The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes New Associate Editors

Abstract

We at the World Journal of Surgery welcome two new Associate Editors to our editorial team, Julie Ann Sosa, MD MA FACS, and Janice Pasieka FRCS (Can), from the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES). Drs. Sosa and Pasieka are endocrine surgeon-scientists of great stature. Their primary mission will be to decide the fate of the many endocrine articles that the journal receives every month. The original scientific contributions in endocrine surgery published in the World Journal of Surgery (WJS) represent the best science and practice of endocrine surgery around the world. The IAES is an integrated society of the ISS-SIC and remains one of the strongest anchors for our journal. Julie Ann Sosa, MD MA FACS, is Professor of Surgery and Medicine (Oncology) at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, where she serves as Chief of Endocrine Surgery and Director of Health Services Research in Surgery. She also leads the Endocrine Neoplasia Diseases Group at the Duke Cancer Institute and the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Her clinical practice and research focus on thyroid cancer. She is the author of more than 160 peer-reviewed publications in outcomes analysis, cost-effectiveness/decision analysis, meta-analysis, and survey-based methodologies, as well as stem cell research. She has been the principal investigator (PI) or an investigator on international trials of novel advanced thyroid cancer therapies. She is vice president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) and serves on practice guidelines committees for the American Thyroid Association and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). She brings a wealth of editorial experience to the WJS, from her editorial roles on the Journal of Surgical Research (Associate Editor), Current Opinion in Oncology, and the Journal of Thyroid Research. Dr. Sosa was born in Montreal and raised in upstate New York. She received her AB at Princeton, her MA at Oxford, and her MD at Johns Hopkins, where she also completed the Halsted residency and a fellowship in surgical oncology.