Prof. Tomoharu Yoshizumi: A surgeon should think the mechanism and everything before treating a patient.
Prof. Guido Torzilli: Scaffold Sparing Surgery: A Bridge to Liver Tumor Treatment
Prof. Seoung Hoon Kim: Surgery must be done safely and quickly
Prof. Henrik Petrowsky: complex hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery
Prof. Robert S. Warren: come early, stay late and listen
Prof. Silvia Sookoian: knowledge on the natural history and the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has incremented exponentially
Prof. Carlos J. Pirola: the putative therapeutics of alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD) and non-AFLD (NAFLD): a systems biology approach
Prof. Alan Venook: my experiences and opinions on colon cancer
Prof. Haitao Zhao
—precision medicine and immunotherapy of hepatobiliary malignant tumor
Dr. Mitchell Posner: hard work is the key to success
Dr. Samuel J. Klempner: collaborations with Asian countries speed up gastric cancer research
Prof. Toshimi Kaido: explore the possibilities in liver transplantation
Prof. Wei Tang—biomarkers: evaluation of early diagnosis and prognosis for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Prof. Jamila Faivre: microbiology is a new field to me but it’s interesting
Prof. Sung-Gyu Lee: future perspectives of living donor liver transplantation
Dr. Morris-Stiff: the diagnosis and management of pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Prof. Manuela Merli: applying knowledge into practice is important for medical students
Prof. Simon C. Robson: “Science curiosity” is the most important element in research, as this thirst for knowledge results in new discoveries, ultimately translating to practice of clinical medicine and serving to help people
Prof. Tilman Sauerbruch: patients with HCC may be benefit from statins
Professor Donald N. Reed: the development of endoscopy
Professor Ho-Seong Han: enjoy being a surgeon
Professor Daniel Cherqui: my experiences with laparoscopic liver resection
Professor Lei Zheng: Multidisciplinary management for pancreatic cancer
Professor Réal Lapointe: the impact of portal embolization on postoperative morbidity and mortality after liver resection
Professor Norbert Hüser: the function of immune cells for liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy