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Journal of Family Medicine · ISSN 2640-690X

Editorial Board

The people who decide what this journal publishes, listed in full. Each name and portrait links to that editor’s profile, and every affiliation, country, identifier and research interest below is shown as the journal’s records hold it.

16 members 10 countries 11 with a registered ORCID iD

The board

Members

Submissions are assigned to an editor from this board. Where a member records research interests, they are listed beside the entry so that an author can see which editors work closest to their subject.

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Angela Pia Cazzolla

RTT, LUM Jean Monnet University, Casamassima, Apulia

Italy

ORCID 0000-0003-0842-7351

Recorded research interests

  • Orthodontics
  • Pediatric Dentistry
  • Rare Diseases
  • Craniofacial Development & Morphology
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
  • Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD)
  • Dental Manifestations of Systemic Diseases
  • Cephalometry
  • Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders

Editorial Board

Dr. Ian James Martins

Research Fellow, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia

Australia

ORCID 0000-0002-2390-1501

Recorded research interests

  • COVID-19
  • global chronic disease
  • Appetite
  • Food quality
  • Heart disease
  • diabetes
  • anti-aging
  • drug therapy

Editorial Board

Dr. Anthony Achizie Iwuafor

Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River

Nigeria

ORCID 0000-0001-6796-3870

Recorded research interests

  • Infectious Diseases & Parasitology
  • Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
  • Malaria & Antimalarial Drug Resistance
  • Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Vaccine Acceptance Studies
  • Public Health Microbiology
  • Hospital & Community-Acquired Infections

Editorial Board

Dr. John P. Bartkowski

Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

United States

ORCID 0000-0002-1975-0421

Recorded research interests

  • evaluation
  • family
  • gender
  • qualitative methodology
  • religion
  • social welfare

Editorial Board

Dr. Tung-Wei Kao

Attending Physician, Department of Family Medicine & Division of Geriatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei, Taiwan. Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Taiwan, Province of China

Recorded research interests

  • Geriatrics and Gerontology
  • Sarcopenia and Frailty
  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health
  • Big Data Analysis (NHANES)
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Family Medicine
  • Nutritional Epidemiology

Editorial Board

Dr. Edésio Martins

DOCENTE, UNIVERSIDADE DE RIO VERDE, Goiânia, Goiás

Brazil

ORCID 0000-0002-7860-0917

Recorded research interests

  • Breast Cancer Epidemiology
  • Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery
  • Surgical Oncology
  • Clinical Oncology in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  • Cancer Survival Outcomes
  • Population-Based Cancer Studies

Editorial Board

Dr. GAURAV MEHTA

Assistant Professor / Clinical Faculty (Mental Health, Endocrinology & Family Medicine research collaborations) – active in both clinical practice (ChristianaCare, Delaware, USA) and research networks (Canada, Europe, UK) via multidisciplinary teams.

Recorded research interests

  • Diabetes and Mental Health
  • Family Medicine & Primary Care
  • Cardiovascular Risk in Mental Illness
  • Substance Use Disorder & Chronic Disease Interaction
  • Psychiatric–Endocrinology Interfaces
  • Health Services & Inpatient Outcomes
  • Public Health Interventions in Chronic Disease

Editorial Board

Dr. Lori Jones

Senior Researcher and Academic Author – Collaborator in Canadian health policy, family medicine education, and history of medicine projects

Canada

Recorded research interests

  • Primary Care & Family Medicine Education
  • Physician Workforce & Practice Choices
  • Health Policy & Comprehensiveness of Care
  • Qualitative Research in Medical Education
  • History of Medicine & Medieval Medical Texts

Editorial Board

Dr. Güler Kalem

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Aydın University, Turkey

Turkey

Recorded research interests

  • Health Informatics and mHealth Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Applications
  • Educational Technology and Hybrid Learning Models
  • Disaster Risk Management Systems
  • ICT in Higher Education
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Editorial Board

Dr. Mayank Agarwal

Assistant Professor, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh

India

ORCID 0000-0002-1107-1889

Recorded research interests

  • Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Autonomic Function Testing
  • Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
  • High-Altitude Physiology
  • Medical Education
  • Obesity and Metabolism
  • Stress Physiology

Editorial Board

Dr. Marco Guimarães Corrêa Guimarães Filho

Sponsored-research staff, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

United States

ORCID 0000-0003-0796-8025

Recorded research interests

  • Uveitis & Ocular Inflammation
  • Infectious Uveitis (Syphilis, Tuberculosis, Toxoplasmosis)
  • Autoimmune Uveitis
  • Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) Disease
  • Multimodal Ocular Imaging (OCT, OCTA)
  • Clinical Ophthalmology
  • Retina

Editorial Board

Prof. Francesco Carelli

Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Milan, Italy — teaching family medicine, medical education. EURACT Council — Director of Communications.

Italy

Recorded research interests

  • Medical Education
  • Family Medicine / General Practice Education
  • Assessment and appraisal of medical teachers
  • Early clinical exposure in medical students
  • Evidence-based and training standards in primary care

Editorial Board

Dr. Nikhila Gandrakota

Department of Family Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

United States

ORCID 0000-0002-4267-7533

Recorded research interests

  • Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Management
  • Stroke Outcomes & Post-Stroke Care
  • Social Determinants of Health in Cardiometabolic Disease
  • Infectious Diseases (COVID-19, Monkeypox) & Long COVID
  • Preventive Medicine & Public Health Policy

Editorial Board

Dr. Rajajeyakumar Manivel

Assistant Professor, Saveetha University Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

India

ORCID 0000-0002-0772-7259

Recorded research interests

  • Neurophysiology
  • Autonomic Function Testing (HRV, tilt-table)
  • Electrophysiology (EMG, VEP, BERA, NCS)
  • Yoga and lifestyle medicine
  • Cardiovascular and respiratory physiology
  • Diabetes and obesity research
  • Male infertility and reproductive physiology
  • Medical education research

Editorial Board

Dr. Shiwei Duan

Professor, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

China

ORCID 0000-0001-7682-2877

Recorded research interests

  • Epigenomics / DNA methylation / Noncoding RNAs
  • Pharmacogenomics in cancer therapy
  • Genetic variation and gene expression (eQTLs)
  • Complex disease genomics
  • Biomarker discovery & translational epigenetics
  • Stem cell genomics and mitochondrial profiling​

Editorial Board

Dr. Lucio Mango

Director 2nd level Master on Health Management, Università degli studi Internazionali di Roma, Roma, Lazio

Italy

ORCID 0000-0002-8078-3038

Recorded research interests

  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Oncology
  • Theranostics
  • PET/CT and SPECT/CT Imaging
  • Radiometabolic Therapy
  • Endocrinology (especially Thyroidology)
  • Molecular Imaging
  • Radiopharmaceutical

Accountability

How the board is bound

These are the conditions under which the people above make decisions. The full text of each is on the editorial policies page.

Review and decision

All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by two to three independent subject-matter experts.

Decision criteria

Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.

Competing interests and recusal

Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions, which are handled independently. The same applies where an editor has a competing interest in a manuscript, whether personal, professional or financial.

Independence

Editorial decisions remain independent of fees, memberships, optional services, and editorial or reviewer roles. Editors provide scholarly stewardship by overseeing peer review and upholding publication ethics; an editorial role confers no advantage in the review of that editor’s own work.

Read the editorial policies

Working with the journal

Editors and reviewers

Researchers and clinicians working in family medicine and its neighboring fields are welcome to make themselves known to the editorial office, whether to review or to discuss editorial work. Appointments are made by the journal; a role carries scholarly responsibility and no publishing advantage.

The editorial office can be reached at [email protected].

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