Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Tianjing Li, PhD, University of Colorado Denver, USA 
Tianjing Li is a Professor of Ophthalmology and Epidemiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Li received her PhD in Epidemiology and MHS in Biostatistics, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The primary focus of Dr. Li’s research is to develop, evaluate, and disseminate efficient methods for comparing healthcare interventions and to provide trustworthy evidence for decision-making. She has garnered an international reputation as a leader in comparative effectiveness research (clinical trials, systematic review, network meta-analysis) and patient-centered outcomes research. Dr. Li holds several leadership roles within Cochrane, including serving as the Associate Director for Cochrane United States from 2012 to 2018, a Coordinating Editor for Cochrane Eyes and Vision, a co-convener for the Cochrane Comparing Multiple Interventions Methods Group, and a member of the Cochrane Methods Executive Committee. She was the recipient of the Anne Anderson Award in 2019, being recognized for my cumulative accomplishment, originality and independence of thought, leadership, and inspiration for women within Cochrane. Dr. Li is an elected fellow of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, served as the Society’s President between 2022-2023, and received the Society’s Inaugural Early Career Award in 2016.

Shaun Treweek, PhD, University of Aberdeen, UK
Shaun is Professor of Health Services Research in the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, UK.  Prof Treweek’s research interests are mainly in efficient trial design, particularly pragmatic trial design, improved recruitment and retention interventions for trials, the design of studies to generate trial process evidence and the effective presentation of research evidence.  He is leading an initiative called Trial Forge (www.trialforge.org) that aims to be more systematic about how we generate and use research evidence in making trial design, conduct, analysis and reporting decisions. 

 

 

Founding Editor

Douglas Altman, University of Oxford


Senior Editors

Matthias Briel, MD, PhD, MSc, University of Basel, Switzerland
Matthias is a physician, senior researcher, and Deputy Director of the Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He holds a part-time faculty position at the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Canada. His research focuses mainly on the planning, conduct, and dissemination of clinical trials including outcome selection, protocol quality, recruitment prediction, resource use, discontinuation, and non-publication. He is chairing the Swiss clinical Trial Empirical Assessment & Methods (STEAM) working group to foster collaboration among stakeholders and to facilitate empirical research on clinical trials.

 

 

Bruno da Costa, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Bruno is an Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) of the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Bern in Switzerland, and MSc degrees in Medical Statistics from the University of Leicester in the UK and Physiotherapy from the University of Alberta in Canada. Bruno co-leads a clinical trial methods research program and serves as trial statistician for various clinical trials at the CTSU. His research focuses on the comparative effectiveness of interventions in cardiovascular and musculoskeletal medicine and on clinical research methods. He has led several influential studies that impacted clinical practice guidelines for osteoarthritis care.

 

Karla Hemming, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK
Karla is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK. Karla’s research interests include how to design cluster and stepped-wedge trials so as to maximise their statistical efficiency and minimise their risk of bias; how to model time and treatment effect heterogeneity in longitudinal cluster trials; and the ethical issues surrounding these pragmatic trial designs, such as ethical oversight and consent. Karla has recently led the CONSORT extension for the stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial.

 

 

 

Will Meurer, MD, MS, University of Michigan, USA
Will Meurer’s focus is on the treatment of acute neurological emergencies, both as a researcher and clinician. He has been part of the University of Michigan Acute Stroke Team since 2006. In addition, he has experience enrolling patients in acute trials and has served as a local PI for the CLEAR-ER trial (a trial enrolling acute stroke patients in the ED that tested a reperfusion strategy). He is on the executive team of the Strategies to Innovate EmeRgENcy Care Clinical Trials Network (SIREN). He has other active or recently completed NIH funded clinical trials involving acute vertigo in the emergency department, hypertension, and therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest.

 

 

 

Matt Sydes, BSc, MSc, University College London, UK
Matt is a Professor of Clinical Trials and Methodology at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL and responsible for leading the unit's trial conduct methodology activities, as well as teams conducting research in prostate cancer and osteosarcoma. Matt chaired the Scientific Committee for the International Clinical Trials and Methodology Conference (ICTMC) 2019, and serves on the executive committee for the MRC Network of Hubs for Trial Methodology Research and its successor Partnership for Trials Methodology Research. He is currently a member of Cancer Research UK’s Clinical Research Monitoring Panel, having previously served on their main clinical trials funding body. He spent 7 years serving on a national Research Ethics Committee.

