Editors

Editors-in-Chief
Nikolaus Netzer, MD, PhD
Hermann Buhl Institute for Hypoxia and Sleep Medicine Research,
Bad Aibling, Germany

Thomas Penzel, MD, PhD
Sleep Medicine Center, Charite University Hospital,
Berlin, Germany

Founding Editors-in-Chief of Sleep and Breathing
Nikolaus Netzer, MD, PhD, Hermann Buhl Institute for Hypoxia and Sleep Medicine Research, Bad Aibling, Germany
Kingman P. Strohl, MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Associate Editors
Michael Arzt, MD, University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany
Martin Burtscher, MD, PhD, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Antje Büttner-Teleaga, MD, PhD, University Witten-Herdecke, Witten, Germany
Helmut Frohnhofen, MD, University Witten-Herdecke, Witten, Germany
Xuemei Gao, MD, PhD, Peking University School of Stomatology, Beijing, China
Fang Han, MD, Beijing University, Beijing, China
Brigitte Holzinger, PD Mag. Dr., Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Zhi-Li Huang, MD, PhD, Fudan University School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai, China
Nattapong Jaimchariyatam, MD, MS, FCCP, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Christopher J. Lettieri, MD, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
Joachim T. Maurer, MD, University Hospital, Mannheim, Germany
J. Martin Palomo, DDS, MSD, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
Stephan Pramsohler, Dr. biol. hum., Hermann Buhl Institute for Hypoxia and Sleep Medicine Research, Bad Aibling, Germany
Egambaram Senthilvel, MD, University of Louisville Health Sciences Center, Louisville, KY, USA
Connie L. Thomas, MD, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Managing Editor (Journal Office)
Diana Epstein
Di-Ep Biomedical Editorial Services Ltd, Glasgow, UK

Editorial Board
Ritwick Agrawal, MD, FCCP, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,TX, USA
Fernanda Almeida, DDS, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Babak Amra, MD, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Bamdad Respiratory Research Center, Isfahan, Iran
Monica L. Andersen, PhD, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Lia Rita Bittencourt, MD, PhD, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Daniel Jin Blum, PhD, DBSM, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Mark Braem, DDS, PhD, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
Matthew Steven Brock, MD, San Antonio Military Medical Center, S. Antonio-Lackland, TX, USA
Steve Carstensen, DDS, Louisiana State University, School of Dentistry, New Orleans, LA, USA
Peter Cistulli, MD, PhD, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Michael P. Coppola, MD, FACP, ATSF, NovaSom Inc., Glen Burnie, MD, USA
Wolfgang Domej, MD, Medical, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Reyes Enciso, PhD, MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pingfu Feng, MD, PhD, Louis Stokes Cleveland DVA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
Ingo Fietze, MD, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
William Christopher Frey, MD, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
Frederic Gagnadoux, MD, PhD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, Angers, France
Zhongmin He, MD, Karamay Central Hospital, Karamay, China
Clemens Heiser, MD, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Aarnoud Hoekema, MD, DMD, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Nelly Huynh, PhD, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Amit Khanna, MD, Lawrence and Memorial Sleep Center, Groton, CT, USA
Brian B. Koo, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Pei-Lin Lee, MD, PhD, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Marie Marklund, PhD, DDS, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Oreste Marrone, MD, Italian National Research Council, Palermo, Italy
Murat Özgoren, MD, Near East University, Alsancak, Turkey
Harlan S. Patterson, MD, Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Benjamin Pliska, DDS, MS, FRCD(C), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Winfried Johannes Randerath, MD, University of Cologne, Solingen, Germany
Leon Rosenthal, MD, Sleep Medicine Associates of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
James Rowley, MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Ryujiro Sasanabe, MD, Aichi Medical University Hospital, Nagakute, Japan
Logan Schneider, MD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Riccardo A. Stoohs, MD, Somnolab Sleep Disorders Center, Dortmund, Germany
Shannon Sullivan, MD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Kate Sutherland, MD, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Xiangdong Tang, MD, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Michael J. Thorpy, MD, Montefiore Med. Center, Bronx, NY, USA
Morio Tonogi, PhD, JOMFS, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroko Tsuda, DDS, PhD, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
Satoru Tsuiki, DDS, PhD, Institute of Neuropsychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
Motoo Yamauchi, MD, Ph.D, FCCP, ATSF, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan
Soroush Zaghi, MD, The Breathe Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
X. L. Zhang, MD, TaiShan Medical University, Shandong, China

Honorary Former Board Members
Members who achieved accomplishments in the foundation of the journal
Richard B. Berry, MD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
William C. Dement †, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Karl H. Hörmann, MD, University Hospital, Mannheim, Germany
János Juhasz, MD, PhD, Median Klinik Heiligendamm, Bad Doberan, Germany
M. Kikushi, MD †
Ralph Lydic, PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Kent Moore, MD, DDS, Private Practictioner, Charlotte, NC, USA
Wolfgang Pirsig, MD, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Susan Redline, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Karl-Heinz Rühle, MD, Witten-Herdecke University, Witten, Germany