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Dr Andrea Cipriani
2024-06-27T15:54:33+01:00Expertise : Cannabis and Mental Health , Depression and bipolar disorder , Evidence based medicine , Evidence based Mental Health , Medicines , Mental Health , Personalised medicine , Psychiatry , Psychopharmacology , Psychosomatic illness , Psychotic disorders , Stigma|
Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based Mental Health
Andrea Cipriani, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and NIHR Research Professor at the University of Oxford. He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the Associate Director for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford. His main research interests are evidence-based mental health and precision psychiatry. His research focuses on the evaluation of pharmacological, psychological and psychosocial interventions.
Dr Elliott Haut
2026-09-10T15:01:04+01:00Expertise : Emergency care , Emergency Medicine , Injury Prevention|
Editor in Chief of Trauma Surgery & Acute Care
Vice Chair of Quality, Safety & Service, Department of Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), Emergency Medicine, and Health Policy & Management
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and The Bloomberg School of Public Health. Director, Trauma/ Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr James Mountford
2024-06-27T15:57:33+01:00Expertise : Clinical leadership , Organisation of healthcare , Quality improvement , Quality of care , Value for money|
Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Leader
Dr James Mountford is Director of Quality at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He worked initially as an NHS doctor, then in consulting. From 2005-2007, he was a Commonwealth Fund Health Foundation Harkness Fellow based in Massachusetts General Hospital, and at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), both in Boston, USA. Before moving to the Royal Free, he was Director of Quality at UCL Partners, an academic health sciences partnership serving a population of 3 million in and around London. He sits on the board of AQuA, the improvement partnership based in north-west England. In March 2020 he was seconded to work as the Chief of Quality and Learning at the NHS Nightingale Hospital London, opened in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Lucy Frith
2025-08-26T13:06:39+01:00Expertise : Assisted reproduction , Medical ethics|
Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics
Dr Lucy Frith is professor of bioethics and health research, in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy at the University of Manchester. She is interested in the ethical issues raised by reproductive technologies, IVF, gamete (egg and sperm) and embryo donation, fertility preservation and general ethical issues concerning women’s health, reproduction and pregnancy.
Dr Nick Brown
2024-06-27T15:59:43+01:00Expertise : Epidemiology , Global Health , Infectious disease , Infectious disease , International child health , International child health , Paediatrics , Public Health|
Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood
Dr Nick Brown is a paediatrician and epidemiologist. His initial training was in the UK in general paediatrics, but for the last 25 years, he has had a parallel carer in academic international child health. Nick has lived and worked in Sudan, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, India and Pakistan, largely as an epidemiologist. He has a long affiliation with the Aga Khan University in Karachi where he teaches epidemiology, biostatistics and research methodology and is involved in studies in child pneumonia, rheumatic heart disease, thalassaemia and early child development. Nick is currently based in Sweden with a clinical position in Gavle and academic affiliation with the International Centre for Maternal and Child Health at Uppsala University.
Gareth Iacobucci
2024-06-27T16:00:33+01:00Expertise : General practice , GP politics , Primary care|
Assistant News Editor, The BMJ
Gareth Iacobucci reports mostly on issues of interest to doctors in the UK. He joined The BMJ in 2012. Prior to this Gareth was a reporter and editor at the general practioners’ title Pulse for five years.

