Editor-in-ChiefProf. Aziz Sheikh, MD, FRCP Professor of Primary Care Research & Development University of Edinburgh Scotland, UK Prof. Sheikh is Director of the Usher Institute, and his interests include studying asthma and health inequalities. Currently Prof. Sheikh holds a number of visiting chairs, namely: University of Birmingham (UK), Queen Mary’s University of London (UK) and Maastricht University (Netherlands) and was recently appointed as Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has Fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians in both London and Edinburgh and the Royal College of General Practitioners. He has editorial experience of working with a number of journals, including the BMJ (editorial advisor, Primary Care editorial advisor) and PLOS Medicine (section advisor, Guidelines and Guidance). Associate Editors
Dr. Jasper V Been, MD, PhD, MPH Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands Dr. Jasper Been trained as a paediatric at Maastricht University Medical Centre, where he also obtained his PhD in neonatal pulmonology an MPH in epidemiology, as well as an MSc in Public Health. He is a clinician-academic with a research focus around perinatal public health, and particular expertise in tobacco control, large-scale analysis of routinely collected health care data and systematic reviews. In addition to being a leading paediatrician and researcher, his investigations into smoke-free legislation and child health have been published in several leading medical journals. Prof. Niels H. Chavannes, MD, PhD Professor of Primary Care Medicine Leiden University Medical Center Leiden, The Netherlands Prof. Dr. Niels H. Chavannes' area of interest is in eHealth, disease management, chronic diseases and smoking cessation. In addition to being Professor of Primary Care Medicine, he is also the Strategic Chair of eHealth Applications in Disease Management, and the Head of Research in the Dept. of Public Health and Primary Care at Leiden University Medical Center. During his Assistant Professorship at LUMC, he coordinated several (inter)national clinical research projects, and teachings on chronic disease management, eHealth and mHealth applicability, therapy adherence and smoking cessation strategies. He is the Vice-Chair of the Dutch Asthma and COPD Advisory Group (CAHAG) and the National Advisor of the Dutch Action Program on Chronic Lung Diseases of the Lung Alliance Netherlands (LAN). Prof. Anthony D’Urzo, MD, MSc, BPHE, CCFP, FCFP Director, Primary Lung Care Clinic University of Toronto Toronto, Canada Prof. Anthony D’Urzo's primary research interests are in respiratory health-asthma and COPD, and experimental case studies. He is actively involved in clinical and pharmaco-therapeutic research in the areas of asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management. Since 1994 Prof. D’Urzo has been working closely with the Ontario Lung Association and the Ontario Thoracic Society. He is also actively involved in the Comprehensive Research Experience for Medical Students (CREMS) summer program (UofT) as a supervisor and recently served as the Associate Director of the Health Science Research course in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Toronto Medical School. Dr. Irem Patel, PhD, FRCP Consultant Respiratory Physician, Integrated Care King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London, UK Dr. Irem Patel's research interests include COPD, respiratory infection, respiratory failure and the development and delivery of pathways of care for patients with chronic respiratory disease. She holds one of the first posts in Integrated Respiratory Care in the UK and leads a multidisciplinary specialist team delivering integrated respiratory care in South East London. She is a clinical advisor to the British Lung Foundation and has served on the BTS Council and Education and Training Committees. She was also involved in the development of competency frameworks to support the National COPD Strategy and has worked as Clinical Adviser and Steering Group member for various NHS Improvement COPD and Asthma projects. Prof. Hilary Pinnock, MB, ChB, MRCGP, MD Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine University of Edinburgh Scotland, UK Dr. Hilary Pinnock's research interests include the delivery of care within the ‘real-life’ primary care setting including implementing self-management for asthma, telehealthcare for supporting management of respiratory disease, supporting people with COPD and depression to attend pulmonary rehabilitation and supportive care for people with severe COPD. Some current projects include tele-monitoring of asthma and COPD, the role of GPs with a Special Interest, the reconfiguration of respiratory services within primary care organisations and supported self-management for people with long-term conditions. Dr. Ioanna Tsiligianni, MD, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine University of Crete Heraklion, Crete, Greece Dr. Ioanna Tsiligianni's areas of interest focus on health outcomes assessment, as well as the use of diagnostic tools in chronic diseases. Her research is mainly related to COPD and asthma, health status and lung function, primary health care and family medicine. She collaborates as a researcher with the University Medical Centre of Groningen, the Department of General Practice, and Pulmonologist Department at the University of Crete. She also coordinated the development of the first national guidelines for primary care on COPD and asthma in Greece. Statistics EditorProf. Gopal Netuveli, PhD Professor of Public Health University of East London London, UK Professor Gopal Netuveli's research interests include quality of life, ageing, resilience, health inequalities, mental health, chronic diseases like asthma and diabetes, oral health, medical errors, cross national comparisons and welfare state policies. His area of expertise also lies in quantitative data analysis and advances social statistics, systematic reviews and meta-analysis. His special interests include longitudinal data analysis and management of missing data. Editorial Board MembersProfessor Chunxue Bai, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Shanghai, China Professor Peter Barnes, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK Professor Eric Bateman, National Research Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa Professor Justin Beilby, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Dr. David Bellamy, Bournemouth, UK Professor Jean Bousquet, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France Professor Andrew Bush, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK Professor Andrew Cave, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Professor Mario Cazzola, University of Rome, Rome, Italy Professor Alan Crockett, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Professor Adnan Custovic, Imperial College London, Manchester, UK Professor Paul Enright, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Professor Charles Feldman, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Mrs. Monica Fletcher, Warwick, UK Associate Professor Leonard Fromer, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Assistant Professor Maureen George, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Dr. Dianne Goeman, Monash University, NSW, Australia Professor Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Dr. John Haughney, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Professor Liam Heaney, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, N Ireland Dr. Svein Hoegh Henrichsen, Oslo, Norway Professor Maria Teresa Herdeiro, Institute of Biomedicine-iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Dr. Antonio Infantino, Bari, Italy Dr. S Gunnar Johansson, Uppsala, Sweden Dr. Alan Kaplan, Ontario, Canada Dr. Duncan Keeley, Thame, UK Professor Ee Ming Khoo, Malaya, Malaysia Professor Janwillem Kocks, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Dr. Lorcan McGarvey, Belfast, N Ireland Professor Paul O'Byrne, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Professor Søren Pedersen, Syddansk Universitet, Kolding, Denmark Professor Klaus Rabe, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Großhansdorf, Germany Professor Helen Reddel, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Professor Jim Reid, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Dr. Miguel Roman-Rodriguez Instituto de Investigación de Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain Dr. Dermot Ryan, Loughborough, UK Dr. Sundeep Salvi, Pune, India Associate Professor Tjard Schermer, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Professor Dave Singh, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Dr. Iain Small, Peterhead, UK Associate Professor Björn Ställberg, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Associate Professor Marianne Stubbe Østergaard, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Professor Mike Thomas, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Professor Thys van der Molen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Professor Onno Van Schayck, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Dr. Samantha Walker, London, UK Professor Wisia Wedzicha, London, UK Professor Scott T. Weiss, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Dr. Barbara Yawn, Rochester, MN, USA
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