1Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
2Department of Surgery, Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Kitakyushu City Yahata Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
3Section of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
4Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA
5Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
6Center for Global Health, Mito Kyodo General Hospital, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
7Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
8Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
9Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
10Division of General Surgery, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
11Department of Surgery, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
12Department of Gastroenterology, Ogaki Municipal Hospital, Gifu, Japan
13Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
14Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
15Liau KH Consulting PL, Mt Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
16Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan
17Department of Surgery, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
18Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
19Department of General and HPB Surgery, Loreto Nuovo Hospital, Naples, Italy
20First Department of Surgery, Agia Olga Hospital, Athens, Greece
21Department of Surgical Oncology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India
22Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
23Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
24Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
25Department of Surgery, Fujinomiya City General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
26Department of Surgery, Hospital Italiano, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
27Chair of General Surgery and Minimal Invasive Surgery “Taquini” University of Buenos Aires DAICIM Foundation Buenos Aires Argentina
28Surgical Gastroenterology/Hepatopancreatobiliary Unit, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
29Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Hospital Selayang, Selangor, Malaysia
30Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
31Department of Surgery, Toho University Ohashi Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
32Department of Surgery and Oncology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
33Department of Surgery, Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
34Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan
35Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
36Director, Chiba Tokushukai Hospital, Chiba, Japan
37Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Yotsuya Medical Cube, Tokyo, Japan
38Department of Surgery, Tohoku Rosai Hospital, Miyagi, Japan
39Department of Endoscopy and Ultrasound, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
40Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan
41Department of Gastroenterological and Pediatric Surgery, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
42Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
43Department of General Internal Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital, Aichi, Japan
44President, Oita University, Oita, Japan
45Department of Surgery, JR Sapporo Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan
46Director, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan
47Department of Gastroenterology, Second Teaching Hospital, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan