Asia, Australia/New Zealand
Editor-in-Chief
Chen Jie, PhD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of Hernia and Abdominal Surgery, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University; President, Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons; Chairman, Beijing Hernia Society; Vice-Chairman, Chinese Hernia Society, Beijing, China
Associate Editors
Ji Zhenling, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Zhong Da Hospital Southeast University; General Committee, Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons, Nanjing, China
Pradeep Chowbey, MD
Professor, Executive Vice-Chairmman - Max Healthcare Institute Ltd. and Chairman - Max Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (MAMBS) at Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India
Anil Sharma, MD
Professor, Director Endohernia Surgery Max Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, New Delhi, India
David Watson, MD
Professor of Surgery, Head of the University Department of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
Davide Lomanto, MD
Professor, Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre (MISC) at the National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore
Jose Macario Faylona, MD
Associated Professor, Department of Surgery, University of the Phillipines, Manila, UP - Philippine General Hospital, UP - Philippine General Hospital, Taft Avenue, Ermita
Mahesh Misra, MD
Professor of Surgery, General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Surgical Disciplines, Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Tang Jianxiong, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Huadong Hospital, Fudan University; Chairman, Chinese Hernia Society; Vice-President, Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons, Shanghai, China
Li Jianwen, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; President-elect, Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons, Shanghai, China
Yao Qiyuan, MD
Professor, Chief Surgeon, Deputy Director of Surgery; Director of Department of Hernia and Abdominal Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University; General Committee, Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons, Shanghai, China
Editorial Board Members
Alfred Allen Buenafe, MD
Philippine Center for Advanced Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Training Center Cardinal Santos Medical Center, San Juan, Philippines
Barlian Sutedja, MD
Gading Pluit Hospital, Jl. Boulevard Timur Raya Kelapa Gading, Jakarta 14250, Indonesia
Cheng-Chung Tsai, MD
General Surgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, and National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
George Yang, MD
Clinical Director of Robotic Surgery (General Surgery), Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Gu Yan, PhD, MD
Professor, Chief Surgeon, Director of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Disease Center, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Haechang Cho, MD
Department of Surgery, Daegu Fatima Hospital, 99 AYANG-RO, DONG-GU, DAEU 41199, Daegu, Korea
Hanh Tran, MA, MD, PhD, MBA
Director of the Sydney Hernia Specialist Clinic, Level2, 195 Macquarie St, Sydney, Australia
Huang Heguang, MD
Professor, Chief Surgeon, Director of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Disease Center, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fujian, China
Jaideepraj Rao, MD
Senior Consultant and Head of the Upper Gastrointestinal & Minimal Access Surgery unit, and the Director of the Bariatric Surgery Programme in the Department of General Surgery in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Ji-Young Sul, PhD, MD
Professor, Department of Surgery, Chungnam National University School of Medicine and its affiliated Hospital in Daejeon, 282 Munhwa-ro, Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea
Kelimu Abudureyimu, MD
Professor, Chief Surgeon, Director of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Disease Center, People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Associate Dean of People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, China
Kuo Hsin Chen, MD
Chairman, Department of Surgery, Chief, Division of General Surgery, Far-Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Li Binggen, MD
Vice Director and Associate Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Hexian Memorial Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Li Hangyu, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Associate dean of The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
Li Junsheng, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Department of general surgery, Affiliated Zhongda hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Liu Ziwen, PhD, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Manish Baijal, MBBS, DNB (GEN. SURG), MNAMS
Director of Max Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Max Healthcare, Saket, New Delhi, India
Qin Changfu, PhD, MD
Department of Hernia and Abdominal Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University; Secretary and Member of Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons; Member of International Endohernia Society (IEHS), Beijing, China
Rajesh Khullar, MBBS (AFMC, Pune University), MS (PGI, Chandigarh), FICS
Director, Max Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Max Healthcare, Saket, New Delhi, India
Rolf Ulrich Hartung, MD
Medical Director at Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ross Roberts, MD
The Hernia Clinic, Level 1, 9 Caledonian Road, Christchurch, New Zealand
Sathien Tumtavitikul, MD
Department of Surgery, Vichaiyut Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Shen Yingmo, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Vice Director of Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Suthep Udomsawaengsup, MD
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Takehiro Hachisuka, MD
Department of General Surgery, Yokkaichi Municipal Hospital, Shibata, Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan
Tan Min, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Director of Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Virinder Kumar Bansal, MD
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
Wang Ping, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Director of Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, Associate dean of Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China
Wang Qiusheng, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Director in Department of Minimally Invasive General Surgery, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China
Xu Deli, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Director of Department of General Surgery, Jinghu Hospital, Macau, China
Zhang Jian, PhD, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Deputy Director,Department of Surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China
Assistant Editor
Qin Changfu, PhD, MD
Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University; Secretary and Member of Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons; Member of International Endohernia Society (IEHS), Beijing, China
Europe
Editor-in-Chief
Reinhard Bittner, MD, FRCS, FICS
Professor, Emeritus Director of Surgical Department, Marien Hospital Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Associated Editors
Ferdinand Köckerling, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery and Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Vivantes Hospital Spandau, Neue Bergstraße, BE, Germany
René H. Fortelny, MD
Professor, Chief of the Certified Hernia Center, Department of General, Visceral and Oncological Surgery, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria
Henry Hoffmann, MD
Surgical Consultant, Certified Competency Center of Hernia Surgery, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse, Basel, Switzerland
Giampiero Campanelli, MD
Full Professor of Surgery Insubria University, Director General Surgery - Day Surgery, Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio - Milan, Past President of the European Hernia Society, Past President of the Italian Society of Ambulatory Surgery and Day Surgery, President of the Foundation Day Surgery Onlus, Italy
Editorial Board Members
Alexey Abolmasov, MD, PhD
Chief of Department, Orel State University Clinic, Orel Regional Hospital, Orel, Russia
Bernd Stechemesser, MD
Director, Certified Hernia Center, Hernienzentrum Köln, Germany
Diego Cuccurullo, MD
President of the Italian Society of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery; General, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery, AORN Ospedali dei Colli, Italy
Dirk Weyhe, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of Visceral Surgery, University of Oldenburg, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Pius-Hospital, Medical Campus, Oldenburg, Germany
Emanuela Dapunt, MD
General Surgery, Krankenhaus Bruneck, Spitalstraße 11, Bruneck (BZ), Italy
Franz Mayer, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
Frederik Berrevoet, MD
Professor of Surgery, Department of General and HPB Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Guido Woeste, MD
General and Visceral Surgery Clinic, Non-profit GmbH Academic Teaching Hospital, Darmstadt, Germany
Hakan Kulacoglu, MD, FACS, FICS
Professor of Surgery, Ankara Hernia Center, Turkey
Henning Niebuhr, MD
Professor, Director, Certified Hernia Center, Hanse-Hernienzentrum Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
Jan Kukleta, MD
Klinik Im Park Zurich (Hirslanden Group) Visceral Surgery, Network Hernia, Zurich, Switzerland
Jurij Gorjanc, MD, PhD, FRCS
Consultant in General Surgery, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder (Hospital of St. John of God), Department for Surgery, Austria; President of the Slovenian Hernia Society
Kestudis Strupas, MD
Professor, Chief of Clinic of Gastroenterology, Nephrourology and Surgery, Medicine Faculty of Vilnius University, Lithuania
Maciej Pawlak, MD, PhD
General and Upper GI Surgical Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Rudolf Schrittwieser, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of Surgery, LKH Hochsteiermark/Standort Bruck an der Mur Bruck an der Mur, Austria
Valery Egiev, MD
Professor, Vice-President of the SM-clinic of Surgery, Head of Department of surgery and Oncology of RUDN, Moscow, Russia
Wolfgang Reinpold, MD
Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of Surgery and Hernia Center Gross Sand Hospital, Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg, Gross Sand, Hamburg, Germany
America
Editor-in-Chief
William W. Hope, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, UNC-CH; Program Director General Surgery Residency Program, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Associate Editors
David C. Chen, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Director, Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic at UCLA, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, UCLA Division of General Surgery, Los Angeles, California, USA
John P. Fischer, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA
Hobart W. Harris, MD, MPH
Professor & Chief, Division of General Surgery; Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Sergio Roll, MD, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa of São Paulo; Director of Center of Abdominal Wall Surgery - Santa Casa of São Paulo Hospital; Director of The German Hospital Oswaldo Cruz Hernia Center, São Paulo, Brazil
John Morrison, MD
Adjunct Professor, University of Western Ontario, Chatham Kent Health Alliance, Chatham Ontario, Canada
Yuri W. Novitsky, MD
Professor of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director of the Columbia Comprehensive Hernia Center, Columbia, USA
Karl A. LeBlanc, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor of Surgery, Louisiana State University School of Medicine; Associate Medical Director of Surgery, Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group; Past president of the American Hernia Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Editorial Board Members
Archana Ramaswamy, MD, MBA, FACS, FRCSC
Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA
Bruce Ramshaw, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Graduate School of Medicine; University Surgeons Associates, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Dennis Klassen, B.Sc. (Hons.), MD, FRCSC, FACS
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Laparoscopic and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Halifax, NS Canada
Federico Gorganchian, MD, MACC
General Surgeon, University of Buenos Aires University/UBA, Argentina
Frederic E. Eckhauser, MD
Director of Surgical Education, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Jorge Daes, MD
Academic Director, Minimally invasive Surgery Department, Clinica Portoazul, Barranquilla, Colombia
Ricardo Z. Abdalla, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery, HCFMUSP, Coordinator Robotic Surgery Research Program, Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Rick Q. Ngo, MD
Texas Hernia Specialists, Texas, USA
Vedra A. Augenstein, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, USA
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