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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.
Professor Ronald F. van Vollenhoven
Editor-in-Chief of Lupus Science & Medicine
Professor Ronald F. van Vollenhoven is a distinguished rheumatologist and immunologist, known for his significant contributions in the field. He currently holds the position of Chair of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at Amsterdam UMC and directs the Amsterdam Rheumatology Centre. With a background in immunology and extensive training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, he has dedicated his career to the development and evaluation of biological and immunomodulatory treatments for rheumatic diseases. Dr. Van Vollenhoven has played a pivotal role in establishing crucial registries, including the Stockholm registry for biological therapies (STURE database), and has been a principal investigator in numerous clinical trials.
Professor Yu-Chuan Jack Li
Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Health & Care Informatics
Professor Yu-Chuan Jack Li is a researcher of artificial intelligence in medicine and medical informatics, and a practising dermatologist. He is currently Dean and distinguished professor at the College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University and the Chief of Dermatology at the Centre for Cosmetic and Laser, Paipei Municipal Wanfang Hospital. Professor Li has also served as President of the Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI), and President-elect of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).
Professor Juan Víctor Ariel Franco
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 Nick Brown
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.
