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Editor-in-Chief
Professor Mark Beattie, FRCPCH, MRCP, MBBS, BSc University of Southampton Southampton, UK ORCID logoorcid.org/00000003-4721-0577 Declaration of Interests: Nothing to Declare Areas of expertise: Paediatric gastroenterology, nutrition
Editorial office: info.bmjgast@bmj.com
Associate Editors
Dr James Ashton, MRCPCH, BMBS, BMedSci PhD University of Southampton Southampton, UK Areas of expertise: Paediatrics ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-0348-8198 Dr Cathryn Edwards, DPhil, FRCP University of Plymouth Medical School & Honorary Consultant Torquay, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Area of expertise: Inflammatory bowel disease ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-5550-9184 Dr Simon Everett MBChB, MD, FRCP Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Leeds, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Area of expertise: Endoscopy, ERCP, pancreatic-biliary medicine, inflammatory bowel disease ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-4251-5323 Dr James Farrell, MD, MBChB Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Area of expertise: Professor of medicine ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-4073-4776 Dr Alastair O’Brien, PhD, MRCP, MBBS, BSc University College London London, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Area of expertise: Cirrhosis, immune dysfunction, infection, clinical trials, albumin ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-9168-7009 Professor Petr Protiva, MD, MPH Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Institutional profile >> Area of expertise: Professor of medicine ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-5566-8820 Dr Freya Rhodes, PhD, MRCP, MBChB (hons), BSc (hons) Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust London, UK Area of expertise: Cirrhosis, non-invasive fibrosis tests, early detection of cirrhosis, alcohol-related liver disease, liver transplantation ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-6884-6235
Dr Christian Selinger, MD, MSc, MRCP St James University Hopsital Leeds, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Area of expertise: Luminal gastroenterology, inflammatory bowel disease ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-2022-5859 Dr Arjuna Singanayagam St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Area of expertise: Cirrhosis, immune dysfunction, liver failure ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0001-9097-2564 Dr Philip Smith, BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MRCP, MSc Royal Liverpool University Hospital Liverpool, UK ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-1568-3978 Dr. Trevor Smith, DM, FRCP University Hospital Southampton Southampton, UK Institutional profile >> Expertise: Gastroenterology, clinical nutrition ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-1614-2946 Dr Ally Speight Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests > > Area of expertise: Inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease and other enteropathies, immune checkpoint inhibitor enterocolitis/GI complications from cancer therapy, immunology and the GI tract ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0003-3184-9181 Dr Dipesh Vasant, PhD, MBChB, MRCP  The University of Manchester Manchester, UK Institutional profile >> Competing interests >> Area of expertise: Luminal gastroenterology, GI physiology, motility, neurogastroenterology, ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-2329-0616
Education and Social Media Editor
Dr Philip Smith, BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MRCP, MSc Royal Liverpool University Hospital Liverpool, UK ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-1568-3978
Statistical Reviewers
Dr Natalia Permyakova University of Southampton Southampton, UK
Dr Sean Ewings University of Southampton Southampton, UK
Trainee Associate Editors
Dr Tarun Gupta University of Oxford Oxford, UK
Dr John Ong Cambridge University Cambridge, UK
Founding Editor
Professor Joseph Lim, MD Yale University New Haven, CT, USA
Editorial Board
Dr Adegboyega Akere University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria Dr Will Alazawi Queen Mary University of London London, UK Dr Naima Amrani Centre International de Formation Rabat, Morocco Dr Todd Baron University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA Dr Damon Bizos Wits University Johannesburg, South Africa Dr Ming-Jen Chen Mackay Memorial Hospital Taipei City, Taiwan Dr Luis Colombato Buenos Aires British Hospital Buenos Aires, Argentina Dr Jack DiPalma University of South Alabama Mobile, AL, USA Dr Ahmed Elsharkawy University Hospitals Birmingham Birmingham, UK Dr Conrado Fernandez Hospital Universitario Fundacion Alcorcon Madrid, Spain Professor Graham Foster Queen Mary University of London London, UK Dr Robert Gish Stanford University Stanford, AL, USA Dr Ji Dong Jia Capital Medical University Beijing, China Dr David Kastenberg Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA, USA Dr John Leeds Freeman Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Dr Lee Guan Lim Raffles Hospital Singapore, Singapore Professor Seng Gee Lim National University of Singapore Singapore Dr Rohit Loomba UC San Diego School of Medicine San Diego, CA, USA Dr Guilherme Macedo Centro Hospitalar S.João Porto, Portugal Professor Sara Montagnese University of Padova Padua, Italy
Dr Anil Nagar Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Dr Manu Nayar The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Dr Mindie Nguyen Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA, USA Dr Rahul Pannala Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA Dr Ian Penman Western General Hospital Edinburgh, UK Professor Richard Pollok St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s University of London London, UK Dr Eamonn Quigley Houston Methodist Houston, TX, USA Professor Vlad Ratziu University Pierre et Marie Curie Hospital La Pitié-Salpêtrière Paris, France Dr Bani Chander Roland Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY, USA Dr Sammy Saab David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, USA Dr Eugene Schiff University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, FL, USA Dr Mitchell Shiffman Liver Institute of Virginia Richmond, VA, USA Dr Jonathon Snook Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Poole, UK Dr Richard Sterling Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center Richmond, VA, USA Dr Hidekazu Suzuki Keio University Tokyo, Japan Professor Akinobu Takaki Okayama University Okayama, Japan Dr George Triadafilopoulos Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA Dr Jacques Van Dam University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA Dr Thomas Wang University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA Professor Kevin Waschke McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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