Editorial Team

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Honorary Editors-in-Chief

Nanshan Zhong, MD

Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering. Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiaosong Gu, MD, PhD

Jiangsu Key Lab of Neuroregeneration of Ministry of Education, Nantong, China

Rafael Rosell, MD, PhD

Cancer Biology and Precision Medicine Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Ctra Canyet, Badalona (Barcelona), Spain

Editors-in-Chief

Xuehao Wang, MD

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Institute of Liver Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jianxing He, MD, FACS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Calvin S. H. Ng

Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

Executive Editor-in-Chief

Giuseppe Lippi, MD

Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Yi-Zhou Jiang, MD (Breast Cancer)

Department of Breast Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Ling Lu, MD, PhD (Liver Transplantation)

Division of Liver Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Dongquan Shi, MD, PhD (Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstruction)

Department of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstruction, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Gonzalo Varela, MD,  PhD,  MSc (Thoracic Surgery)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain

Weihai Xu, MD (Intracranial Atherosclerosis)

Department of Neurology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

Jin-Tai Yu, MD, PhD (Alzheimer’s Disease)

Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Hong Zhao, MD (Abdominal Surgical Oncology)

Vice director, Laboratory of abdominal surgical oncology; Associate Professor, Department of abdominal surgical oncology; Cancer Hospital and Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. Beijing, China

Executive Editor

Zhi-De Hu, MD (Clinical Chemistry)

Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China

Editorial Board (Anesthesiology)

Guillaume Besch, MD, PhD

Full Professor Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Besancon, and University of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France

Krishnan V. Chakravarthy, MD, PhD

Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

Tobias Eckle

Full Professor of Anesthesiology, Cardiology and Cell Biology, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

Eric R. Gross, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Izumi Kawagoe

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan

Susanne Koch, MD

Associated Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité–University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Editorial Board (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Bioinformatics)

Elena Bignami

Full Professor Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Division, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Jimmy T. Efird, PhD, MSc

Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center - Boston, USA

Andrew A. Gumbs, MD, MSc (AI), FACS

Responsable de la filière cancérologie digestive, GHT-Yvelines, Nord Chirurgien Hépato-pancreato-biliaire, Département de Chirurgie Viscéral, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy/Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

Romaric Loffroy, MSc, MD, PhD, FCIRSE

Professor of Interventional Radiology, Head of Imaging Pole, Chief of Vascular and Interventional Department. Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Image-Guided Therapy Center, ImViA Laboratory-EA7535, University of Dijon School of Medicine, François-Mitterrand Teaching Hospital, Dijon Cedex, France.

Sven Van Poucke, MD, PhD

Anesthesiologist, Emergency Physician, Data Scientist, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium

María Rodríguez

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid, Spain

Editorial Board (Biochemical Science and Genomics)

Elisa Danese, PhD

Clinical Biochemistry, Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Santanu Dasgupta

Department of Pathology, USA Mitchell Cancer Institute, Mobile AL 36604

Francisco J. Enguita, B.Pharm., PhD

Cardiomics Unit, Centro de Cardiologia da Universidade de Lisboa (CCUL), Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Cristiano Fava, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Pilar Giraldo, MD, PhD

Traslational Research Unit, Aragon Institute of Health Research (IISAragon), Zaragoza, Spain

Akiko Mammoto, MD, PhD

Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Dirk Roggenbuck, MD, PhD

Molecular Diagnostics and Quality Management, Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty Environment and Natural Sciences, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany

Shanzhi Wang, PhD

Biochemist, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR, USA

Ralf Weiskirchen, PhD

Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry at the RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Editorial Board (Breast Cancer)

Alireza Hamidian Jahromi

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Geok Hoon Lim

Breast Department, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore

Editorial Board (Cardiology)

Rubén Casado Arroyo, MD, PhD, MSc

Ruben Casado Arroyo, Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory CUB Hopital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Edward J. Ciaccio, PhD

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology and the Celiac Disease Center, Columbia University, USA

Constantine E. Kosmas, MD, PhD

Nuclear Cardiology and Lipid Clinic, Cardiology Unlimited, P.C., NY, USA; Athens Bioclinic, Athens, Greece

Fabian Sanchis-Gomar, MD, PhD

Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute,Valencia, Spain

Gerasimos Siasos, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiology, “Hippokration” General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece; Division of Cardiovascular, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Shizuka Uchida, PhD, FAHA

Professor & Co-Director, Center for RNA Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Copenhagen SV, Denmark

Editorial Board (Cardiothoracic Surgery)

Ali Khoynezhad, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute, Los Angeles, USA

Hyun Koo Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Chang Young Lee, MD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgey, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Francesco Nappi, MD

Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France

Marco Nardini, MD

Thorax Centre, St Bartholomew Hospital, London, UK

Ibrahim Sultan, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Randolph Hung-leung Wong

Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Editorial Board (Dermatology)

Philip R. Cohen, MD

Dermatology Department, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA; Dermatology Department, Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine, Vallejo, California, USA.

