Associate Editors of Endocrine Surgery of Journal of Surgical Research (JSR).
Benjamin James, MD, MS
Dr. James is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as Chief of the Division of General Surgery and Chief of the Section of Endocrine Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he also holds the Martin and Diane Trust Career Development Chair in Surgery. His academic interests include outcomes after endocrine operations, the negative financial impact of thyroid cancer on patients, and transoral endocrine surgery. Dr. James has served on the JSR Editorial Board since 2018. For the Association for Academic Surgery, he currently serves as Chair of the Health Services Research Committee and as a member of the Education Committee, and he has previously served on the Program Committee and the Membership Committee. Dr. James also serves as Chair of the Research Committee of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons.
Toni Beninato, MD, MS
Dr. Beninato is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Her academic interests include optimizing care delivery for patients with endocrine disease, disparities in access and surgical treatment, and novel diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment strategies for endocrine disorders. Dr. Beninato was recently selected as the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Visiting Professor. She is a member of the Program Committee of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, the Chair of the Outreach Committee of the Association for Women Surgeons, and a member of the Research Committee of the American Thyroid Association. For the Association for Academic Surgery, she has served as a member of the both the Program Committee and the Publications Committee.
Dr. Beninato is taking over the Endocrine Surgery section from Dr. Rebecca Sippel, who has served as Associate Editor for this section since 2018. We are greatly indebted to Dr. Sippel for her longstanding contributions to JSR as an author, Editorial Board member, and Associate Editor.
Social Media Editor of the Journal of Surgical Research (JSR).
Hassan Aziz, MBSS
Dr. Aziz is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic, where he is a transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon. His academic interests include organ allocation for transplantation, surgical education, conflicts of interests in research, and outcomes after liver, pancreas, and biliary surgery. In the Association for Academic Surgery, he currently serves on the Publications Committee and the Leadership Committee. Dr. Aziz is also a member of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons, and he recently served on the Publication Committee of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association.
Dr. Aziz will be taking the reins from Dr. Kevin Koo, who has served as our Social Media Editor since 2021. We deeply appreciate Dr. Koo’s enthusiastic leadership in expanding our
efforts to engage readers and authors through social media.
Associate Statistics Editors for the Journal of Surgical Research (JSR)
They will be joining our current Statistics Editor, Mazen Zenati, MD, MPH, PhD, and Associate Statistics Editor, Molly Jarman, PhD, MPH.
Kanhua Yin, MD, MPH
Dr. Yin is a categorical general surgery resident at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. After completing postdoctoral research fellowships in the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and in the Department of Data Science Dana-Faber Cancer Institute/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he served as the Clinical Research Lead in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at East Carolina University/East Carolina Heart Institute. His research interests focus on leveraging national healthcare databases to quantify population-level surgical outcomes, identify prominent risk factors, and assess the impact on the healthcare system of cardiothoracic diseases. He serves on the Editorial Boards of JSR, the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, BMC Surgery, and BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, as well as a statistical reviewer for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is a member of the Association for Academic Surgery and the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons.
Amro Abdelrahman, MBBS, MS
Dr. Abdelrahman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He has completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences and the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery at Mayo Clinic, as well at the Food and Drug Administration and American Association for Cancer Research. Dr. Abdelrahman has expertise in advanced statistical methods, including change point detection analysis and mixed effect models, and his research interests include novel therapeutic strategies for treating patients with pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers, surgical educational assessment, and surgical ergonomics. He is a member of the Association for Academic Surgery and has served as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Oncology.
Associate Editor for the Abdominal Transplantation section of Journal of Surgical Research (JSR).
Anji Wall, MD, PhD
Dr. Wall is an abdominal transplant surgeon at the Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC), part of Baylor Scott & White Health, in Dallas, Texas. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Texas A&M University School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University Burnett School of Medicine. At BUMC, she also serves as Director of the Qualitative and Ethical Studies in Transplantation Lab. Dr. Wall’s academic interests include ethical issues in surgical practice, including how listing decisions are made and how organs are allocated. In 2022, she was awarded the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Vanguard Prize in recognition of her outstanding research. She completed an editorial fellowship through the American Journal of Transplantation and serves on the editorial boards of JSR, American Journal of Surgery, Liver Transplantation, and Frontiers in Transplantation. For the Association for Academic Surgery, she has served as a member of the Education Committee and as a member and chair of the Ethics Committee.
Dr. Wall is taking over the Abdominal Transplantation section from Dr. Christoph Troppmann, who has served as Associate Editor since 2014. We are greatly indebted to Dr. Troppmann for his decade of dedicated service to JSR.
Associate Editor of Vascular Surgery of the Journal of Surgical Research (JSR).
Chandler Long, MD
We are pleased to announce that Chandler Long, MD, has been selected to serve as an Associate Editor for the Vascular Surgery section of the Journal of Surgical Research (JSR); he will be joining our current Associate Editor for the Vascular Surgery section, Dr. Young Erben. Dr. Long is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine, where he serves as the Co-Director of the Duke Center for Aortic Disease and the Program Director of the Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency and the Vascular Surgery Fellowship. He is an accomplished clinical investigator focused on outcomes in patients undergoing endovascular approaches to aortic and peripheral vascular disease. He is the current Chair of the DEI Committee of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery and recently served as a Steering Committee Member for the Vascular Implant Surveillance and International Outcomes Network as well as the
Associate Medical Director of the Carolina Region for Vascular Quality Initiative.
As Dr. Long joins our editorial team, we wish to express our gratitude to Dr. Dawn Coleman, our outgoing Associate Editor for Vascular Surgery. We are indebted to Dr. Coleman for her contributions while serving in the role for nearly seven years.