Current Opinion in Gastroenterology was launched in 1985. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of gastroenterology is divided into 12 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce one of the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Anthony KallooAnthony KallooDr Anthony Kalloo is a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the Director of The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has special interests in Natural Orifice Surgery, therapeutic endoscopy, biliary and pancreatic diseases and sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. After receiving his medical degree from the University of West Indies Medical School, West Indies, Dr Kalloo interned and completed his residency in Internal medicine at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC, USA. He completed his fellowship training program at the combined Georgetown University, USA, VA Medical Center, USA and NIH program. He was an Instructor in Medicine at Georgetown University prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1988. He was an Associate Editor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He is the founder and immediate past medical director of The Hopkins Gastroenterology and Hepatology Resource Center (www.hopkins-gi.org), a 3000 page multilingual web resource for patients and physicians. He has authored over 150 scientific papers, review articles and book chapters. He has pioneered and has multiple patents including the use of Botulinum Toxin in the gastrointestinal tract, endoscopic cryotherapy and the winged biliary/pancreatic stent. He is the pioneer of Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES), a technique that will enable abdominal surgery without the use of incisions. Dr Kalloo is a Past Panel Chair for Gastroenterology and Urology Devices with the United States Food and Drug Administration. He is the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Educator of the Year of the Award from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Fred S. GorelickFred S. GorelickFred S. Gorelick, MD is a Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine and a physician scientist who cares for patients and does research. He went to medical school and did a residency at the University of Missouri in Columbia followed by a GI fellowship at Yale University. Afterwards, he trained in research with James D. Jamieson, MD, PhD at Yale and Paul Greengard, PhD at the Rockefeller University. His laboratory studies acute cell and tissue injury using models of pancreatitis and he is specifically interested in identifying pathologic signaling pathways that can be therapeutically targeted. He also works with Dr Greengard's group to examine the proteolytic generation of the protein responsible for Alzheimer's disease. Dr Gorelick has been the Acting Chief of the Digestive Diseases Section, the Digestive Diseases Research Training Program Director and is the Deputy Director of the Yale MD-PhD Program. Dr Gorelick has also served as the President of the American Pancreatic Association and has chaired grant review committees for the NIH. His laboratory has received support for over 30 years from the NIH NIDDK and NIAAA, from the Veterans Administration, and the State of Connecticut.