Editorial Team
Editors-in-Chief
Charles B. Simone, II, MD, FACRO
New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Zhi-hua Zhu, MD, PhD
State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Mellar P. Davis, MD, FCCP, FAAHPM
Department of Palliative Care, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA
Simon S. Lo, MD, FACR, FASTRO
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Associate Editors
Jan Gaertner
Palliative Care Center Hildegard, Basel, Switzerland
Caprice A. Knapp, PhD
Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Jian Wang, MD
State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Palliative Radiotherapy Subcommittee (Chairs)
Edward L.W. Chow, MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
Candice Johnstone, MD, MPH
Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin; Medical Director, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Network, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Palliative Radiotherapy Subcommittee
Tracy Balboni, MD, MPH
Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School; Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, MC, USA
Kristopher Dennis, MD, FRCPC
Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Lauren M. Hertan, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Joshua Jones, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Stephen Lutz, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Blanchard Valley Regional Cancer Center, Findlay, OH, USA
Quynh Nguyen, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Randy L. Wei, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, UC Irvine, Chao Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orange, CA, USA
Surgical Palliative Care Subcommittee (Chairs)
Geoffrey P. Dunn, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery and Medical Director of the Palliative Care Consultation Service at UPMC Hamot Medical Center, Erie, PA, USA
Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
Surgical Palliative Care Subcommittee
Alexandra M Easson, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Christine Carter Toevs, MD, FACS
Terre Haute Regional Hospital Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Pain Management Subcommittee (Chair)
Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD
Department of Pain Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Ethics Subcommittee (Chair)
Blair Henry, BSc, MTS
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
Editorial Board
Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD
Department of Pain Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Samy Alsirafy
Palliative Medicine Unit, Kasr Al-Ainy Center of Clinical Oncology & Nuclear Medicine, Kasr Al-Ainy School of Medicine, Cairo University, Manial Al-Rodah, Cairo, Egypt
Bárbara Antunes, MSc
Faculty of Medicine University of Porto; Research Associate, Centro de Estudose Investigação em Saúde, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Robert M. Arnold, MD
Division of General Internal Medicine, Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics, Montefiore University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Joseph Arthur, MD
Department of Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Ann Berger, MSN, MD
National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
Sushma Bhatnagar
Department of Onco-Anaesthesia and Palliative Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Eduardo Bruera, MD
Department of Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Maria Paola Brugnoli, MD, PhD
Neuroscience, Psychology and Psychiatry Research Team Neurobioethics, UNESCO Chair Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum, Roma, Italy
Margaret L. Campbell, PhD, RN, FPCN
College of Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Amy A. Case, MD
University at Buffalo School of Medicine, VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, NY, USA
Kwok Ying Chan, MRCP, FHKCP (Medicine)
Palliative Medical unit, Grantham Hospital, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong, China
Edward L.W. Chow, MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
Paul Daeninck, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Department of Medicine, Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Elizabeth David, BSc, MD, FRCPC, ABR
Department of Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Luc Deliens, MA, MSc, PhD
End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
Rony Dev, MD
Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Kavita Dharmarajan, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Julia Downing, PhD, RGN, FHEA
International Children’s’ Palliative Care Network, UK/South Africa;
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Geoffrey P. Dunn, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery and Medical Director of the Palliative Care Consultation Service at UPMC Hamot Medical Center, Erie, PA, USA
Trisha Dunning, AM, RN, CDE, MEd, PhD
Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research, Barwon Health Partnership, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Egidio Del Fabbro, MD
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia, USA
Hunter Groninger, MD, FAAHPM
Department of Medicine, Georgetown University; