Surgical Infections

Editor-in-Chief

Robert G. Sawyer, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Chair Department of Surgery
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Robert.Sawyer@wmed.edu

Associate Editor

William Cheadle, MD
University of Louisville
Department of Surgery
2nd Floor, Ambulatory Care Bldg.
550 S. Jackson St.
Louisville, KY 40292 USA
Wg.cheadle@louisville.edu
 

Associate Editor for Social Media

Vanessa Ho, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
MetroHealth Medical Center
2500 Metrohealth Dr
Cleveland, OH 44109 USA
Telephone 216-778-1682
vho@metrohealth.org
 

Editorial Board

Naoki Aikawa, MD, DMSc, FACS
Keio University
Tokyo, Japan
 

John C. Alverdy, MD
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Emmanuel A. Ameh, MBBS, FWACS, FACS
National Hospital
Abuja, Nigeria


Gregory J. Beilman, MD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
 

Timothy R. Billiar, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

David P. Blake, MD, MPH, DMCC
Inova Medical Group/Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, VA, USA


Marja A. Boermeester, MD, PhD, MSc
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam, Netherlands
 

Eileen M. Bulger, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA


Miguel Cainzos, MD
University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, Spain


Metin Çakmakçi, MD
Anadolu Medical Center
Kocaeli, Turkey

Peter K.Y. Chiu, MBBS, FRCS
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Jeffrey Claridge, MD
MetroHealth
Cleveland, OH, USA

Martin A. Croce, MD
University of Tennessee
Memphis, TN, USA

John Mihran Davis, MD
Grand Strand Medical Center
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

E. Patchen Dellinger, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA


Anand Deva, MB, BS
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
 

Charles E. Edmiston, Jr, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA

Heather Evans, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC, USA
 

Yuman Fong, MD
City of Hope Medical Center
Duarte, CA, USA

Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Joseph Forrester, MD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

 

Reinhold Függer, MD
Krankenhaus der Elizabethinen
Linz, Austria


Susan Galandiuk, MD
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY, USA

Rondi Gelbard, MD
University of Alabama
Brmingham, AL, USA
 

Daithi Heffernan, MD
Brown University
Providence, RI, USA

Jamal J. Hoballah, MD, MBA, FACS
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon  

Catherine J. Hunter, MD
The University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
 

Jared M. Huston, MD
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Manhasset, NY, USA
 

Kamal M.F. Itani, MD
VA Boston Health Care System 
   Boston University and Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA


Haytham Kaafarani, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
 

Lillian S. Kao, MD, FACS
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Houston, TX, USA
 

Lewis J. Kaplan, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA


Marin H. Kollef, MD
Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA
 

David Leaper, DSc, MD, ChM, FRCS, FACS, FLS
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
 

Pamela A. Lipsett, MD, MHPE
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA

John E. Mazuski, MD
Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA
 

April Mendoza, MD, MPH
University of California
Oakland, CA, USA


Joseph P. Minei, MD, MBA
University of Texas-Southwestern 
Dallas, TX, USA

Kevin P. Mollen, MD
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA


Nicholas Namias, MD, MBA
University of Miami
Miami, FL, USA
 

Lena M. Napolitano, MD
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Ronald L. Nichols, MD
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, USA

David P. Nicolau, PharmD
Hartford Hospital
Hartford, CT, USA

Joseph A. Paladino, PharmD
State University of New York
Buffalo, NY, USA

Gustavo A. Quintero, MD, MSc
Universidad del Rosario
Bogotá, Colombia
 

Kemal  H. Rasa, MD
Anadolu Medical Center
Istanbul, Turkey


Jianan Ren, MD, FACS
Nanjing University
Nanjing, China

Jennifer Rickard, MD, MPH, FACS
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
 

Ori D. Rotstein, MD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Inés Rubio-Pérez, MD, PhD
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Madrid, Spain

Sandra M. Swoboda, RN, MS, FCCM
Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing  
Baltimore, MD, USA

Jeffrey S. Upperman, MD, FAAP, FACS
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, USA
 

Michaela A. West, MD, PhD, FACS
North Memorial Health 
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Samuel E. Wilson, MD
University of California
Irvine, CA, USA
 

Emeritus Editor-in-Chief

Donald E. Fry, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
 

Founding Editor

Philip S. Barie, MD, MBA
Weill Cornell Medical College 
New York, NY, USA