Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief:
David Albala, MD, Crouse Hospital; Downstate Health Sciences University, Syracuse, NY, USA

Deputy Editor
Rodolfo Oviedo, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FICS, DABS-FPDMBS, Nacogdoches Medical Center, Nacogdoches, TX, USA; and University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Editor Emeritus & Founding Editor:
Vipul Patel, MD, Global Robotics Institute, Celebration Health, Orlando, FL, USA; Emeritus & Founding Editor

Section Editors: 

Adel Abou-Mrad, MD, University Hospital Center Orleans, France (General Surgery) 

Jawad Ahmad, BSc, MBBS, FCPS, MRCS, MPhil, FACS, FRCS, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK (General Surgery, Liver) 

Khalid Alkadam, MD, Ad Diryah Hospital, Saudi Arabia (General Surgery) 

Vanessa Alvarenga-Bezerra, MD, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil (Gynecology) 

Charudatta Bavare, MD, Houston Methodist, USA (Vascular, Surgical Education) 

Danny Darlington, MBBS, MS, MCh, DNB Urol, MRCS, FRCS Urol, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Surrey, UK (Urology) 

Dan Eun, MD, Temple University, USA (Urology)  

Nicolas Fernandez, MD, University of Washington, USA (Urology, Pediatrics) 

Gerald Feuer, MD, Northside Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Gynecology - Oncologic) 

Neil J. Finkler, MD, FACOG, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Advent Health Orlando, Florida, USA (Gynecology) 

Rakesh Garg, MD, DNB, MNAMS, FCCS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (Oncology) 

Omar Gaytan, MD, Obedi Bariatric Surgery Center, Mexico (General Surgery, Surgical Education) 

Marcos Gonzalez, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (Orthopedics) 

Jennifer Linehan, MD, Saint John's Cancer Institute, USA (Urology) 

Vikas Jain, MD, HCG Manavata Cancer Center, India (General Surgery, Oncology) 

Andreas Kaiser, MD, FACS, FASCRS, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA (General Surgery) 

Sandeep Kashyap, MD, Vandalia Health Thoracic Surgery, USA (Thoracic Surgery) 

Sanjay B. Kulkarni, MS, FRCS, Kulkarni Endo Surgery Institute, Pune, India (Urology) 

Ahmed Majid Heydar, MD, Memorial Bahçelieveler Hospital, Turkey (Orthopedics) 

Luigi Marano, MD, PhD, Academy of Applied Medical and Social Science, Poland (General Surgery, Pancreatic, Thoracic) 

Diego Marines, MD, Houston Methodist, USA (Colorectal)  

Martin Martino, MD, FACS, FACOG, Ascension, USA (GYN) 

Helen Mohan, MD, PhD, FRCSI, FRACS, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia (Colorectal, Surgical Education) 

Erhan Okay, MD, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Istanbul Goztepe Prof. Dr. Suleyman Yalcin City Hospital, Turkey (Orthopedics) 

Oluwafunmilola Okuyemi, MD, Mayo Clinic, USA (ENT) 

Yen-chuan Ou, MD, PhD, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (Urology) 

Mahir Özmen, MD, Mahir Ozmen Clinic, Turkey (General Surgery, Metabolic & Bariatric) 

Beniamino Pascotto, MD, General and Minimally Invasive (Laparoscopic and Robotic) Surgery Department, Center Hospital of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (General Surgery) 

Marcelo Perocco, MD, Perocco Spine Center, Brazil (Spine Surgery, Neurosurgery) 

Luca Pio, MD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA (Pediatrics) 

Guglielmo Niccolò Piozzi, MD, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, UK (Colorectal, General Surgery) 

Marco Raffaelli, MD, FEBS-DES, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome (General Surgery, Oncology, Colorectal) 

Janeth Rojas-Penaloza, MD, XXI Century National Medical Center, Mexico (Anesthesiology) 

Scott Roof, MD, Mount Sinai, USA (ENT) 

Franco Rubino, MD, Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA (Neurosurgery) 

Elena Ruiz-Ucar, MD, FSCS, Fuenlabrada University, Spain (General Surgery, Endocrine, Surgical Education) 

Manu Sancheti, MD, FACS, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Cardiovascular) 

Rooma Sinha, MBBS, MD, DNB, MNAMS, Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India (Gynecology) 

Luis Suarez-Carreon, MD, FACS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico (General Surgery, Pancreatic, Thoracic) 

Safwan Taha, MBChB, FACS, CABS, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), Dubai, UAE (Colorectal) 

Meghan Turner, MD, FACS, West Virginia University, USA (ENT) 

Fernando Walder, MD, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil (ENT) 

Laura Warner, MD, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (ENT) 

Wah Yang, MD, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, China (General Surgery, Metabolic & Bariatric)