**Meet the editor**

Editor, Dr Hesham Abdeldayem is a professor of surgery at the National Liver Institute, Menoufeyia University, in Egypt. He is a well known expert in the fields of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and liver transplantation. He was trained at Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, in USA. Dr Abdeldayem is a WHO-certified trainer in publishing

medical journals. He is a reviewer in many medical journals, and published many papers and several books, both in English and Arabic, in the fields of liver transplantation and hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.

Editor, Dr Naglaa Allam is an associate professor of Hepatology at the National Liver Institute, Menoufeyia University, in Egypt. She was trained at the liver transplant unit at the Hospital of university of Pennsylvania in USA. Dr Allam has a number of international publications in the field of hepatology and liver transplantation. She is a reviewer in many journals and has also played

an active role in editing books on liver transplantation.
