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Anthony N. Kalloo, Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Maryland, USA
From 1994-2000, Prof Kalloo was Consultant to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and since 2000, has been Panel Chair for Gastroenterology and Urology Devices at the FDA.  In 2009 he was named ASGE Distinguished Educator of the Year. He has had 85 articles and 32 book chapters published.

Jacques Marescaux, Professor of Surgery, Chairman and Head, Department of Digestive and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Strasbourg
He is formerly General Secretary of the French Society of Digestive Surgery, President of the Scientific Council of ANAES (National Agency for the Development of Medical Evaluation), and General Secretary of Scientific Council of ANAES. Professor Marescaux has had 288 articles published.

Ricardo Zorron, Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Teresopolis HCTCO-FESO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Full Professor and Chairman, Dept of Surgery, extensive experience in advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery including the areas of gastrointestinal surgery, coloproctology, oncology, endocrine surgery and robotics.

Foreword, xx

Preface, xx

Section 1: Development of NOTES Concept

1 History of NOTES

Xavier Dray, Anthony N. Kalloo

2 Endoscopic Platforms for NOTES

Pankaj J. Pasricha, Homero Rivas

3 Physiology of NOTES

Juliane Bingener, Angela M. Johnson

4 Infection Control in NOTES

Peter N. Nau, Jeffrey W. Hazey

5 NOTES Access Techniques

Eduardo A. Bonin, Christopher J. Gostout

6 NOTES Closure Techniques

Erwin Rieder, Lee L. Swanstrom

7 Minilaparoscopy in the Endoscopy Unit

Arthur Hoffman, Ralf Kiesslich

8 Single Port Laparoscopy

Ricardo Zorron, Katherine Gash, Anthony R. Dixon

9 Computer Assisted NOTES: From Augmented Reality to Automation

Luc Soler, Stéphane Nicolau, Michel de Mathelin, Jacques Marescaux

Section 2: Current Clinical Applications and Techniques

10 NOTES for Peritoneal Exploration

Seigo Kitano, Kazuhiro Yasuda

11 NOTES Cholecystectomy

Bernard Dallemagne, Jacques Marescaux

12 NOTES Appendectomy

Jörn Bernhardt, Holger Steffen, Sylke Schneider-Koriath, Kaja Ludwig

13 NOTES Applications in Colorectal Surgery

Joël Leroy, Michele Diana, James Wall

14 NOTES Applied for Rectal Surgery

Patricia Sylla

15 Bariatric NOTES Procedures

Michel Vix, James Wall, Jacques Marescaux

16 Urologic Applications of NOTES

Candace F. Granberg, Mitchell R. Humphreys, Matthew T. Gettman

17 Gynecologic Applications of NOTES

Antoine Watrelot, Géraldine Chauvin, Arnaud Wattiez

18 NOTES Thyroidectomy

Tahar Benhidjeb, Michael Stark

Section 3: Perspectives on NOTES

19 Emerging NOTES Applications

Ricardo Zorron, Haru Inoue

20 NOTES Applications in Veterinary Medicine

Lynetta J. Freeman, Karine S. Pader

21 NOTES and Pregnancy: Where We Are and Where We Could Go

Nicolas Bourdel, Janyne Althaus

22 Thoracic Cavity Application of NOTES

Alex Escalona, Brian G. Turner, Denise W. Gee

23 Designing the NOTES Procedure Room

Mouen A. Khashab, Anthony N. Kalloo

24 Evolution and Future Developments of Instrument Technology for NOTES

D. Nageshwar Reddy, G. V. Rao, Magnus J. Mansard

25 Training the Gastroenterologist for NOTES

Nitin Kumar, Christopher C. Thompson

26 Training the Surgeon for NOTES

Silvana Perretta, Bernard Dallemagne, Jacques Marescaux

27 Simulator-based training of NOTES procedures

Kai Matthes, Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Woojin Ahn, Suvranu De

28 Possibilities for the future

Alexander Aurora, Jeffrey Ponsky

“This is a well-written, logically organized book with excellent illustrations, figures, and high-quality photographs.”  (Doody’s, 11 January 2013)