Editorial Board Member - JSOC
Jimmy SO
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Surgery
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University Health System
Singapore
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr Jimmy So is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Senior Consultant Surgeon and Director, Upper GI Surgery Service & Center for Obesity Management and Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, National University Hospital (NUH) and Head, Upper GI Tumour Group, National University Cancer Institute of Singapore (NCIS). Dr. So received his surgical training in National University Hospital, Singapore, and underwent a fellowship training in surgical endoscopy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Dr Jimmy So’s special interests are in gastroesophageal cancer, minimally invasive surgery, GI endoscopy, surgery for obesity and diabetes mellitus. He has published over 85 peer reviewed scientific papers and received many research grants for his research work on these topics. His research work received a Gold award at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the National Healthcare Group of Singapore in 2008, and Poster of Distinction at Digestive Disease Week, Chicago, 2010. He was invited to give lectures at scientific meetings of International Gastric Cancer Association (IGCA), Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (JGCA), Korean Gastric Cancer Association, and, and the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgery. He served as editor for Journal of Gastric Cancer, and peer reviewer for many journals including British Journal of Surgery and Surgical Endoscopy. He was the founding chairman of the 1st Asia Pacific Gastroesophageal Cancer Congress in 2006.
Other Editorial Board Members - JSOC
GIRJA SHANKER SHUKLA
Department of Surgery
University of Vermont College of Medicine
United States
TOMAS A. SALERNO
Department of Surgery
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
United States
Peter Schemmer
Department of General -, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery
University Hospital of Heidelberg
Germany
Richard Simman
Department of Surgery
Wright State University Boonshoft School
United States
MARK LAFTAVI
Department of Surgery
State University of New York at Buffalo
United States
MALCOLM KENNETH ROBINSON
Department of Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
United States
Thiam Chye LIM
Department of Surgery
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Akira Sasaki
Department of Surgery
Iwate Medical University School of Medicine
Japan
Liang-Shun Wang
Graduate Institute of clinical medicine
Taipei Medical University
Taiwan
MICHAEL CHARLES MORRIS
Solid Organ Transplantation
University of Nebraska Medical Center
United States