International Editorial Board

Gabriele Bianchi Porro (Milano, Italy)
Daniel Dhumeaux (Creteil, France)
Douglas A.Drossman (Chapel Hill,NC,USA)
Michael J.G. Farthing (London, UK)
Peter Ferenci (Vienna, Austria)
Jean-Paul Galmiche (Nantes, France)

Nagy Habib (London, UK)
Colin Howden (Chicago, IL, USA)
John R.Lake (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Frank Lammert (Bonn, Germany)
Peter Malfertheiner (Magdeburg, Germany)
Francesco Marotta (Milan, Italy)
John F. Mayberry (Leicester, UK)
Chris J.J. Mulder (Amsterdam, NL)


Frits G. Nelis (Zwolle, NL)
Manuela G. Neuman (Toronto, Canada)
Piero Portincasa (Bari, Italy)
Roy E. Pounder (London, UK)
Alfonso Principe (Bologna, Italy)
Eamonn M.M. Quigley (Cork, Ireland)
Vlad Ratziu (Paris, France)
Michael Sackmann (Bamberg, Germany)
Husain A. Saleh (Detroit, MI, USA)
Eugene R. Schiff (Miami, FL, USA)
Alain Sezeur (Paris, France)
Manfred Singer (Mannheim, Germany)
Guido N.J. Tytgat (Amsterdam, NL)
Radu Tutuian (Zurich, Switzerland)


Editorial Review Board

Vasile Andreica (Cluj, Romania)
Radu I. Badea (Cluj, Romania)
Mircea Diculescu (Bucharest, Romania)
Cristian Gheorghe (Bucharest, Romania)
Liana Gheorghe (Bucharest, Romania)
Mircea Grigorescu (Cluj, Romania)
Oliviu Pascu (Cluj, Romania)
Irinel Popescu (Bucharest, Romania)

Paul Jurgen Porr (Sibiu, Romania)
Adrian Saftoiu (Craiova, Romania)
Ioan Sporea (Timisoara, Romania)
Carol Stanciu (Iasi, Romania)
Coman Tanasescu (Bucharest, Romania)
Eugen Târcovean (Iasi, Romania)
Anca Trifan (Iasi, Romania)
Liviu Vlad (Cluj, Romania)
Mihai Voiculescu (Bucharest, Romania)

English language Editor

Sally Wood-Lamont (Cluj, Romania)

Romanian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (President: Prof. Monica Acalovschi, Cluj)
Romanian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (President: Prof. Cristian Gheorghe, Bucuresti)
Romanian Association for the Study of the Liver (President: Prof. Mihai Voiculescu, Bucuresti)
Romanian Society of Neurogastroenterology (President: Prof. Dan L. Dumitrascu, Cluj)

The web site of the Romanian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology is www.srgh.ro


Thank to our international Reviewers 2009

The Editorial Committee takes this opportunity to thank most sincerely the outstanding personalities listed below for their contribution as manuscript peer reviewers. We know just how much time and effort this work takes, but without their expertise we would not have succeeded with the quality that we hope we have achieved in the development of our journal. The number of manuscripts received worldwide this year has continued to increase, so we have had to invite more external experts. They have helped us to select the best articles to publish in our journal. A list of these reviewers is permanently published on the website of our journal www.jgld.ro.


Flavio Lirussi, Padua, Italy
Jari Rasanen, Pittsburgh, PN, USA
James Luketich, Pittsburgh, PN, USA.
Rudolf Stauber, Graz, Austria
Bruno Annibale, Rome, Italy
Walter Fries, Messina, Italy
Aldo Paolicchi, Pisa, Italy
Enrico Zecca, Rome, Italy
Manuela G. Neuman, Toronto, Canada
Thomas R. Riley III, Hershey, PN, USA
Ronnie Fass, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Mirko D’Onofrio, Verona, Italy
Vinod K. Rustgi, Fairfax, USA
Gilnardo Novelli, Rome, Italy
Isa Picerno, Messina, Italy
Seppo Heinonen, Kuopio, Finland
Ken Shirabe, Iizuka City, Japan
Chris S.J. Probert, Bristol, UK
Atsushi Masamune, Aobaku, Sendai, Japan
Gernot M.Kaiser, Essen, Germany
Eija Tukiainen, Helsinki, Finland
Claudio Puoti, Rome, Italy
Jurgen Pinocy,  Tubingen, Germany
Amedeo Lonardo, Modena, Italy
Aruna Basu, Cleveland, OH, USA
Michael Hünerbein, Berlin, Germany
Jinah Choi, Merced, CA, USA
Angelo Andriulli, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
Krzysztof M. Kuczkowski, El Paso, TX, USA
Sabina Mahmood, Okayama, Japan
Daniel Dhumeaux, Paris, France
Kei Ito, Sendai City, Japan
Carl J. Brown, Vancouver, Canada
Elena Orsenigo, Milan, Italy
Maurizio Pompili, Rome, Italy
Karen-Lise Garm Spindler, Vejle, Denmark
Luca Stocchi, Cleveland, OH, USA
Anne M. Covey, New York, NY, USA
Andrea Riphaus, Hannover, Germany
Christoph Maurer, Liestal, Switzerland
Abdul W. Meshikhes, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Giorgio Barbarini, Rome, Italy
Torill Sauer, Oslo, Norway
Andrea Pietrabissa, Pisa, Italy
Marc Pocard, Paris, France
Maurizio Gentile, Napoli, Italy
Christine Fardeau, Paris, France
Chris J. Mulder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Grigorios I. Leontiadis, Hamilton, Canada
Yuji Naito, Kyoto, Japan
Alan E.Mast, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Stephan Gretschel, Berlin, Germany
Ami D.Sperber, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Ryosuke Tateishi, Tokyo, Japan
Tito Livraghi, Milan, Italy
Tony Tham, Belfast, United Kingdom
Antonio Giorgio, Naples, Italy

