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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.
Shanti Raman
2024-06-27T16:02:16+00:00Expertise : Infectious disease , International child health , Paediatrics|
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.
Professor Gisli Jenkins
2024-06-27T16:02:50+00:00Expertise : Lung disease , Respiratory medicine|
Chair of the Editorial Board for BMJ Open Respiratory Research
Professor Gisli Jenkins is an NIHR Research Professor and holds the Margaret Turner-Warwick Chair of Thoracic Medicine at Imperial College London, Head of the Margaret Turner-Warwick Centre for Fibrosing Lung Diseases at the National Heart and Lung Institute. Prof Jenkins’ research focuses on Interstitial Lung Diseases, and Pulmonary Fibrosis in particular. He is the Principal Investigator of a number of longitudinal observational studies including the PROFILE study, the INJUSTIS Study, the UKILD Post COVID ILD study as well as the DEMISTIFI Multi-Morbidity consortium.
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.
Dr Jinghong Chen
2024-06-27T15:58:14+00:00Expertise : Gastroenterology , Gut-brain axis , Medicines , Microbiome , Neuro pharmacology|
Deputy Editor of General Psychiatry
Dr Jinghong Chen is the joint deputy editor of General Psychiatry. She is currently the principal investigator at Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders and professor at Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

