About the Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Ioanna Tsiligianni, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine
University of Crete
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Dr. Ioanna Tsiligianni's areas of interest focus on health outcomes assessment, as well as the use of diagnostic tools in chronic diseases. Her research is mainly related to COPD and asthma, health status and lung function, primary health care and family medicine. She collaborates as a researcher with the University Medical Centre of Groningen, the Department of General Practice, and Pulmonologist Department at the University of Crete. She also coordinated the development of the first national guidelines for primary care on COPD and asthma in Greece.
Associate Editors
Prof. Sinthia Zrinka Bosnic-Anticevich, PhD
Professor, The University of Sydney and Research Leader, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
Sydney, Australia
Sinthia’s research has led to the development of the “gold standards” in the use of inhalers, impacting on national and international treatment guidelines for asthma, COPD and allergic rhinitis. Her research with different patient populations, health care professionals and health care settings is key to our understanding of how to optimise the use of respiratory medicines for improved health outcomes and societal benefit.
Dr. Amy Hai Yan Chan, PhD
Senior Clinical Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy
The University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Amy Chan holds a joint appointment as a clinical academic pharmacist with the School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, NZ, and Auckland District Health Board (DHB). She is also an honorary researcher at University College London, UK. Her current jointly appointed role aims to increase clinical research capacity and capability, and boost knowledge mobilisation, with a focus on medicines and improving health outcomes. Dr Chan’s expertise is in exploring data patterns and medicines-related behaviour, workforce development, and the role of digital technologies in improving health behaviours and outcomes particularly in respiratory conditions. Amy has nearly 15 years’ experience in the public health service, where she led one of the clinical pharmacy services at Auckland DHB, and was involved in health services research.
Prof. Niels H. Chavannes, MD, PhD
Professor of Primary Care Medicine
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Chavannes's area of interest is in eHealth, disease management, chronic diseases and smoking cessation. In addition to being Professor of Primary Care Medicine, he is also the Strategic Chair of eHealth Applications in Disease Management, and the Head of Research in the Dept. of Public Health and Primary Care at Leiden University Medical Center. He is the Vice-Chair of the Dutch Asthma and COPD Advisory Group (CAHAG) and the National Advisor of the Dutch Action Program on Chronic Lung Diseases of the Lung Alliance Netherlands (LAN).
Prof. Sanjay H. Chotirmall, MD, PhD
Associate Professor and Provost's Chair in Molecular Medicine, Assistant Dean (Faculty Affairs)
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Sanjay H. Chotirmall, M.D., Ph.D. is Provost’s Chair in Molecular Medicine and Assistant Dean (Faculty Affairs) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore). As an internationally recognized clinician-scientist, he has established a Translational Respiratory Research Group, with focus on infection, inflammation, and immunity in the context of chronic inflammatory respiratory diseases affecting Asian populations. His research interests include bronchiectasis, pulmonary infection, and the microbiome.
Prof. Anthony D'Urzo, MD, MSc, BPHE, CCFP, FCFP
Director, Primary Lung Care Clinic
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Prof. Anthony D'Urzo's primary research interests are in respiratory health-asthma and COPD, and experimental case studies. He is actively involved in clinical and pharmaco-therapeutic research in the areas of asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management. Since 1994 Prof. D'Urzo has been working closely with the Ontario Lung Association and the Ontario Thoracic Society. He is also actively involved in the Comprehensive Research Experience for Medical Students (CREMS) summer program (UofT) as a supervisor and recently served as the Associate Director of the Health Science Research course in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Toronto Medical School.
Prof. Tiago Maricoto, MD, PhD
Family Doctor, Aradas Health Center; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Beira Interior
Aveiro, Covilhã, Portugal
Professor Tiago is a Family Doctor at Aveiro Health Center, and an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Health Sciences at University of Beira Interior with a Ph.D. in Medicine. Tiago is the journal’s primary systematic reviews editor, and his interests are COPD, Asthma and Inhaler Performance.
Honorary Prof. Ee Ming Khoo, MBBS, MRCGP, MD
Honorary Professor of Primary Care Medicine
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr. Khoo's research interests include chronic diseases (asthma, COPD) and primary care medicine. She co-leads the non communicable disease programme in respiratory medicine in the NIHR Global Health Research Unit RESPIRE. She is the country lead of the Asia-Pacific Academic Primary Care Group and a member of Editorial Board for several journals.
Prof. Hilary Pinnock, MB, ChB, MRCGP, MD
Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
University of Edinburgh
Scotland, UK
Dr. Hilary Pinnock's research interests include the delivery of care within the 'real-life' primary care setting including implementing self-management for asthma, telehealthcare for supporting management of respiratory disease, supporting people with COPD and depression to attend pulmonary rehabilitation and supportive care for people with severe COPD. Some current projects include tele-monitoring of asthma and COPD, the role of GPs with a Special Interest, the reconfiguration of respiratory services within primary care organisations and supported self-management for people with long-term conditions.
Dr. Job FM van Boven, PharmD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
Job van Boven is a health economics & real-world drug outcomes expert specialised in lung diseases. He is the founding director of the Medication Adherence Expertise Center Of the northern Netherlands (MAECON) and Chair of the European Network to Advance Best Practices & Technology on Medication Adherence (ENABLE) COST Action, comprising 39 countries. He leads the research group on Cost-effective Drug Use at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology of the University Medical Center Groningen and is Principal Investigator at the Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC). He is (co)author of >120 scientific publications, supervisor of 10 PhD students and received several research prices & grants (totalling>€6 million). His mission is to find novel, cost-effective ways to make better, personalized use of our respiratory medications in order to maximize both patients’ and societal benefits.
Prof. Arzu Yorgancıoğlu
Dept. of Pulmonology, ATSF, FERS, GARD Chair
Celal Bayar University Medical Faculty
Manisa,Turkey
Arzu Yorgancıoğlu is a clinical specialist in pulmonology and has a long-term scientific interest in the diagnosis and treatment of asthma and COPD. She is involved in and has conducted a large number of clinical studies evaluating both new and established pharmacological interventions in asthma and COPD. She has published more than 200 scientific papers, and is often invited as a speaker at international and national meetings. She has served as the Executive Committee member of Turkish Thoracic Society (TTS) between 2004-2018, and is now a fellow of ATS (ATSF) and ERS (FERS). She is the Chair of WHO GARD and a member of the GINA Board.
Editorial Board Members
Professor Luís A. Alves, MD, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Professor Peter Barnes, MD, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK
Dr. Chloe I. Bloom, MD, Imperial College London, London, UK
Professor Andrew Bush, MD, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK
Professor Mario Cazzola, MD, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Professor Jaime Correia-de-Sousa, MD, School of Medicine, Minho University, Braga, Portugal
Dr. Amanda Farley, MD, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Professor Charles Feldman, MD, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mrs. Monica Fletcher, MD, Education for Health, Warwick, UK
Assistant Professor Maureen George, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Dr. Dianne Goeman, MD, Monash University, NSW, Australia
Dr. John Haughney, MD, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Professor Maria Teresa Herdeiro, MD, Institute of Biomedicine-iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Dr. Antonio Infantino, MD, University of Bari, Italy
Dr. Cristina Jácome, MD, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Dr. Rachel Jordan, MD, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Dr. Alan Kaplan, MD, LHIN Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinics, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Duncan Keeley, MD, Thame, UK
Professor Janwillem Kocks, MD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Federico Lavorini, MD, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Dr. Esther Metting, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen Data Science Center in Health (DASH) University of Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business, Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Paul O'Byrne, MD, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Professor Klaus Rabe, MD, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Großhansdorf, Germany
Dr. Nicola J. Roberts, MD, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Dr. Miguel Roman-Rodriguez, MD,Instituto de Investigación de Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain
Dr. Dermot Ryan, MD, Loughborough, UK
Dr. Sundeep Salvi, MD, Chest Research Foundation, India
Associate Professor Björn Ställberg, MD, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Associate Professor Job F.M. van Boven, MD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr. Rianne M.J.J. van der Kleij, MD, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Professor Thys van der Molen, MD, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr. Samantha Walker, MD, Asthma UK, UK
Professor Scott T. Weiss, MD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Professor Wisia Wedzicha, MD, University College London, UK
Dr. Barbara Yawn, MD, Olmsted Medical Center, USA
Editors Emeritus
Dr. Mark L Levy
Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Kamran Siddiqi
Professor in Global Public Health, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
Prof. Aziz Sheikh
Chair of Primary Care and Research Development and Director of the Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Dr. Paul Stephenson
Old Bridge Surgery, Looe, Cornwall, UK. Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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