About the Editors

Editor-in-Chief

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.

Associate Editors

Prof. Niels H. Chavannes, MD, PhD
Professor of Primary Care Medicine
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
 

Prof. Dr. Chavannes's 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. 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. Evangelos I. Kritsotakis, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, CStat, FHEA, MRSPH
Associate Professor of Biostatistics,
School of Medicine, University of Crete
Heraklion, Crete, Greece

 

Evangelos Kritsotakis is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, UK. He is an elected Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society, UK, and an elected Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. He is a senior associate editor for the journal ‘Public Health’ of the Royal Society for Public Health, UK, and a member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, serving on the ISCB Student Conference Award Committee. Kritsotakis’ research work comprises mainly collaborative applied and translational studies in healthcare settings, with long-term interdisciplinary research on healthcare-associated infections, multi-drug-resistant pathogens, and antimicrobial drugs. 

Prof. Tiago Maricoto, MD, PhD
Family Doctor, Aradas Health Center; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Beira Interior
Aveiro, Covilhã, Portugal

Professor Tiago is a Family Doctor at Aveiro Health Center, and an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Health Sciences at University of Beira Interior with a Ph.D. in Medicine. Tiago is the journal’s primary systematic reviews editor, and his interests are COPD, Asthma and Inhaler Performance.

Honorary Prof. Ee Ming Khoo, MBBS, MRCGP, MD
Honorary Professor of Primary Care Medicine
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 

Dr. Khoo's research interests include chronic diseases (asthma, COPD) and primary care medicine. She co-leads the non communicable disease programme in respiratory medicine in the NIHR Global Health Research Unit RESPIRE. She is the country lead of the Asia-Pacific Academic Primary Care Group and a member of Editorial Board for several journals.

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. Job FM van Boven, PharmD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands

Job van Boven is a health economics & real-world drug outcomes expert specialised in lung diseases. He is the founding director of the Medication Adherence Expertise Center Of the northern Netherlands (MAECON) and Chair of the European Network to Advance Best Practices & Technology on Medication Adherence (ENABLE) COST Action, comprising 39 countries. He leads the research group on Cost-effective Drug Use at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology of the University Medical Center Groningen and is Principal Investigator at the Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC). He is (co)author of >120 scientific publications, supervisor of 10 PhD students and received several research prices & grants (totalling>€6 million). His mission is to find novel, cost-effective ways to make better, personalized use of our respiratory medications in order to maximize both patients’ and societal benefits.. 

Editorial Board Members

Professor Luís A. Alves, MD, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Professor Sinthia Bosnic Anticevich, PhD, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Professor Peter Barnes, MD, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK
Dr. Chloe I. Bloom, MD, Imperial College London, London, UK
Professor Andrew Bush, MD, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK
Professor Mario Cazzola, MD, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Amy Chan, PhD, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Sanjay Chotirmall, MD, PhD, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore
Professor Jaime Correia-de-Sousa, MD, School of Medicine, Minho University, Braga, Portugal
Professor Anthony D'urzo, MD, MSc, BPHE, CCFP, FCFP, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Amanda Farley, MD, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Professor Charles Feldman, MD, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mrs. Monica Fletcher, MD, Education for Health, Warwick, UK
Assistant Professor Maureen George, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Dr. Dianne Goeman, MD, Monash University, NSW, Australia
Dr. John Haughney, MD, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Professor Maria Teresa Herdeiro, MD, Institute of Biomedicine-iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Dr. Antonio Infantino, MD, University of Bari, Italy
Dr. Cristina Jácome, MD, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 
Dr. Rachel Jordan, MD, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Dr. Alan Kaplan, MD, LHIN Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinics, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Duncan Keeley, MD, Thame, UK
Professor Janwillem Kocks, MD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Federico Lavorini, MD, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Dr. Esther Metting, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen Data Science Center in Health (DASH) University of Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business, Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Paul O'Byrne, MD, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Professor Klaus Rabe, MD, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Großhansdorf, Germany
Dr. Nicola J. Roberts, MD, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Dr. Miguel Roman-Rodriguez, MD,Instituto de Investigación de Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain
Dr. Dermot Ryan, MD, Loughborough, UK
Dr. Sundeep Salvi, MD, Chest Research Foundation, India
Associate Professor Björn Ställberg, MD, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Associate Professor Job F.M. van Boven, MD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr. Rianne M.J.J. van der Kleij, MD, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Professor Thys van der Molen, MD, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr. Samantha Walker, MD, Asthma UK, UK
Professor Scott T. Weiss, MD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Professor Wisia Wedzicha, MD, University College London, UK
Dr. Barbara Yawn, MD, Olmsted Medical Center, USA
Professor Arzu Yorgancioglu, , ATSF, FERS, GARD Chair, Celal Bayar University Medical Faculty, Manisa, Turkey

Editors Emeritus

Dr. Mark L Levy
Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Prof. Kamran Siddiqi
Professor in Global Public Health, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK

Prof. Aziz Sheikh
Chair of Primary Care and Research Development and Director of the Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Dr. Paul Stephenson
Old Bridge Surgery, Looe, Cornwall, UK. Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

 

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