Innovations and brief communications

1   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology , University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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3   Department of Gastroenterology, West China Longquan Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan Province, China

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4   Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Hiroyuki Aihara

5   Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Lorenzo Ferri

6   Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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4   Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Amit Mehta

1   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Peng-Sheng Ting

1   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Alex Chen

6   Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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1   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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1   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Manabu Onimaru

7   Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University, Koto-Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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Long He

8   Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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Qi Luo

3   Department of Gastroenterology, West China Longquan Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan Province, China

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Andrew Y. Wang

9   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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Haruhiro Inoue

7   Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University, Koto-Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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Saowanee Ngamruengphong

1   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA