**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Sadanori Akita** has been a Professor and Chief of the Department of Plastic Surgery, Wound Repair and Regeneration of Fukuoka University School of Medicine, since 2016. He did his residency in plastic surgery at Nagasaki University Hospital. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Nagasaki University, where he specialized in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Under the supervision of Shlomo Melmed M.D., Dr. Akita later did a research fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), on cytokine expression and its regulation in vivo by using a transgenic animal model. He served as a general secretary of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies, which was held in Yokohama, Japan, 2–6 September 2012 (http://wuwhs2012.com/), and as president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies for the years 2012–2016. He was the president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) from September 2012 to September 2016 and is currently the president of the Asian Wound Care Association (AWCA). His research interests include cytokines and stem cells in wound healing, difficult wound healing (radiation injury), regenerative tissue enhancement in HIV-drug related-wasting patients, reconstructive surgery, burns, craniofacial surgery and hemangioma/avascular malformations.
