Editor-in-Chief:
Emmet B. Keeffe, MD
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Senior Associate Editors:
Jonathan D. Kaunitz, MD
Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Greater Los Angeles VA Health Care System
Los Angeles, California
Henry C. Lin, MD
Chief, Section of Gastroenterology
New Mexico VA Health Care System
Professor of Medicine
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Senior Editorial Advisor:
P. Jay Pasricha, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Associate Editors:
Robert S. Bresalier, MD
Houston, Texas
Ramsey C. Cheung, MD
Palo Alto, California
Wael M. El-Rifai, MD, PhD
Nashville, Tennessee
Olivia M. Martinez, PhD
Berkeley, California
Roy C. Orlando, MD
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
David T. Rubin, MD
Chicago, Illinois
Mitchell L. Schubert, MD
Richmond, Virginia
Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MBBS
Boston, Massachusetts
Sun-Young Lee, MD, PhD
Seoul, Korea
Managing Editor:
Meghan Keeffe
Mill Valley, California
Editorial Board:
Faten N. Aberra, MD, MSCE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nuzhat A. Ahmad, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dennis J. Ahnen, MD
Denver, Colorado
Stanley W. Ashley, MD
Boston, Massachusetts
Hassan Ashtorab, PhD
Washington, DC
William L. Berquist, MD
Stanford, California
Yogesh K. Chawla, MD, DM
Chandigarh, India
Duyen T. Dang, MD
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Andrew S. Day, MB, ChB, MD
Christchurch, New Zealand
Mark Donowitz, MD
Baltimore, Maryland
Carlos O. Esquivel, MD, PhD
Stanford, California
Xiucai Fang, MD
Beijing, China
Ariel E. Feldstein, MD
Cleveland, OH
Christopher E. Forsmark, MD
Gainesville, Florida
Lawrence S. Friedman, MD
Newton, Massachusetts
James R. Goldenring, MD, PhD
Nashville, Tennessee
Sushovan Guha, MD, PhD
Houston, Texas
Aida Habtezion, MD
Stanford, California
Masaru Harada, MD, PhD
Kurume, Japan
Tarek I. Hassanein, MD
San Diego, California
JeanMarie Houghton, MD
Worcester, Massachusetts
John M. Inadomi, MD
San Francisco, California
Brian C. Jacobson, MD, PhD
Boston, Massachusetts
Ira M. Jacobson, MD
New York, New York
Samuel A. Kocoshis, MD
Cincinnati, Ohio
Raymond S. Koff, MD
Farmington, Connecticut
Stanislaw J. Konturek, MD
Krakow, Poland
Melvyn G. Korman, MD
Melbourne, Australia
Jeffrey Lee, MD
Augusta, Georgia
Marcis Leja, MD
Riga, Latvia
Gene D. Le Sage, MD
Johnson City, Tennessee
Robert Levine, MD
Syracuse, New York
Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
David A. Lieberman, MD
Portland, Oregon
Mauricio Lisker-Melman, MD
St. Louis, Missouri
John P. Lynch, MD, PhD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Denis M. McCarthy, MD, PhD
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Kenneth R. McQuaid, MD
San Francisco, California
Juanita L. Merchant, MD, PhD
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Howard R. Mertz, MD
Nashville, Tennessee
Mulugeta Million, DVR, PhD
Los Angeles, California
Jason C. Mills, MD, PhD
St. Louis, Missouri
Smruti Mohanty, MD
Chicago, Illinois
Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, PhD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mindie H. Nguyen, MD, MAS
Stanford, California
Henry P. Parkman, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tushar Patel, MBChB
Columbus, Ohio
Deborah D. Proctor, MD
New Haven, Connecticut
James C. Reynolds, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hugo R. Rosen, MD
Denver, Colorado
Massimo Rugge, MD
Padova, Italy
David B. Sachar, MD
New York, New York
Arun J. Sanyal, MD
Richmond, Virginia
Robert F. Schwabe, MD
New York, New York
Shanthi V. Sitaraman, MD, PhD
Atlanta, Georgia
Stuart J. Spechler, MD
Dallas, Texas
Subbaramiah Sridhar, MD
Augusta, Georgia
Shanthi Srinivasan, MD
Atlanta, Georgia
Pavel Strnad, MD
Ulm, Germany
Diana M. Toivola, PhD
Turku, Finland
Natalie J. Torok, MD
Sacramento, California
Patrick Tso, PhD
Cincinnati, Ohio
David H. Van Thiel, MD
Chicago, Illinois
Hugo E. Vargas, MD
Phoenix, Arizona
Heike Varnholt, MD
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Marcelo Vela, MD, MSCR
Houston, Texas
Arnold Wald, MD
Madison, Wisconsin
David Q-H. Wang, MD, PhD
Boston, Massachusetts
Kenneth K. Wang, MD
Rochester, Minnesota
Edward E. Whang, MD
Boston, Massachusetts
Joanne A.P. Wilson, MD
Durham, North Carolina
M. Michael Wolfe, MD
Boston, Massachusetts
Roy K.H. Wong, MD
Washington, DC
Jackie D. Wood, PhD
Columbus, Ohio
Alexander I. Zaika
Nashville, Tennessee
Stanford Multidisciplinary Seminars
Editor:
George Triadafilopoulos, MD, Gastroenterology
Associate Editors:
Ramsey C. Cheung, MD, Hepatology
R. Brooke Jeffrey, MD, Radiology
Teri A. Longacre, MD, Pathology
Jeffrey A. Norton, MD, Surgery