WJS Report Julie Ann Sosa Editor in Chief WJS
Hello and fall greetings from San Francisco to members of the ISS/SIC! It was great to have seen so many old and new colleagues and friends in Krakow recently. We provided important updates to the general membership at the ISS/SIC business meeting and to our World Journal of Surgery editors and reviewers at our editorial board meeting, too. Here are the highlights. In Krakow, Dr Dieter Hahnloser of Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland stepped down from the WJS editorial board after 10 years of excellent service.
Nancy Baxter
is a Fellow of the Association for Colon and Rectal Surgeons. Currently, she is the Head of the Division of General Surgery at St. Michael’s Hospital. She holds a Scientist position with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Dr. Baxter is also the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and a Professor in the Department of Surgery and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She holds the position of Provincial GI Endoscopy lead for Cancer Care Ontario. Dr Baxter is an accomplished clinical epidemiologist and health services researcher interested in the effectiveness of cancer screening, long-term cancer survivorship, and the quality of surgical care. We are thrilled to welcome Dr Baxter as our new Associate Editor. In Krakow, we celebrated Dr Ruth Bush as our WJS Editor of the Year.
Dr Bush is Associate Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Houston College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA. Dr Bush is an accomplished vascular surgeon and educator, as well as an attorney. Dr Bush was recognized with this award for her long track record of excellent service to the journal: she has accepted 98% of review invitations, and she has a 6-day turnaround time. To date, she has provided a total of 116 reviews. Dr Bush indeed has set the bar high for her colleagues on the editorial board! Awards also were distributed to the best WJS papers of 2016 and 2017, as judged by their citations/impact and also a vote by WJS associate editors. Dr Angkoon Anuwong of Bangkok, Thailand received the best paper of 2016 award for his single author manuscript (a rarity today in the era of team science) ‘Transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach: A series of the first 60 human cases.’ Dr Kent Lundholm of Göteborg, Sweden was awarded the best paper of 2017 for his manuscript ‘Long-term results following antibiotic treatment of acute appendicitis in adults’ written with his coauthors Jeanette Hansson Assarsson, Cecilia Engström, and Britt-Marie Iresjö. Finally, Yvonne Chan was granted an honorary fellowship in the ISS/SIC; this honor was bestowed for her many years of faithful service as the publisher of WJS, representing Springer. She stepped down in January 2019.
Dieter Hahnloser
He was replaced by Dr Nancy Baxter from Toronto, Canada. Dr Baxter obtained her MD and PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto. She is board certified in colon and rectal surgery and
Ruth Bush
Yvonne Chan
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