Editorial Team
Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Hong-Hao Zhou, MD, PhD (Clinical Pharmacology)
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Editors-in-Chief

Jianzhong Hu, MD, PhD (Orthopaedics)
Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Paul Schoenhagen, MD (Cardiovascular imaging)
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
Deputy Editors-in-Chief

David W. Rattner, MD (General Surgery)
Division of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

Ya Cao, MD, PhD (Pathophysiology)
Cancer Research Institute, Central South University, Changsha, China

Hassan Malik, MD (Hepatobiliary Surgery)
Liverpool Hepatobiliary Centre, University Hospital Aintree, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool, UK

Hong Wei Ouyang, MD, PhD (Tendon and cartilage regeneration)
School of Basic Medical Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Beisha Tang, MD (Neurology and Medical Genetics)
Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Hunan Province in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Changsha, China; State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Changsha, China
Editorial Board

Mahboob Alam, MD, FACC, FSCAI (Cardiology)
The Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Joseph S. Alpert, MD (Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease)
The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA

Luca Ampollini, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

Beatrice Aramini, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Thoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Moises Auron, MD, FAAP, FACP
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Faisal Bakaeen, MD (Cardiac Surgery)
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Pietro Bertoglio
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore teaching Hospital and Sant’Orsola University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Thoracic Surgeon, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Marie Budev, MD (Pulmonology)
Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Huaibin Cai, PhD (Neuroscience)
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Xu Cao, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Federico Cappuzzo, MD
Director of Oncology and Hematology Department, AUSL della Romagna-Ravenna, Italy

Claudio Caviezel, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Mariusz Chabowski, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, 4th Military Teaching Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland

Monica Casiraghi, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Lu Chen, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Joseph L. Chin (Urology and Oncology)
Division of Urology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

William Cho, PhD (Molecular Oncology)
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Fabio Davoli, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Romagna, S. Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital, Ravenna, Italy

Ramon Andrade De Mello, MD, FACP, PhD (Oncology)
Division of Medical Oncology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil

Duilio Divisi, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of L’Aquila, “G. Mazzini Hospital” of Teramo, Italy

Nenad D. Filipovic
Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia

Alfonso Fiorelli (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Science and Translational Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Peisong Gao, MD, PhD (Allergy and Clinical Immunology)
Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Ajit H. Goenka, MD (Radiology)
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, NY, USA

Michel Gonzalez, MD
Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA, USA

Francesco Guerrera, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, A.O.U. Città Della Salute e Della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy
Department of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

Geoffrey G. Hallock, MD (Plastic Surgery)
Division of Plastic Surgery, Sacred Heart Hospital, Allentown, PA, USA

Kyoji Hirai, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Paul Hofman, MD, PhD (Pathology)
Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology (LPCE), University Côte d’Azur, Nice, France

Tan Ai Huey (Neurology)
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mohsen Ibrahim, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, University of Rome 'Sapienza', Rome, Italy

Mahmoud Ismail, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Surgery, Competence Center of Thoracic Surgery, Charité University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bruce Jennings (Health Policy)
Department of Health Policy and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

Peng Jin, PhD (Human Genetics)
Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Michael V. Johnston, MD (Neurology)
Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Niki Karachaliou, MD, PhD (Oncology)
University Hospital Sagrat Cor, Instituto Oncólogico Rosell (IOR), Barcelona, Spain; Hospital Quiron Dexeus, Pangaea Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

Yu Kataoka, MD (Cardiovascular Disease)
Cardiovascular Department, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Ali Zamir Khan, MBBS, MS, FRCS (Glasgow), FRCS (CTH), FEBTS, MBA (Minimally Invasive Thora
Department of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Thomas Klockgether, MD, PhD (Neurology)
Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH (Public Health)
Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA

Jason Kovac, MSc, MD, PhD (Urology)
Men’s Health Center, Urology of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Chi-kong LI, MBBS, MD
Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital and Hong Kong Children's Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Philip S. Li, M.D
Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Quan-Zhen Li, MD, PhD (Immunology/Internal Medicine)
Department of Immunology and Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Kheng-Seang LIM, MBBS (UM), FRCP, PhD (UM) (Epilepsy)
University of Malaya, University of Malaya Medical Centre and University Malaya Specialist Centre, Malaysia

