Kobe University Kobe, Hyogo JAPAN Dr. Yuichi Hoshino, M.D. Ph.D. is an orthopaedic surgeon and researcher who works as a lecturer in Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. He has 22 years of clinical experience specialized in the sports-related injuries, especially knee ligament injuries. After he conducted research on knee biomechanics at Kobe University under Prof. Masahiro Kurosaka for four years to obtain PhD degree in 2007, he continued biomechanics research in University of Pittsburgh under Prof. Freddie H. Fu from 2009 to 2011. He has published seventy seven articles related to the ACL injury and treatment including seventeen articles as the first author. His main research topic is the rotational laxity/instability after ACL injury and reconstruction. He developed two measurement systems for rotational laxity, wrote fifteen papers related to the rotational laxity. He obtained multiple research grants from Japanese Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research and ISAKOS OREF grant. He has several memberships in the internationally established orthopaedics societies, including ISAKOS, ESSKA, AAOS and ACL study group. Also, he is an associate editor of three journals, the Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics, the Journal of the AAOS Global Research Reviews and Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (JMMB), and a member of editorial board of five journals, the American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM), Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy(KSSTA), Asia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation and Technology (AP-SMART), Annals of Joint (AOJ) and Joints.
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