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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.
Theodora Bloom
2024-06-27T15:47:45+00:00Expertise : Publishing , Research integrity and ethics , STM Publishing|
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.
Professor Bryony Dean Franklin
2024-06-27T15:41:17+00:00Expertise : Organisation of healthcare , Patient partnerships , Patients , Quality improvement , Quality of care , Value for money|
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.
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.
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.

