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
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
Managing Editor
Xiong-bing Zu, MD, PhD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University (CSU), Changsha, China
Editorial Board
Mahboob Alam, PhD (Cardiology)
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Joseph S. Alpert, MD (Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease)
The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Prof. Luca Ampollini
Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
, Italy
Moises Auron, MD, FAAP, FACP
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Faisal Bakaeen, MD (Cardiac Surgery)
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland, USA
Zaid H. Baqain, BDS, FDS RCS and MSc (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery)
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan
Marie Budev, MD (Pulmonology)
Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
Huaibin Cai, PhD (Neuroscience)
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Qi Cao, PhD, (Microbiology and Immunology)
Center for Inflammation & Epigenetics and Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
Xu Cao, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
João Cavalcante, MD (Cardiovascular imaging)
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Claudio Caviezel, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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
Fabio Davoli, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery - AUSL Romagna, S.Maria delle Croci Hospital, Ravenna, Italy
Maan Fares, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
Yunlin Feng, MD (Nephrology)
Division of Nephrology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China
Peisong Gao, MD, PhD (Allergy and Clinical Immunology)
Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Katarzyna Gil, MD (Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Imaging)
Department of Invasive Cardiology, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior, Warsaw, Poland
Ajit H. Goenka, MD(Radiology)
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Geoffrey G. Hallock, MD (Plastic Surgery)
Division of Plastic Surgery, Sacred Heart Hospital, Allentown, USA
Kyoji Hirai, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Tan Ai Huey (Neurology)
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mahmoud Ismail, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Surgical Clinic, Charité - Universitätsmedizin 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
Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
, United States
Michael V. Johnston, MD (Neurology)
Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Dinesh Kalra, MD (Cardiovascular Imaging)
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
Niki Karachaliou, MD, PhD (Oncology)
University Hospital Sagrat Cor, Instituto Oncólogico Rosell (IOR), Barcelona, Spain; Hospital Quiron Dexeus, Pangaea Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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, USA
Jason Kovac, MSc, MD, PhD (Urology)
Men’s Health Center, Urology of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Chi-kong Li, MD, PhD (Pediatric Hematology/oncology)
Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Quan-Zhen Li, MD, PhD (Immunology/Internal Medicine)
Department of Immunology and Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Kheng-Seang LIM, MBBS (UM), FRCP, PhD (UM) (Epilepsy)
University of Malaya, University of Malaya Medical Centre and University Malaya Specialist Centre, Malaysia
Hassan Malik, MD (Hepatobiliary Surgery)
Liverpool Hepatobiliary Centre, University Hospital Aintree, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool, UK
Tarek M. Mekhail, MD (Internal medicine, Hematology and Oncology)
Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, Orlando, FL, USA
Pawel Miotla MD, PhD (Gynecology)
2nd Department of Gynecology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
, Poland
Sundeep Mishra, MD, DM, FACC, FSCAI (Cardiology)
Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
Rainer G. H. Moosdorf, MD, PhD, FAHA (Cardiovascular Surgery)
University Hospital Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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
Francesco Paneni, MD, PhD, FESC (Molecular Cardiology)
Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Stuart Pitson, PhD (Cell Signalling)
Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia and SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
Nikolaos Papageorgiou, MD, PhD, FESC (Cardiology)
Barts Heart Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Ranjith Ramasamy, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
John Sandy, PhD (Biochemistry)
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
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, 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, Pennsylvania, USA
Christoph Sinning, MD (Cardiology)
Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
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, USA
Michael Zhen-Yu Tong, MD (Cardiovascular Surgery)
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, 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, USA
Binhuan Wang, PhD (Biostatistics)
Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, New York University, New York, USA
Xiaofeng Wang, PhD (Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Joseph Wee, MD, PhD (Radiation Oncology)
Division of Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Sciences, National Cancer Centre, and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
Phil Wiffen, PhD (Pharmacy)
Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Group, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA
Wen-Cheng Xiong, PhD (Neuroscience)
Department of Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA
Homayoun (Homi) Zargar, MD, PhD (Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Xiongwei Zhu, PhD (Neuroscience)
Department of Pathology and Neurology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Section Editors
Yongping Bai, MD (Geriatric Medicine)
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Minfeng Chen, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Zhikang Chen, MD (General Surgery)
Division of colorectum and anus, Department of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Chunyue Duan, MD (Spine Surgery)
Department of Spinal Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Shu-guang Gao, MD, PhD (Orthopaedics)
Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
Hongchang Guo, MD (Cardiovascular Surgery)
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Hong Jiang, MD (Neurology)
Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Pengfei Lei, MD (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Central South University Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
Ji Li, MD, PhD, Associate Professor (Dermatology)
Department of dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Min Li, MD (Respiratory Medicine)
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University; Key Cite of National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease; Changsha, China
Xinying Li, MD, PhD, FACS (General Surgery)
Division of Thyroid Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Xiangya hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Yisha Li, MD (Rheumatology)
Department of Rheumatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Qing Liu, MD, PhD (Neurosurgery)
Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University; The Institute of Skull Base Surgery & Neuro-oncology at Hunan; Neurosurgery Institute of the Central South University, Changsha, China
Longfei Liu, MD, PhD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Hongbin Lu, MD, PhD (Sports Medicine)
Department of Sports Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Shaoxiong Ming (Urology)
Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
Hongchuan Nie, MD, PhD (Reproductive Medicine)
Department of Human Sperm Bank, Citic-Xiangya Reproductive and Genetic Hospital, Changsha, China
Cong Peng, MD, PhD (Dermatology)
Department of Dematology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Jie Peng, MD, PhD (Gastroenterology)
Department of Gastroenterology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Juan Su, MD (Dermatology)
Department of Dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Tao Tang, PhD, MD (Integrative Chinese Medicine)
Department of integrative Chinese medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
Juyu Tang, MD, PhD (Hand & Microsurgery)
Department of Hand & Microsurgery of Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Dr. Yu Tang
National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
, China
Wei Wang, MD, PhD (Vascular Surgery)
Department of Vascular Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Dan Wen, MD, PhD (Ophthalmology)
Department of Ophthalmology, Xiangya hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Hui Xie, MD, PhD (Movement System Injury and Repair Research Center)
Movement System Injury and Repair Research Center, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
Kun Xiong (Neuroscience)
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Central South University, Changsha, China
Minghua Yang, MD, PhD (Pediatrics)
Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Hui Zeng, MD, PhD (Hematology)
Department of Hematology, Xiangya hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Chao Zeng, MD, PhD (Orthopaedics)
Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Wei Zhang, MD (Clinnical Pharmacology)
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Zheng Zhang, MD, PhD (Pharmacology)
Department of Pharmacology, Central South University, Changsha, China
Wangyuan Zou, MD, PhD (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anesthesiology, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
Assistant Editors
Dan Chen (Neuroscience)
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Central South University, Changsha, China
Jinbo Chen, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Jie Chen, MD (Internal Medicine)
Department of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Ruchun Dai, MD (Metabolic Endocrinology)
Department of Metabolic Endocrinology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
Zhili Deng, PhD (Dermatology)
Department of dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Wenjun Deng, MD (Pediatrics)
Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Xiao Guan, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Yeye Guo (Dermatology)
Department of Dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Hunan Key Laboratory of Skin Cancer and Psoriasis, Central South University, Changsha, China
Ruoxi He, MD (Respiratory Medicine)
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Jie Hu, MD (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anesthesiology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Chen Lai, MD (General Surgery)
Department of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Tianming Le, MD (Vascular Surgery)
Department of Vascular Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Hui Li, MD (Orthopedic Surgery)
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Yanfeng Liu, PhD (Hematology)
Department of Hematology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Rong Liu, MD (Clinical Pharmacology)
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Ping Luo, MD (Pharmacology)
Department of Pharmacy, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Shuangfei Ni, MD (Spine Surgery)
Department of Spine Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Yujie Qian, PhD (Pediatrics)
Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Liming Qing, MD(Hand & Microsurgery)
Department of Hand & Microsurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Wei Song, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, People’s Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
Zongbin Song, MD (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anesthesiology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Yilun Wang, MD (Orthopaedics)
Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Zhao Wang, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Yongbao Wei, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fujian, China
Ling Weng, MD (Neurology)
Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Fada Xia, MD (General Surgery)
Department of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Dongxing Xie, MD (Orthopaedics)
Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Mingsheng Xie, MD Student (Orthopedic Surgery)
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Qian Xu, MD (Neurology)
Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Ling-Qing Yuan, MD, PhD (Metabolism and Endocrinology)
Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Jian Yuan, MD, PhD (Neurosurgery)
Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
Meng Zhang, MD (Urology)
Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Anhui, China
Yiya Zhang, PhD (Dermatology)
Department of dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Peng Zhang, MD, PhD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Dewen Zhong, MM (Urology)
Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China
Honglin Zhu, MD (Rheumatology)
Department of rheumatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Ying Zhu, MD( Ophthalmology)
Department of Ophthalmology, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
Yu Zou, MD (Anesthesia)
Department of Anesthesia, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Youyou Zhou (Dermatology)
Department of Dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Senior Editors
Grace S. Li
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
Eunice X. Xu
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
Silvia Zhou
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
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
Mira Q. Wu
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
Nicole J. Li
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine
Lucille L. Ye
Editorial Office, Journal of Xiangya Medicine