The reviewers of HBSN 2020

Posted On 2020-12-23 10:35:01

 

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.

 

Tomoyuki Abe

Department of Surgery, Onomichi General Hospital, Japan

 

Ludovico Abenavoli

Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy

 

Pietro Addeo

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver transplantation, Pôle des Pathologies Digestives, Hépatiques et de la Transplantation, Hôpital de Hautepierre-Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, 1, Avenue Molière, 67098, Strasbourg, France

 

Luca Aldrighetti

Univ Vita Salute San Raffaele, Dept Surg, Hepatobiliary Surg Unit, Via Olgettina 60, I-20132 Milan, MI, Italy

 

Takayuki Anazawa

Division of Hepato‐Biliary‐Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Kyoto, 54 Shogoin Kawahara‐cho, Sakyo‐ku, Kyoto 606‐8507, Japan

 

Stephen D. Anton

Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, Institute on Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

 

Udayan Apte

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

 

Takeshi Aramaki

Division of Interventional Radiology, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimonagakubo, Sunto-gun Nagaizumi-cho, Shizuoka, Japan

 

Francesco Ardito

Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, A. Gemelli Hospital, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

 

Daniel Azoulay

Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil APHP, France

 

Umberto Baccarani

General Surgery and Transplantation Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, P.Le Kolbe, 33100, Udine, Italy

 

Suhad M. Bahijri

Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Head of Saudi Diabetes Research Group, Faculty of Medicine & King Fahd Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah Saudi Arabia

 

Peng Bai

The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

 

Irene Bargellini

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Pisa University Hospital, Via Paradisa 2, 56100, Pisa, Italy

 

Eliza W. Beal

Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 320 W 10th Ave. M256 Starling Loving Hall, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

 

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

School of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, 16132 Genoa, Italy; Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto ON M3J 1P3, Canada

 

Markus Büchler

Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Mark S. Cattral

Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

 

Kenneth SH Chok

Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong, China

 

Romain Coriat

Univ Paris 05, Hop Cochin, AP HP, Gastroenterol & Endoscopy Unit,Fac Med,Sorbonne P, 27 Rue Faubourg St Jacques, F-75014 Paris, France

 

Cedric Coulouarn

Inserm, Univ Rennes, COSS (Chemistry, Oncogenesis Stress Signaling), UMR_S 1242, CHU Rennes, Centre de Lutte contre le Cancer Eugène Marquis, Rennes, France

 

Stefano Crippa

Pancreatic Surgery Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Vita Salute University, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy

 

Laura Crocetti

Department of Radiology and Interventional Radiology, University of Pisa, Cisanello Hospital, Via Paradisa 2, 56124 Pisa, Italy

 

Giovanni Damiani

Department of Dermatology, CaseWestern Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

 

Nicola de’Angelis

Unit of Digestive, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Henri, Mondor Hospital, AP-HP, University of Paris East, UPEC, 51 Avenue, of Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94010, Créteil, France

 

Paxton V. Dickson

Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

 

Matteo Donadon

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Hepatobiliary & General Surgery, Humanitas, University, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Via Manzoni 56, 20089, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

 

Marcello Donati

Department of Surgery, General and Oncologic Surgery Unit, Vittorio-Emanuele University Hospital of Catania, via Plebiscito 628, 95122 Catania, Italy

 

Alexandre Doussot

Department of Digestive and Surgical Oncology, Liver Transplantation Unit, University Hospital of Besançon, France

 

Traian Dumitrascu

Department of General Surgery and Liver, Transplantation, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Fundeni Street no 258, 022328 Bucharest, Romania

 

Barish H. Edil

Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Academic Office One, 12631 East 17th Avenue, C311, Aurora, CO 80045, USA

 

Hiroto Egawa

Department of Surgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Kyoto, Japan

 

Susumu Eguchi

Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

 

Giorgio Ercolani

General and Oncologic Surgery, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Ausl Romagna, Forlì, Italy

 

Qing Feng

Key Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

 

Yuman Fong

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10022, USA

 

John Fung

Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine Transplant Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

 

Eduardo G. H. Moura

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Qiang Gao

Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, and Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China

 

Davide Ghinolfi

Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Pisa Medical School Hospital, Pisa, Italy

 

Antonio Giorgio

Liver Unit and Interventional Ultrasound Unit, Athena Clinical Institute, Piedimonte Matese (CE), Italy

 

Francesco Giudici

Careggi University Hospital of Florence, Italy

 

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

 

Boris Guiu

Department of Radiology, St-Eloi University Hospital, Montpellier, France; INSERM U1194, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, Montpellier, France

 

Ahmet Gurakar

Section of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Ross Research Building Suite 918A, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA

 

Jeroen Hagendoorn

Department of Surgical Specialties, UMC Utrecht Cancer Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Ho-Seong Han

Professor of Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, 166 Gumi-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13620, Korea

 

Earl Harrison

Department of Human Nutrition, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

 

Kiyoshi Hasegawa

Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 

Koji Hashimoto

Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

 

Jin He

Department of Surgery, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Taizo Hibi

Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Katrin Hoffmann

Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Hideaki Ijichi

Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655 Japan; Department of Clinical Nutrition Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655 Japan

 

Katsunori Imai

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan

 

Hiromichi Ito

Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Japanse Foundation for Cancer Research, Cancer Insitute Hospital, Japan

 

Hideki Iwamoto

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

 

Yi-Yin Jan

Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Branch, No.5, Fu-Hsing St., Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan

 

Long Jiao

Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial CollegeLondon, London, UK

 

Elio Jovine

Full Professor of Surgery, Department of General Surgery, University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy

 

Toshimi Kaido

Associate Professor, Head of Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan

 

Gernot M. Kaiser

Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Duisburg-Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany;Department of General and Visceral Surgery, St. Bernhard-Hospital Kamp-Lintfort, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

 

Toshiya Kamiyama

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery 1, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, N-15, W-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

 

Tatsuo Kanda

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Chang Moo Kang

Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea

 

Mureo Kasahara

Organ Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

 

Takumi Kawaguchi

Kurume Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Div Gastroenterol, 67 Asahi Machi, Kurume, Fukuoka 8300011, 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

 

Michael L Kendrick

Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st ST SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

 

Beom Kyung Kim

Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Yonsei Liver Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi

Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Applied Life Sciences, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan

 

Eiji Kobayashi

Department of Organ Fabrication, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Koji Komori

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

 

Kaori Kuramitsu

Kobe Univ, Grad Sch Med, Dept Surg, Div Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg,Chuo Ku, 7-5-2 Kusunoki Cho, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

 

Quirino Lai

Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic and Liver Transplant Unit Department of Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy

 

Hauke Lang

Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital of Mainz, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131, Mainz, Germany

 

Jae Hoon Lee

Division of Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, 88, Olympic-Ro 43-Gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 05505, South Korea

 

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

 

Jan Lerut

Starzl Abdominal Transplant Unit, University Hospitals Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Brussels, Belgium

 

Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri

Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy

 

Marcel Autran C. Machado

Department of Surgery, University of São Paulo, Hospital Nove de Julho, Rua Dona Adma Jafet 74 cj 102, São Paulo, 01308-050, Brazil

 

Nikolaos Machairas

2nd Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

 

Shishir K. Maithel

Division of Surgical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, 1365C Clifton Road NE, 2ndFloor, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

 

Arianeb Mehrabi

Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Riccardo Memeo

Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgical Unit, “F. Miulli” Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Bari, Italy

 

Manuela Merli

Department of Translational and Precision medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

 

Yoshihiro Mise

Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Luca Morelli

General Surgery Unit, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and 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

 

David Morris

Hepatobiliary and Surgical Oncology Unit, Department of Surgery, St George Hospital, Research and Education Centre, University of New South Wales, Kogarah, Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Fuyuhiko Motoi

Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan

 

Silvio Nadalin

Department of General and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen, Hoppe Seyler Str 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

 

Masato Nagino

Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

 

Atsushi Nakajima

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, 3-9 Fuku-ura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan

 

Justin H. Nguyen

Division of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

 

Vincent B. Nieuwenhuijs

Department of Surgery, Isala, Zwolle, the Netherlands

 

Masayuki Ohtsuka

Department of General Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan; Department of Surgery, Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center, Chiba, Japan

 

Steven W.M. Olde Damink

Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, PO Box 616, Maastricht 6229 ER, The Netherlands

 

Fabrizio Panaro

Department of Surgery, Montpellier University, St. Eloi Medical Center, Montpellier, France

 

Sang-Jae Park

Center for Liver Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 410-769, Republic of Korea

 

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

 

Wojciech G. Polak

Department of Surgery, Division of HPB & Transplant Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015, GD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Shengxiang Rao

Department of Radiology, Zhongshan, Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

 

Falk Rauchfuß

Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

 

Jean Marc Regimbeau

Univ Picardy, Med Ctr, Dept Digest Surg, Hop Nord, Pl Victor Pauchet, F-80054 Amiens 01, France

