Palliative Care: Research and Treatment

Associate Editor

Responsibility for editorial decision-making in respect to all submissions to the journal has been delegated by the editor in chief to the associate editors.  The editor in chief retains responisbility for editorial matters including but not limited to journal supplements, the aims and scope, the editorial board and volunteer peer reviewer pool, and for consulting on ad hoc editorial matters such as pre-submission inquiries from authors.

Alan Nixon, PhD, MD

Dr Alan John Nixon is the Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Palliative Medicine University of British Columbia Canada and Clinical Programme Manager  Richmond Integrated Palliative Care Service. Teaching the next generation of physicians is his passion, together with excellence in palliative practice and communication and dissemination of new information.

Formerly Section Head, Palliative Medicine King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and a board member of the IAHPC, Dr Nixon promotes palliative medicine in and teaches residents from the Middle East and internationally. Dr Nixon has had articles published from humorous to academic, and is an Assistant Editor of PC FACS of the AAHPM.

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Editorial Board

The editorial board is the journal's primary source of peer reviewers and members occasionally provide assistance to the editor in chief.  The editor in chief welcomes applications from suitable candidates to join the editorial board.  Further information on the editorial board is available here.

Zipporah Ali, MD, MPH, Dip. Pall. Care
Executive Director, Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA), Nairobi, Kenya

Joan "Jody"  Chrastek, DNP
Pain and Palliative Care Coordinator, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director, International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, Texas, USA

Liz Gwyther, PhD
CEO, Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Jeremy R. Johnson, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCP
Medical Director / Palliative Medicine Consultant, Severn Hospice, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK

Penka Y. Kolchakova, MD
College of Medicine, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Stefan Philipp Lorenzl, MD
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine, University Munich, Germany

Beverly Lunsford, PhD, RN
Associate Research Professor; Director, The Washington D.C. Area Geriatric Education Center Consortium; Director, The Center for Aging, Health and Humanities, School of Nursing, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA

Maria Fidelis C. Manalo, MSc
Consultant and Faculty, Hospice & Palliative Care Service, Department of Community & Family Medicine, Far Eastern University, NRMF Medical Center, Quezon City & Unit Head, Palliative Care Service, Cancer Center, The Medical City, Pasig City, Philippines

Marianne Matzo, PhD APRN BC FAAN
Professor and Frances E. and A. Earl Ziegler Chair in Palliative Care Nursing, Sooner Palliative Care Institute, University of Oklahoma College of Nursing; and Adjunct Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Ana Georgia Cavalcanti de Melo
Brazilian Association for Palliative Care (Associação Brasileira de Cuidados Paliativos), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Daniela V. Mosoiu, MD, PhD
Director for Education and National Development, Education and Resource Center For Palliative Medicine, Hospice "Casa Sperantei", Brasov, Romania

Simon Noble, MBBS FRCP
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University; and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Department of Palliative Medicine, Royal Gwent Hospital, Gwent, Wales, UK

Gudrun Pohl, PhD
LKH Krems, Department of Internal Medicine, Mitterweg, Krems, Austria

Eric Ernest Prommer, MD
Director of Palliative Care, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo College of Medicine, Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic, Arizona, USA

Amir Qaseem, MD PhD MHA
Department of Clinical Programs and Quality of Care, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

M R Rajagopal, PhD
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre at Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences and Chairman of "Pallium India"

Janice Scheufler, RPh, PharmD, FASCP
Clinical Hospice & Palliative Care Pharmacist, Hospice of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Herbert Watzke, MD
Professor of Palliative Medicine, Head of Palliative Care Unit, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Sriram Yennurajalingam, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Palliative care and Rehabilitation Medicine, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA