Meet the editor

Qiang Yan, MD, Ph.D., FACS, is a Professor of Surgery and Vice President of Affiliated Huzhou Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (Huzhou Central Hospital). He is a senior hepato-pancreatic-biliary (HPB) surgeon. Dr. Yan is the academic leader of the Department of General Surgery and Division of Hepatopancreatic and Biliary Surgery, Huzhou Central Hospital (North Zhejiang Provincial General Surgery Center) and the ac-

ademic leader of Huzhou municipal clinical research center of the malignant tumor. He is also executive vice president of the Huzhou Anticancer Association. Dr. Yan joined the Department of Surgery in 1997. He became the director of the Division of HPB Surgery in 2009 and chairman of the Department of Surgery in 2015. He undertook special training at the Department of HPB and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Universität of Regensburg, Germany, in 2009 and Stanford University, USA in 2012. He received his Surgical Leadership Program certification from Harvard Medical School, USA, in 2019. Professor Yan became a fellow of the American College of Surgery in 2016 and a special member of the Japan–Germany Society of Study of Liver Surgery in 2018. He is now an active member of the *HPB* journal, the Gastrointestinal Physicians branch of World Endoscopy Doctors Association, Chinese College of Surgeons, Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Zhejiang Medical Doctor Association, Surgery, Chinese Medical Association Zhejiang Branch. He is also deputy director of the Zhejiang Invention Association Endoscopic Branch and deputy president of the College of Surgeons. He is an executive guest editor of *Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry* and an invited reviewer of medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and *Frontiers in Oncology*.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Caused by Pancreatitis

Biliary Pancreatitis

*and Gürhan Şişman*

*by Ülkü Saritaş and Yücel Üstündağ*

**Preface XI**

Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

Progress in Treatment of Pancreatitis **41**

**Chapter 3 43**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 77**

**Chapter 6 93**

*by Betsabé Reyes, Javier Padilla, Pilar Elena González and Pablo Sanz*

*by Tommaso Stecca, Bruno Pauletti, Luca Bonariol, Ezio Caratozzolo,* 

Surgical and Interventional Management of Complications

Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography in Acute

*by Dane Thompson, Siavash Bolourani and Matthew Giangola*

*by Didem Saka, Can Boynukara, Elif Reyyan Çadırcıbaşı* 

*Enrico Battistella, Silvia Zilio and Marco Massani*

Surgical Management of Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Current Approaches in Chronic Pancreatitis

Emergency Management of Acute Pancreatitis

Necrotizing Pancreatitis: Step Up Approach

*by Rezan Karaali and Firdes Topal*
