Editorial Team

Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests:  emergency medicine; critical care medicine; intensive care medicine; fluorescence microscopy; cell biology; molecular biology; neuroscience; acute kidney injury and sepsis

CardioVascular Unit, Intensive Care Division, Geneva University Hospitals, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland

Research Interests: physiology; cardiology; anesthesiology; intensive care; hemodynamic; echocardiography; ECMO

1. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Via Rita Levi Montalcini 4, Pieve Emanuele, 20072 Milan, Italy
2. IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, Rozzano, 20089 Milan, Italy

Research Interests: biostatistics; clinical research methodology; epidemiology; evidence based medicine; evidence synthesis; medical statistics; meta-analysis; systematic reviews

Respiratory and Allergy Units, Arrixaca Children’s University Hospital, University of Murcia, 30120 Murcia, Spain

Research Interests: asthma; epidemiology; lung function; children

1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
2. Navarra Medical Research Institute (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain
3. Center for Biomedical Research Network Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
4. Department of Health Sciences, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Research Interests: epidemiology; preventive medicine; public health; methodology

Department of Geriatrics, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands

Research Interests: cerebral small vessel disease; Fahr disease; primary familial brain calcification; cognition; mobility; neuroimaging

Department of Health Sciences, Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Yamagata 990-2212, Japan

Research Interests: multimorbidity and multiple disabilities; cardiac and renal rehabilitation

Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris Nord, Département Médico-Universitaire (DMU) INVICTUS, Département de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Lariboisière, INSERM UMRS-1144, Université de Paris Cité, 75010 Paris, France

Research Interests: pharmacology & pharmacy; pharmacokinetics; pulmonary embolism; tuberculosis

1. Genk Institute for Fertility Technology, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, ZOL Hospitals, Genk, Belgium
2. Biomedical Research Institute, University of Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium

Research Interests: male infertility; assisted reproductive technologies (ART); perinatal outcome after ART; infertility care in developing countries; health economics; reproductive health

Prof. Dr. Kyriacos Athanasiou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10680 Athens, Greece

Research Interests: science education; health education; environment and health; early childhood education; biology

1. Head of the Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Unit at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide 5001, Australia
2. Associate Professor, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide 5001, Australia

Research Interests: sinusitis; immunology; rhinitis; sleep apnoea; oncology and carcinogenesis; airway and voice disorders; surgical education and simulation

Department of Laboratory Medicine, University-Hospital of Padova, via Giustinani 2 , 35128 Padova, Italy

Research Interests: biomarkers of neurodegeneration; clinical biochemistry of Alzheimer; quality in laboratory medicine; translational medicine

Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy

Research Interests: neurodevelopmental disorders; encephalopathies; epilepsies; neuromuscular diseases; sleep disorders; rare genetic syndromes; neuropsychological disorders

Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Research Interests: racial disparities; gender studies; ocular blood flow; imaging; ocular physiology; glaucoma; ocular medications; retinal disease

Nuclear Medicine Unit, University Hospital S. Andrea, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Research Interests: nuclear medicine; infection imaging; inflammation imaging; thyroid cancer imaging; pre-clinical imaging; imaging immuno-therapy; imaging autoimmune diseases

Division of Cardiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

Research Interests: preventive cardiology; cardiovascular epidemiology; dyslipidemia; diabetes; subclinical atherosclerosis

1. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
2. Department of Surgery, Dartmouth Health Children’s Hospital, Hanover, NH, USA

Research Interests: pediatric surgical oncology–solid tumors; pediatric trauma care; general pediatric surgery; neonatal surgery; anorectal malformations; Hirschsprung’s disease; minimally invasive surgery; chest wall deformities; vascular access; mentorship; peer support; physician well-being; palliative care in surgical settings

Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Research Interests: neurosurgery; spine outcomes; spine deformity; spinal oncology; spine surgery

Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Research Interests: acute pancreatitis; bicarbonate; recurrent acute pancreatitis; early chronic pancreatitis