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Editorial

Welcome to Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine

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Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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137 Cary Hall, Center for Hearing & Deafness, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
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Department of Otolaryngology, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5616, USA
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
J. Otorhinolaryngol. Hear. Balance Med. 2018, 1(1), 1; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ohbm1010001
Submission received: 24 February 2017 / Revised: 24 February 2017 / Accepted: 24 February 2017 / Published: 28 February 2017
To date, much progress has been achieved in the field of Otorhinolaryngology—Head and Neck surgery, as well as hearing and balance science and medicine. A large number of new techniques and methods have also recently been established. In the basic research field of sensorineural hearing loss, significant advances include: the discovery of numerous inherited deafness-associated genes [1], progress in cochlear cell development and regeneration [2], new insights on acquired hearing loss and its prevention [3], as well as auditory central physiological and pathological mechanisms [4]. The pathogenesis of otogenic vertigo, and comprehensive individualized and procedural treatment programs are becoming well-established [5]. The diagnosis and retraining therapy for tinnitus have also seen breakthroughs [6]. Advances have been made in assessment of otitis media, and its classification and treatment [7]. A groundbreaking discovery in the pathogenesis of allergic rhinitis—allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma (ARIA)—has redefined the classification of rhinitis and allergic rhinitis [8], and the mechanism and treatment of sinusitis [9]. In addition, there have been fruitful results in research related to the pathogenesis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) [10], the pathogenesis of head and neck neoplasms, and molecular epidemiology [11], as well as their comprehensive treatment.
In order to provide a forum for this broad clinical and scientific field, we have established a multidisciplinary publication, the Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine (OHBM). We aim to publish original research articles (including basic research, translational research as well as clinical studies), review articles and case reports in all areas of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck medicine including hearing and balance science, otology, neurotology, rhinology, laryngology, head and neck surgery, bronchoesophagology, maxillofacial and plastic surgery, audiology and speech science and medicine, oncologic medicine and pediatric otorhinolaryngology, but also the quickly developing fields of allergology, skull base surgery, and sleep medicine.
We are very proud to welcome our founding Editorial Board Members, a group of more than 50 established academics and clinicians from all over the world. On behalf of the Editorial Board, we invite you to submit your manuscripts to and suggestions for OHBM and other interesting ideas for this discipline. Please see the Appendix for the current Editorial Board leadership of the Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine (OHBM).

Appendix

  • Editor-in-Chief
  • Wei-Jia Kong, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue1277, Wuhan 430022, China
  • Associate Editors
  • Richard Salvi, 137 Cary Hall, Center for Hearing & Deafness, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
  • Jochen Schacht, Department of Otolaryngology, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5616, USA
  • Editorial Broad of OHBM
  • Friedrich Bootz, Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Itzhak Brook, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Georgetown University, 4431 Albemarle Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20016, USA
  • Renjie Chai, Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • Zheng-Yi Chen, Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
  • Ping Helen Chen, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University, 615 Michael St, 1941/001/1AF, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
  • Fangyi Chen, Department of Biomedical Engineering, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • Lin Chen, Auditory Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
  • Seong Ho Cho, Division of Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
  • Jacquelynne P. Corey, Department of Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  • Vincent Cousins, ENT-Otoneurology Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Department of Surgery, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia
  • Pu Dai, Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
  • Dalian Ding, Center for Hearing and Deafness, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, 137 Cary Hall, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
  • Maoli Duan, Department of Clinical Science, Technology and Intervention, Karolinska Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 14183, Sweden
  • Ana Belén Elgoyhen, Departamento de Farmacología Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, Dr. Héctor N. Torres (INGEBI), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Buenos Aires 1417, Argentina
  • Jiangang Gao, School of Life Science, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan 50100, China
  • Zhiqiang Gao, Department of Otolaryngology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
  • Christos Georgalas, Academic Medical Centre, A2-228, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam 1105 AZ, The Netherlands
  • Fang Han, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing 100044, China
  • Philip H.S. Jen, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
  • Jack J. Jiang, Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
  • Herman Kingma, Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht 6200 MD, the Netherlands
  • Ja-Won Koo, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do 463-707, Korea
  • Guojun Li, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
  • De-Pei Li, Department of Critical Care, The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
  • Xiaoming Li, Department of Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang 050081, China
  • Huawei Li, Department of Otolaryngology, Affiliated Eye and ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200031, China
  • Xi Erick Lin, Dept of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Whitehead Bldg #543, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
  • Zheng Liu, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • Duan Ma, Key Lab of Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Claudina A. Pérez Novo, Upper Airways Research Laboratory, Department of Ear-, Nose-, and Throat diseases, Ghent University Hospital, Medical Research Building (MRB, groundfloor), De Pintelaan 185 9000 Ghent, Belgium
  • Carl Philpott, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, UK
  • Jianhua Qiu, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China
  • Helge Rask-Andersen, Department of Surgical Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Tianying Ren, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
  • Anneliese Schrott-Fischer, Department of Otolaryngolgy, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
  • Michael Setzen, Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY 10276, USA
  • Su-hua Sha, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 39 Sabin Street, Charleston, SC 29414, USA
  • Frank Wallner, Department of Otolaryngology, University Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
  • Lei Wang, Institutes of Biomedical Science, Fudan University, 138 Yixueyuan Road, Shanghai 200032, China
  • Qiuju Wang, Chinese PLA Institute of Otolaryngology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Medical School of Chinese PLA, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China
  • Hao Wu, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 9th People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200092, China
  • Zhigang Xu, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
  • Jingying Ye, Department of otolaryngology-head neck surgery, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University, No.168 Litang Road, Dongxiaokou Town, Changping District, Beijing, China
  • Shankai Yin, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 201306, China
  • Huijun Yuan, Medical Genetics Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
  • Nan Zhang, Ghent University Hospital, ENT Department, Upper Airways Research Laboratory, Medical Research Building (MRB, groundfloor) De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
  • Luo Zhang, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing 100005, China
  • Xiaowen Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Laboratory of ENT-HNS Disease, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
  • Hongliang Zheng, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Qingyin Zheng, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
  • Xiaoming Zhou, Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Jing Zou, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China

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Kong W-J, Salvi R, Schacht J. Welcome to Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine. Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine. 2018; 1(1):1. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ohbm1010001

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