Editors

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Paolo Martelletti, MD
Unitelma Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Managing Editor
Tara Hughes

Sections and Section Editors

SURGERY:
Head of Section
Luca Gordini, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Iglesias CTO Hospital, ASL Sulcis, Iglesias, Italy

Section Editors
Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery
Salvador Morales-Conde, MD, PhD
Unit of Innovation in Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain
Luca Gordini, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Iglesias CTO Hospital, ASL Sulcis, Iglesias, Italy

Trauma Surgery
Paula Ferrada, MD, FACS, FCCM, MAMSE
Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Inova Health, University of Virginia, USA

Urology
Giovanni Cacciamani, MSc, MD, FEBU
Institute of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Robotic Surgery
Nicola De Angelis, MD, PhD
Colorectal and Digestive Surgery Unit, Beaujon University Hospital, University Paris Cité, Paris, France

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Surgery
Alaa El-Hussuna, MD, PhD
Aalborg University Hospital, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Aalborg, Denmark

Vascular Surgery
Luis Felipe Cabrera Vargas MD, MACC, FACS, MACCVA, MFELAC
Clínica Universitaria Colombia, Universidad El Bosque, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery
Stefano Crippa, MD
Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Università Vita Salute, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Esophagogastric Surgery
Stefano Rausei, MD
Department of Surgery, ASST Settelaghi, Varese, Italy

Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Beniamino Pascotto, MD
General and Minimally Invasive (Laparoscopic and Robotic) Surgery Department, Center Hospitalier de Luxembourg

ColoProctology
Guglielmo Niccolò Piozzi, MD
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK

Endocrine Surgery
Pietro Princi, MD
Department of Endocrine Surgery, "Cristo Re" Hospital, Rome, Italy

Thoracic Surgery
Ruchi Thanawala, MD
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA

Neurosurgery
Joao Paulo Almeida, MD PhD
Department of Neurological Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, USA

OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY:
Head of Section
Florian Recker, MD, MME
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Bonn, Germany

Section Editors
Maternal and Fetal Medicine
Philipp Kosian, MD
Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany

Gynecological Oncology
Maximilian Riedel
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Technical University of Munich, Germany

GENERAL MEDICINE:
Head of Section
Antonio Martocchia, MD
Sapienza University, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Section Editors
Flavia Del Porto,  MD
Sapienza University, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Russo, MD
Department of Computing
Imperial College, London, UK

