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Editorial: charting the future of hepatocellular carcinoma publications

Authors Kaseb AO

Received 13 December 2017

Accepted for publication 13 December 2017

Published 8 May 2018 Volume 2018:5 Pages 51—54

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/JHC.S159650

Checked for plagiarism Yes



Ahmed Omar Kaseb

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX, USA

Journal of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (JHC) is a peer-reviewed, comprehensive, multidisciplinary, international journal for publication of original, review, editorial, and commentary articles in addition to expert consensus statements and reports in all clinical and research aspects of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). JHC is indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central (J Hepatocell Carcinoma), and in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.

Disclosure

The author reports no conflicts of interest in this work.

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Supplementary material

Journal of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Editorial Board December 2017

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Ahmed Kaseb, Associate Professor and Program Director of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief: Prof Junji Furuse, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Japan

Associate Editor-in-Chief: Dr Ravi Murthy, Professor of Interventional Radiology, Department of Interventional Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief: Prof Xin Wang, Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, USA

Editorial Board members:

Prof Ashraf Abdelaziz, Professor of Hepatology and Endemic Medicine and Director of Multidisciplinary HCC Clinic, Cairo University, Egypt

Prof Stephen Beebe, Professor, Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

Prof Srikanta Dash, Director of Hepatitis Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

Dr Aldo Dettino, Professor in Clinical Oncology and Translational Research, Department of Clinical Oncology, A. C. Camargo Cancer Center, Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil

Dr Dan Duda, Director of Translational Research in GI Radiation Oncology; Investigator, Edwin L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Tumor Biology, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA

Prof Khaled Elsayes, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Medical School of University Texas in Houston, Houston, TX, USA

Prof David Gerber, Professor and Division Chief, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Prof Manal Hassan, Associate Professor, Department of GI Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Dr Heping Hu, Director and Professor, Department of Heptobiliary Diseases, Eastern Hepatobiliary Hospital, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Dr Do Young Kim, Associate Professor in Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Prof Kyung Sik Kim, Severance Hospital, Department of Surgery and Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Prof Philippe Merle, Professor of Hepato-Gastroenterology and Digestive Oncology, Leader of research team “Hepatocarcinogenesis and viral infections”, UMR INSERM 1052 – CNRS 5286, Centre of Research in Cancerology, Lyon University and Croix-Rousse Hospital, Lyon, France

Dr Ganesh Nagarajan, Consultant Surgeon Hepatobiliary Pancreatic, GI oncology & Liver Transplant, P D Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, India

Prof Irene Oi-Lin Ng, Loke Yew Professor and Chair Professor in Pathology, Director of State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Prof Tushar Patel, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

Prof Rodolfo Sacco, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit of Cisanello Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

Prof Toshihito Seki, Professor and Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Prof Mohamed Kamal Shaker, Professor of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Prof Feng Shen, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Prof Ming Shi, Department of Hepatobiliary Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, People’s Republic of China

Prof Dr Oliver Stoeltzing, Head Doctor, Zentrum für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie Riesa-Meißen, Elblandkliniken, Meißen, Germany

Prof Hua Tang, Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical University, People’s Republic of China

Dr Harrys Torres, Associate Professor of Medicine; Founding Director of Hepatitis C Clinic; Medical Director of Internal Medicine Center, Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Prof Dr Joerg Trojan, Professor of Medicine, Gastrointestinal Oncology, Goethe-University Medical Center, Frankfurt, Germany

Prof Dr Toshifumi Wakai, Professor and Chairman, Division of Digestive and General Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Prof Jia-Sheng Wang, Professor and Head, Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Prof Chia-Jui Weng, Department of Living Services Industry, Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan

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