Editorial Team
The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.
Editor-in-Chief
J Calvin Coffey, BSc, PhD, FRCSI, CS
Professor, Foundation Chair of Surgery,
Consultant Open/Laparoscopic/Robotic Colorectal Surgeon,
University of Limerick,
University of Limerick Hospitals Group,
Limerick, Ireland
Associate Editors
Sam Atallah, MD, FACS, FASCRS (Advancing Technologies in Pelvic Surgery)
Chairman, Department of Colon & Rectal Surgery, Florida Hospital, Orlando; Director, Research and Innovation Center for Colon & Rectal Surgery; Associate Professor of Surgery, Central Florida College of Medicine; Clinical Faculty, Florida Hospital General Surgery Residency Program; Clinical Faculty, Florida State University – School of Medicine, FL, USA
Manish Chand, MBBS, BSc, MBA, FRCS, PhD (Colorectal Surgery)
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Senior Lecturer, University College London Hospital and University College London, London, UK
Conor P. Delaney, MD, MCh, PhD, FRCSI, FACS, FASCRS(Hon) (Rectal Surgery)
Chairman, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute; Victor W. Fazio MD Endowed Chair in Colorectal Surgery and Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
Nicola Di Paolo, MD (Peritoneum)
Past Director, Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Siena, Italy
Peter Dockery, BSc(Hons), PhD (General Anatomy)
Anatomy, School of Medicine National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Colum Dunne, BSc, PhD, MBA (Microbiology)
Director of Research, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Jonathan E. Efron, MD (Colonic Surgery)
The Mark M. Ravitch Professor of Surgery and Urology, Executive Vice Chair, Department of Surgery; Chief, Ravitch Division of GI Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Guido Garosi, MD (Peritoneum)
Director, Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Siena, Italy
Jianping Gong, MD, PhD (Gastric Surgery)
Director of General Surgery, Director of Gastrointestinal Surgery Center, Chair of Cancer Research Institute, Professor of Surgery in Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Werner Hohenberger, MD, PhD (Complete Mesocolic Excision)
Emeritus Professor, Chair of Surgery, University Erlangen-Nuremberg;
Retired Chairman, Surgical Department, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Patrick Kiely, PhD (Cell Biology)
Senior Lecturer in Molecular Sciences, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Aoife Lowery, MB BCh BAO, MMed Sci, PDip(Clin Ed), PhD, FRCS (Adipose Stem Cells)
Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Jürgen Mulsow, MD, FRCSI (Peritoneal Surgery)
Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon, National Centre for Peritoneal Malignancy, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin 7, Ireland
Peter O’Leary, BMedSc, MB BCh BAO (Hons), MRCSI, PhD (Endocrine/Metabolic Surgery)
Surguvant Research Centre, Department of Surgery, Department of Biochemistry Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
M Mahir Ozmen, MD, MS, FACS, FRCS, FEBS, FASMBS (Mesenteric Based Colorectal Surgery)
Professor of Surgery, Medical Director Liv Hospital, ANKARA; Istinye University, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey
Rafael Riveros, MD (Peritoneum)
Professor Emeritus-Surgery, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
Martin J. Shelly, MB BCh BAO, BMedSc, MRCSI, FFRRCSI (General Radiology)
Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Limerick Group, Limerick, Ireland
Fraser M. Smith, MB, ChB, BSc(Hons), MD, FRCSI, PGc Clin Ed (Colorectal Surgery)
Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
Petr Tsarkov, MD, PhD, Professor, FASCRS(Hon) (Mesenteric-Based Surgery)
Honorary President – Russian Society of Colorectal Surgeons;
Past President – Euro-Asian Technologies Association
Director – Clinic of Colorectal and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD(Hon), FACS, FRCS, FRCS(Ed) (Rectal Surgery)
Director, Digestive Disease Center; Chair, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida; Affiliate Professor, Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine; Clinical Professor, Florida International University College of Medicine, FL, USA
Xuehong Xu, PhD (Blood/Circulation/Gastroenterology)
Cell Genetics and Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China