Table 1.

Expert group members and topic allocations

Topic	Leader	Experts
General introduction	Catalin Copaescu	Emina Letić, Silviu Daniel Preda, Alice Tsai, Ewelina Malanowska, Dusan Lesko, Wlodzimierz Majewski, Ludovica Baldari
Hepatobiliary	Nicolò de Manzini	Luca Morelli, Andreas Shamiyeh, Gil Faria
Bariatrics	Nicola Di Lorenzo	Francesco Maria Carrano, Piotr Mysliwiec, Gunnar Ahlberg
Abdominal Wall	Stavros Antoniou	Elisa Cassinotti, Samir Delibegović, Lubomír Martinek
Endocrine	Nicole Bouvy	Eugenia Yiannakopoulou, Marguerite Gorter-Stam, Hendrik Jaap Bonjer
Upper GI	Beat P. Müller-Stich	George Hanna, Hans Fuchs, Miloš Bjelovic, Sheraz Markar, Philip Wai Yan, Chiu, Bang Wool Eom, Young-Woo Kim, Carmen Balagué Ponz, Marlies Schijven
Lower GI	Michel Adamina	Luigi Boni, Thomas Carus, George Theodoropoulos, Antonello Forgione, Marco Milone, Wanda Luisa Rita Petz, Predag Andrejevic, Dejan Ignjatovic, Thanjakumar Arulampalam, Kenneth Campbell, Manish Chand, Mark Coleman, Christos Kontovounisios
Technology & Research	Felix Nickel	Chen Sagiv, Fanny Ficuciello, Stefania Marconi, Pietro Mascagni, Kiyokazu Nakajima, Francisco Miguel Sánchez Margallo, Tim Horeman, George Mylonas, Pietro Valdastri