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Editor-in-Chief ,Raul J. Rosenthal ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, United States,Founding Editor ,Harvey Sugerman† ,,,Managing Editor ,David Newcombe ,,Stellar Medical Publications, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States,Associate Editors ,Mohamed Ali ,MD, FACS,University of California Davis Department of Surgery, Sacramento, California, United States, ,David Allison ,PhD,The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States, ,Laurent D. Biertho ,MD,Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, ,Stacy Brethauer ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Ohio, United States, ,Luca Busetto ,MD,University of Padua, Padova, Italy, ,Guilherme M. Campos ,MD, F.A.C.S., FASMBS,Virginia Commonwealth University, Dept. of Surgery, Richmond, Virginia, United States, ,Janelle Coughlin ,PhD,Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, ,Anita P. Courcoulas ,MD, MPH, FACS,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Eric J. DeMaria ,MD, FASMBS,East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States, ,John B. Dixon ,MBBs, PhD,Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ,R. Armour Forse ,MD, FACS,Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States, ,Michel Gagner ,FRCSC, FACS,Sacred Heart Hospital of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ,William F. Gourash ,RN, CRNP, PhD,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Leslie Heinberg ,PhD,Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, ,Daniel M. Herron ,MD, FACS,MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, New York, New York, United States, ,Matthew Hutter ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,Thomas Inge ,MD, FACS,Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, ,Shanu Kothari ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, Onalaska, Wisconsin, United States, ,Edward Lin ,DO, MBA, FACS,Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, ,Matthew Martin ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington, United States, ,Marc Michalsky ,MD, FACS, FAAP, FASMBS,Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States, ,Alex Miras ,MD,Imperial College London, London, England, United Kingdom, ,James Mitchell ,MD,University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States, ,John M. Morton ,MD,Stanford University School of Medicine, California, United States, ,Erik Naslund ,MD,Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden, ,Robert W. O'Rourke ,MD, FACS,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,David A. Provost ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Scott and White Medical Center Temple, Temple, Texas, United States, ,Aurora D. Pryor ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States, ,Ann M. Rogers ,,PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Mitchell Roslin ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, United States, ,Randy Seeley ,PhD,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Shiri Sherf-Dagan ,RD, PhD,Ariel University, Ariel, Israel and Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ,Meg Zeller ,PHD,Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States,Editor for CME ,Samer G. Mattar ,MD, FASMBS,Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States,Social Media Editors ,Neil Floch ,,Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut, United States, ,Richard Peterson, MD, MPH, FACS, FASMBS ,,University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States,Associate Social Media Editors ,Jawad Ali ,,, ,Zaher Toumi ,,University Hospital of North Durham, Durham, United Kingdom,Editor for Case Reports ,Michel M. Murr ,M.D,Bariatric and Metabolic Institute AdventHealth, Tampa, Florida, United States,Creative Director: Visual Abstracts ,Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD ,,Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine,Editorial Board ,Poppy Addison ,MD,Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, United States, ,Vance L. Albaugh ,M.D., Ph.D,Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, ,Maria S. Altieri ,M.D., M.S.,East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States, ,Ali Aminian ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, ,Cynthia-Michelle Borg ,,Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, ,Camilo Boza ,MD,Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Clinic Hospital, Santiago, Chile, ,Robert E. Brolin ,MD,University Medical Center, Fresno, California, United States, ,Henry Buchwald ,MD, PhD,University of Minnesota Medical School - Duluth Campus, Duluth, Minnesota, United States, ,Marco Bueter ,M.D., Ph.D,University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ,Bipan Chand ,MD, FACS, FASGE, FASMBS,Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, United States, ,Nicolas V. Christou ,MD,McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ,Benjamin Clapp ,MD,Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Paul L Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, Texas, United States, ,Ricardo Cohen ,MD,Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ,Karen Coleman ,PhD,Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Pasadena, California, United States, ,Nestor de la Cruz-Munoz ,MD, FACS,University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States, ,S. Scott Davis, Jr. ,MD, FACS,Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, ,J. Christopher Eagon ,MD,Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, ,George M. Eid ,MD,Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Wayne English ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, ,Jonathan F. Finks ,MD,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Peter Hallowell ,MD,University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, ,Kelvin Higa ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Fresno, California, United States, ,Jacques Himpens ,MD,Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Bruxelles, Belgium, ,Fritz F. Horber ,MD,University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ,Sayeed Ikramuddin ,MD, FACS,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, ,Brian Jacob ,MD, FACS,MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, New York, New York, United States, ,Daniel Jones ,MD, MS,BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, Harvard Medical School Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,Radwan Kassir ,M.D., Ph.D., H.D.R.,Felix Guyon University Hospital Center, Saint Denis, Reunion, ,Andrei Keidar ,MD,Ha'merkaz ha'refui Rabin, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ,Colleen Kennedy ,MD, FACS,Dallas, Texas, United States, ,Julie Kim ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,Teresa LaMasters ,MD, FACS, FASMBS, DABOM,UnityPoint Clinic, West Des Moines, Iowa, United States, ,Wei-Jei Lee ,MD,Min Sheng General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ,Emanuele Lo Menzo ,MD, PhD, FASMBS,Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, ,Kamal Mahawar ,MS, MSc, FRCSEd,Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, United Kingdom, ,James W. Maher ,MD, FACS,Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States, ,Corrigan L. McBride ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States, ,Geltrude Mingrone ,MD,Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Rome Campus, Rome, Italy, ,Ninh T. Nguyen ,MD, FACS,University of California Irvine Department of Medicine, Orange, California, United States, ,Paul O'Brien, MD ,MD,Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, ,Sungsoo Park ,MD, PhD, FASMBS,Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ,Ralph Peterli ,,Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Division of gastroenterology, Basel, Switzerland, ,Anthony