Welcome to the inaugural issue of Focus on Fluorescence-Guided Surgery. In this first issue, we have the privilege of interviewing Raul Rosenthal, MD, a co-editor of this column and a pioneering expert in fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS). Dr. Rosenthal is the regional chairman, Digestive Disease Institute; chairman, Department of General Surgery; director, the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute; and director, general surgery residency program at Cleveland Clinic Florida, in Weston. Dr.