We appreciate and thank the reviewers of HBSN for their tremendous efforts to support and improve our work. Hereby, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to them, which are listed as follows.
Ludovico Abenavoli
Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Luca Aldrighetti
Univ Vita Salute San Raffaele, Dept Surg, Hepatobiliary Surg Unit, Via Olgettina 60, I-20132 Milan, MI, Italy
Arie Ariche
Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
Umberto Baccarani
General Surgery and Transplantation Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, P.Le Kolbe, 33100, Udine, Italy
Gian Luca Baiocchi
Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia 25125, Italy
Irene Bargellini
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Pisa University Hospital, Via Paradisa 2, 56100, Pisa, Italy
Savio G Barreto
Hepatobiliary & Oesophagogastric Unit, Division of Surgery & Perioperative Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Ilenia Bartolini
Department of Oncology, Division of Surgical Oncology and Robotics, AOU Careggi, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy
Andrea Belli
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Abdominal Oncology, "Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione G. Pascale"- IRCCS, Naples-Italy
Ugo Boggi
Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Mitesh J. Borad
Division of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA. Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Wilbur B Bowne
Department of Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Kristoffer Watten Brudvik
Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Patrizia Burra
Multivisceral Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Padova University Hospital, Padova, Italy
Philip C. Calder
Human Development and Health Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
Hop S. Tran Cao
Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA
Tanyaporn Chantarojanasiri
1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya City 466-8550, Japan
2Department of Internal Medicine, Police General Hospital, 492/1 Rama 1 Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Edgar D Charles
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA
Gar-Yang Chau
Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei
Marcio F. Chedid
Liver and Pancreas Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Bang-Bin Chen
Department of Medical Imaging and Radiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
Kenneth Siu Chok
Divisions of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
Jordan M. Cloyd
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Alessandro Cucchetti
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy
Ronald P Dematteo
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Paxton V. Dickson
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
Matteo Donadon
Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Italy; Department of Biomedical Science, Humanitas University, Rozzano, Italy
Marcello Donati
Department of Surgery, General and Oncologic Surgery Unit, Vittorio-Emanuele University Hospital of Catania, via Plebiscito 628, 95122 Catania, Italy
Susumu Eguchi
Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Luca Filippi
Nuclear Medicine Unit, "Santa Maria Goretti" Hospital, via Canova, Latina, Italy
Gilton M. Fonseca
Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
Yuki Fujiwara
Department of Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
John Fung
Transplantation Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Josep Fuster
HepatoBilioPancreatic Surgery and Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, C/Villarroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
Andrea Casadei Gardini
Department of Medical Oncology, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy
Stefan Gilg
Department for Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Surgery at the Center for Digestive Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti
Division of General, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 S Wood Street, Suite 435 E, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Angélique Gougelet
Research Scientist, Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, 24, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris 75014, France
Michał Grąt
Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, 1A Banacha Street, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland
Dirk Grünhagen
Department of Surgical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015GD, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Salvatore Gruttadauria
Division of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (ISMETT), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Italy, Palermo, Italy
Ahmet Gurakar
Section of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Ross Research Building Suite 918A, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Taizo Hibi
Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Taizo Hibi
Department of Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Marcus Hollenbach
Department of Medicine, Neurology and Dermatology, Division of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, University of Leipzig, Liebigstrasse 20, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Chung-Bao Hsieh
Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, No.325, Sec. 2, Chenggong Rd., Neihu Dist., Taipei
Christine Hsu
Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Hiroshi Imamura
Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
Shinji Itoh
Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Elzbieta Janda
Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, Campus Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy. Interregional Research Center for Food Safety and Health, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Kuo-Shyang Jeng
Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medical Research, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei
Long Jiao
Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial CollegeLondon, London, UK
Toshimi Kaido
Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Marit Kalisvaart
Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham National Health Service Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK. Department of Surgery & Transplantation, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Hirofumi Kamachi
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, North 15, West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638, Japan
Toshiya Kamiyama
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery 1, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, N-15, W-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
Yoshikuni Kawaguchi
Department of Digestive Diseases, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France; Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroki Kawashima
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya City 466-8550, Japan
Airazat M. Kazaryan
Interventional Centre, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital Health Trust, 0027 Oslo, Norway
Akira Kikuchi
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, 565-0871, Japan
Yoji Kishi
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Eiji Kobayashi
Department of Organ Fabrication, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Teruo Komokata
Department of Surgery, Kagoshima Medical Center, National Hospital Organization, 8-1 Shiroyamacho, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima, 892-0853, Japan
Koji Komori
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Knut Jørgen Labori
Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Quirino Lai
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Hauke Lang
Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital of Mainz, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131, Mainz, Germany
Isabelle A. Leclercq
Laboratory of Hepato‐Gastroenterology, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium
Kit-Fai Lee
Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 30–32 Ngan Shing Street, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
Javier C. Lendoire
Hospital General de Agudos Dr. Cosme Argerich, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jan Lerut
Starzl Abdominal Transplant Unit, University Hospitals Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
Stephen V. Lynch
Queensland University (Queensland Liver Transplant Service) in Australia
Mattias Mandorfer
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Vienna HIV & Liver Study Group, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Montserrat Marí
Department of Cell Death and Proliferation, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB-CSIC) and Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
Jose J.G. Marin
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Campus Miguel de Unamuno E.D. 37007-Salamanca, Spain
Kouichi Miura
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan
Luca Morelli
General Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Translational and New Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; EndoCAS (Center for Computer Assisted Surgery), University of Pisa, Italy
Takanori Morikawa
Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan
Zenichi Morise
Department of Surgery, Banbuntane Houtokukai Hospital, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 3-6-10 Otobashi Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 454-8509, Japan
Silvio Nadalin
Department of General and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen, Hoppe Seyler Str 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Yasuni Nakanuma
Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Fukui Prefecture Saiseikai Hospital, Wadanakacho Funahashi 7-1, Fukui 918-8503, Japan
Masayuki Ohtsuka
Department of General Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan; Department of Surgery, Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center, Chiba, Japan
Fabrizio PANARO
Department of Surgery, Montpellier University, St. Eloi Medical Center, Montpellier, FRANCE
Narendra Pandit
Surgical Gastroenterology Division, Department of Surgery, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan, Nepal
Jun Yong Park
Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea; Yonsei Liver Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul 03722, Korea
Timothy M. Pawlik
Department of Surgery, The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research, Professor of Surgery, Oncology, Health Services Management and Policy, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, 395 W. 12th Ave., Suite 670, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Antonio Pea
Unit of General and Pancreatic Surgery, University of Verona Hospital Trust, Verona, Italy
Marcos Vinicius Perini
Austin Health, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, 145 Studley Road, Level 8, Heidelberg, VIC 3084, Australia
Benedetta Pesi
Division of Oncological and Robotic General Surgery, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
Henrik Petrowsky
Swiss HPB and Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich
Henry A. Pitt
Department of Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Giuseppe Quero
Fondazione Policlinico "A.Gemelli" IRCCS of Rome, CRMPG (Gemelli Pancreatic Advanced Research Center), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Rome, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00166, Rome, Italy. Digestive Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Fondation "A.Gemelli" Hospital of Rome, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Largo Agostino Gemelli, 8, 00168, Rome, Italy
Falk Rauchfuß
Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital
Trevor W Reichman
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Philip R. de Reuver
Department of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Rami Rhaiem
Department of General, Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Robert Debré University Hospital, University of Champagne-Ardenne, Ave Général Koenig, 51100, Reims, France
Ricardo Robles-Campos
Virgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, IMIB, Murcia, Spain
Flavio Rocha
Section of General, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1100 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792, USA
Alexander Rosemurgy
Department of Advanced Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Florida Hospital Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA
Simeon J. S. Ruiter
Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Peter Schemmer
Department General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Austria. Transplant Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
Andrea Schlegel
Queen Elizabeth Univ Hosp Birmingham, Liver Unit, Birmingham B15 2TH, W Midlands, England
Ahmed Shehta
Liver Transplantation Unit, Gastrointestinal Surgery Center, College of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
Hon-Yi Shi
Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Department of Business Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung
Shuichiro Shiina
Department of Gastroenterology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan
Tatsuo Shimura
Departments of Hepato‑Biliary‑Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960‑1259, Japan
Junichi Shindoh
Hepatobiliary-pancreatic Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, 2-2-2 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8470, Japan
Ken Shirabe
Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-39-22 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
Rachna Shroff
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson
Fiammetta Soggiu
Department of Surgery Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill Road, Aberdeen AB25 2ZN, UK
Kjetil Søreide
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, HPB Unit, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Parthi Srinivasan
Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Patrick Starlinger
Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital, Vienna, Austria
Iswanto Sucandy
Florida Hospital Tampa, Advanced Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, 3000 Medical Park Dr, Suite #500, Tampa, FL, 33613, USA
Tadatoshi Takayama
Department of Digestive Surgery Nihon University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan
Ryosuke Tateishi
Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Keisuke Tateishi
Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kojiro Taura
Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Hiroaki Terajima
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery and Oncology, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka 530-8480, Japan
Giuliano Testa
Surgical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Baylor University Medical Center / Surgical Chief of Abdominal Transplant for the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant / Baylor University Medical Center
Yu-Wen Tien
Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan Hospital, Taipei
Koji Tomiyama
Division of Transplantation/Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Roberto I. Troisi
Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University Naples, Italy
Hideaki Uchiyama
Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Kerollos Nashat Wanis
1Department of Surgery, London Health Sciences Centre, Western University, Rm. C8-114, London, ON, N6A 5A5, Canada.
2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Qiang Xia
Department of Surgery, Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Atsushi Yoshizawa
Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Kawaharacho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan