Editorial Board Member - JSOC

Jimmy SO
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Surgery
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University Health System
Singapore
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr Jimmy So is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Senior Consultant Surgeon and Director, Upper GI Surgery Service & Center for Obesity Management and Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, National University Hospital (NUH) and Head, Upper GI Tumour Group, National University Cancer Institute of Singapore (NCIS). Dr. So received his surgical training in National University Hospital, Singapore, and underwent a fellowship training in surgical endoscopy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Dr Jimmy So’s special interests are in gastroesophageal cancer, minimally invasive surgery, GI endoscopy, surgery for obesity and diabetes mellitus. He has published over 85 peer reviewed scientific papers and received many research grants for his research work on these topics. His research work received a Gold award at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the National Healthcare Group of Singapore in 2008, and Poster of Distinction at Digestive Disease Week, Chicago, 2010. He was invited to give lectures at scientific meetings of International Gastric Cancer Association (IGCA), Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (JGCA), Korean Gastric Cancer Association, and, and the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgery. He served as editor for Journal of Gastric Cancer, and peer reviewer for many journals including British Journal of Surgery and Surgical Endoscopy. He was the founding chairman of the 1st Asia Pacific Gastroesophageal Cancer Congress in 2006.
Other Editorial Board Members - JSOC

Fernando A. Herrera
Department of Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
United States

TOMAS A. SALERNO
Department of Surgery
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
United States

Nicola Balato
Department of Dermatology
School of Medicine
University of Naples Federico II
Italy

KELLI BULLARD DUNN
Department of Surgery
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
University of Louisville School of Medicine
United States

Akira Sasaki
Department of Surgery
Iwate Medical University School of Medicine
Japan

Jorge Cerezal Garrido
Department of Surgery
Medical school of the University Miguel Hernandez
Spain

Jonathan Todd Carter
Department of Surgery
University of California
United States

J. Philip Boudreaux
Department of Surgery
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
United States

Gregory Kouraklis
National and Kapodistrian University
President of Athens Medical Society
Greece

MARK LAFTAVI
Department of Surgery
State University of New York at Buffalo
United States