 

Managing Editors
Sophie Greenwood, MSc, University of Aberdeen, UK
Jack Hall, MSc, University of Birmingham, UK

Protocol Editors
Murat Akand, PhD, Universitair Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Belgium
Riaz Qureshi, PhD, MS, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Cheney Drew, PhD, Cardiff University, UK
Hossein Fatemian, MD, MPH, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Alexander Gough, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK
Mona Kanaan, PhD, University of York, United Kingdom
Lisasha Poudel, MSc, Institute for Implementation Science and Health, Nepal
Aldana Rosso, PhD, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Francesca Schiavone, PhD, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, UK
Muslim Syed, PhD, MBBS, MCPS, MSc, University of Birmingham, UK

Associate Editors
Piotr Adamski, MD, PhD, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, FASCO, Miami Cancer Institute, USA
Victoria Allgar, BSc(Hons), PhD, SFHEA, University of York, UK
Alain Amstutz, MD, PhD, University of Basel, Switzerland
Evelyn Ansah, MB ChB, MPH, PhD, FGCP, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
Armin Attar, MD, PhD, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Mateus Dias Antunes, PhD, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Catherine Arundel, MSc, University of York, UK
Salla Atkins, PhD, Tampere University, Finland
Kerry Avery, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Danila Azzolina, PhD, University of Ferrara, Italy
Mohammad Bagherniya, PhD, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Arabella Baker, PhD, Birmingham City University, UK
Kishore Balasubramanian, BE, ME, PhD, Dr Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, India
Fatemeh Bazarganipour, PhD, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Marcus Bendtsen, PhD, Linköping University, Sweden
Zhaoxiang Bian, PhD, MD, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Katie Biggs, MA (Hons), MSc, University of Sheffield, UK
Linda Biesty,MSc, PhD, NUI Galway, Ireland
Jean Joel Bigna, MD, MPH, University of Paris Sud XI, France
Elena Bignami, MD, University of Parma, Italy
Oscar Bortolami, MSc, PhD, Syneos Health, UK
Carol Bugge, RN, PhD, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Claudia Buntrock, PhD, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Félix Caballero, PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Zhaolun Cai, MD, PhD, Sichuan University, China
Alison Calear, PhD, The Australian National University, Australia
Stephen Chapman,MRCS, PhD, University of Leeds, UK
Chunhoo Cheon, KMD, PhD, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea
Yee Tak Derek Cheung, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wai Tong Chien, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Babak Choodari-Oskooei, PhD, University College London, UK
Vincent Chung, BSc, MSc, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Barbara Clyne, PhD, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ireland
Chris Coffey, PhD, The University of Iowa, USA
Simon Craig, MBBS (Hons), FACEM, MHPE MPH, Monash University, Australia
Astrid Dahlgren, PhD, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Nina Deliu, PhD, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Hang Ding, PhD, University of Queensland, Australia
Neda Dolatkhah, MD, PhD, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Gheorghe Doros, PhD, Boston University, USA
Joel Dubin, PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada
Andrew Duckworth, BSc(Hons), MBChB, MSc, FRCSEd(Tr&Orth), PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Kate Duhig, BSc, MSc, MBBS, PhD, MRCP, MRCOG, University of Manchester, UK
Ahilanandan Dushianthan, MBBS, PhD, University Hospital Southampton, UK
Asim Ahmed Elnour, PhD, Al Ain University, UAE
Caroline Fairhurst, MSc, University of York, UK
Emanuela Falaschetti, MSc, CStat, Imperial College London, UK
Dazhi Fan, MD, Southern Medical University, China
Lilian Felicio, PhD, MD, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
Ryan Ferguson, MPH, DSc, Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Amy Finlay-Jones, BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych), Telethon Kids Institute, Australia
Christopher Gale, MBBS, MSc, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Gaetano Gallo, MD, PhD, FASCRS, FEBS, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Sherry Shiqian Gao, BDS, MSc, PhD, Xiamen University, China
Xiaoli Gao, MSc, PhD, FRACDS(DPH), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Richard Garfinkle, MD, MSc, PhD, McGill University, Canada
Hrvoje Gasparovic, MD, PhD, FETCS, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Melina Gattellari, PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
David Gillespie, BSc, PhD, Cardiff University, UK
Alexandra Gorelik, MSc, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
Dario Gregori, PhD, University of Padova, Italy
Heidi Green, PhD, COUCH Health, UK
Paola Gualtieri, PhD, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Maruti Gudavalli, PhD, Keiser University, USA
Jiong Jiong Guo, MD, PhD, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, China
Walter Kaufmann, MD, Emory University, USA 
Nut Koonrungsesomboon, MD, PhD, Chiang Mai University,Thailand
Sandeep Kumar Gupta, MBBS, MD, Heritage Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Fatemeh Haidari, PhD, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Jin Han, PhD, Black Dog Institute, Australia
Dietrich Haubenberger, MHSc, MD, University of California, San Diego, USA
Catherine Hayes, MD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Anna Heath, PhD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Thomas Hellyer, PhD, Newcastle University, UK
Lars Hemkens, MD, MPH, Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Switzerland
Daniela Hesse, DDS, MSc, PhD, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tammy Hoffmann, FAHMS, FOTARA, PhD, Bond University, Australia
Philipp Houben, MD, University Hospital Münster, Germany
Jia Huang, PhD, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Felix Hüttner, MD, University Hospital Of Ulm, Germany
Ishrat Husain, MBBS, MD (Res.), MRCPsych, University of Toronto, Canada
Marcus Jepson, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Lindsay Jibb, RN, PhD, CPHON, University of Toronto, Canada
Li Jinrong, PhD, MD, Sichuan University, China
Asbjørn Jokstad, DDS, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Silvia Jiménez Jorge, PhD, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Spain
Christopher Jones, MD, Rowan University, USA
Piyush Kalakoti, MD, University of Iowa, USA
Fiona Kennedy, BSc(hons), MSc, PhD, University of Leeds, UK
Ruth Knight, PhD, University of Liverpool, UK
Arunkumar Krishnan, MD, West Virginia University School of Medicine, USA
Naoki Kodama, DDS, PhD, Okayama University, Japan
Karl-Friedrich Kowalewski, MD, MSc, Heidelberg University, Germany
Caroline Kristunas, BSc, MSci, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK
Pramod Kumar Manjhi, MD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Xinxing Lai, MD, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China
Pierfrancesco Lapolla, MD, University of Oxford, UK
Sarah Leatherman, PhD, Boston Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, USA
Hans Lederhuber, MD PhD MFSTE, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Sarah Lensen, PhD, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Ai-Hsien Li, MD PhD MPH, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Ren Liao, MD, PhD, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, China
Jianchang Lin, PhD, Takeda, USA
Hengrui Liu, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
Teresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD, PT, University of British Columbia, Canada
Amanda López Picado, MD, San Carlos University Hospital, Spain
Rhiannon Macefield, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Stephanie MacNeill, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Vichithranie Madurasinghe, University of Oxford, UK
Ranjit Manchanda, MD, MRCOG, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Anthony Manyara, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Amelia Marques, PhD, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Federica Martorana, MD, PhD, University of Catania, Italy
Evan Mayo-Wilson, DPhil, MPA, Gillings School of Global Public Health, USA
Natalie McEvoy, PhD, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
Aidan Meade, PhD, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Christoph Michalski, MD, FACS, FRCS, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 
Mislav Mikuš, MD, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ali Modabber, MD, DMD, PhD, University of Aachen, Germany
Zsolt Molnár, PhD, University of Szeged, Hungary
Amir Reza Moravejolahkami, PhD, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Adrià Muntaner-Mas, PhD, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
Bronwyn Myers, PhD, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Mona Nabulsi, MD,  American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Amin Nakhostin-Ansari, PhD, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Mohammad Nawab, BSc, MD, National Research Institute of Unani Medicine for Skin Disorders, India
Saudamini Nesargi, DNB, St.John's Medical College Hospital, India
Felix Nickel, MD, MME, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Adriani Nikolakopoulou, PhD, Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Germany
Nuru Noor, MD, PhD, Medical Research Council, UK
Ayodele Odutayo, MD DPhil, University of Toronto, Canada
Brian P. O'Gara, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, USA
Yongdong Ouyang, PhD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Philip Pallmann, PhD, Cardiff University, UK
Emily Peckham, PhD, BSc, University of York, UK
Patrick Phillips, PhD, MS, MA, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Nishad Plakkal, MBBS, MD, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, India
Ramesh Poluru, PhD, The INCLEN Trust International, India
Mohammad Reza Pourahmadi, PT, PhD, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Priya R Prabhu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA
Gillian Prue, BSc (Hons), PhD, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Zongshi Qin, PhD, Peking University Clinical Research Institute, China
Matteo Quartagno, PhD, University College London, UK
Bibek Rajbhandari, MD, Nepal Police Hospital, Nepal
Alba Realpe Rojas, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Yousef Rezaei, MD, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran
Claire Rickard, PhD, FAAN, FAHMS, FACN, Griffith University, Australia
Enrico Ripamonti, PHD, University of Brescia, Italy
Matthew Roberts, PhD, Monash University, Australia
Leila Rooshenas, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Satrajit Roychoudhury, PhD, Pfizer Inc, USA
Vincenzo Russo, MD, PhD, MMSc, University of Campania, Italy
Zouina Sarfraz, MBBS, Miami Cancer Institute, USA
Giuseppe Sasso, MBChB MD FRANZCR, University of Auckland, New Zealand
JD Schwalm, MD, MSc, McMaster University, Canada
Jeremy Segrott, PhD, Cardiff University, UK
Shahzad Shaefi, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, USA
Lisa Shaw, MD, Newcastle University, UK
Pamela Shaw, PhD, MS, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Qian Shi, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA
Frances Shiely, PhD, University College Cork, Ireland
Spyridon Siafis, MD, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Ehsan Sinaei, MGH Institute of Health Professions, USA
Jasvinder Singh, MPH, MD, Mayo Clinic, USA
Alice Sitch, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK
Claire Snowdon, PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Ratna Sohanpal, BDS, MSc, DDPH, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Annabelle South, PhD, University College London, UK
Benjamin Speich, PhD, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, UK
Kirsty Sprange, BA (Hons), BSc (Hons), MSc, University of Nottingham, UK
Puvanendran Tharmanathan, MSc, PhD, University of York, UK
Sowmy Thuppal, PhD, MD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, USA
Jian-Feng Tu, PhD, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China
Ruth Tunn, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Berend van der Wilk, MD, PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Steffen Ventz, PhD, University of Minnesota, United States of America
Victor Volovici, MD, PhDc, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
Xue-Qiang Wang, PhD, Shanghai University of Sport, China
Fiona Warren, PhD MBPsS, University of Exeter, UK
Sam Watson, MBBS, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK
Natasha Weaver, PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia
Andrew Willis, PhD, University College Cork, Ireland
Rebecca Wilson, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
John Woodward, MS, Goodenough Consulting LLC, USA
Chao-Qun Yan, MD, Beijing University of Chinese Medcine, Dongzhimen Hospital, China
Mingxiao Yang, MD, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Juan José Yepes-Nuñez, MD, MSc, PhD, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Jerry Yeung, BSc, PhD, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Mingyu Zhang, PhD, MHS, Harvard Medical School, USA
Wenwen Zhang, MD, PhD, Nanjing First Hospital, China
Lihui Zhao, PhD, Northwestern University, USA
Tianqi Zhu, MD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Editorial Board
Ibrahem Abdalhakam, MD, MPH, Qatar Metabolic Institure, Qatar
Fernando Althabe, MD, MSc, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Argentina
Cigdem Arslan, MD, Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey
Jesse Berlin, ScD,  Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, USA
Nahid Bigdeli, MSc, Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran
Jenneffer Braga, NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (remote), Canada 
Marion Campbell, PhD, University of Aberdeen, UK
Jonathan A Cook, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Ralph D'Agostino, PhD, Boston University, USA  (deceased 2023)
Janet Dunn, PhD, CRC Trials Unit, UK
Diana Elbourne, PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Susan Ellenberg, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dean Fergusson, PhD, MHA, FCAHS, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Toshiaki Furukawa, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Japan
Paul Glasziou, FRACGP, PhD, AO, University of Oxford, UK
Christian Gluud, MD, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, Denmark
Yongzhu He, MD, Shenzhen People's Hospital, China
Talia Isaacs, PhD, University College London, UK
Rod Jackson, PhD, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Igor Karp, PhD, Western Ontario, Canada
Nancy King, JD, Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA
Manisha Koneru, MS, MD, Cooper Neurological Institute, USA
Satya Venkata Siddhardh Kumar Devarapalli, PhD, The George Institute for Global Health, India
Simon Lewin, PhD, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Norway
Steff Lewis, MSc, PhD, Edinburgh University, UK
Sherman Leung, PhD, Wesley Research Institute, Australia
Wenbin Lu, MS, Changhai Hospital, China 
Thomas Lumley, PhD, University of Washington, USA
Finlay McAlister, MD, MSc, University of Alberta, Canada
Victor Montori, MD, Mayo Clinic, USA
Ian Needleman, BDS, MSc, PhD, MRDRCS, FDSRCS, FFPH, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, UK
Max Parmar, DPhi, University College London, UK
Tim Peto, PhD, Oxford University, UK
Gilda Piaggio,  PhD, World Health Organization, Switzerland
Bertram Pitt, MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine, USA
Stuart Pocock, PhD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Lisasha Poudel, BSc, MPH, Institute for Implementation Science and Health, Nepal
Philippe Ravaud, MD, PhD, The French Cochrane Centre, France
Mauricio Saldaña, MD, Mexican Social Security Centre, Mexico
David Schriger, MD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Kenneth Schulz, PhD, FHI 360, USA
Amit Kumar Soni, PhD, Govt. MLB Girls PG College Indore, India
Hasnat Sujon, MBBS, MSc, Projahnmo Research Foundation, Bangladesh
Bufu Tang, PhD, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China
Monica Taljaard, PhD, University of Ottawa, Canada
Lehana Thabane, PhD, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Canada 
David Torgerson, PhD, York University, UK
Luke Vale, PhD, University of Aberdeen, UK
Jessica Williams, BSc, MRes, PhD, AFHEA, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Taixiang Wu, MD, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Jiale Zhang, MD, MRes, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, China
Jin-Xin Zheng, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Global Health, China
Yihao Zhu, MD, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, China