Ioannis Rouvelas holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, and currently is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet. He was awarded the Honorary Fellow of European Board of Surgery Upper GI in 2014 and the Fellow of American College of Surgeons in 2021. His main research keywords include esophageal, gastric, cancer, minimally invasive, esophagectomy, gastrectomy, and upper GI.