Affiliations

• ¹ Clinical Lecturer (ECAT), University of Edinburgh, UK.
• ² Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, SR4 7TP, UK.
• ³ University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK.
• ⁴ lay-person, Parma, Italy.
• ⁵ Emergency Surgery Dept, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.
• ⁶ Associate Professor of Surgery, University College London, Foley Street, London, WIW 7TY.
• ⁷ lay-person, Mumbai-400011, India.
• ⁸ Director, Center of Metabolic Surgery, Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai-400011, India.
• ⁹ Associate Professor of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Sunderland, Sunderland UK and Researcher in Bariatric Surgery, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, UK.
• ¹⁰ Vice Chair of Medical Staff Affairs, Prisma Health, Greenville, SC.
• ¹¹ lay-person, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ¹² Professor of Surgery, Medical Director, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ¹³ Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ¹⁴ Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ¹⁵ Professor of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
• ¹⁶ Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Associate Professor, University of Exeter Medical School, Leeds, LS9 7TF.
• ¹⁷ Associate Professor, University of Exeter Medical School, Leeds, LS9 7TF.
• ¹⁸ Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon & Visiting Professor, Ulster University, Leeds, LS9 7TF.
• ¹⁹ Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, LS9 7TF.
• ²⁰ Director, Digestive Disease Center and Chair, Department of Colorectal Surgery | Cleveland Clinic Florida, Kington, ON, Canada.
• ²¹ Assistant Professor of Surgery, Queen's University, Kington, ON, Canada.
• ²² Consultant General Surgeon, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Stirling Road, Larbert, FK5 4WR.