Biography

Wilson Catapani was graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of São Paulo, in 1977, with a two year subsequent Residency in Gastroenterology at the same institution. Also at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, he got my Master and later, a Doctorate degree in Gastroenterology. He had training as a research fellow at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, under the supervision of Professor Anne Ferguson, during 1990. Later on, he moved to the ABC Foundation School of Medicine, in Santo André, near Sao Paulo, where he is currently Full Professor of the Gastroenterology Section. He is also an American College of Gastroenterology fellow.

Research Interest

Functional intestinal diseases
Irritable bowel syndrome
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Celiac disease and mucosal immunology

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Pezhman Alavinejad has completed his MD at the age of 25 years from Tehran University and gastroenterology fellowship from Ahvaz jundishapur University of Medical sciences. He is currently Assistant professor of Gastroenterology and hepatology, member of the Research Center for Infectious Diseases of Digestive System, WEO star group and director of Celiac Society in Khuzestan province, a premier health service organization. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of gastroenterology and hepatology open access journal.

Research Interest

Field of Hepatology, Small bowel disorders specially celiac disease

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Abdul-Wahed N. Meshikheswas born in Al-Awamiyah, Qatif, Saudi Arabia in 1958. He did the 'A' level certificate of higher education in Worthing College of Technology, West Sussex, England in 1977. He qualified from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in June 1984 and did his internship year in Scotland. He did his postgraduate surgical training in Manchester, England and obtained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1989. He also did one year fellowship in liver transplantation at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK in 1993.

He worked as consultant surgeon and chairman of Surgery Department at Dammam Central hospital from 1991 till May 2005, when he joined King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam as the chairman of department of surgery to establish the department. He chaired the department till 2011. He is currently the head of general and minimally invasive surgery section. His main clinical interest is gastrointestinal surgery, surgical gastroenterology and surgical training and education. His research interest concentrates on surgery in sickle cell disease and hand assisted laparoscopic surgery.  

Meshikhes have authored many peer-reviewed articles which were published in many international journals. He is also a member of the editorial board of some international journals such as World Journal of Gastroenterology, World Journal of Surgical Procedures, ISN Minimally Invasive Surgery, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research and Journal of Tumour.

Research Interest

Gastrointestinal surgery, surgical gastroenterology, surgery in sickle cell disease and hand assisted laparoscopic surgery

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Georgios Tsoulfas received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, as well as a transplant research fellowship at the Starzl Transplant Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. He then completed a two-year transplantation surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and then joined the Division of Solid Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. He has currently moved back to Greece, where he is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki.  He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed Journals and in PubMed, as well as 17 book chapters.  He is a reviewer for 15 International Journal and on the Editorial Board of several others.

His main area of interest include primary and metastatic hepatic malignancies and their multimodal management.

Research Interest

Hepatobiliary sugery, Abdominal organ transplantation, Surgical education, Surgical oncology, Hepatocellular cancer liver metastatic disease, Cholangiocarcinoma