Founding Editorial Board
Ubaldo Armato, PhD, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Zsolt Balogh, MD, PhD, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
Mashkoor A Choudhry, PhD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Westmont, IL, USA
Michael A Dubick, PhD, US Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX, USA
Xiaobing Fu, MD, PhD, Beijing 301 Hospital, Beijing, China
Andrew John Anderson Holland, MD, PhD, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Basil A Pruitt, Jr., MD, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
José A Lorente, MD, PhD, Pathophysiology, European University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Joseph L Messina, PhD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Martin G. Schwacha, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
Charles E. Wade, PhD, Center for Translational Injury Research, Houston, TX, USA
John A Wilkins, PhD, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Senior Editorial Board (Editorial Board Policy)
Ioannis P Androulakis, PhD, UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Jean-François Beaulieu, PhD, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Roelf Simon Breederveld, MD, PhD, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
Edward A. Carter, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Kent Choung Choi, MD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Antonio M Esquinas MD, PhD, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain
Abdul N. Hamood, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA
W. John Kao, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Abdolaziz R Lari, PhD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Cecilia Li, PhD, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Walter J. Meyer III, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Yoshihiro Moriwaki, MD, PhD, Unnan City Hospital, Unnan, Japan
Rei Ogawa, MD, PhD, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
Luciano Santana-Cabrera, MD, PhD, Universitary Hospital Insular in Gran Canaria, Spain
Oscar E. Suman, PhD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Zhaoli Sun, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Alan Widgerow, MD, Adar Science Inc., 9 Waterway, Irvine, CA, USA
Fiona Wood, MD, Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia
Zhao-Fan Xia, MD, PhD, Changhai Hospital of the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
Jingwu Xie, PhD, IU Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Dorne R Yager, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Linda H. Yoder, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Min Zhao, MD, PhD, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Associate Editorial Board
Tommaso Agostini, MD, University of Florence, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Florence, Italy
Berna Aksoy, MD, Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Medicine, VM Medicalpark Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey
Claudia Albornoz, MD, National Burn Reference Center of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Mary Cloud Ammons, PhD, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Lívia Azeredo Alves Antunes, PhD, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Emilio Curiel Balsera, MD, ICU Carlos Haya Hospital, Spain
Justin M Broyles, MD, The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Leopoldo Carlos Cancio, PhD, Army Burn Center, U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA
Diogo Casal, MD, Sao Jose Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
Ahmadreza Djalali, MD, PhD, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Maggie L. Dylewski, PhD, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, MA, USA
Wael ElShaer, MD, Bani-Suef University, Bani-Suef City, Egypt
Mazen J El Sayed, MD, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Lucian Fodor, MD, Emergency District Hospital/ Chirurgie I, Romania
James J. Gallagher, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
Ole Goertz, MD, Ruhr University Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Ioannis Goutos, PhD, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Gerrit Grieb, MD, Burn Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Nazım Gumus, MD, Cumhuriyet University Medical Faculty, Sivas, Turkey
Alan H. Hall, MD, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Anthony T. Han, MD, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, El Paso, TX, USA
Cheong Hoon Seo, MD, Hallym University, Seoul, Korea
Bing Jia, PhD, Beijing University, Beijing, China
Jiming Kong, MD, PhD, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada
Jean-Jacques Lataillade, MD, PhD, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Percy, Clamart Cedex, France
Athina Lavrentieva, PhD, Papanikolaou General Hospital, Burn ICU, Thessaloniki, Greece
Christy M. Lawson, MD, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA
Grigory Y. Levin, MD, PhD, Nizhniy Novgorod Medical Academy, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
Dennis J. Levinson, MD, University of Illinois Hospitals, Chicago, IL, USA
Jen-Chung Liao, MD, Chung Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Saidur Rahman Mashreky, MD, PhD, Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Amr Moghazy, MD, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
Sergio Olate, DDS, PhD, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of La Frontera, Chile
Mohammed Taher Ahmed Omar, MD, Faculty of Physical Therapy , Cairo University, Egypt
Nikolaos Papanas, MD, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Steven Percival, PhD, Advanced Medical Solutions, Cheshire, UK
Leigh Ann Price, MD, Johns Hopkins Burn Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Alan D Rogers, MD, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Joaquin Pérez-Guisado Rosa, PhD, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Córdoba, Spain
Noah M Rosenberg, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Henning Ryssel, MD, BG Trauma Center, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Pierre B. Saadeh, MD, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Ali Samadikuchaksaraei, MD, PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK
Pushpa Sharma, PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
Sachin M. Shridharani, MD, LUXURGERY, New York, NY, USA
Lei Shi, PhD, Smith & Nephew, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Redha Taiar, PhD, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne , Reims, France
Ilaria Tocco Tussardi, MD, Clinic of Plastic Surgery, University of Padova, Italy
Jui-Yung Yang, MD, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Robert Zajicek, MD, University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic
Qin Zhang, MD, Jiao Tong University Rui Jin Hospital, Shanghai, China
Bojun Zhao, MD, PhD, Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China
Ubaldo Armato, PhD, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Zsolt Balogh, MD, PhD, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
Mashkoor A Choudhry, PhD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Westmont, IL, USA
Michael A Dubick, PhD, US Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX, USA
Xiaobing Fu, MD, PhD, Beijing 301 Hospital, Beijing, China
Andrew John Anderson Holland, MD, PhD, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Basil A Pruitt, Jr., MD, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
José A Lorente, MD, PhD, Pathophysiology, European University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Joseph L Messina, PhD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Martin G. Schwacha, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
Charles E. Wade, PhD, Center for Translational Injury Research, Houston, TX, USA
John A Wilkins, PhD, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Senior Editorial Board (Editorial Board Policy)
Ioannis P Androulakis, PhD, UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Jean-François Beaulieu, PhD, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Roelf Simon Breederveld, MD, PhD, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
Edward A. Carter, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Kent Choung Choi, MD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Antonio M Esquinas MD, PhD, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain
Abdul N. Hamood, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA
W. John Kao, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Abdolaziz R Lari, PhD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Cecilia Li, PhD, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Walter J. Meyer III, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Yoshihiro Moriwaki, MD, PhD, Unnan City Hospital, Unnan, Japan
Rei Ogawa, MD, PhD, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
Luciano Santana-Cabrera, MD, PhD, Universitary Hospital Insular in Gran Canaria, Spain
Oscar E. Suman, PhD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Zhaoli Sun, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Alan Widgerow, MD, Adar Science Inc., 9 Waterway, Irvine, CA, USA
Fiona Wood, MD, Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia
Zhao-Fan Xia, MD, PhD, Changhai Hospital of the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
Jingwu Xie, PhD, IU Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Dorne R Yager, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Linda H. Yoder, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Min Zhao, MD, PhD, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Associate Editorial Board
Tommaso Agostini, MD, University of Florence, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Florence, Italy
Berna Aksoy, MD, Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Medicine, VM Medicalpark Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey
Claudia Albornoz, MD, National Burn Reference Center of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Mary Cloud Ammons, PhD, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Lívia Azeredo Alves Antunes, PhD, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Emilio Curiel Balsera, MD, ICU Carlos Haya Hospital, Spain
Justin M Broyles, MD, The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Leopoldo Carlos Cancio, PhD, Army Burn Center, U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA
Diogo Casal, MD, Sao Jose Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
Ahmadreza Djalali, MD, PhD, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Maggie L. Dylewski, PhD, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, MA, USA
Wael ElShaer, MD, Bani-Suef University, Bani-Suef City, Egypt
Mazen J El Sayed, MD, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Lucian Fodor, MD, Emergency District Hospital/ Chirurgie I, Romania
James J. Gallagher, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
Ole Goertz, MD, Ruhr University Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Ioannis Goutos, PhD, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Gerrit Grieb, MD, Burn Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Nazım Gumus, MD, Cumhuriyet University Medical Faculty, Sivas, Turkey
Alan H. Hall, MD, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Anthony T. Han, MD, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, El Paso, TX, USA
Cheong Hoon Seo, MD, Hallym University, Seoul, Korea
Bing Jia, PhD, Beijing University, Beijing, China
Jiming Kong, MD, PhD, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada
Jean-Jacques Lataillade, MD, PhD, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Percy, Clamart Cedex, France
Athina Lavrentieva, PhD, Papanikolaou General Hospital, Burn ICU, Thessaloniki, Greece
Christy M. Lawson, MD, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA
Grigory Y. Levin, MD, PhD, Nizhniy Novgorod Medical Academy, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
Dennis J. Levinson, MD, University of Illinois Hospitals, Chicago, IL, USA
Jen-Chung Liao, MD, Chung Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Saidur Rahman Mashreky, MD, PhD, Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Amr Moghazy, MD, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
Sergio Olate, DDS, PhD, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of La Frontera, Chile
Mohammed Taher Ahmed Omar, MD, Faculty of Physical Therapy , Cairo University, Egypt
Nikolaos Papanas, MD, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Steven Percival, PhD, Advanced Medical Solutions, Cheshire, UK
Leigh Ann Price, MD, Johns Hopkins Burn Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Alan D Rogers, MD, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Joaquin Pérez-Guisado Rosa, PhD, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Córdoba, Spain
Noah M Rosenberg, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Henning Ryssel, MD, BG Trauma Center, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Pierre B. Saadeh, MD, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Ali Samadikuchaksaraei, MD, PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK
Pushpa Sharma, PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
Sachin M. Shridharani, MD, LUXURGERY, New York, NY, USA
Lei Shi, PhD, Smith & Nephew, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Redha Taiar, PhD, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne , Reims, France
Ilaria Tocco Tussardi, MD, Clinic of Plastic Surgery, University of Padova, Italy
Jui-Yung Yang, MD, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Robert Zajicek, MD, University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic
Qin Zhang, MD, Jiao Tong University Rui Jin Hospital, Shanghai, China
Bojun Zhao, MD, PhD, Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Associate Editor-in-Chief
Marc G Jeschke, MD, PhD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Dengshun Wang, MD, PhD
Marc G Jeschke, MD, PhD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Dengshun Wang, MD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Ping Zhang, MD, PhD
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Rootstown, OH, USA
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Yoram Vodovotz, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ping Zhang, MD, PhD
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Rootstown, OH, USA
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Yoram Vodovotz, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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