Editors & Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief In-Hong Choi, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Associate Editor Chang-Ok Suh, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Executive Editor Jung-Won Park, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Editorial Board Sharon Adler, MD, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, USA Masaki Kitajima, MD, International Univ. of Health and Welfare, Japan Joong Bae Ahn, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Thomas S. Kupper, MD, Harvard Medical School, USA Shiro Amano, MD, PhD, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Jin Young Kwak, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Seungmin Bang, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Young Lan Kwak, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Perry F. Bartlett, BDSc, PhD, FAA, Univ. Queensland, Australia Hye-Jeong Lee, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Thomas Bieber, MD, PhD, Univ. of Bonn, Germany Jae Woon Lee, PhD, Oregon Health & Science Univ., USA John P. Bilezikian, MD, Columbia Univ., USA Jeong Rim Lee, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Malcolm N. Blumenthal, MD, Univ. Minnesota, USA Phil Hyu Lee, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Jong-Yil Chai, MD, PhD, Seoul Nat'l Univ., Korea Sandra Lee, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health, USA Jae Hee Cheon, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Sang-Hak Lee, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Kyunghee C. Cho, MD, FACR, New Jersey Medical School, USA David J. Lim, MD, Univ. Southern California, USA Byung Ho Choi, MD, PhD, Univ. California, USA Jong-Baeck Lim, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Hye Jin Choi, MD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Tobias Alecio Mattei, MD, The Ohio State Univ., USA Hak Choy, MD, Vanderbilt Univ., USA In Seok Moon, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Yong-Min Chun, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Chung Mo Nam, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea Jin Mo Chung, PhD, Univ. Texas, USA Jahn M. Nesland, MD, PhD, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD, FACS, Saint-Pierre Univ. Hospital, Belgium Sang Ho Oh, MD, PhD, Yonsei Univ., Korea J. William Futrell, MD, Univ. Pittsburgh, USA Shin Joong Oh, MD, Univ. 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