Editors-in-Chief

Qing Jiang, MD, PhD

The center of Diagnosis and Treatment for Joint Disease, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Prof. Qing Jiang is the Director and Professor of the center of Diagnosis and Treatment for Joint Disease, Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, as well as the Vice President of the Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Dr. Jiang received his M.D. degree in the Department of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing Medical University and Ph.D candidate in the Institute of Sports Medicine, The 3rd School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing Medical University.

After completing his M.D. degree joined the faculty at Drum Tower Hospital and is currently Orthopaedic Surgeon in Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University and an active member of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstrution Service. He also does scientific research on stem cell and genetic study for bone and joint disease. Dr. Jiang is expert in total hip arthroplasty with congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH) with dysplasia of acetabulum (DA), total knee arthroplasty with high degree flexion deformity, and revision total knee arthroplasty with infection. He is also good at the diagnosis and treatment of sports injury of professional athletics.

Dr. Jiang serves on several societies, Routine Diretor of Sports Science Association of Jiangsu province, Committee of Chinese medical association orthopedics branch of jiangsu province, Member of the standing committee of sports medicine branch of China Sports Science Institute, Out - reach executive committee of the international association of osteoarthritis (OARSI), Chairman of Chinese Osteoarthritis Society, Board of Director of Chinese Adult Reconstruction society, etc.

Shiro Ikegawa, MD, PhD

Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan

Dr. Ikegawa, a specialist in orthopaedic surgery, is the head of the Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases at the RIKEN Center for IMS (Integrated Medical Sciences), as well as the Director of Japanese Society of Human Genetics.

Dr. Ikegawa earned his MD and Ph.D. from Faculty of Medicine, Univ. Tokyo. From 1991 to 1995, Dr Ikegawa worked as a surgeon and became a Chief surgeon in 1992 at the Department of Orthopaedics, National Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children (NRCDC). He was the Assistant Professor of Institute of Medical Science, Univ. Tokyo(1995-2000). At present, he is the the head of the Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases, RIKEN Center for IMS (Integrated Medical Sciences).

His other appointments include being the Director of Japanese Society of Human Genetics; Executive Board member, EAUHGS (East Asian Union of Human Genetics; Honorary professor, Dept. Biochemistry, Hong Kong Univ; Visiting professor, Yokohama City Univ; Visiting professor, Taipei Medical School; Concurrent professor, School of Medicine, Nanjing Univ; Visiting lecturer, Hiroshima Univ. Dental. School; Visiting lecturer. Kyoto Univ, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences etc. In 2009, he was appointed by the Raine Medical Foundation, Univ. of Western Australia as the Raine Visiting Professorship. He has been awarded the Basic Research Award in 2012 and Japan Society of Human Genetics Award,and RIKEN Center for IMS Award in 2013.