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Sakir Ahmed, MD, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India
Charlotte Alston, MD, PhD, Clinical Scientist, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, England, UK
Giuseppe Amato, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Palermo, Italy
Ali Abbasian Ardakani, PhD, Radiology Technology Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Aman Arora, MBBS, MS, DNB, Department of General Surgery, Command Hospital WC, Chandigarh, India
Fred D. Ashbury, PhD, MACE, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
Sam Atallah, MD, Department of Colorectal Surgery, EndoSurgical Center of Florida, Florida Hospital, Orlando FL, USA
Steven R. Bailey, MD, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio TX, USA
Antonio Bellasi, MD, PhD, Nephrology and Dialysis, Azienda Ospedale Sant’Anna, ASST-Lariana, Como, Italy
Enrico Bentivegna, MD, Internal Medicine, University Hospital Sant'Andrea, Rome, Italy
Joël Billieux, MD, Clinical Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Marcy B. Bolster, MD, Harvard Medical School and Division of Rheumatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA, USA
Stergios Boussios, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCP, Canterbury Christ Church University, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Nurcan Buduneli, DDS, PhD, Department of Periodontology, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
Anna Capasso, MD, PhD, Department of Oncology, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin TX, USA
Andres Cardenas, PhD, MPH, Institute of Digestive Diseases and Metabolism Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain
Sh Chandrashekhara, MD, Department of Radio-diagnosis, IRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Leslie Cho, MD, Women’s Cardiovascular Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH, USA
Tammy A. Chung, PhD, Rutgers Institute for Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA
Ezgi Deniz Batu, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
Ilke Coskun Benlidayi, MD, Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Adana, Turkey
Som Biswas, MD, University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, Department of Radiology, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Stefan Delorme, MD, Division of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (DKFZ), Germany
Dan A. Dixon, PhD, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA
Andre Mario Doi, PhD, Department of Diagnostic Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
Howard J. Eisen, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA, USA
Giovanni Fabbrini, MD, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Rena Fox, MD, Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco CA, USA
Adam Friedman, MD, FAAD, Department of Dermatology, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington DC, USA
Ron T. Gansevoort, MD, Dept. of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
Tsvetoslav Georgiev, MD, University Hospital “St. Ivan Rilski”, Medical University-Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Gunjan Gholkar, MD, Heart & Vascular Department, Metro Health, University of Michigan Health, Wyoming MI, USA
Peter Goadsby, MD, FRS FRACP FRCPNIHR, Wellcome Trust King’s Clinical Research Facility, King's College London, England, UK
Prabudh Goel, MD, Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Franco Granella, MD, School of Neurology, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Helal F. Hetta, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cinicinnati OH, USA
Heather L. Hofflich, DO, Endocrinology, School of Medicine, UC San Diego Health, La Jolla CA, USA
Janice C. Honeyman-Buck, MD, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Sergio Huerta, MD, Department of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX, USA
Christian Daniel Jones, MD, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore MD, USA
Mariana Ivanova, MD, Clinic of Rheumatology, University Hospital "St. Ivan Rilski", Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, Medicine and Epidemiology University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine CA, USA
Jonathan D. Kaunitz, Digestive Diseases Research Center, UCLA, Los Angeles CA, USA
Muhammad Asim Khan, MD, Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland OH, USA
Cengiz Korkmaz, MD, Rheumatology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Department of Internal Medicine, Eskisehir Turkey
Igor Kozak, MD, Vitreoretinal Surgeon, Clinical Lead, Moorfields Eye Hospital Centre, London, England UK
Marianna Kruithof-de Julio, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Switzerland
Peter J. Lansberg, Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ezio Lanza, Department of Radiology, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy 
Vincenzo Lanza, Buccheri La Ferla Hospital, Palermo, Italy
Pamela M. Ling, Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education, Division of General Internal Medicine, UCSF San Francisco CA, USA
Fred A. Luchette, Department of Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood IL, USA
Howard Maibach, Department of Dermatology, UCSF, San Francisco CA, USA
Mario Mandalà, Melanoma Unit Head, Division of Oncology at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
Emilia Manzato, Department of Medicine, University of Ferrarra, Italy
Amit Mehndiratta, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Sebastiano Mercadante, Anesthesia & Intensive Care and Pain, La Maddalena Cancer Center, Palermo, Italy
Peter Mildenberger, Clinic and Polyclinic for Diagnostics and Interventional Radiology, JGU-Mainz, Germany
Gesthimani Mintziori, First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Medical School, Greece
Sahar Naderi, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, San Francisco, and Stanford Health Care, California, USA
Gokhan Ozuner, Colon and Rectal Surgery, New York-Presbyterian, Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, Brooklyn NY, USA
Charles R. Powell, Department of Urology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis IN, USA
Krithika Rangarajan, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Nicholas Reed, Beatson Oncology Center, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Nima Rezaei, Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Iran
Zev Rosenwaks, Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York NY, USA
Jhuma Sankar, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Pranav Kumar Santhalia, Department of Radiology, Nalanda Medical College, Patna, India
Robert P. Schleimer, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA
Nandita S. Scott, Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program, and Co-director, Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA, USA
Gianluca Serafini, MD, Psychiatry, DINOGMI, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Elena Silvestri, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Firenze, Italy
Elizabeth C. Smyth, GI and Lymphoma Department, The Royal Marsden Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, England, UK
Anil Sood, Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Center, Houston TX, USA
Jonathan Spergel, Allergy Section at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Thordur Thorkelsson, MD, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Areti Triantafyllou, Department of Internal Medicine, Hypertension, Micro- and Macrovascular Assessment Unit, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Rudolf Valenta, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Aleksandar Videnovic, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Per E. Wändell, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden
Rachel H. Westbrook, Center for Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, England, UK
Peter H. Wilson, CeDDR, School of Psychology, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Nina C. Wunderlich, Cardiovascular Center Darmstadt, Alice-Hospital, Darmstadt, Germany
Yuichiro Yano, Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham NC, USA
Satoshi Yoshida, Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Joseph Yu, Radiology Department, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus OH, USA
Olena Zimba, Department of Internal Medicine, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine