Editors-in-Chief
Mark Oremus, MA, PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada
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Specialisms: Aging, chronic disease, Cognitive function, Epidemiology, Quality-of-life, Social determinants of health
Oliver Rivero-Arias, MSc, DPhil, University of Oxford, UK
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Specialisms: Health-related quality of life, Health economics, Outcomes research, Health valuation, Stated-preference method
Deputy Editor
Brendan Mulhern, MRes, PhD, CHERE University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Statistical Advisors
Francesco Cottone, PhD, Global Oncology HEOR & RWE, Daiichi Sankyo Inc., Italy
Joseph C. Cappelleri, MPH, MS, PhD, Pfizer Inc., USA
Associate Editors
Fatima Al Sayah, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada
Bojana Bukurov, MD, PhD, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Julie Campbell, PhD, University of Tasmania, Australia
Danilo Carrozzino, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy
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Specialisms: Clinimetrics, Clinical psychology, Psychological assessment, Psychosomatics
Yan Feng, MSc, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Eduardo Fernández, DDS, DS, PhD, University of Chile, Chile
Sai-fu Fung, MA, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, China
Wei Gao, MD, PhD, Nanchang University, China
Johannes Giesinger, PhD, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
Olga Husson, MSc, PhD, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
Tatsunori Ikemoto, MD, PhD, Aichi Medical University, Japan
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Specialisms: Pain medicine, Musculoskeletal disorders, Rheumatology, Quality of Life
Leila Jahangiry, BASc, PhD, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Maja Kuharic, MSc, MPharm, PhD, Northwestern Medicine, United States of America
Christine Limbers, PhD, Baylor University, USA
PD Dr. soz. Dr. psych. Holger Mühlan-Rehmer, University of Greifswald, Germany
Eleanor Pullenayegum, MA, PhD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Frederick Purba, PhD, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
Prof. Dr. habil. Fanni Rencz, PhD, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Sofia Santos, PhD, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Specialisms: Quality of Life, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Validation, Psychomotor Therapy
Janine Verstraete, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Pei Wang, MSc, PhD, Fudan University, China
Richard Xu, MB, MHA, MPhil, PhD, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Zeng-Jie Ye, RN, PhD, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, China
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, China
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Specialisms: Patient Reported Outcomes, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Resilience, Cancer Nursing
Abebaw Mengistu Yohannes, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Yuan Zhang, MSc, PhD, McMaster University, Canada
Editor Emeritus
Prof. Dr. med. Holger Schunemann, MD, PhD, McMaster University, Canada