IMIGASTRIC

International study group on Minimally Invasive surgery for

Gastric Cancer

 

 

Europe                            

 

Center no. 1

Department of Digestive Surgery, St. Mary’s Hospital, University of Perugia. Terni, Italy.

PI: Amilcare Parisi

Co-Investigators: Jacopo Desiderio, Stefano Trastulli, Roberto Cirocchi

 

Center no. 4

Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München. München, Germany.

PI: Daniel Reim

Co-Investigators: Alexander Novotny

 

Center no. 5

Division of Oncological and Robotic Surgery, Department of Oncology, Careggi University Hospital. Florence, Italy.

PI: Andrea Coratti

Co-Investigators: Mario Annecchiarico

 

Center no. 6

Unité des Maladies de l’Appareil Digestif et Endocrine (UMADE), Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

PI: Juan-Santiago Azagra

Co-Investigators: Martine Goergen

 

Center no. 7

Service de chirurgie digestive et cancérologique CHU Bocage. Dijon, France.

PI: Olivier Facy

Co-Investigators: Jean-Baptiste Lequeu

 

Center no. 17

Department of General Surgery, Division of General, Gastroenterologic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, G.B.Morgagni Hospital. Forlì. Italy.

PI: Francesca Bazzocchi

Co-Investigator: Andrea Avanzolini

 

Center no. 18

Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery Department. University of Auvergne, University Hospital Estaing. Clermont-Ferrand, France.

PI: Johan Gagniere

Co-investigators: Denis Pezet, Olivier Antomarchi

 

Center No. 19

Unit of minimally invasive and endocrine surgery, Center of oncologic minimally invasive surgery (COMIS),  Careggi University hospital. Florence, Italy.

PI: Fabio Cianchi

Co-investigators: Benedetta Badii

 

Center No. 20

Esophageal Surgery Unit, Tuscany Regional Referral Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Disease, Medical University of Pisa. Pisa, Italy.

PI: Simone D’Imporzano

 

Center No. 21

Department of General Surgery, A.S.O. Santa Croce e Carle. Cuneo, Italy.

PI: Felice Borghi

Co-investigators: Alessandra Marano

 

Center No. 23

Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Unit, San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital. Rome, Italy.

PI: Graziano Pernazza

 

Center No. 25

Department of General Surgery, Hospital of Città di Castello, USL1 Umbria. Città di Castello, Italy.

PI: Maurizio Cesari

Co-Investigators: Giacomo Arcuri, Claudio Renzi, Alessandro Contine

 

Asia          

 

Center no. 3

Department of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University. Nanjing, P.R.China.

PI: Zhi-Wei JIANG

Co-Investigator: Shu ZHANG

 

Center no. 8

Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medeniyet University. Istanbul, Turkey.

PI: Orhan Alimoglu

Co-Investigator: Tunc Eren, Metin Leblebici

 

Center no. 11

Department of Surgery, National Defense Medical College. Tokorozawa, Japan.

PI: Hironori Tsujimoto

 

Center no. 12

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. Osaka, Japan.

PI: Yukinori Kurokawa

Co-Investigator: Shuji Takiguchi

 

Center no. 13

Department of Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine. Shanghai, P.R. China.

PI: Lu ZANG

Co-Investigator: Junjun MA

 

Center no. 15

Department of General Surgery, Third Military Medical University Southwest Hospital. Chongqing, P.R. China.

PI: Pei-Wu YU

Co-Investigators: Ben ZHANG, Yong-Liang ZHAO

 

Center no. 16

Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital. Tianjin, P.R. China

PI: Feng QI

Co-Investigator: Tong LIU

 

Center no. 22

Department of General Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University. Qingdao, P.R. China

PI: Yanbing ZHOU

Co-Investigator: Shougen CAO

 

North America                

 

Center no. 2

Department of Surgery, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center. Orange CA, USA.

PI: Ninh T Nguyen

 

Center no. 9

Division of General Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. Washington DC, USA.

PI: Patrick G. Jackson

Co-Investigator: Waddah Al-Refaie

 

Center no. 10

Department of Surgical Oncology and HPB Surgery, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.                   Englewood NJ, USA.

PI: Steven T. Brower

 

Center no. 14

Division of General Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Toronto, Canada.

PI: Natalie G. Coburn