Donald D.Trunkey, Portland, OR, USA
Fabio Farinati, Padua, Italy
Giovanni Tarantino, Naples, Italy
Giovanni Barosi, Pavia, Italy
Alessandro Antonelli, Pisa, Italy
Giuseppe Indolfi, Florence, Italy

Craig Taplin, Denver, CO, USA
Radu Tutuian, Bern, Switzerland
Annamaria Ruzzo, Urbino, Italy
Mike King, London, United Kingdom
Carlo Selmi, Davis, California, USA
Danny W.H. Lee, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Roberto de Franchis, Milan, Italy
Fabio Fabbian, Ferrara, Italy
Marco Pennazio, Turin, Italy
Michael Sackmann, Bamberg, Germany
Francis Megraud, Bordeaux, France
Iola Duarte, Aveiro, Portugal
Vana Papaevangelou, Athens, Greece
Mark Palmeri, Durham, NC, USA
Liang Zhai, Durham, NC, USA
Raffaele Iorio, Naples, Italy
Jens H. Henriksen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gwen Murphy, Rockville, MD, USA
Anne Catherine Travis, Boston, MA, USA.
Nanda Kerkar, New York, NY, USA
Ellen Sloth Andersen, Hvidovre, Denmark
Martha Patricia Gallegos, Guadalajara, Mexico
Masato Yoneda, Yokohama, Japan
Martine Dujardin, Brussels, Belgium
Jordan J. Feld, Toronto, Canada
Steffen Rickes, Halberstadt, Germany
Angelo Zullo, Rome, Italy
Lawrence Cohen, New York, NY, USA
Nadan Rustemovic, Zagreb, Croatia
Massimiliano Veroux, Catania, Italy
Antonio Tursi, Andria, BA, Italy
Timothy P. Pollak, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Gregorios Paspatis, Crete, Greece
Colin Howden, Chicago, IL, USA
Scott Bowden, Melbourne, Australia
Deborah Verran, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Calogero Camma, Padova, Italy
RT Grundmann, Altotting-Burghausen, Germany
Daniel Lavanchy, Geneva, Switzerland
Keith Olsen, Omaha, NB, USA
James Neuberger, Birmingham, UK
Franco Dellaglio, Verona, Italy
Annunziata Faustini, Rome, Italy
Alfonso Avolio, Rome, Italy
Piero Portincasa, Bari, Italy
Atif Zaman, Portland, OR, USA
Maria Guido, Padova, Italy
Olga Tucker, Dublin, Ireland
Jack Fowler, Madison, WI, USA
Werner Hohenberger, Erlangen, Germany
Boris Vucelic, Zagreb, Croatia
Jean-Christophe Sabourin, Rouen, France
Carlo Girelli, Busto Arsizio, Italy
Sunanda Kane, Rochester, MN, USA
Christian Koch, Jackson, MI, USA
Antonio Colecchia, Bologna, Italy
Frank Lammert, Homburg, Germany
George Papatheodoridis, Athens, Greece
Frederik Wenz, Mannheim, Germany
Sabine Mai, Mannheim, Germany
Husain A. Saleh, Detroit, MI, USA
Giulia Morsica, Milan, Italy


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Indexing

The Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases (JGLD) (formerly Romanian Journal of Gastroenterology) is indexed in the major information retrieval systems, including EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus and Medline/Pubmed (issues starting with 2002), Index Copernicus Journals Master List, and ISI Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded and Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (issues starting with 2007).
Contents lists, abstracts and instructions for the authors are now available on the Internet: http://www.jgld.ro .There is free access to the full papers (in PDF format) published in the Romanian Journal of Gastroenterology in 2004 (volume 13, numbers 3 and 4) and 2005 (volume 15, numbers 1-4), and in the Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases since 2006.
JGLD on line: ISSN 1842-1121.

CNCSIS category of scientific journals: A
CME Credits: 5 (Colegiul Medicilor Romania)


 

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