T. Petrick ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Jaime Ponce ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, ,Walter J. Pories ,MD, FACS,East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States, ,Dana Portenier ,MD FACS FASMBS,Duke Regional Hospital, Durham, United States, ,Gerhard Prager ,MD,Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ,Almino Ramos ,MD, IFASMBS,Federal University of the ABC, SANTO ANDRE, Brazil, ,Christine J. Ren-Fielding ,MD, FACS,NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New York, New York, United States, ,Carel le Roux ,MBChB, MSc, FRCP, FRCPath, PhD,University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ,Francesco Rubino ,MD,King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ,Alan Saber ,MD,Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey, United States, ,David B Sarwer ,PhD,Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Bruce Schirmer ,MD, FACS,University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, ,Michael A. Schweitzer ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, ,John D. Scott ,M.D. F.A.C.S. F.A.S.M.B.S.,Prisma Health, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, ,Scott Shikora ,MD, FACS,TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER INC, Boston, MA, ,Ian Soriano ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Dana A. Telem ,MD,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Philippe Topart ,MD,Anjou Clinic, Angers, France, ,Oliver Varban ,MD, FASMBS,University of Michigan Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Sivamainthan Vithiananthan ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, ,Phil Vourtzoumis ,MD, FRCSC,Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Québec, Quebec, Canada, ,Rudolf Weiner ,MD,Hospital Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt, Germany, ,Noel Williams ,MD, FACS,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Alan C. Wittgrove ,MD, FACS,Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, ,Nathan Zundel ,MD, FACS, FASMBS,Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States,Integrated Health Associate Editors ,Dale Bond, PhD ,,Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, ,William Gourash, MSN, CRNP ,,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States,Integrated Health Editorial Board ,Cynthia K. Buffington ,PhD,AdventHealth Celebration, Celebration, Florida, United States, ,Margaret Furtado ,MD, RD, LDN, RYT,Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, ,Karen Groller ,PhD, RN-BC, CMSRN,Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Kellene A. Isom ,MS, RD, LDN, CAGS,Simmons University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,Wendy King ,PHD,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Faina Linkov ,PhD,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Tracy Martinez ,RN, BSN,La Jolla, California, United States, ,Julie M. Parrot ,MS, RD, ACE-CPT,Central New Jersey, United States, ,Bobbie Lou Price ,RN, BSN,Physicians East PA, Greenville, North Carolina, United States, ,Maureen T. Quigley ,APRN, FNP,DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States,SOARD Preferred Reviewers ,Eric Ahnfeldt ,,William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas, United States, ,Ramzi Alami ,,American University of Beirut Medical Centre, Bayrut, Lebanon, ,Vamsi V. Alli ,,PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Daniel Peter Andersson ,,Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden, ,Donna Bahroloomi ,,Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, United States, ,Matthew Baker ,,Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, Onalaska, Wisconsin, United States, ,Limaris Barrios ,,Mercy Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States, ,Alec Beekley ,,Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Paolo Bernante ,,The Hospital "Giovanni Paolo II, Pieve di Cadore, Italy, ,Adrian Billeter ,,Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, ,Vivek Bindal ,,Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India, ,Ruth Blackham ,,The University of Western Australia School of Surgery, Perth, Australia, ,Allen Browne ,,Maine Medical Partners Falmouth Family Medicine, Falmouth, Maine, United States, ,Juliette Chang ,,Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, ,Vasileios Charalampakis ,,South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick, United Kingdom, ,Sonja Chiappetta ,,Betania Evnagelical Foundation, Napoli, Italy, ,Yong Choi ,,The Woodlands Hospital, ,Ricard Corcelles ,,Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ,Daniel Cottam ,,Bariatric Medicine Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, ,Michael Courtney ,,South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, South Shields, United Kingdom, ,Daniel Cronk ,,Erlanger Health System, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, ,Ramsey Dallal ,,Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Adrian G. Dan ,,Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio, United States, ,Anne P. Ehlers ,,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Maher El Chaar ,,Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Byron Faler ,,Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, United States, ,Alexandra Falvo ,,Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Edward Felix ,,Marien Hospital, Dusseldorf, Germany, ,Laura Fischer ,,University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States, ,Mirto Foletto ,,University of Padua, Padova, Italy, ,Carlos Galvani ,,Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States, ,Omar Ghanem ,,Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, United States, ,John Gleysteen ,,The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States, ,Jon Gould ,,Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, ,Valerie Halpin ,,Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States, ,Elizabeth M. Hechenbleikner ,,Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, ,Ryan D. Horsley ,,Geisinger Community Medical Center, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Farah Husain ,,Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States, ,Jason Johnson ,,Saint Joseph Hospital, Denver, Colorado, United States, ,Sergio Jose Bardaro ,,MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, ,Namir Katkhouda ,,University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States, ,Matthew Kroh ,,Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, ,MacKenzie Landin ,,Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, United States, ,Robert Lim ,,TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii, United States, ,Brij Madhok ,,University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, United Kingdom, ,Manish Parikh ,,Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, New York, United States, ,David M. Parker ,,Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Maud Robert ,,Civil Hospices of Lyon, Lyon, France, ,David Romero Funes ,,Cleveland Clinic, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Department of General Surgery, Weston, Florida, United States, ,Federico J. Serrot ,,Emory Healthcare Emory Bariatric Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, ,Dimitrio Stefanidis ,,Indiana University Department of Surgery, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, ,Lawrence Tabone ,,West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, ,Talar Tatarian ,,Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Antonio Torres ,,San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ,Eric Velazquez ,,Temple University Health System Inc, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Brandon Williams ,,VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Nashville, Tennessee, United States