jackson, MI, USA (Volumes 5 - 6)
Samuel A. Wells Jr., St. Louis, MO, USA (Volumes 7 - 16)
Ronald K. Tompkins, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Volumes 17 - 28)
John G. Hunter, Portland, OR, USA (Voumes 29 - 41)