Alberto Martini
Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Marulli, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Tarek M. Mekhail, MD (Internal medicine, Hematology and Oncology)
Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, Orlando, FL, USA

Marcello Migliore, MD, PhD, FETCS
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy

Michael T. Milano, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

Pawel Miotla MD, PhD (Gynecology)
2nd Department of Gynecology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Nunzio Montelione, MD, PhD (Vascular Surgery)
Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy

Rainer G. H. Moosdorf, MD, PhD, FAHA (Cardiovascular Surgery)
University Hospital Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Hugh Mostafid, MBBS, FRCS (Urol), FEBU
Stokes Centre for Urology, Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford, UK

Dania Nachira, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of General Thoracic surgery, A.Gemelli” University Hospital, Rome, Italy

Kazuaki Negishi, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular imaging)
Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Australia; Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, Australia

Antonio Nenna, MD (Cardiac Surgery)
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy
Masaki Okamoto, MD, PhD
Chief, Department of Respirology and Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center;
Assistant Professor, Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine

Francesco Paneni, MD, PhD, FESC (Molecular Cardiology)
Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Nikolaos Papageorgiou, MD, PhD, FESC
Barts Heart Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Francesco Petrella, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Oncology and Emato-oncology, Unversità degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Stuart Pitson, PhD (Cell Signalling)
Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia and SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia

Graeme Poston DSc, MS, MB BS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Ed) (Hepatobiliary Surgery)
Liverpool Hepatobiliary Centre, Aintree University Hospital, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool, UK

Ranjith Ramasamy, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Majed Refai, MD
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Ancona, Italy

Alberto Ricci, MD (Respiratory Medicine)
Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Gaston A. Rodriguez-Granillo, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular imaging)
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Diagnostico Maipu, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Andrea Salica, MD (Cardiac Surgeon)
European Hospital, Rome, Italy

John Sandy, PhD (Biochemistry)
Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Marco Scarci
Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy

Jorge Sequeiros, MD, PhD (Medical Genetics)
Instituto Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Bo Shen, MD (Inflammatory Bowel Diseases)
Digestive Disease Institute, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

Wenyin Shi, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University; Co-Director, Jefferson Brain Tumor Center; Radiation Oncology Director, Jefferson Cutaneous Lymphoma Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Shuichi Shinohara (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chubu Rosai Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Fumihiro Shoji, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Clinical Research Institute, Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Charles B. Simone, II, MD, FACRO
New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Christoph Sinning, MD (Interventional Cardiology)
Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Spartalis, MD
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece

Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

Eng-King Tan, PhD (Neuroscience)
Research Department, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Campus, Singapore, Singapore

J. Grant Thomson, MD, MSc (Plastic Surgery)
Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Michael Zhen-Yu Tong, MD (Cardiovascular Surgery)
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis, MD, PhD (Hepatology)
UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital and UCL, London, UK

George C. Tsokos, MD (Rheumatology)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Alessandro Vitale, MD, PhD
Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplant Center, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy

Andrea Viti, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Xiaofeng Wang, PhD (Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Ryuichi Waseda, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of General Thoracic, Breast, and Pediatric Surgery, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Joseph Wee, MD, PhD (Radiation Oncology)
Division of Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Sciences, National Cancer Centre, and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Homayoun (Homi) Zargar, MD, PhD (Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Paul Zarogoulidis, MD, MsC, PhD
Director of Pulmonary Department, ``Bioclinic`` Private Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece

Xiongwei Zhu, PhD (Neuroscience)
Department of Pathology and Neurology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Managing Editors
Grace S. Li
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
Eunice X. Xu
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine

Xiong-bing Zu, MD, PhD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University (CSU), Changsha, China
Language Editors

Jeremy Dean Chapnick
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; United States University Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA (Sept. 2012 to May 2016)

John Ayric Gray
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Sept. 2004-June 2009)
Science Editors
Nicole J. Li
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
Silvia Zhou
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
Lucille L. Ye
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
Academic Editors
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