Editors

Anesthesia and Pain

Section Editor
Giustino Varrassi, Paolo Procacci Foundation, Italy

Editorial Board                                                              
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, University of Wisconsin, USA                                                                   
Anthony H. Dickenson, University College London, UK
Rick Gracely, University of North Carolina, USA
Alan Kaye, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and Tulane School of Medicine, USA
Antonella Paladini, University of L'Alquila, School of Medicine, Italy                                             
Paolo Pelosi,  University of Genoa, and San Martino Policlinico Hospital, Italy                          
Joseph Pergolizzi, NEMA Research, USA
Michael Schatman, Boston Pain Care, and Tufts University School of Medicine, USA                
Steven Wright, Wright Medical, LLC, USA
 

Cardiology

Section Editor
Ian Menown, Craigavon Cardiac Centre, Ireland

Editorial Board
Amod Amritphale, University of South Alabama, USA
Alejandro de la Sierra, University Hospital Mutua Terrassa, Spain
Andrew Docherty, Wishaw General Hospital, Scotland
Jan Fedacko, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Slovakia
John M. Flack, Wayne State University, USA
Koichiro Kinugawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Carlos Morillo, McMaster University, Canada
Stefano Omboni, Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Italy and Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Russian Federation 
Bertram Pitt, Michigan University, USA
Giuseppe Rosano, IRCCS San Raffaele Institute, Italy
Luis Ruilope, The University Hospital October 12, Spain
Hiroki Teragawa, JR Hiroshima Hospital, Japan
Faiez Zannad, Henri Poincare, France

Dermatology

Editorial Board
Philip Cohen, University of California San Diego, USA
Chee Leok Goh, National Skin Centre and National University of Singapore, Singapore
George Han, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA 
Liang Joo Leow, St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Diabetes and Endocrinology

Section Editor
Aristidis Veves, Harvard Medical School, USA

Editorial Board
Nurshad Ali, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
Dimitrios Baltzis, Harvard Medical School, USA
John Doupis, Joslin Diabetes Center Harvard Medical School, USA
Daniela Esposito, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Frank Greenway, Louisiana State University, USA
Sanjay Kalra, Bharti Hospital, India
Manfredi Rizzo, University of Palermo, Italy and University of South Carolina, USA
Roberto Salvatori, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Liang Wang, Baylor University, USA

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Section Editor
Giovani Tarantino, University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Editorial Board
Julian Abrams, Columbia University, USA
Peter Bytzer, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Ronnie Fass, University of Arizona, USA
Richard A. Kozarek, Virginia Mason Medical Center, USA
Amedeo Lonardo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Juan-R. Malagelada, Hospital General Vall d'Hebron, Spain
Fabio Nascimbeni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Xingshun Qi, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, China
Prateek Sharma, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA
Stuart Sherman, Indiana University, USA

Genetics
Editorial Board
Suma Shankar, University of California Davis, Sacramento, USA
 

Infectious Diseases

Editorial Board
Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA
Stephen L. Leib, University of Bern, Switzerland
Marc Leone, Aix Marseille Universite, France 
Barbara A. Rath, Vienna Vaccine Safety Initiative, Austria                                                                               
Jordi Rello, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Spain
Athanassios Tsakris, University of Athens, Greece

Nephrology
Editorial Board
Andrew Mallett, University of Queensland, Australia 
Talerngsak Kanjanabuch, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Nattachai Srisawat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
 

Neurology

Editorial Board
Yoram Barak, Israel Dunedin School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand
Enrico Franceschi, Bellaria-Maggiore Hospital, Azienda USL of Bologna - IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences, Bologna, Italy
Johann Sellner, Landesklinikum Mistelbach-Gänsernforf, Austria
 

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Editorial Board
Gabriele Centini, University of Siena, Italy
Valentina Lucia La Rosa, University of Catania, Italy
Maria Grazia Porpora, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Lee P. Shulman, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, USA
Salvatore Giovanni Vitale, University of Catania, Italy
 

Oncology

Section Editor
Chris Twelves, University of Leeds, UK

Editorial Board
Alfio Ferlito, University of Udine, Italy
Giampiero Francica, Pineta Grande Hospital, Italy
Thomas J. Guzzo, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Bryan Hennessy, University of Texas, USA
Maurie Markman, University of Texas, USA
Alessandra Rinaldo, University of Udine School of Medicine, Udine, Italy
Ravi Salgia, University of Chicago Medical Center, USA
Dirk Schrijvers, ZNA Stuivenberg, Belgium
Paul Workman, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Garth Funston, University of Cambridge, UK
Massimo Breccia, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
 

Ophthalmology

Editorial Board
Sofia Androudi, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Ahmad A. Aref, UIC Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, USA
Sanjay Asrani, Duke University, Durham, USA
Gemmy Cheung, Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore
Zisis Gatzioufas, University Eye Hospital Basel USB, Basel, Switzerland
Murat Irkec, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Anastasios G. P. Konstas, AHEPA Hospital, Greece
George Kymionis, University of Lausanne, Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Fondation Asile des aveugles, Lausanne, Switzerland
Luciano Quaranta, University of Brescia, Italy
Ivano Riva, DMSS University of Brescia, Italy
Miguel Teus, University Alcala, Spain

Patient/Patient Advocate
Editorial Board
Jenny Camaradou, EUPATI (European Patients Academy of Therapeutic Innovation) Fellow, London UK

Pharmacology and HEOR

Editorial Board
Olivier Bruyere, University of Liège, Belgium
Annie Guerin, Analysis Group, Inc., Canada
Jianfei (Jeff) Guo, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, USA
Shan Jiang, University of British Columbia, Canada 
Yifei Liu, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy, USA
Luís Lizán, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
Lei Si, Western Sydney University, Australia
Paul Terry, University of Tennessee Medical Center, USA
Bin Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Psychiatry

Section Editor
Roger McIntyre, University of Toronto, Canada 

Editorial Board
Heinz Gunze, Klinikum am Weissenhof, Germany
John A. Joska, University of Capetown, South Africa
Mario Maj, Naples, Italy
Chi-Un Pae, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Korea
Bruce Pollock, University of Toronto, Canada
Nathalie Rasgon, Stanford University, USA
Dan Stein, University of Capetown, South Africa

Respiratory Medicine
Section Editor
Rajiv Dhand, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, USA

Editorial Board
Israel Amirav, Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel
Peter J. Barnes, Imperial College, UK
Kai M. Beeh, Insaf Respiratory Research Institute, Germany
Luigino Calzetta, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Kenneth R. Chapman, University of Toronto, Canada
Nazia Chaudhuri, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester, UK
Vincent Cottin, University of Lyon, France
Timothy Craig, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA
Willifried Eberhardt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Marcus Kennedy, Sligo General Hospital, Republic of Ireland
Toby Maher, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
David Price, Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore
Nagahiro Saijo, Kinki University School of Medicine, Japan
Paolo Spagnolo, University of Padova, Italy
Carlo Vancheri, University of Catania, Italy 
 

Rheumatology and Orthopedics

Section Editor
Rene Rizzoli, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Editorial Board
Rubén Burgos-Vargas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Francesco Caso, University of Naples Federico II
Giovanni Iolascon, Second University of Naples, Italy
Joel Kremer, Albany Medical School, USA
Pierre Miossec, University of Lyon, France
Jean-Yves Reginster, University of Liège, Belgium
Michael Zlowodzki, University of Minnesota, USA
 

Surgery

Editorial Board
Alexander D. Rapidis, University College London, UK
Yung-Jun Chang, Peking University People’s Hospital, China 
 

Urology

Section Editor
Axel S. Merseburger, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Editorial Board
Márcio Averbeck, Moinhos de Vento Hospital, Brazil
Christopher Chapple, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, UK
Mario W. Kramer, University hospital of Luebeck, Germany
Martin C. Michel, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany
Maria J. Ribal, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain
Shahrokh F. Shariat, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Nikolaos Sofikitis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Alan J. Wein, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Advisory Board

As well as the aforementioned therapy areas, Advances in Therapy additionally has an extensive Advisory Board consisting of internationally renowned and active clinicians, clinical academics, healthcare professionals and health policy experts across all therapeutic areas, including device-related therapies, who provide peer review of manuscripts submitted to the journal and assist the editors in development of the journal

Francisco Abad Santos, Richard J. Ablin, Philippe Aftimos, Esen Akpek, Eduardo Alfonso, Javed Ali, Andrea Aliverti, Karel Allegaert, Massimo Allegri, Wasem Alsabbagh, Alpesh Amin, Karl-Erik Andersson, Javier Angulo, Djillali Annane, Sabina Antonela Antoniu, Antón Aparicio, Yaron Arbel, Mark Atkinson, Stephen Bain, William Baker, Elisabetta Balestro, Stefano Ballestri, Bhaskar Banerjee, Augusti Barnadas, Onur Baser, Nicola Basso,  Nicholas Bellamy, Elisabeth Bendstrup, Vicente Benites-Zapata, Nicolas Berbari, Pierre Bergmann, Lorenzo Berra, Annalisa Berzigotti, Alexander Berezin, Shailender Bhatia, Kumar T. Bhowmik, Timothy Bilkey, John Bisognano, Alessandra Bitto, Kenneth Blum, Kostas Boboridis, Matthijs Boekholdt, Louise Bowman, David Boyer, Dwayne Boyers, Paul Brennan. Zhiqin Bu, Olivier Bruyere, Peter Buckley, Marcus Butler, Gaetano Caramori, Edoardo Carretto, Mamede de Carvalho, Carlo Ceruti, Kam Wa Chang, Robert Chang, Avani Changela, Christopher Chapple, Steve Chapman, Jaime Villena Chavez, Jiaqi Chen, Olivier Chinot, Andrew Churg, Henry Cohen, Gema Tirado Conde, Koustuv Dalal, Jeff Daskalakis, Anna Dastiridou, Ferruccio De Lorenzo, Leonardo de Mello Del Grande, Alejandro de la Sierra, Efstathios T Detorakis, Ram Dickman, Stefania Di Gangi, Gianina Dodi,  Xiaowei Dong, John Doupis, Marcus Drake, Panagiotis Drakopoulos, Melina Dritsaki, Ignacio Duran, Theodoros Empeslidis, Mark Einstein, Cathy Eng, Randall Espinoza, Susanna Esposito, Anna Fagotti, Harold Farber, Adam Faye, Mina Fedele, Julian Gracia Feijoo, Manuela Ferreira, Simone Ferrero, Richard Finn, Geoff Forbes, Robert Fruscio, John Fryzek, David Gallagher, Charly Gaul, Marta Gentili, Cindy George, Saby George, Theodoros Giannopoulos, Nicolas Girerd, Helena Gleeson, Ruben Goebel, Sidney Goldstein, Mustafa Sait Gonen, Tomás José Gonzalez Lopez, Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Stephen Gough, Roberta Gualtierotti,  Bilge Gursel, Huseyin Gursoy, Pranav Gupta, Fadi Hage, Heinz Hammer, Diane Harper, Shane Havens, Mary Hayney, Yang-Ling He, Fernando Herbella, Michaël Hiligsman, Przemysław Holko, Gábor Holló, Jayne Holme, Liang Hong, Michael Horowitz, Robert Howland, Jun Hu, Gareth Hughes, David Ilson, Pasquale Innominato, Zahinoor Ismail, Jeanette M. Jerrell, Wen G. Jiang, David Jiménez, Paul Jones, Malik Kahook, Ilker Kahramanoglu, Sunanda Kane, Andreas Karabis, Dean Karalis, Ritu Karoli, Karlin Karlmark, Craig Karson, Xenophon Kassianides, Srikanth Katragadda, Fay Kastrinos, Andreas Katsanos, Frieder Keller, Varun Khurana, Hedy Kindler, Philipp Kobbe, Akemi Koshiba, Leonard Krilov, Kerry Kuluski, Shaji Kumar, Sumedha Labhsetwar, Kenneth Lasseter, Kim Lavoie, Long Khanh-Dao Le, Benjamin Lebwohl, Claas Lehman, Wojciech Leppert, Sebastian Leschka, Alexander K. C. Leung, T. Barry Levine, Robert Levitan, Maciej Lewicki, Weida Li, Weiting Liao, Carlo Lisotto, Giuliano Lo Bianco, Nikolas London, Catherine Lord, Carmelo Luigiano, William Lumry, Kristopher Lyons, Mariana Verdelho Machado, Jean-Paul Machiels, Thomas S. Maldonado, David Mamo, Edoardo Mannucci, Giuseppe Marazzi, Paolo Marchettini, Steven M. Marcus, Hubert Marotte,  Luis León Mateos, Sameer Mathur, Davide Martino, Massimo C. Mauri, Roger S. Mazze, Conor McCann, Peter McCullough, Giulio Metro, Martin Michel, Dimitri Mikhailidis, Dimitrios Mikropoulos, Darlene Miller, Matteo Monami, Filippo Montemurro, Cem Mocan, Antimo Moretti, Sergey Morozov, Eric Mortensen, Patrick Morris, David Mosen, Majid Moshirfar, Naoshad Muhammad, Debabrata Mukherjee, Gerard Mullin, Conleth Murphy, Robert Murray, Paolo Nardi, Gerardo Nardone, Kathryn Nash, Angela Notarnicola, Sebastian Neggers, Joanne Nettleship, David Neubauer, Jason Nichols, Ronald L. Nichols, Douglas Noordsy, Francessco Oddone, Evangelia Panagiotou, Mina Pantcheva, Kashyap Patel, Parag Parekh, Dion Paridaens, Lawrence C. Parish, Chanhyun Park, Hugo Perazzo, Unchalee Permsuwan, Henry Perry, Megan Honor Pesch, Philip Philip, Mark Pimentel, Susana Pinto, Prisco Piscitelli, Rudolf Poolman, Camillo Porta, Pieter Postmus, Tatjana Potpara, Cosimo Prantera, Baralee Punyawadho, Luciano Quaranta, Tarek Rajji, Robert E. Rakel, Mohammed Fawal Rasool, Jaroslaw Regula, Gary Remington, Jean Francois Rey, Valdo Ricca, Alessandra Rinaldo, David Ritchie, Alan L. Robin, Jean-Francois Rodier, Jelena Roganovic, Fernando Romeiro, Luca Rossetti, Patrick Rossignol, Thomas Roth, Nicholas Rowell, Marco Rovaris, Juan Ruano, Paola Rucci, Palash Samanta, Hardeep Sandhu, Javier Santos, Jonathan Schofield, Damir Sekulic, Sanjay Sethi, James Shand, Mahmoud Shorman, Arlene Siefker-Radtke, Meenal Sinha, Egbert Smit, Maree Smith, Jeffrey R. SooHoo, Sergio Starkstein, Jan Stepan, John H. Stone, Yousif Subhi, Sajio Sumida, Andy Suter, Arun Swaminath, Lode Swinnen, Christopher Ta, Frank Tacke, Siew Li Teoh, Oscar Teramoto, John E. Tetzlaff, Anand C. Thakur, Simon Francis Thomsen, Christophe Tournigand, Filippos Triposkiadis, Vladimir Trkulja, Richard Trohman, Salim Virani, Omar Viswanath, Jiten Vora, Konstantin Voronin, Bavanisha Vythilingum, David Wang, Guoyun Wang, Yan Wang, Ye Wang, Zhongya Wang, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Terri Wensel, J. Weigelt, Alan J. Wein, Larry Weinrauch, René Westhovens, Peter Whelan, Nicolas Wiernsperger, Samuel E. Wilson, W. Woolery, Kunyong Xu, Xiaoyu Yan, E. Ann Yeh, Gui-shuang Ying, Hammad Zaidi, Boris Zelle, Haijun Zhang, Zhaotian Zhang, Xiao-Feng Zhu.