Gabriel Sandblom is associate professor and senior consultant at the Center for Digestive Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge. He has experience from upper abdominal surgery and is presently working at the unit of acute abdominal surgery. His research is mainly focused on abdominal wall surgery, acute pancreatitis and gallstone surgery. He is board member of the Swedish Register for gallstone surgery (GallRiks), Swedish Hernia Register (SHR), Swedish Society for Innovative Surgical Technology (SIKT) and Committee for Clinical Research of the Swedish Surgical Society (KKF).