%0 Journal Article %T Prof. J. Jan B. van Lanschot: experience in esophageal cancer treatment %A Liu, Monica L. %A Zhou, Silvia L. %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2017 %B 2017 %9 %! Prof. J. Jan B. van Lanschot: experience in esophageal cancer treatment %K %X J.J.B. (Jan) van Lanschot is currently Professor of Surgery at the Erasmus Medical Center and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Adelaide, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Stockholm. He has held a variety of managerial and executive positions both locally and (inter-)nationally including program director for surgical training at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, chairman of the Dutch Society of GI Surgery, board member of the Dutch Society of Surgery, chairman of European Digestive Surgery, chairman of the European Society for Diseases of the Esophagus, and secretary of the European Surgical Association. He is editorial board member of several scientific journals, including British Journal of Surgery, Digestive Surgery, Diseases of the Esophagus and World Journal of Surgery . His research interests currently lie mainly in the field of esophago-gastric surgery and particularly upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. He has published more than 350 peer reviewed articles and more than 50 books/book chapters. %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/17601 %V 9 %N 12 %P E1130-E1131 %@ 2077-6624