David C Whitcomb Editor

Hans G. Beger, MD, FACS (Hon.), JSS (Hon.), CSS (Hon.), Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

Markus W. Büchler, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Ralph H. Hruban, MD, Baxley Professor and Director, Department of Pathology and Director of the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.

Julia Mayerle, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chair Department of Medicine II, LMU Klinikum, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.

John P. Neoptolemos, MA, MB, BCHIR, MD FRCS, FMEDSCI, Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Tooru Shimosegawa, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus Department of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

Andrew L. Warshaw, MD, FACS, FRCSEd (Hon.), W. Gerald Austen Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.

David C. Whitcomb, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Human Genetics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Pennsylvania, USA.

Yupei Zhao, MD, FICS (Hon.), FACS (Hon.), FRCS (Engl) (Hon.), FCSHK (Hon.), Professor of Surgery, Director Emeritus Department of General Surgery Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing University, Beijing, P.R. China.