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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.
Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan
2024-06-27T16:24:49+00:00Expertise : Cardiovascular disease , Genetics , Heart Attack , Heart conditions , High Blood Pressure , Valve disease|
Editor-in-Chief Open Heart
Professor Karthikeyan is a clinical, interventional cardiologist and a Senior International Fellow of the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Canada, as well as Professor of Cardiology at AIIMS. His research is mainly focused on cardiovascular diseases affecting low and middle income countries, including valvular heart disease, particularly rheumatic heart disease (RHD), mechanical valve thrombosis, anticoagulation, and indigenous drug-eluting stents.
Dr Andrea Cipriani
2024-06-27T15:54:33+00:00Expertise : 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 Nick Brown
2024-06-27T15:59:43+00:00Expertise : 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.
Professor Hans Kromhout
2024-06-27T15:45:28+00:00Expertise : Epidemiology , Exposure assessment , Occupational hygiene , Occupational Medicine , Public Health|
Editor-in-Chief of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Professor Hans Kromhout is an occupational hygiene and epidemiology specialist, based at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Professor Kromhout’s work has covered the health effects of chemical and physical (EMF) agents in the workplace and general environment. He has been the (co-)PI of large international studies in among others the asphalt industry, rubber manufacturing industry, industrial minerals industry, health sector and agriculture and community based studies on cancer, respiratory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and reproductive health effects.

