Author information

Lee L Swanström, MD, FACS, (top) is the Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Division, Legacy Health System, and a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, OR. E-mail: lswanstrom@aol.com.

Yashodan Khajanchee, MD, (center) is a Surgeon in the Minimally Invasive Surgery Division, Legacy Health System,
and a Researcher in the Department of Research at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, OR. E-mail: yashodhansk@yahoo.com.

Maher A Abbas, MD, FACS, FASCRS, (bottom) is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCLA; the Chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery at the Los Angeles Medical Center. E-mail: maher.a.abbas@kp.org.