About the Author: Editor-in-Chief: Pierre-Alain Clavien Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland Associate Editors: Tadatoshi Takayama, Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan CM Lo, Liver Transplant Centre, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong R. Chari, Associate Professor of Surgery and Cancer Biology, Division Chief of Hepatobillary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Staff Surgeon, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA M. Morse, Associate Professor, Duke University Medical School, Durham, USA J. Llovet, Barcelona-Clínic Liver Cancer Group, Liver Unit, Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi I Sunyer, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain