Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Chang-quan Ling	Lixing Lao

Managing Editor-in-Chief

Qing-hui Zhou

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Arthur Yin Fan	Wei Gu	Guang Ji	Ping Liu
Hong-cai Shang	Wen-jian Wang	Jia Zhou

Members of the Advisory Board

Alan Bensoussan, PhD, DipEd, BSc, MSc, CAdvAc, DipAc
Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, National Institute of Complementary Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia
Fields of Interest: Complementary medicine; Chinese medicine; clinical trials and evidence based practice; irritable bowel syndrome

Brian Berman, MD
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Fields of Interest: Complementary medicine and pain management; integrative medicine; mind/body medicine; acupuncture; systematic reviews

Barrie R. Cassileth, MS, PhD
Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Fields of Interest: Integrative medicine; evidence-based complementary therapies; integrative oncology

Kai-xian Chen, PhD
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Biological pharmacy; integrative medicine

Ke-ji Chen, MD
Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
Fields of Interest: Cardiovascular diseases; integrative medicine

Harry Fong, PhD, MS, BS
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Pharmacy, Chicago, USA
Fields of Interest: Collaborative drug discovery; botanical dietary supplements; evidence-based traditional herbal medicines; monographing medicinal plants

Richard C. Niemtzow, MD, PhD, MPH
United States Air Force Acupuncture and Integrative Medical Center, Malcolm Grow Medical Clinics and Surgery Center, Joint Base Andrews, USA
Fields of Interest: Acupuncture; military medicine; battlefield acupuncture; degenerative retinal disease; concussion headache protocol

Bo-li Zhang, MD
Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
Fields of Interest: Cardiovascular disease; vascular dementia; stroke; integrative medicine

Members of the Editorial Board

Jon Adams, PhD, MA
Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia
Fields of Interest: Public health; complementary and alternative medicine

Joel Alcantara, MPH, DC
International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, San Jose, USA
Fields of Interest: Chiropractic research

Stephen D. Anton, PhD, MS, BA
Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, College of Public Health and Health Professions, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Fields of Interest: Obesity; metabolic disease; aging; lifestyle; botanicals

Boon Huat Bay, PhD, MBBS
Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Fields of Interest: Cancer biology; photodynamic therapy of cancer

Zhao-xiang Bian, MD
School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Fields of Interest: Methodology of clinical study in Chinese herbal medicine; mechanism of pain and pain management

S.W. Annie Bligh, PhD, BSc
Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Fields of Interest: Synthetic drug; traditional Chinese herbal medicines

Brian Budgell, PhD
Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Toronto, Canada
Fields of Interest: Neuroscience in chiropractic 

Arndt Büssing, MD
Center of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Herdecke, Germany
Fields of Interest: Resources to cope with chronic illness; spirituality; quality of life; non-pharmacological interventions; health psychology; questionnaire development; Chinese medicine; cellular immunology

Chun-Tao Che, BSc, MPhil, PhD
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Pharmacy, Chicago, USA
Fields of Interest: Pharmacognosy; natural products; Chinese medicine; biologically active natural substances; development of analytical techniques for herbal drug analysis

Delia Chiaramonte, MD
Integrative/Palliative Medicine, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Gilchrist, Baltimore, USA
Fields of Interest: Integrative medicine; hospice; anxiety disorders; palliative care

William Chi-shing Cho, PhD
Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Fields of Interest: Cancer biomarkers, proteomics, microRNAs; Chinese medicine

Christopher R. D'Adamo, MA, BA, MD, PhD
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Fields of Interest: Nutrition; nutritional supplements, nutrigenomics, exercise, mind-body medicine, integrative medicine

Vinod Kumar Dixit, PhD
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar (M.P.), India
Fields of Interest: Rasayana drugs; plant tissue culture; prostate cancer

Thomas Efferth, PhD
Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Fields of Interest: Molecular pharmacology and toxicology of natural products; pharmacogenomics and personalized tumor treatment

Arthur Yin Fan, CMD, PhD, Lac
McLean Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vienna, USA
Fields of Interest: Acupuncture; Chinese medicine; methodology; neurology; inflammation; pain; medical history

Min Fang, MD
School of Acupuncture and Tuina; Department of Tuina, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Rehabilitation medicine; acupuncture; massage

Arthur de Sá Ferreira, PhD
Laboratory of Human Motion Analysis, Augusto Motta University Center, Niteroi, Brazil
Fields of Interest: Physiotherapy and occupational therapy; acupuncture

Henry J. Greten, MD, PhD
Heidelberg School of Chinese Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
Fields of Interest: Family medicine; naturopathy; homoeopathy; acupuncture

Cheng Huang, PhD
Drug Discovery Lab, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Antineoplastic medicine; endocrine and metabolic diseases; pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine

Shuang Huang, PhD, BSc
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, USA
Fields of Interest: Biochemistry; molecular biology; oncology; gene regulation

Ka-Kit Hui, MD, FACP
Center for East-West Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Fields of Interest: Clinical research; medical education; health policy study related to integrative East-West medicine

Peter Hylands, PhD
Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Fields of Interest: Standardisation of plant extracts; chemometric metabonomic approaches; natural product research

Takashi Ikejima, PhD
China-Japan Research Institute of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
Fields of Interest: Pharmacology; toxicology; pharmacy

Guang Ji, MD
Institute of Digestive Diseases, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Digestive diseases; traditional Chinese medicine

Libin Jia, MD
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, USA
Fields of Interest: Biochemistry; organic chemistry; polymer chemistry; applied chemistry; metallurgy

Wei Jia, MS, PhD
University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, USA (Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China; Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Kannapolis, USA)
Fields of Interest: Biochemical profiling of botanical preparations and metabolomics; metabolic phenotypes; metabolic transformation; cancer and metabolic disorders

William Jia, PhD, MSc
Div. Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, BC Cancer Research, Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Fields of Interest: Oncolytic virotherapy; immuno-oncology

Rohitash Jamwal, PhD, Associate Scientist
DMPK/BA Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Fields of Interest: DMPK/bioanalysis, drug discovery and development

Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD, BA
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Fields of Interest: East Asian medicine and alternative therapies; placebo effects and placebo controls

Anisur Rahman Khuda-Bukhsh, MSc, PhD
Laboratory of Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Nadia, India
Fields of Interest: Cytogenetics; homoeopathic drugs and their mechanism of action

Mikhail Kogan, MD, BS
GW Center for Integrative Medicine, Washington, USA
Fields of Interest: Geriatrics and palliative care; integrative medicine; neurodegenerative disorders; functional medicine

Lixing Lao, PhD, MB, Lac
Virginia University of Integrative Medicine, VA, USA
Fields of Interest: Clinical trials and pre-clinical studies in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine

Myeong Soo Lee, BS, MSc, PhD
Clinical Medicine Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea
Fields of Interest: Psycho-neuro-immunological effects of CAM; evidence-based medicine for CAM; mechanism and clinical investigation of complementary therapies

Jun-xiang Li, MD
Gastroenterology Department, Dongfang Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
Fields of Interest: Chronic liver disease; gastrointestinal disease; integrative medicine

Shaoping Li, MSc, PhD
Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China
Fields of Interest: Herbal glycol-analysis; standard development of Chinese medicines; development of quality control methods; culture, fermentation, active ingredients and quality control of medicinal mushroom

Xiu-Min Li, MD
Division of Pediatric Allergy & Immunobiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Fields of Interest: Chinese herbal therapy for asthma and allergy; allergy and immunobiology

Yong Ming Li, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Warren Hospital, Bridgewater, USA
Fields of Interest: Acupuncture; traditional Chinese medicine

Chen Ling, PhD
Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapy, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, USA
Fields of Interest: Gene therapy for inherited diseases; gene therapy for liver cancer; basic biology for adeno-associated virus

Gerhard Litscher, MSc, PhD, MDsc
TCM Research Center Graz, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Fields of Interest: Neuromonitoring and high-tech acupuncture research

Jian-ping Liu, PhD, MD
Center for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
Fields of Interest: Evidence-based medicine; methodology of clinical study in Chinese herbal medicine

Ping Liu, MD
Institute of Liver Disease, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Liver diseases; hepatic fibrosis; traditional Chinese medicine

Ai-ping Lü, MD
School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
Fields of Interest: Rheumatoid arthritis; immunology; herbal medicine; molecular biology; bioinformatics and computational biology; clinical trials

David Moher, MSc, PhD
School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Fields of Interest: Methodology of clinical study; evidence-based medicine; network meta-analysis; reporting guidelines; journalology

Yoshiharu Motoo, MD, PhD, FACP
Department of Medical Oncology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan
Fields of Interest: Pancreatic cancer; medical oncology

Pulok K. Mukherjee, MPharm, PhD, FRSC
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Fields of Interest: Antioxidants; phytochemicals; natural product chemistry; chromatography; food chemistry; herbal medicine

Tai-Long Pan, MD, PhD
School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, China
Fields of Interest: Biochemistry analytical chemistry; structural biology

Nicola Robinson, PhD, BSc(Hons), Lac
Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom
Fields of Interest: Complementary healthcare and integrated medicine; acupuncture research

Hong-cai Shang, MD
Dongzhimen Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
Fields of Interest: Evidence-based medicine; clinical trial of traditional Chinese medicine

Jian-rong Shi, MD
Experimental Teaching Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Traditional Chinese medicine theory; integrative medicine fundamental research

Byung-Cheul Shin, MD (DKM), PhD
School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, South Korea
Fields of Interest: Traditional medicine; acupuncture; herbal medicine; complementary & alternative medicine; pain medicine; systematic review

David Sibbritt, PhD
Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia
Fields of Interest: Complementary and alternative medicine; public health; biostatistics

Kwok-Fai So, PhD
Department of Anatomy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Fields of Interest: Neuroscience; neuroprotection and neuroregeneration of the mammalian optic nerve

Demetrios A. Spandidos, PhD, DSc
Department of Clinical Virology Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Fields of Interest: Oncology and molecular medicine

Arun Srivastava, PhD
Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapy, Cancer and Genetics Research Complex, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, USA
Fields of Interest: Cellular and molecular therapy; cancer and genetics research

Shi-bing Su, MD, PhD, BSc, MSc
Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine Complexity System, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: System biology; integrative medicine; traditional Chinese medicine syndrome classification-based treatment

Ming T. Tan, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, USA
Fields of Interest: Genomics and epidemiological research; biomarker evaluation; laboratory investigations; design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials

Qingchun Tong, PhD
Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, USA
Fields of Interest: Neuroscience; therapeutics and pharmacology; obesity

Georges Uzan, MD
Inserm, Batiment Lavoisier, Hospitalier Paul Brousse, Villejuif Cedex, France
Fields of Interest: Endothelial progenitor cells; stem cells; regenerative medicine; rare cells purification, characterization and culture

Robert Verpoorte, PhD
Division of Pharmacognosy, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Fields of Interest: Metabolomics; plants; alkaloids; extraction; plant tissue culture

Wen-jian Wang, MD
Institute of Integrative Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Metabolic disease; traditional Chinese medicine

Zheng-tao Wang, MD, PhD
Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Pharmacognosy; toxic herbs research; plant effective components; herbal quality standard

Claudia M. Witt, MD, MBA
Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany (Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
Fields of Interest: Clinical and epidemiological studies in complementary medicine (e.g. acupuncture, homeopathy, qigong, naturopathy); health economics and safety evaluations; basic research in homeopathy

Xiu-wei Yang, PhD
State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Department of Natural Medicines, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
Fields of Interest: Natural products chemistry; drug metabolism

Zemin Yao, PhD
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Fields of Interest: Protein and lipid research; vascular biology
 
Zhang Jin Zhang, MD
School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Fields of Interest: Herbal medicine; acupuncture; psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry

Ming Zhao, PhD
AntiCancer Inc., San Diego, USA
Fields of Interest: Preclinical oncology; oncolytic bacteria immunotherapy; immunology

Li-gang Zhou, PhD
Department of Endocrinology, Shanghai Pudong Hospital, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Diabetes; obesity; thyroid disease

Jia Zhou, MD
Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fields of Interest: Acupuncture anesthesia; cardiothoracic surgery

Bing Zhu, PhD
Institute of Acupuncture-Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
Fields of Interest: Analgesic effect of acupuncture; meridian-organs connection research; acupuncture-organs interaction mechanism