Editorial Board

After graduating in Medicine from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College Professor Clark undertook specialist training in internal medicine and endocrinology.  He then spent a period of five years training in molecular biology and receptor biology at the NIH in Bethesda, USA.  He returned to Barts & the London in 1991 becoming Professor of Molecular Endocrinology in 1996 and Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Endocrinology in 2001 and subsequently Deputy Director of the William Harvey Research Institute. His research has centred around the molecular genetic basis of hormone resistance syndromes and the actions of ACTH.  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1995 and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999.  In 2012 he became Deputy Principal and Dean of Research and Enterprise at St George’s University of London in 2012. Professor Clark was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Endocrinology (2009 – 2015), Journal of Molecular Endocrinology (2013 – 2015) and Endocrine Connections (2020 – 2023).  

 

DEPUTY EDITORS

Gaetano Isola, DDS, University of Catania, Italy

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Specialisms: Periodontology, Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology, Dentistry

 

SECTION EDITORS

Section: Circulation

Chengming Fan, MD, Central South University, China
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Specialisms: Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Failure

 

Marco Schiavone, MD, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Italy
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Specialisms: Electrophysiology, Cardiac arrhythmias, Catheter ablation, Cardiac pacing, Cardiac devices, Atrial fibrillation, Ventricular tachycardia, Heart failure
 

 

Tzu-Pin Lu, PhD, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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Specialisms: Oncology, Cardiology, Rhythmic disorders, Medical genetics, Public health and prevention
 

 

 

 

Section: Infection, Inflammation and Immunity

Robert Ekart, MD, PhD, University Medical Centre Maribor, Slovenia
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Specialisms: Chronic kidney disease, Dialysis, Hypertension, Pulse wave velocity,  Lung ultrasound, Kidney biopsy

 

Radovan Hojs, MD, University Clinical Centre Maribor, Slovenia
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Specialisms: Nephrology, Dialysis, Cardiovascular morbidity, GFR
 

 

Hossein Bannazadeh Baghi, PhD, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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Specialisms: Viral disease, Viruses and human cancer, HPV, SARS-CoV-2/ COVID-19, Infectious diseases

 

Andrea De Vito, PhD, University of Sassari, Italy
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Specialisms: HIV, STIs, Antiviral treatment, COVID-19, Antimicrobial therapy, Infectious diseases

 

 

 

 

Section: Metabolism

Prasenjit Mitra, PhD, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, India
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Specialisms: Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Management, Molecular Psychiatry, Biomarkers, Toxicology

 

 

Section: Neuroscience

Carlo Colosimo, MD, Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, Italy
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Specialisms: Parkinson's disease, Dystonia, Tremor, Clinical Neuropharmacology

 

 

 

Section: Oncology

Jia Cheng, MD PhD, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, China
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Specialisms: Animal model, Artificial intelligence, Basic biomedical science, Bioinformatics, Cell death, Chemoresistance, Epigenetics, Pathology, Translational research, Mental health

 

Felice Crocetto, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
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Specialisms: Oncology, Nephrology, Obstetrics and gynaecology, Reproductive health, Surgery, Oncologic surgery, Urology

 

 

 

 

Section: Reproductive Medicine

Bo Huang, PhD, Tongji Hospital, China
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Specialisms: Reproductive health, Embryobiology, Developmental biology

 

 

 

Section: Surgery and Therapeutic Innovation

Filippo Migliorini, MD PhD, MBA, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Specialisms: Arthroplasty, Arthroscopy, Sport Medicine

 

Roman Pfeifer, MD, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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Specialisms: Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, trauma surgery

 

 

Lovenish Bains, MD, FNB, FRCS, FACS, FICS, Maulana Azad Medical College, India

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Specialisms: Clinical research; abdominal wall repair; bariatric and metabolic surgery; colorectal surgery; general surgery; hernia; oncologic surgery; minimally invasive surgery; trauma surgery; urological surgery; oncologic surgery

 

 

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Section: Circulation

Piotr Adamski, MD, PhD, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Lamiaa Ahmed, PhD, Cairo University, Egypt

Song Peng Ang, MD, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA

Derya Aydin Sahin, MD, Gaziantep University, Türkiye

Gani Bajraktari, PhD, University of Prishtina, Kosovo

Amir Hossein Behnoush, MD, MPH, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Emanuele Bobbio, MD, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden

Alessandro Cannavo, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Jien Jiun Chen, MD, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan

Hugo de Souza, PhD, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Maciej Dyrbuś, MD, PhD, University of Silesia, Poland

Gianpiero Greco, PhD, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Hüseyin Ince, MD, Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Germany

Vikash Jaiswal, MD, Larkin Community Hospital, USA

Kriti Kalra, MD, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, USA

Amirmohammad Khalaji, MD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Michal Laufer-Perl, MD, MHA, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

Xiaoping Li, PhD, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Chia-Te Liao, MD, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Gen-Min Lin, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital, Taiwan

Sara Momtazmanesh, MD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Amin Nakhostin-Ansari, MD, MPH, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Giribabu Nelli, PhD, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Valentina N Nikolic, MD, PhD, University of Nis, Serbia

Andreas S. Papazoglou, MD, Athens Naval Hospital, Greece

Alessandro Polizzi, DDS, University of Catania, Italy

Daniele Privitera, RN, PhD, IRCCS Istituto Auxologocio Italiano, Italy

Kumaresan Ramanathan, PhD, Jimma University, Ethiopia

Leonardo Roever, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Zach Rozenbaum, MD, Tulane University, USA

Zouina Sarfraz, MD, Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Pakistan

Sneha Annie Sebastian, MD, Research Nexus, USA

Yusuf Ziya Şener, MD, Hacettepe University, Türkiye

Noor Shaik, PhD, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Shashank Shekhar, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA

Sumit Sohal, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA

Jin-Yu Sun, MD, Nanjing Medical University, China

Takeshi Tsuda, MD, Nemours Children's Health System, USA

Guo-Wei Tu, MD, Fudan University, China

Li-Da Wu, MD, Nanjing Medical University, China

Ruijie Xie, PhD, German Cancer Research Center, Germany

Yucong Zhang, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Lei Zhao, MD, Capital Medical University, China

Xiang Zhou, PhD, Soochow University, China

Zi-jing Zhou, MD, PhD, Central South University, China

Youfeng Zhu, MD, PhD, Jinan University, China

Caminiti Giuseppe, MD, San Raffaele University of Rome, Italy

 

Section: Infection, Inflammation and Immunity

Mohmed Isaqali Karobari, PhD, RCSP (Glasg), MFDS, Saveetha University, India

Wenwen Liu, DDS, PhD, MS, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, USA

Vaibhav Sahni, BDS, MDS, FDSRCS(Eng), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Simona Santonocito, DDS, University of Catania, Italy

Subhashisa Swain, PT, PhD, MPH, University of Oxford, UK

Javeed Ahmad, PhD, National Institutes of Health, USA

Taylan Bozok, MD, Mersin University, Turkey

Soheil Ebrahimpour, PhD, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Kiatichai Faksri, PhD, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Mümtaz Güran, PhD, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey

Bharat Gurnani, MBBS DNB FCRS FICO FAICO MRCS MNAMS, Aravind Eye Hospital, India

Shafiul Haque, PhD, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia

Wujun Jiang, MD, Soochow University, China

Philipp A Lang, PhD, University of Düsseldorf, Germany

Yi-Ping Li, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Pierluigi Marzuillo, MD, PhD, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

Carsten Münk, PhD, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany

Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi, MD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Shi Zhao, PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Changtai Zhu, PhD, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, China

Ramakanth Pata, MD, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, USA

Marcin Kurowski, MD, PhD, Department of Immunology and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Poland

Andreia Albuquerque, MD, PhD, Fernando Pessoa University, Portugal

Changchun Cao, MD, PhD, Nanjing Medical University, China

Hassan Choudry, MBBS, University of Leicester, UK

Arkadeep Dhali, MBBS MPH, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Lin Fan, MD, Tongji University, China

Alessandro Granito, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy

Stefano Guarino, MD, PhD, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

Askin Gülsen, MD, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Wandong Hong, PhD, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China

Lakshmi Kannan, MD, Pikeville Medical Center, USA

Arunkumar Krishnan, MD, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, USA

Wei Lei, MD, PhD, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China

Heng Lin, PhD, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

Ahmet Murt, MD, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey

Sidra Naz, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Kassem Sharif, MD, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

Deguang Wang, MD, Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, China

Tobias Weismüller, MD, Vivantes Klinikum, Germany

Francesco Caso, MD, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Orestes Foresto Neto, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Yasin Sahin, MD, Gaziantep İslam Bilim ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi, Turkey

Varun Sharma, PhD, NMC Genetics, India

Pan Zhao, MD, PhD, Chinese PLA General Hospital, China

Cybel Mehawej, PhD, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Aqeel Alenazi, PhD, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Amrita Chattopadhyay, PhD, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, MD, ESI - Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science and Research, India

Morteza Saki, PhD, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Sayed Sartaj Sohrab, PhD, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Vladimir Jurisic, MD, PhD, University of Kragujevac, Serbia

Tomás José González-López, MD PhD, Hospital Universitario de Burgos, Spain

 

Section: Metabolism

Henrik Gudbergsen, MD, PhD, MPA, Københavns Universitet, Denmark

Huiwen Ren, MD, PhD, Dalian Medical University, China

Hamed Akbari, MSc, University of Alberta, Canada

Fateen Ata, MD, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

Timotius Ivan Hariyanto, MD, Pelita Harapan University, Indonesia

Aleksandra Klisic, MD, PhD, University of Montenegro, Montenegro

Panita Limpawattana, MD, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Filiz Mercantepe, MD, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Turkey

Vivek Podder, MBBS, Baptist Health South Florida, Bangladesh

Hui-Qi Qu, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Jeffrey Pradeep Raj, MD, MBBS, DM, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India

Natalia Stepanova, MD, Institute of Nephrology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

Melissa Premaor, MD, PhD, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Felicity Han, PhD, The Univerisity of Queensland, Australia

Asem Shalaby, MD, PhD, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Brijesh Kumar Singh, PhD, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Anwarul Azim Majumder, MBBS, PhD, FHEA, University of the West Indies, Barbados

Rahman Shiri, MD, PhD, MPH, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland

Yu Xiao, MD, The Fourth People's Hospital of Chengdu, China

Federica Fogacci, MD, University of Bologna, Italy

 

Section: Neuroscience

Suhang Song, PhD, University of Georgia, USA

Carlo Alberto Artusi, MD, University of Turin, Italy

Mainak Bardhan, MD, Baptist Health South Florida, USA

Yimin Chen, MD, Foshan Second People's Hospital, China

Carlo Di Bonaventura, MD, PhD, University of Rome, Italy

Yi Chao Foong, MBBs, Monash University, USA

Xingzhi Guo, PhD, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, China

Petr Kanovsky, MD, PhD, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Chaeyoung Lee, PhD, Soongsil University, South Korea

Luca Marsili, MD, PhD, University of Cincinnati, USA

Mohammad Mofatteh, PhD, MPH, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Lanfranco Pellesi, MD, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Vrutang Kumar Shah, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Anwen Shao, MD, PhD, Zhejiang University, China

Neha Singh-Reilly, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA

Mudit Tyagi, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, USA

Yuzhen Xu, MD, PhD, Shandong First Medical University, China

Gonzalo E. Aranda-Abreu, PhD, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Priyanka Madaan, PhD, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, India

Eren Ogut, PhD, Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Medicine Department of Anatomy, Turkey

Maryam Golmohammadi, MD, Doheny Eye Institute and David Geffen School of Medicine, USA

 

Section: Oncology

Xin Tong, PhD, Harvard Medical School/Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard, USA

Hao Chen, MD, Yokohama City Unviersity, Japan

Maha Hameed, MD, Florida State University, USA

Chuyan Wu, MD, PhD, Jiangsu Province Hospital, China

Tian Li, MD, Fourth Military Medical University, China

Ajay Matta, PhD, Notogen Inc., Canada

Pankaj Ahluwalia, PhD, Augusta University, USA

Asis Bala, PhD, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, India

Gulzar Bhat, PhD, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Raghunath Chatterjee, MD, Indian Statistical Institute, India

ZhenCong Chen, MD, Fudan University, China

Quan Cheng, MD, Central South University, China

Peixin Dong, MD, PhD, Hokkaido University, Japan

De-Chao Feng, PhD, West China Hospital, China

Mihnea-Alexandru Găman, MD, Institutul Clinic Fundeni, Romania

Rifat Hamoudi, PhD, MEng, FIBMS, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Ping Han, MD, West China Hospital, China

Lei Huang, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Zhengwei Huang, PhD, Jinan University, China

Feng Jiang, MD, Fudan University, China

Ahmed Kabel, PhD, Tanta University, Egypt

Xuefeng Kan, PhD, Tongji Hospital, China

Sanjay Kumar, PhD, Sharda University, India

Kai Li, PhD, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Jitian Li, PhD, Luoyang Orthopedic-Traumatological Hospital of Henan Province, China

Jinhui Liu, MD, PhD, Jiangsu Province Hospital, China

Chao Liu, MD, PhD, Shandong Tumor Hospital, China

Hongda Liu, MD, PhD, Jiangsu Province Hospital, China

Liang Liu, MD, Baoding No.1 Central Hospital, China

Giuseppe Lucarelli, PhD, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Chunlin Ou, PhD, Central South University, China

Lin Qi, MD, PhD, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China

Shuai Ren, MD, PhD, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China

Raheleh Roudi, PhD, Stanford University, USA

Javad Sharifi Rad, PhD, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Ecuador

Suraj Shrestha, MBBS, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Balint Tamaskovics, MD, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Yutao Wang, PhD, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China

Guangzhen Wu, MD, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, China

Yingkun Xu, MD, Shandong University, China

Zhijie Xu, MD, Central South University, China

Li Yan, PhD, Fudan University, China

Yuanliang Yan, PhD, Central South University, China

Guan-Jun Yang, PhD, Ningbo University, China

Bo Zhang, MD, Sichuan University, China

Hao Zhang, PhD, Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China

Jian-Guo Zhou, PhD, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, China

Zhongbao Zhou, MD, PhD, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China

Yinghong Wang, MD, PhD, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, China

Radoslaw Chaber, MD, PhD, Rzeszów University, Poland

Giuseppe Cicero, MD, PhD, University of Messina, Italy

Chien-Feng Li, PhD, Chi Mei Medical Center, Taiwan

Laila Nomani, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA

Paola Parente, PhD, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Italy

Nicolas Piton, MD, PhD, Hôpital Charles-Nicolle, France

Rana Youness, PhD, German International University, Germany

Shutao Zheng, PhD, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, China

Mohammad-Salar Hosseini, MD, MPH, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran

 

Section: Reproductive Medicine

Shima Alizadeh, MD, Tehran University of Medical Science, Iran

Silvia D'Ippolito, MD, PhD, Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic, Italy

Yousef Moradi, PhD, Kurdistan Univrstiy of Medical Sciences, Iran

Martin Stimpfel, PhD, Ljubljana University Medical Centre, Slovenia

 

Section: Surgery and Therapeutic Innovation

Chuan Wang, MD, PhD, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, China

Ramanarayana Boyapati, BDS, MDS, Sibar Institute of Dental Sciences, India

Artak Heboyan, PhD, Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia

Antonino Lo Giudice, DDS, PhD, University of Catania, Italy

Romeo Patini, DDS, PhD, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Keunbada Son, PhD, Kyungpook National University, South Korea

Hamid Tebyaniyan, PhD, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Zhaoqiang Zhang, DDS, Southern Medical University, China

Devarajan Rathish, MBBS, SCHP, DFM, MPH, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

Paolo Formenti, MD, Ospedale Bassini, Italy

Ahmed Hosny Hassan, MSc, PharmD, Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt

Valery Piacherski, PhD, Mogilev Regional Clinical Hospital, Belarus

Zhanqi Zhao, PhD, Guangzhou Medical University, China

Paolo Usai-Satta, MD, Azienda Ospedaliera G. Brotzu, Italy

Dongshan Zhang, MD, Central South University, China

Qi Jia, MD, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, China

Wangrui Liu, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Alessandra Berton, MD, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy

Taco Blokhuis, MD, PhD, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

Kanon Jatuworapruk, MD, PhD, Thammasat University, Thailand

Giacomo Rossettini, PhD, University of Verona, Italy

Ammara Saleem, PhD, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Ling-Feng Zeng, PhD, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, China

Weiyang Zhong, MD, First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China

Yiting Lei, MD, Chongqing Medical University, China

Claudio Andaloro, MD, PhD, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale - ASUFC, Italy

Alberto Domínguez-Vicent, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Joana Mourão, MD, PhD, Hospital de São João, Portugal

Somanath Padhi, MD, MBBS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Kashish Malhotra, MBBS, FHEA, University of Adelaide, Australia

Zongshi Qin, PhD, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Philipp Lichte, MHBA, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany

Stefano S Granieri, MD, Azienda Ospedaliera di Desio e Vimercate, Italy

Lovenish Bains, MD, FNB, FRCS, FACS, FICS, Maulana Azad Medical College, India

Somprakas Basu, MD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh, India

René Fortelny, MD, FEBS, Wilhelminen Hospital, Austria

Kenji Fujiwara, MD, PhD, Kimura Hospital, Japan

Borja Herrero de la Parte, PhD, University of The Basque Country, Spain

Hashim Talib Hashim, MBChB, University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, Iraq

Henglong Hu, MD, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Wenbin Hua, MD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Mateusz Jagielski, MD, PhD, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Kwangsoon Kim, MD, Catholic University of Korea, South Korea

Ming Li, MD, Fudan University, China

Alberto Meyer, PhD, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Durga Neupane, MBBS, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal

João Carlos Ribeiro, MD, PhD, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Lixin Wang, MD, PhD, Fudan University, China

Imtiaz Wani, MD, FACS, Government General Hospital, India

Mathias Wilhelmi, MD, St. Bernward Krankenhaus, Germany

Sidong Yang, MD, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China

Christian Zeckey, MD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Massimiliano Garzaro, MD, Eastern Piedmont University, Italy

Michele Mercurio, MD, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy

Giuseppe Salvatore, MD, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Italy

 

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Johannes Bogner, MD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Markus Buechler, MD, PhD, Heidelberg University, Germany

Ali Canbay, MD, Essen University Hospital, Germany

Christian Erbel, MD, Heidelberg University, Germany

Martin Gross, MD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Osamah Hamouda, MD, MPH, Robert Koch Institute, Germany

Walter Hofmann, PhD, Heidelberg Universit, Germany

Hans Jäger, MD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Berthold Koletzko, MD, PhD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Tiziana Meschi, MD, University of Parma, Italy

Ali Oto, MD, FACC, FESC, FHRS, FISHNE, Memorial Healthcare Group, Turkey

Hans Reinhard-Brodt, MD, University of Frankfurt, Germany

Morten Ruhwald, MD, PhD, Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark

Rudolf Tauber, MD, University of Berlin, Germany

Andrea Ticinesi, MD, PhD, University of Parma, Italy

Jan van Lunzen, MD, PhD, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Stefan Zeuzem, MD, University of Frankfurt, Germany