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Dr James Mountford
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.
Professor Bryony Dean Franklin
Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety
Professor Bryony Dean Franklin is a hospital pharmacist by background, with 30 years’ experience of research into medication safety, medication use in practice and patient safety more generally. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety, Professor of Medication Safety at UCL School of Pharmacy, Executive Lead Pharmacist for Research at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Director of the NIHR North West London Patient Safety Research Collaboration and theme lead for the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College London. Professor Franklin has published widely on medication safety, the evaluation of various technologies designed to reduce errors, and the patient’s role in patient safety. Her current post combines research, quality improvement, education and training, medical publishing and hospital pharmacy practice.
Shanti Raman
Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Paediatrics Open
Shanti Raman is a Consultant Paediatrician, with sub-specialty training in Community Child Health, epidemiology and public health. She is the Director of Community Paediatrics – South Western
Sydney, where she is responsible for clinical services in Child Development and Child Protection across the region, providing academic leadership and directing research and training. Her research
and teaching interests include health of migrants and refugees, indigenous child health, child rights and child maltreatment, quality and safety in health, global maternal, newborn and child health.
Theodora Bloom
Executive Editor of the BMJ
Theodora Bloom is executive editor of The BMJ. At the BMJ, Theo’s responsibilities include publishing, business, platform and operations as well as ethical and policy matters. She is a Co-Founder of the medRxiv preprint server, a collaboration between BMJ, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Yale University, and jointly coordinates open access and open research initiatives at BMJ.
Karen L Furie, MD
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
Karen Furie, MD, MPH is Neurologist-in-Chief, Rhode Island Hospital, the Miriam Hospital and Bradley Hospital Samuel I Kennison, MD and Bertha S Kennison Professor of Clinical Neuroscience Chair of Neurology, the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Clinical and translational stroke research has been a major focus of Karen’s career, and she has enjoyed success in developing collaborative multispecialty initiatives.
Richard Hurley
Features and Debates Editor – The BMJ
Richard Hurley is The BMJs features and debates editor, responsible for our head to head debates; features, and essays. He’s particularly interested in poverty, migration, doctor assisted dying and illicit drug policy and their impact on health.
