The twenty-sixth volume of GI Surgery Annual includes chapters on current and upcoming topics in gastrointestinal surgery pertaining to cholangiopancreatoscopy, robotic liver resections and transplants, primary familial intrahepatic cholestasis, managing a patient after total pancreatectomy, transplant immunology and immunosuppression as well as the chapter on advances in gastrointestinal surgery. The authors have expertise and excellent academic track record in the relevant subspecialties. Marrying academic excellence with publishing expertise is going to be the new mantra for the present as well as the upcoming issues of GI Surgery Annual.