Editorial Team

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Freddie H. Fu, MD, DSc(Hon), DPs(Hon) (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Editors-in-Chief

Qing Jiang, MD, PhD (Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstructive Surgery)

The center of Diagnosis and Treatment for Joint Disease, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Shiro Ikegawa, MD, PhD (Basic Research)

Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan

Executive Editor-in-Chief

Dongquan Shi, MD, PhD (Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstructive Surgery)

Department of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstruction, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Joseph A. Abboud, MD

The Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Associate Editors

Hong Cai, MD (Orthopaedics)

Department of Orthopaedics, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China

Wei Chai, MD, PhD (Adult Reconstruction)

Department of Adult Reconstruction, PLA General Hospital, 301 Orthopaedic Hospital, Beijing, China

Yunsu Chen, MD (Joint Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

Jianbing Ma, M.D. (Knee Joint Reconstruction)

Department of Knee Joint Reconstruction, Xi'an Honghui Hospital, Medical School, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Haihong(Henry) Mao, MD, MS, CAQ

School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indiana, USA

Hong Wei Ouyang (Sports medicine & Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine)

School of Basic Medical Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Wenwei Qian, MD (Orthopaedic Joint)

Orthopedic Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, 100730, China

Jian Wu, MD (Adult Joint Reconstructive Surgery)

Department of Adult Joint Reconstructive Surgery, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing, China

Charlie C. Yang (Joint Replacement)

Colorado Joint Replacement, Centura Health Physician Group, Denver, Colorado, USA

Editorial Board

Nobuo Adachi, MD, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Haruhiko Akiyama, MD, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedics, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

Neel Anand, MD (Spine Surgery)

Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Olufemi R. Ayeni, MD, MSc, FRCSC (Orthopaedic Surgery)

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Paul Beaule, MD, FRCSC

Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Wei-Cheng Chen, MD (Sports Medicine)

Department of Sports Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei

Xiao Chen (Sports System Injury and Regeneration)

Zhejiang University, HangZhou, China

Alexis Chiang Colvin (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA

Michael B. Cross, MD (Hip and Knee Replacement)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

Darren L. de SA, MD, FRCSC (Orthopedic Surgery)

University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Justin N Duke, MD (Adult Arthroplasty)

Regional West Hospital, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA

Andrea Ferretti

Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology, Sant' Andrea Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy.

Kevin Lloyd Garvin, MD (Hip and Knee Reconstruction)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, 985640 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

George Grammatopoulos, MD, PhD

Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Farshid Guilak

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA

Chukwuweike U. Gwam, MD (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.

Eric R. Henderson, MD (Orthopaedics)

Sarcoma & Connective Tissue Oncology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire, USA

Yuichi Hoshino, MD, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Hsien-Da Huang

School of Science and Engineering, The Warshel Institute for Computational Biology, The Chinese of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Norimasa Iwasaki, MD, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan

Seth A. Jerabek, MD (Hip and Knee Replacement)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

Tao Ji, MD

Musculoskeletal Tumor Center, People’s Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Donald M. Kastenbaum, MD (Hip and Knee Surgery)

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, New York, USA

Benjamin Kimberley

Mount Medical Centre, Suite 6 / 140 Mounts Bay Road Perth, WA 6000, Australia

Hideyuki Koga, MD, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine)

Department of Joint Surgery and Sports medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Elizaveta Kon, MD(Orthopaedic Surgery)

Joint Reconstruction Center, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy

Myung Chul Lee, MD, PhD(Orthopedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Guanghua Lei, MD, PhD (Orthopedics)

Department of Orthopedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Albert Lin, MD (Shoulder Surgery and Sports Medicine)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Jun Lu, MD, PhD (Adult Trauma and Joint Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedics, Southeast University Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Nanjing, China

Tun-hing Lui (Foot and Ankle)

Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, North District Hospital, 9 Po Kin Road, Sheung Shui, NT, Hong Kong.

Sharmila Majumdar, PhD (Radiology and Biomedical Imaging)

Musculoskeletal and Quantitative Imaging Research Group, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Avudaiappan Maran, PhD (Orthopedics and Biomedical Engineering)

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Maurilio Marcacci, MD (Orthopedics and Traumatology)

Humanitas University, Bologna, Italy

Hideo Matsumoto, MD, PhD (Sports Medicine)

Institute for Integrated Sports Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Tomoyuki Matsumoto, MD, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Young Lae Moon, MD (Orthopaedic)

Department of Orthopaedic, Chosun University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea

Harzem Ozger

Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Istanbul, Turkey

Vinod K. Panchbhavi, MD, FACS, FAOA, FAAOS, FABOS (Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

Rocco Papalia, MD (Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery)

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Wayne G. Paprosky

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Central DuPage Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

Andrew Price, BA MBB (Ch) FRCS, FRCS, DPhil (Trauma & Orthopaedics)

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Science, NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Raghu Raman

Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, HU2 3JZ, UK

Yves Renaudineau, PharmD, PhD (Immunologist)

Laboratory of immunology and immunotherapy, the CHRU Morvan, Brest, France

Adnan Saithna, MD FRCS (T&O)

Sano Orthopedics, Overland Park, Kansas, USA.

Jose Antonio G. San Juan

Cebu Orthopaedic Institute. 4th Floor Robinson's Cybergate, Cybergate-cebu Don Gil Garcia St., Corner J. Llorente St., Cebu City 6000, Philippines

Nemandra A. Sandiford

Joint Reconstruction Unit, Southland Hospital, Invercargill, New Zealand

Peter K. Sculco, MD (Hip and Knee Replacement)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

Lynn Snyder-Mackler, PT, ATC, Sc.D, SCS, FAPTA (Orthopedic Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine)

Department of Physical Therapy and Biomechanics and Movement Science Program, University of Delaware, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Yasuhito Tanaka

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan

Michael Tanzer

Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, McGill University, Montreal Genral Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada

Kristian Thorborg

Sports Orthopaedic Research Center-Copenhagen (SORC-C), Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager-Hvidovre, Denmark.

Tsung-Yuan Tsai, PhD (Orthopaedic Engineering, Human Motion Analysis, and Medical Imaging)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Carola F van Eck, MD, PhD (Orthopaedic sports medicine)

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Francesca Vannini, MD (Foot & Ankle Orthopedics)

I Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Clinic, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

Kate E. Webster, PhD (anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction)

La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Exercise and Rehabilitation Research Focus Area, Melbourne, Australia

Kurt R. Weiss, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Musculoskeletal Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Goetz Welsch

UKE Athleticum, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Rick W. Wright

Washington University in St. Louis, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8233, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA

Nan Wu, MD (Orthopedic Surgery)

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Stefano Zaffagnini, MD (Orthopaedic surgery)

Department of Orthopaedcis and Traumatology, University of Bologna, Italy

Zezhang Zhu, MD (Orthopedic Surgery)

Department of Spine Surgery, the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

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Managing Editors

Corresponding Editor

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)

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