Meet the editors

Dr. Marco Massani, MD, is a senior hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgeon. Since 2018, he has been the chief of the First Division of General Surgery, Referral Center for HPB Surgery, Ca' Foncello Treviso Regional Hospital, Italy. He received his surgical training at the University of Padova, Italy, and was educated both at home and abroad at the major HPB surgery centers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Mount

Sinai, both in New York. He is a member of multidisciplinary boards for colorectal and HPB diseases. He is a lecturer of liver surgery for the Italian School of Minimally Invasive Liver Surgery (I Go MILS) and for the Italian Society of Surgery. He is an active member of Italian and international surgical societies, including the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA), Società Italiana di Chirurgia (SIC), and Associazione Italiana di Chirurgia Epato-Bilio-Pancreatica (AICEP). He is the guest editor and invited reviewer *for Frontiers in Surgery* and the journal publisher *Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute* (MDPI).

Dr. Tommaso Stecca is a general surgeon focused on hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) and colorectal disease. He graduated with an MD in 2012 and obtained a specialization in general surgery at the University of Padua, Italy, in 2018. He is an attending surgeon in the Department of Surgery, Treviso Regional Hospital, Italy, directed by Dr. Marco Massani. Between 2010 and 2014, Dr. Stecca also practiced in a research laboratory

focused on the isolation and characterization of biliary epithelial cells and stromal cells from resected human cholangiocarcinoma. Dr. Stecca is the author of numerous scientific publications and a member of the Italian Surgical Association (SIC), the Italian Chapter, the European-African and the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AICEP, EA-HPBA, IHPBA), the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), and the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR). He is a reviewer for *Frontiers in Surgery* and the journal publisher *Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute* (MDPI).
