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

Associate 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,

Chief, 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, School of Pharmacy,

National Defense Medical Center,

Taipei, Taiwan,

8. Shih-Yu Lee, PhD

Associate professor, Graduate Institute of Aerospace and Undersea Medicine,

National Defense Medical Center,

Taipei, Taiwan.

9. Wayne Huey-Herng Sheu, MD, PhD

Professor and superintendent, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism,

Taichung Veterans General Hospital,

Taichung, Taiwan.

10. Tang-Yuan Chu, MD, PhD 

Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,

Hualien Tzu Chi Medical Center,

Hualien, Taiwan.

11. Ching-Jiunn Tseng, MD, PhD 

Professor, 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 

Professor and Dean, College of Kinesiology

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, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center,

Taipei, Taiwan.

17. Chia-Ning Shen, PhD 

Acting Division Director of Biotechnology Incubation Center

Associate Professor,

Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica,

Taipei, Taiwan.

18. Chi-Chang Juan, PhD 

Professor and Dean, Department & Institute of Physiology,

National Yang-Ming 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 

Lecturing Professor,

Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences,

China Medical 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 and Chairman,

Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration

National Yang-Ming 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

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. John S. Murray, MD

Lt. Colonel, Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical Command,

USA.

7. Horace H. Loh, PhD 

Professor, Department of Pharmacology,

University of Minnesota,

Minnesota, USA.

8. Jean-Marc Cavaillon, PhD 

Professor, Institut Pasteur

Cytokines & Inflammation, Infection and Epidemiology,

International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society,

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 

Professor, Vice Chair of Research

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

Distinguished Professor and Dean, 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, MDS

Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology,

Pathology MM University,

Haryana, India.

17. Neeraj Bedi, MD, MPH, MBA

Professor, Faculty of Public Health and Tropical Medicine,

Jazan University,

Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

18. Komal Marwaha, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education,

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

Texas, USA.