Author: Fergus Shanahan

Editor-in-Chief: Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D. President, Professor of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Associate Editors: Michael Camilleri, M.D, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic; Consultant in Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester. J. Gregory Fitz, M.D, Dean, Southwestern Medical School, Distinguished Chair in Medical Science, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Anthony N. Kalloo, M.D, Professor of Gastroenterology and Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD USA. Fergus Shanahan, M.D, Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine and Director, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork University Hospital, Ireland. Timothy C. Wang, M.D, Chief, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Silberberg Professor Medicine, Department of Medicine and Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY USA.