Author: Tooru Shimosegawa

The Editors HANS G. BEGER, MD, FACS(Hon), JSS(Hon), CSS(Hon), Founding Editor, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, c/o University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany ANDREW L. WARSHAW, MD, FACS, FRCSEd(Hon), W. Gerald Austen Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA RALPH H. HRUBAN, MD, Baxley Professor and Director, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA MARKUS W. BÜCHLER, MD, Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany MARKUS M. LERCH, MD, FRCP, Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany JOHN P. NEOPTOLEMOS, MA, MB, BCHIR, MD, FRCS, FMEDSCI, Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany TOORU SHIMOSEGAWA, MD, Ph D, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan DAVID C. WHITCOMB, MD, Ph D, Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Human Genetics, Director, UPMC Precision Medicine Service, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA