Prof. Shinichi Okazumi is a Professor at the Department of Surgery, Toho University, Japan. His skills and expertise include detection and positron emission tomography. His research areas are Life Sciences and Digestive Surgery. He has 187 publications with 4400 citations and an h-index of 40 (Scopus, 7 November 2023).

Dr. Gaku Ohira is a Medical Doctor at the Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. He is a specialist in surgical procedures for lower gastrointestinal diseases. His research areas include multidisciplinary treatment of highly advanced colorectal cancer and diagnostic imaging of gastrointestinal malignancies. He has 62 publications with 367 citations and an h-index of 10 (Scopus, 9 November 2023).

Koichi Hayano has been an Associate Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Chiba University Hospital since 2017. He served as a Research Fellow at the Division of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital, from 2012 to 2015, and as an Assistant Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Chiba University Hospital from 2015 to 2017. He is a councilor of the Japanese Society of Clinical Surgery, Biotherapy Society, Acute Care Surgery Society, Metastatic Liver Cancer International Clinical Practice Guidelines Development Committee, and Society of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery. He is also an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences and World Journal of Gastroenterology. He won the Best Presentation Award at The 121st Annual Congress of Japan Surgical Society in 2021, the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery in 2020, and the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery in 2010.

N/A

N/A

Prof. Hisahiro Matsubara is a Professor and Chairman at the Department of Frontier Surgery‚ Graduate School of Medicine‚ Chiba University, Japan. His research interests include Laparoscopic Gastrectomy and Early Gastric Cancer. International experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. He has 324 publications with 4724 citations and an h-index of 30 (Scopus, 7 November 2023).