l   Publisher

Prof (Dr.) Chien-Sung Tsai,

Director General,

National Defense Medical Affairs Bureau,

Taipei, Taiwan.

l   Chairperson

Prof (Dr.) Tai-Lung Cha

President,

National Defense Medical Center,

Taipei, Taiwan.

l   Editor-in-Chief

Po-Shiuan Hsieh, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics,

National Defense Medical Center,

Taipei, Taiwan.

E-mail id: [email protected]

l   Executive Editor

Shih-Ming Huang, PhD

Professor, Department of Biochemistry,

National Defense Medical Center,

Taipei, Taiwan.

l   Associate Editors

1. Chin-Chen Wu, PhD

Professor, Department of Pharmacology

National Defense Medical Center

Taipei, Taiwan

2. Chih-Yuan Lin, MD, PhD

Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery

Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center

Taipei, Taiwan

l   National Editorial Board Members

1. Shi-Jye Chu, MD

Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy

Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center

Taipei, Taiwan

2. Yu-Ching Chou, PhD

Professor, Department of Public Health

National Defense Medical Center

Taipei, Taiwan

3. Hui-Hsun Chiang, RN, PhD

Professor, Department of Nursing

National Defense Medical Center

Taipei, Taiwan

4. Shih-Hung Tsai, MD, PhD

Professor, Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine

Minister, Department of Emergency Medicine

Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center,

Taipei, Taiwan

5. Ren-Yeong Huang, DDS, PhD

Professor, School of Dentistry

Director, Division of Periodontics, Department of Dentistry

Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center,

Taipei, Taiwan

6. Jia-Hong Chen, MD

Associate professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology

Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center

Taipei, Taiwan

7. Hong-Jaan Wang, PhD

Associate professor and Dean, School of Pharmacy

National Defense Medical Center

Taipei, Taiwan

8. Shih-Yu Lee, PhD

Professor, Graduate Institute of Aerospace and Undersea Medicine

National Defense Medical Center

Taipei, Taiwan

9. Wayne Huey-Herng Sheu, MD, PhD

Vice President, Professor and Distinguished Investigator

Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine

National Health Research Institutes

Taipei, Taiwan

10. Tang-Yuan Chu, MD, PhD 

Professor and Director, Center for Prevention and Therapy of Gynecological Cancers

Hualien Tzu Chi Medical Center

Hualien, Taiwan

11. Ching-Jiunn Tseng, MD, PhD 

Professor and Senior Investigator, Department of Medical Education and Research

Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

12. Szu-Fu Chen, MD, PhD 

Professor and Head, Department of Neurological Rehabilitation

Cheng Hsin General Hospital

Taipei, Taiwan

13. Kuo-Cheng Lu, MD

Professor, Division of Nephrology

Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital

Taipei, Taiwan

14. Chia-Hua Kuo, PhD 

Distinguished Professor, Institute of Sports Sciences

University of Taipei

Taipei, Taiwan

15. San-Nan Yang, MD, PhD 

Teaching Deputy Superintendent

Professor, Department of Pediatrics

E-DA Hospital

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

16. Nain-Feng Chu, MD, MPH, DrPH

Professor and Director, Division of Occupational Medicine

Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

17. Chia-Ning Shen, PhD 

Professor, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica

Taipei, Taiwan

18. Chi-Chang Juan, PhD 

Professor, Department & Institute of Physiology

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Taipei, Taiwan

19. Cheng-Wen Wu, MD, PhD 

Professor, Academician,

Institute of Biomedical Sciences

Academia Sinica,

Taipei, Taiwan.

20. Paulus Shyi-Gang Wang, PhD 

Professor, Department & Institute of Physiology

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Taichung, Taiwan.

21. Kuo-Piao Chung, PhD 

Professor and Director, Institute of Health Policy and Management

National Taiwan University,

Taipei, Taiwan.

22. Kuan-Chia Lin, PhD 

Professor, Institute of Public Health, 

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Taipei, Taiwan.

l   International Editorial Board Members

1. Christine D. Wu, PhD 

Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry

University of Illinois-Chicago,

Chicago, USA.

2. Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD 

Professor of Medicine,

Harvard Medical School ,

Boston, USA.

3. Christopher James Garland, PhD 

Professor, Department of Pharmacology,

University of Oxford,

Oxford, UK.

4. Leiyu Shi, DrPH, MBA, MPA

Professor, Department of Health Policy

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore, USA.

5. Shinichi Hirose, MD, PhD 

Professor, Department of Pediatrics,

Fukuoka University,

Fukuoka, Japan.

6. Colonel John S. Murray, PhD, MPH, MSGH, RN, CPNP-PC, CS, FAAN, NC, USAF, (Ret.)

Executive Leader Coach, Veterans Health Administration High Reliability Organization Support Team

USA.

7. Horace H. Loh, PhD 

Regents Professor Emeritus, Department of Pharmacology,

University of Minnesota,

Minnesota, USA.

8. Jean-Marc Cavaillon, PhD 

Honorary Professor, Head of Unit “Cytokines & Inflammation”,

Institut Pasteur

Past scientific officer, National Research Agency

France.

9. R. Clinton Webb, PhD 

Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy

Director, Cardiovascular Translational Research Centre

University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia,

Carolina, USA.

10. Yuan-Xiang Tao, MD, PhD 

PROF-TE-VICE CHAIR, Full Professor with Tenure

Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care,

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, The State University of New Jersey,

New Jersey, USA.

11. Donald M Salter, MD, FRCPath

Professor, Department of Osteoarticular Pathology,

Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine

The University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital,

Edinburgh, UK.

12. Robin Newhouse, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

Dean, Distinguished Professor, School of Nursing,

Indiana University,

Bloomington, USA.

13. Carlos Kusano Bucalen Ferrari, PhD

Professor, Institute of Biological Sciences and Health

Campus Universitário do Araguaia

Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT).,

Cuiabá, Brazil.

14. Sandeep Kumar Kar, MD

Assistant professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology,

Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research,

West Bengal, India.

15. Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa, PhD

Professor and Director, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care,

Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital,

Punjab, India.

16. Shailja Chatterjee, PhD

Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology,

Pathology MM University,

Haryana, India.

17. Neeraj Bedi, MD, MPH, MBA

Professor, Medical Superintendent, Department of Community Medicine

Mahaveer Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, MIMS Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh, India.

18. Komal Marwaha, MD, PhD 

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education,

Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Science Center,

Texas, USA.