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Chair of the Editorial Board
Dr Christian Selinger, MD, MSc, MRCP St James University Hospital Leeds, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Area of expertise: Luminal gastroenterology, inflammatory bowel disease ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-2022-5859
Editorial office: info.bmjgast@bmj.com
Research Editor
Associate Editors
Dr James Ashton, MRCPCH, BMBS, BMedSci PhD University of Southampton Southampton, UK Areas of expertise: Paediatrics ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-0348-8198 Dr Tom Butler, MBChB, PhD, ESEGH University of Manchester Manchester, UK Areas of expertise: Inflammatory bowel disease, luminal gastroenterology, microbiome ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-0918-6713 Dr Lanlan Chen, PhD Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin, Germany Areas of expertise: Hepatology ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-1075-5592 Professor Johanna K. DiStefano, PhD Translational Genomics Research Institute Phoenix, AZ, USA Areas of expertise: Basic science, translational research, MASLD/NAFLD, MASH/NASH ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-3286-0270 Dr Simon Everett, MBChB, MD, FRCP Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Leeds, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Areas of expertise: Endoscopy, ERCP, pancreatic-biliary medicine, inflammatory bowel disease ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-4251-5323 Dr James Farrell, MD, MBChB Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Areas of expertise: Pancreatic disease, interventional endoscopy ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-4073-4776 Dr Varun Kesar, MD Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Roanoke, VA, USA Areas of expertise: Endoscopy, pancreatic disease epidemiology, drug induced liver injury ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-2422-0249 Dr Paul Middleton, MBChB Hons, MRCP, PhD Imperial College London London UK Areas of expertise: Hepatology, mitochondria, basic science, immunology ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-8070-2138 Dr John Ong, MBBS, MRCP, PhD, MSc, PgDip, PgCert, FHEA, FEBGH University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK Areas of expertise: Hepatology, ERCP, general gastroenterology ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0001-5103-7311
Professor Petr Protiva, MD, MPH Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Institutional profile >> Areas of expertise: Luminal gastroenterology ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-5566-8820 Dr Mukesh Kumar Ranjan, DM, MD Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital Bharatpur, Nepal ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-2575-5971 Areas of expertise: Luminal gastroenterology, inflammatory bowel disease, therapeutic endoscopy Dr Freya Rhodes, PhD, MRCP, MBChB (hons), BSc (hons) South West Liver Unit, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Plymouth, UK Areas of expertise: Cirrhosis, non-invasive fibrosis tests, early detection of cirrhosis, alcohol-related liver disease, liver transplantation ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-6884-6235 Dr Arjuna Singanayagam St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Areas of expertise: Cirrhosis, immune dysfunction, liver failure ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0001-9097-2564 Dr Philip Smith, BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MRCP, MSc Royal Liverpool University Hospital Liverpool, UK Areas of expertise: IBD, nutrition, intestinal failure and transition ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-1568-3978 Dr. Trevor Smith, DM, FRCP University Hospital Southampton Southampton, UK Institutional profile >> Areas of expertise: Gastroenterology, clinical nutrition ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-1614-2946 Dr Ally Speight Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests > > Area of expertise: Inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease and other enteropathies, immune checkpoint inhibitor enterocolitis/GI complications from cancer therapy, immunology and the GI tract ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0003-3184-9181 Dr Dipesh Vasant, PhD, MBChB, MRCP  The University of Manchester Manchester, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Areas of expertise: Luminal gastroenterology, GI physiology, motility, neurogastroenterology, ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-2329-0616
Education and Social Media Editor
Dr Philip Smith, BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MRCP, MSc Royal Liverpool University Hospital Liverpool, UK ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-1568-3978
Statistical Reviewers
Dr Natalia Permyakova University of Southampton Southampton, UK
Dr Sean Ewings University of Southampton Southampton, UK
Founding Editor
Professor Joseph Lim, MD Yale University New Haven, CT, USA
Editorial Board
Dr Adegboyega Akere University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria Dr Will Alazawi Queen Mary University of London London, UK Dr Naima Amrani Centre International de Formation Rabat, Morocco Dr Todd Baron University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA Dr Damon Bizos Wits University Johannesburg, South Africa Dr Ming-Jen Chen Mackay Memorial Hospital Taipei City, Taiwan Dr Luis Colombato Buenos Aires British Hospital Buenos Aires, Argentina Dr Jack DiPalma University of South Alabama Mobile, AL, USA Dr Ahmed Elsharkawy University Hospitals Birmingham Birmingham, UK Dr Conrado Fernandez Hospital Universitario Fundacion Alcorcon Madrid, Spain Dr Andrés Gómez-Aldana Texas Liver Institute San Antonio, TX, USA Professor Graham Foster Queen Mary University of London London, UK Dr Robert Gish Stanford University Stanford, AL, USA Dr Ji Dong Jia Capital Medical University Beijing, China Dr David Kastenberg Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA, USA Dr John Leeds Freeman Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Dr Lee Guan Lim Raffles Hospital Singapore, Singapore Professor Seng Gee Lim National University of Singapore Singapore Dr Rohit Loomba UC San Diego School of Medicine San Diego, CA, USA Dr Guilherme Macedo Centro Hospitalar S.João Porto, Portugal Professor Sara Montagnese University of Padova Padua, Italy Dr Anil Nagar Yale University New Haven, CT, USA
Dr Manu Nayar The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Dr Mindie Nguyen Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA, USA Dr Rahul Pannala Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA Dr Ian Penman Western General Hospital Edinburgh, UK Professor Richard Pollok St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s University of London London, UK Dr Eamonn Quigley Houston Methodist Houston, TX, USA Professor Vlad Ratziu University Pierre et Marie Curie Hospital La Pitié-Salpêtrière Paris, France Dr Bani Chander Roland Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY, USA Dr Sammy Saab David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, USA Dr Eugene Schiff University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, FL, USA Dr Mitchell Shiffman Liver Institute of Virginia Richmond, VA, USA Dr Jonathon Snook Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Poole, UK Dr Richard Sterling Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center Richmond, VA, USA Dr Hidekazu Suzuki Keio University Tokyo, Japan Professor Akinobu Takaki Okayama University Okayama, Japan Dr George Triadafilopoulos Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA Dr Jacques Van Dam University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA Dr Thomas Wang University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA Professor Kevin Waschke McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada Dr Yang Yang Nanjing Medical University Nanjing, China Dr Mingxin Zhang The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Medical University Xi'an, China

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