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Dr Brandy Shillace
Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities
Brandy Schillace, PhD, is Senior Research Associate and Public Engagement and Programs Leader for the Dittrick Museum of Medical History. Dr Schillace writes about intersections of medicine, history, and literature. For ten years, she managed the medical anthropology journal, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, and edited its first medical humanities special issue. Brandy’s recent books include Death’s Summer Coat (2016), Clockwork Futures (2017) and Mr Humble and Dr Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul (2021).
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.
Dr Andrea Cipriani
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.
Professor Anna Maria Geretti
Editor-in-Chief of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Anna Maria Geretti, MD, PhD, FRCPath, is Professor of Virology & Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Infection & Global Health of the University of Liverpool, and Honorary Consultant at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. She trained in Italy, the Netherlands and the UK and has a special interest in HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews and book chapters, runs capacity building programmes for resource-limited countries and enthusiastically shares her expertise to train doctors and scientists.
