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Gareth Iacobucci
2024-06-27T16:00:33+00:00Expertise : 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.
Dr Declan Walsh
2024-06-27T15:55:41+00:00Expertise : Cancer , Chronic pain , Nutrition and Hydration , Opioids and cannabinoids , Pain , Palliative Care , Relief Pain , Symptom Control|
Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
A pioneer in palliative medicine, Dr Declan Walsh is an internationally renowned physician, researcher, educator and administrator. He developed the first palliative care programme in the United States. In recognition of his achievements, he received the John Mendelsohn Award from MD Anderson Cancer Centre, a lifetime achievement award from the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer and a Visionary Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Dr Ellen Weber
2024-06-27T15:56:11+00:00Expertise : A&E overcrowding , Cardiovascular disease , Emergency care , Emergency Medicine , Heart Attack , Stroke|
Editor-in-Chief of Emergency Medicine Journal
Dr Ellen Weber is an emergency medicine physician in San Francisco, California. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and has been in practice for more than 20 years. She has worked clinically in community, county and academic emergency departments, and conducts research in topics related to health policy. She is currently a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair at UCSF.
Doctor Elliott Haut
2025-09-19T07:12:03+00:00Expertise : 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.
Professor Juan Víctor Ariel Franco
2024-06-27T15:47:10+00:00Expertise : Clinical trials , Evidence based medicine , Evidence synthesis , General practice , Patients , Primary care , Shared decision making|
Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
Professor Juan Franco is a family doctor at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Vice-chair of the Research Department at the Instituto Universitario Hispital Italiano (IUHI), where he is also Director of the Cochrane Associate Centre. He is a professor at IUHI and Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, and editor for the Cochrane Urology Group and a member of Cochrane’s Governing Board.
Dr James Cave
2024-06-27T15:57:02+00:00Expertise : Dispensing , General practice , GP politics , GP workload , Long term conditions , Medicines , Minor surgery , Organisation of healthcare , Prescribing , Primary care , Primary care networks , Primary care networks|
Editor-in-Chief of the Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin
Dr James Cave has been a GP for over 25 years. He currently works for Red Whale, providing courses for GP’s that take the latest research and demonstrate how it might be used in practice. James was awarded an OBE for services to medicine in 2009.

