Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

International Editorial Board

Fernando Azpiroz (Barcelona, Spain)
Daniel Dhumeaux (Creteil, France)
Petr Dite (Brno, Czech Republik)
Douglas A. Drossman (Chapel Hill,NC,USA)
Peter Ferenci (Vienna, Austria)
Jean-Paul Galmiche (Nantes, France)
Colin Howden (Chicago, IL, USA)
John R. Lake (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Frank Lammert (Homburg/Saar, Germany) Grigorios Leontiadis (Hamilton, ON, Canada) Peter Malfertheiner (Magdeburg, Germany)
Rui Tato Marinho (Lisbon, Portugal)
Francesco Marotta (Milan, Italy)
John F. Mayberry (Leicester, UK)

Chris J.J. Mulder (Amsterdam, NL)
Manuela G. Neuman (Toronto, Canada)
Piero Portincasa (Bari, Italy)
Chris Probert (Bristol, UK)
Claudio Puoti (Rome, Italy)
Eamonn M.M. Quigley (Cork, Ireland)
Vlad Ratziu (Paris, France)
Michael Sackmann (Bamberg, Germany)
David Sanders (Sheffield, UK)
Husain A. Saleh (Detroit, MI, USA)
Eugene R. Schiff (Miami, FL, USA)
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)
Adrian Goldis (Timisoara, Romania)
Mircea Grigorescu (Cluj, Romania)
Oliviu Pascu (Cluj, Romania)
Irinel Popescu (Bucharest, Romania)

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

English language Editor

Sally Wood-Lamont (Cluj, Romania)

Biostatistical Consultant

Teodora Mocan (Cluj, Romania)

Romanian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (President: Prof. Mircea Diculescu, Cluj)
Romanian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (President: Assoc. Prof. Marcel Tanţău, Bucuresti)
Romanian Association for the Study of the Liver (President: Prof. Mihai Voiculescu, Bucuresti)
Romanian Society of Neurogastroenterology (President: Prof. Dan L. Dumitraşcu, Cluj)

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

Thank to our international Reviewers 2011

The Editorial Committee of the Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases thanks most sincerely to the outstanding personalities listed below for their contribution as reviewers of submitted manuscripts in 2011. Without their expertise we would not have succeeded with the quality that we have achieved in the development of our journal. The number of manuscripts received worldwide has continued to increase this year, and will hopefully increase even more after having obtained a first Impact Factor of 1.434. A list of these reviewers is permanently published on the website of our journal www.jgld.ro.


Bhutani Manoop, Houston, TX, USA Boudjema Karim, Rennes, France Burtin Pascal, Angers, France Carriere Catherine, Hanover, NH, USA Ceyhan Güralp, München, Germany Chayama Kazuaki, Hiroshima, Japan Cooper Arthur, Valhalla, NY,USA de Boer Nanne, Amsterdam, The Netherlands de Liguori Carino Nicola, Manchester, UK Del Campo José, Seville, Spain Derikx Joep, Maastricht, The Netherlands Dumitrascu Dan, Cluj, Romania El-Zein Randa A, Houston, TX,USA Farre Ricard, Leuven, Belgium Ferri Silvia, Bologna, Italy Fevrier Michele, Paris, France Fockens Paul, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fornari Fernando, Passo Fundo, Brazil Franque Sven, Antwerp, Belgium Fukusato Toshio, Tokyo, Japan Garcea Giuseppe, Leicester, UK Gentile Ivan, Napoli, Italy Gleeson Ferga C, Rochester, MN, USA Glickman Jonathan, Newton, MA, USA Grigorescu Mircea, Cluj, Romania Haas Stephan, Stockholm, Sweden Hann Hie-Won, Philadelphia, PA,USA Harris Dean, Swansea, Wales, UK Hermine Olivier, Paris, France Ishiwata Toshiyuki, Tokyo, Japan Kawut Steven, Philadelphia, PA,USA Knobler Hilla, Jerusalem, Israel Kobayashi Hirotoshi, Tokyo, Japan Ratziu Vlad, Paris, France Riley Thomas, Hershey, PA, USA Rodriguez-Roisin Roberto, Barcelona, Spain Rogozin Igor, Bethesda, MD, USA Romero-Gomez Manuel, Seville, Spain Rostami Kamram, Birmingham, UK Ruzzene Maria, Padova, Italy Sackmann Michael, Bamberg, Germany Saftoiu Adrian, Craiova, Romania Sancho-Bru Pau, Barcelona, Spain Sanders David, Sheffield, UK Sarbia Mario, Muenchen, Germany Shebl Fatma, Bethesda, MD, USA Spada Cristiano, Rome, Italy Sparchez Zeno, Cluj, Romania Stanghellini Vincenzo, Bologna, Italy Kumar Ashish, New Delhi, India		Lakatos Péter László, Budapest, Hungary Lange Christian, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Leontiadis Grigorios, Hamilton, ON,Canada Maconi Giovanni, Milan, Italy Maetani Iruru, Tokyo, Japan Marinho Rui Tato, Lisboa, Portugal Marshall John, Columbia, Missouri, USA Masci Enzo, Milan, Italy Masumi Atsuko, Tokyo, Japan Mearin Fermin, Barcelona, Spain Medinger Michael, Freiburg, Germany Mees Soeren T, Muenster, Germany Merchant Juanita L, Michigan, MI, USA Michetti Pierre, Lausanne, Switzerland Miendje Deyi Veronique Yvette, Brussels, Belgium Miheller Pal, Budapest, Hungary Nakajima Tomoki, Kyoto, Japan Nardo Bruno, Bologna, Italy Narla Goutham, New York, NY, USA Nattermann Jakob, Bonn, Germany Noguchi Norihisa, Tokyo, Japan Nunes David, Boston, Massachusetts USA Öhman Lehna, Gothenburg, Sweden Oleastro Monica, Lisboa, Portugal Pascu Oliviu, Cluj, Romania Petrovici Radu, London,UK Peyrin-Biroulet Laurent, Nancy, France Picardi Antonio, Rome, Italy Piccelli Simone, Heidelberg, Germany Pimentel Mark, Los Angeles, USA Pirisi Mario, Novara, Italy Probert Chris SJ, Bristol, UK Puoti Claudio, Rome, Italy Quer Josep, Barcelona, Spain Ramadori Giuliano, Göttingen, Germany Steeds Rick, Birmingham, UK Targownik Laura, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Thompson Nick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Toniutto Pierluigi, Udine, Italy Török Helga, München, Germany Tsochatzkis Emmanuel, London, UK Tutuian Radu, Bern, Switzerland Tysk Curt, Örebro, Sweden Valcarcel Maria, Bizkaia, Spain Valdivieso Andres, Bilbao, Spain van de Water Jolanda, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Vogelsang Harald, Vienna, Austria Wilson Joyce, Saskatoon, Canada Zhang Lin, Sichuan, China Zhang Yujing, New York, NY, USA

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2010 Impact Factor: 1.434
ISI Journal Citation Reports: 2010 ranking 54/72 (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
JGLD on line: ISSN 1842-1121.
CME Credits: 5 (Colegiul Medicilor Romania)
CNCSIS Category A journal.

Publishing House: Medical University Press Cluj, Romania

Printed by TIPOOFFSET Cluj, Romania

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