Editorial Board (Drugs and Devices)

Stephanie Huang

Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Jan Trøst Jørgensen, PhD

The Dx-Rx Institute, Fredensborg, Denmark

Editorial Board (Emergency Medicine and Critical Care)

Jonathan S. Kurman

Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Jordi Rello, MD, PhD

Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Campus Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

Editorial Board (Endocrinology)

Sandro La Vignera

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Editorial Board (Epidemiology)

Alejandro Santos-Lozano, PhD

Department of Health Sciences at European University Miguel de Cervantes, Valladolid, Spain

Editorial Board (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

Jaffer A Ajani

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Anastasios Koulaouzidis, MD, PhD

Professor (Affiliate), Department of Social Medicine & Public Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Editorial Board (Geriatrics)

Liron Sinvani, MD

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwell Health, New York, NY, USA

Editorial Board (Immunology)

Christian Brander, MD

IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute - HIVACAT, Badalona, Spain

Ana Paula Drummond-Lage, PharmD, PhD

Full Professor, Department of Post Graduation Health Sciences, Minas Gerais Medical Sciences Faculty, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Andras Perl

State University of New York, College of Medicine, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, USA

Chaim Putterman, MD

Division of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, F701N, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, NY, USA

Heping Xu

The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK

Editorial Board (Lung Cancer)

Kassem Harris, MD, FCCP

Department of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla; Westchester Medical Center; New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Vasileios K. Kouritas, MD, PhD, CTh

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK

Bassam Redwan, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Westfalen, Lünen, Germany

Editorial Board (Nephrology)

Glenn Matthew Chertow

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Samir C. Gautam, MBBS

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Wisit Cheungpasitporn, MD

Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Editorial Board (Neurology)

Erwin Stolz, MD

Department of Neurology, Caritasklinikum Saarbruecken, Germany

Editorial Board (Obstetrics and Gynecology)

Tao Guo, MD, PhD

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

Editorial Board (Oncology)

Massimiliano Berretta

Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, IRCCS, Aviano (PN), Italy

Gaurav Pandey, Ph.D.

Washington University school of Medicine St. Louis, MO, USA

Bo Shen, M.D.

Department of Oncology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Umang Swami, MD, MS

Department of Oncology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Editorial Board (Ophthalmology)

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, M. Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Ludwig M. Heindl, MD, PhD

Center for Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Ophthalmic Oncology, Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Igor Kozak, M.D., PhD, MSc.

Moorfields Eye Hospital Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Susanna S. Park, MD, PhD

Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

Gurinder Singh, MD, MHA

Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA; The University of Missouri - Kansas City Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA

Jay M. Stewart, MD

Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Editorial Board (Orthopaedics)

Hamid Rahmatullah Bin Abd Razak, MBBS

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sengkang General Hospital, Duke-NUS, Singapore

Federico Canavese, MD PhD

Department of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, University Hospital Estaing, 1 place Lucie et Raymond Aubrac, Clermont Ferrand 63003, France

Riccardo D’Ambrosi, MD

C.A.S.C.O. Department, IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.

Berardo Di Matteo, MD

Center for functional and biologic reconstruction of the knee, Humanitas Clinical and Research Institute, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

Sheeraz A. Qureshi

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA

Kern Singh, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush; Minimally Invasive Spine Study Group; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA

Editorial Board (Pediatrics)

Shibani Kanungo, MD, MPH

Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Editorial Board (Radiation Medicine)

Joseph Lee, MBBS, FRACP, FAANMS

Department of Medical Imaging, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

Charles B. Simone, II, MD, FACRO

Research Professor and Chief Medical Officer of the New York Proton Center Full Member in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Syed Wamique Yusuf

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

Editorial Board (Respiratory Medicine)

Hayoung Choi, MD, PhD

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Amos Lal, MBBS, MD, FACP

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA

Sukhwinder Singh Sohal, PhD, FAPSR

Respiratory Translational Research Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Health Sciences, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Sang-Won Um, MD, PhD

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Editorial Board (Surgery)

Jon Mallen-St. Clair

Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery, 8635 3rd Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA

Paschalis Gavriilidis, MD, Msc, PhD

Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Queen Elizabeth University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, B15 2TH, UK.

Alexandre G. Lellouch

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Ricardo Robles-Campos

Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, Virgen de La Arrixaca Clinic, University Hospital, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain

Anthony Yuen Bun Teoh

Deputy Director of Endoscopy and Professor in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

David Waller, BMedSci, BM, BS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(CTh), FCCP

Barts Thorax Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK

Alex K. Wong

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo St. Suite 415, Los Angeles, CA , USA

George Kwok-chu Wong

Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ian Wong, MBBS (HK), FCSHK, FRCSEd (GEN), FHKAM (Surgery), FACS

Division of Esophageal & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Editorial Board (Traditional Medicine)

Myeong Soo Lee

Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine; University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.

Editorial Board (Urology)

Eric Chung, MBBS, FRACS

The University of Queensland, Department of Urology, Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane, QLD), Australia

Gaetano Ciancio, MD., MBA., FACS.

Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA; Urology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA; Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA.

Tobias Klatte, MD, FEBU, FRCSEd

Department of Urology, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, UK

Roy Mano, MD

Department of Urology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv Yafo, Israel; Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.

Rodrigo Suarez-Ibarrola, MD, BSc

Urologist, University of Freiburg – Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany

Editorial Board (Psychiatry)

Kenneth Blum, BSc., M.Sc., PhD, DHL

Division of Addiction Research & Education, Center for Psychiatry, Medicine & Primary Care (Office of Provost), Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA

Managing Editors

Corresponding Editor

Kathryn Yan

Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine