Editorial Team
The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
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
Jianxing He, MD, FACS
The National Center for Respiratory Medicine; the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, Guangzhou, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Calvin S. H. Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
Steven P. Rowe, MD, PhD
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Executive Editor-in-Chief
Giuseppe Lippi, MD
Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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)
Tobias Eckle, MD, PhD, FASA
Full Professor of Anesthesiology, the Director of Grand Rounds, the Medical Director of Advanced Practice Providers, and the Associate Vice Chair of Faculty Development in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, USA
Izumi Kawagoe
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan
Vincenzo Russotto
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital San Luigi Gonzaga, University of Turin, Italy.
Editorial Board (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Bioinformatics)
Jimmy T. Efird, PhD, MSc
Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center - Boston, USA
Editorial Board (Biochemical Science and Genomics)
Santanu Dasgupta, M.S., B.Ed., PhD
Department of Pathology, Mitchell Cancer Institute, Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA
Kalevi Kairemo, MD, PhD, MSc (Eng)
Chief Physician/Professor, Molecular Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine, Docrates Cancer Center, Helsinki, Finland (retired)
Visiting Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
President Elect 2024-2025, World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy (WARMTH)
Andrei P. Sommer
Faculty of Science, ISRA-University, Jordan (Visiting Professor)
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)
Geok Hoon Lim
Breast Department, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore
Editorial Board (Cardiology)
Wilbert S. Aronow, MD
Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
Rubén Casado Arroyo
Ruben Casado Arroyo, Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory CUB Hopital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Constantine E. Kosmas, MD, PhD
Scientific Associate of the Lipid Clinic, 2nd Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University General Hospital “ATTIKON”, Athens, Greece
Editorial Board (Cardiothoracic Surgery)
Yoshinobu Ichiki, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka, Japan
Francesco Nappi, MD
Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France
John Kit Chung Tam
Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Sara Volpi MD, FRCS (C-Th Eng), PGCert Med Ed (Harvard)
Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
Randolph Hung Leung Wong, MBChB, FRCS, FCSHK, FHKAM
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 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)
Jan Trøst Jørgensen, MS Pharm, PhD
The Dx-Rx Institute, Fredensborg, Denmark
Stephanie Huang
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Editorial Board (Emergency Medicine and Critical Care)
Ignacio Martin-Loeches, MB, BCh, MD, PhD, EMBA, FJFICMI
Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Research Organization (MICRO), Wellcome Trust—HRB Clinical Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Judith Ju Ming Wong, MBBCh BAO, MCI, PhD
Children’s Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatric Subspecialties, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Singhealth Duke-NUS Paediatrics Academic Clinical Programme.
Mui Teng Chua
Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore; Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Editorial Board (Endocrinology)
Emmanuele A. Jannini, MD
Professor of Endocrinology and Medical Sexology (ENDOSEX), Department of Systems Medicine AND Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Editorial Board (Hematology)
Rohan Kulkarni, Ph.D.
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Victor Nava, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, The George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medical Service, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC, USA
Editorial Board (Immunology)
Ana Paula Drummond-Lage, PharmD, PhD
Full Professor, Department of Postgraduate Health Sciences, Minas Gerais Medical Sciences Faculty, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Editorial Board (Lung Cancer)
Kassem Harris, MD, FCCP
Director of Interventional Pulmonology
Associate Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College
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)
Samir C. Gautam, MBBS
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Editorial Board (Oncology)
Dr. Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching, MD, FACP
Clinical Program Director of Genitourinary Cancers at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax, VA, United States
Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Sarah A. Weiss, MD
Department of Medical Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Gaurav Pandey, Ph.D.
Washington University school of Medicine St. Louis, MO, USA
Editorial Board (Ophthalmology)
Andrzej Grzybowski
University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland; Institute for Research in Ophthalmology, Foundation for Ophthalmology Development, Poznan, Poland
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, M. Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Susanna S. Park, MD, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
Gurinder Singh, MD, MHA, FAAO
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.
Andre J Kaelin
Former chief of Department Pediatric Orthopedics, Children University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland; Former Professor of Pediatric Orthopedics, Medical School, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Consultant for Pediatric Orthopedics and Spine, Clinique des Grangettes, Geneva, Switzerland
Salvatore Risitano
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, University of Turin, “Citta della scianza e della salute”-CTO Hospital of Turin, Via Zuretti G. n 29, Torino 10126, Italy
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)
Charles B. Simone II, MD, FASTRO, FACRO
New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Editorial Board (Respiratory Medicine)
Masaki Okamoto, MD, PhD
Department of Respirology, NHO Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan; Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan
Saadia A. Faiz
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas, USA
Alberto E. Revelo, MD
Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and The James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Amos Lal, MBBS, MS, FACP, FCCP
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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 (Rheumatology)
Namrata Singh
Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Editorial Board (Surgery)
Warren M. Rozen, MBBS, BMedSc, MD, PhD, FRACS.
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia; Monash University Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Group (Peninsula Clinical School), Peninsula Health, Frankston, Victoria, Australia.
Ido Badash, MD
Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery Division, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, the Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Benoit Jacques Bibas, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Joseph M. Escandón, MD
Resident Physician in Surgery, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Huntington Hospital | Northwell Health, New York City, USA
Alexandre G. Lellouch
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Oscar J. Manrique M.D., F.A.C.S
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, 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), MS (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
Managing Editors
Grace S. Li
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Eunice X. Xu
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Bing Gu, MD (Laboratory Medicine)
Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangdong, China
Senior Editors
Skylar F. Gao
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Anne X. Lu
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Silvia L. Zhou
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Corresponding Editor
Mira Wu
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Science Editors
Kathryn Yan
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Yaling Cheng
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Yan Peng
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Kaiping Zhang
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Lucine M. Gao
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Hailing Lian
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Crystal M. Yan
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
Jessie S. Zhong
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, AME Publishing Company