 

Ricardo Robles-Campos

Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, Virgen de La Arrixaca Clinic, University Hospital, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain

 

Aldo Rocca

Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy; Via Sergio Pansini, 80131 Naples, Italy General Surgery Unit, Clinica Padre Pio, Mondragone (CE), Italy Department of Abdominal Oncology, Fondazione Giovanni Pascale, IRCCS, Naples, Italy; Centre of Hepatobiliarypancreatic surgery, Pineta Grande Hospital, Castelvolturno (CE), Italy

 

Flavio Rocha

Section of General, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1100 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA

 

Pedro M. Rodrigues

Department of Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases, Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Donostia University Hospital, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain

 

Andrea Ruzzenente

Department of Surgery, General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Verona, University Hospital G.B. Rossi, 37134, Verona, Italy

 

Yoshihiro Sakamoto

Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

 

Toshiharu Sakurai

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, 377-2 Ohno-Higashi, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka 589-8511, Japan

 

Yukihiro Sanada

Department of Transplant Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Japan

 

Kazunari Sasaki

Department of general Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

 

Koji Sawada

Division of Gastroenterology and Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, 1-1-1 Midorigaoka Higashi 2 Jo, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, 078-8510, Japan

 

Helmut Karl Seitz

Centre of Alcohol Research (CAR), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg and Department of Medicine, Salem Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Joseph Selvin

Department of Microbiology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014, India

 

Feng Shen

Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

 

Shingo Shimada

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060‑8638, Japan

 

Mitsugi Shimoda

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki Medical Center, 3-20-1 Chuo, Ami, Ibaraki 300-0395, Japan

 

Junichi Shindoh

Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic, Surgery Division, Department of Digestive Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Rachna Shroff

Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, USA

 

Silvia Sookoian

Institute Vice Chair and Department Head, Department of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Medical Research (IDIM), Argentina

 

Cosimo Sperti

Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, 3rd Surgical Clinic, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy

 

Pavel Strnad

Medical Clinic III, Gastroenterology, Metabolic diseases and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. Coordinating Center for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency-Related Liver Disease of the European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN RARE-LIVER) and the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Registry Group “Alpha-1 Liver”, Germany

 

Iswanto Sucandy

Digestive Health Institute, AdventHealth Tampa, 3000 Medical Park Drive, Suite 500, Tampa, FL, 33613 USA

 

Yasuhiko Sugawara

Director, Liver Transplantation Division, Japanese Red Cross Hospital, University of Tokyo, Japan

 

Robert Sutcliffe

Department of HPB and Liver Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK

 

Kazuto Tajiri

Department of Gastroenterology, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama, Japan

 

Naoki Tanaka

Department of Metabolic Regulation, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, 390-8621, Japan. Research Center for Social Systems, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan

 

Masatoshi Tanaka

Department of Internal Medicine, Yokokura Hospital, Omuta, 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

 

Rolf Teschke

Department of Internal Medicine II, Klinikum Hanau, Teaching Hospital of the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Leimenstrasse 20, D-63450 Hanau, Germany

 

Giuliano Testa

Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

 

Yu-Wen Tien

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan Hospital, Taipei

 

Masui Toshihiko

Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliarypancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Kyoto University, Japan

 

Diamantis I Tsilimigras

First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 114 Vasilissis Sofias Avenue Athens, 11527, Greece

 

Atsunori Tsuchiya

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate school of medical and dental sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

 

Hideaki Uchiyama

Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

 

Masaki Ueno

Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan

 

Akira Umemura

Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University, 19-1 Uchimaru, Morioka 020-8505, Japan

 

Michiaki Unno

Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan

 

Rodrigo Valenzuela

Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

 

Johannes von Lintig

Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

 

Go Wakabayashi

Department of Surgery, Ageo Central General Hospital, Ageo city, Japan

 

Ximing Wang

Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow, China

 

C. Mel Wilcox

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1808 7th Avenue, South, BDB 373, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0007, USA

 

Piotr Witkowski

Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medical Center, Transplantation Institute, 5841 S. Maryland Ave. MC5027, Room J-517, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

 

Yusuke Yamamoto

Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan

 

Yusuf Yilmaz

Department of Gastroenterology, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Hiroyuki Yoshidome

Department of General Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-Ku, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan. Department of Surgery, Oami Municipal Hospital, 884-1 Tomida, Oami-Shirasato-shi, Chiba, 299-3221, Japan

 

Tomoharu Yoshizumi

Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan