Medical Principles and Practice, as the journal of the Health Sciences Centre, Kuwait University, aims to be a publication of international repute that will be a medium for dissemination and exchange of scientific knowledge in the health sciences.

Editor-in-Chief
Raj Raghupathy – Faculty of Medicine

Editor
Ludmil Benov – Faculty of Medicine

Members
Rashed Al-Azemi – Faculty of Dentistry
Areej Al-Khabbaz – Faculty of Dentistry
Suleiman Al-Sabah – Faculty of Medicine
Marwan Al-Sharbati – Faculty of Public Health
Ajit Brindhaban – Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
Ahmed El-Hashim – Faculty of Pharmacy
Mohammad Z. Haider – Faculty of Medicine
Fuad Hasan – Faculty of Medicine
Yunus Luqmani – Faculty of Pharmacy
Chacko Mathew – Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
Iqbal Siddique – Faculty of Medicine

International Advisory Board Members
James E. Aikens – University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
George J. Dohrmann – The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Ashok K. Grover – McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Seyed E. Hasnain – University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
Kewal K. Jain – Jain PharmaBiotech, Basel, Switzerland
Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman – Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Simon Y.K. Law – University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Edward Y. Lee – Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Daniel Markovich – University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
Vincent Marks – University of Surrey, Haslemere, UK
Michael M. Meguid – Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Ferid Murad – George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Clive P. Page – King’s College London, London, UK
Fazlul H. Sarkar – Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Christian S. Stohler – Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Matti Uusitupa – University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Basil Varkey – Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Franklin M.M. White – University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada