List of Contributors
Associate Editors
Todd H. Baron, MD
Professor
Director of Advanced Therapeutic
Endoscopy
University of North Carolina
North Carolina, USA
Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH
Professor, Medicine and Epidemiology
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
North Carolina, USA
Michael John Bourke, FRACP
Professor
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Westmead Hospital
Sydney, Australia
D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, DM, DSc, FAMS, FRCP, FASGE, FACG, MWGO
Chairman and Chief of Gastroenterology
Asian Institute of Gastroenterology
Hyderabad, India
Lauren B. Gerson, MD, MSc
Associate Clinical Professor
University of California San Francisco
Director of Clinical Research
Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
California Pacific Medical Center
California, USA
Contributors
Douglas G. Adler MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE
Professor
Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy
Director
GI Fellowship Program
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Utah School of Medicine
Huntsman Cancer Center
Utah, USA
Hans-Dieter Allescher, MD, PhD
Professor
Center for Internal Medicine
Klinikum Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Marianna Arvanitakis, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology
Erasme University Hospital ULB
Brussels, Belgium
Andrew Eliot Axon, BA (Hons), MA (Cantab)
Head
Parklane Plowden Barristers Chambers
Leeds and Newcastle, UK
Anthony T. R. Axon, MD, FRCP
Professor
University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
Jamie S. Barkin, MD, MACP, MACG, AGAF,
FASGE
Professor of Medicine
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Florida, USA
Jodie A. Barkin, MD
Gastroenterology Fellow
Department of Medicine, Division of
Gastroenterology
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Florida, USA
Maximilien Barret, MD
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Omer Basar, MD
Research Fellow
Pancreas Biliary Center
Gastrointestinal Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Professor
Hacettepe Medical School
Department of Gastroenterology
Ankara, Turkey
Barbara A.J. Bastiaansen, MD
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academical Medical Center
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kamar Belghazi, MD
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J. J. G. H. M. Bergman, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Daniel Blero, MD
Professor
Department of Gastroenterology
Hepatopancreatology, and Digestive
Oncology, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Hôpital Erasme
Brussels, Belgium
Christine Boumitri, MD
Gastroenterology Fellow
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
University of Missouri
Missouri, USA
Albert J. Bredenoord, MD
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academic Medical Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
William R. Brugge, MD
Director, Pancreas-Biliary Center
Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts, USA
Disaya Chavalitdhamrong, MD
Division of Gastroenterology
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
California, USA
Philip Wai Yan Chiu, MD (CUHK),
MBChB (CUHK), FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery)
Professor
Department of Surgery, Institute of
Digestive Disease
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
New Territories, Hong Kong
Jonathan Cohen, MD, FASGE, FACG
Clinical Professor
New York University School of Medicine
New York, USA
Guido Costamagna, MD, FACG
Professor
Head of Department of Digestive and
Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases
Director of Digestive Endoscopy Unit
Catholic University of Rome
Rome, Italy
Chair of Excellence in Digestive Endoscopy
University of Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
Geert R.A.M. D'Haens, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Evelien Dekker, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jacques Deviere, MD, PhD
Professor
Director
Division of Gastroenterology
Hepatopancreatology and Digestive oncology
Erasme Hospital, ULB
Brussels, Belgium
Marjolijn Duijvestein, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Steven A. Edmundowicz, MD, FASGE
Professor
Medical Director, Digestive Health Center
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical
Campus
University of Colorado Hospital
Colorado, USA
Pietro Familiari MD, PhD
Digestive Endoscopy Unit
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.
Gemelli
Rome, Italy
Nancy N. Fanous, MSc., MD
Consultant Gastroenterologist and
Hepatologist
Police Hospital
General Administration of Medical Services
at Ministry of Interior
Department of Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Endoscopy
Cairo, Egypt
David E. Fleischer, MD
Professor
Mayo College of Medicine
Staff Physician
Mayo Clinic
Arizona, USA
Gregory G. Ginsberg, MD
Professor
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School
of Medicine
Penn Medicine
Abramson Cancer Center
Gastroenterology Division
Director of Endoscopic Services
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
Pennsylvania, USA
Takuji Gotoda, MD, PhD, FASGE, FACG, FRCP
Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Department of Medicine
Nihon University School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan
Gregory B. Haber, MD
Chief
Division of Gastroenterology
Lenox Hill Hospital
Northwell Health System
New York, USA
Lucinda A. Harris, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Arizona, USA
Robert H. Hawes, MD
Professor
University of Central Florida College of
Medicine
Medical Director
Florida Hospital Institute for Minimally
Invasive Therapy
Florida, USA
Juergen Hochberger, MD, PhD, FASGE
Chairman
Department of Gastroenterology
Vivantes Friedrichshain Hospital
Teaching Hospital of Humboldt University
Charité
Berlin, Germany
Froukje B. van Hoeij, MD
Research fellow
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mostafa Ibrahim, MD
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatopancreatology
and Digestive Oncology
Erasme Hospital
Université libre de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium
Ibrahim Mostafa Ibrahim, MD, PhD, FACG,
MWGO, FRCP (Glasg.)
Professor of Gastroenterology, Hepatology
and Liver Transplantation
Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Ministry
of Scientific Research
Chair, Education Committee World Endoscopy
Organization
Vice President, Pan Arab Association of
Gastroenterology
Giza Governorate, Egypt
Joep Evert Godfried IJspeert, MD
Epidemiologist
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academic Medical Centre
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hye Yeon Jhun, MD
Gastroenterology Fellow
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas, USA
Rome Jutabha, MD
Professor
Division of Digestive Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, UCLA Center for Small Bowel
Diseases
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Advisory Board, UCLA Center for World
Health
California, USA
Michel Kahaleh, M.D., AGAF, FACG, FASGE
Professor
Medical Director Pancreas Program
Division of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, USA
Frank G.J. Kallenberg, MD
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Academic Medical Center
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mouen A. Khashab, MD
Associate Professor
Director
Therapeutic Endoscopy
Division
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Maryland, USA
Ralf Kiesslich, MD
Professor
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Helios HSK Wiesbaden
Nikhil A. Kumta, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of
Gastroenterology
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, USA
Moe Kyaw, MRCP, MSc, MBA
Institute of Digestive Diseases
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prince of Wales Hospital
New Territories, Hong Kong
James YW Lau, FRCS
Department of Surgery
Prince of Wales Hospital
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
New Territories, Hong Kong
David Lee, MD
Gastroenterology Fellow
H.H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease
Center
Division of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
University of California Irvine Medical
Center
California, USA
Jonathan A. Leighton, MD, FACG, AGAF,
FASGE, FACP
Professor
Mayo Clinic
Arizona, USA
Juergen Maiss, MD, PhD
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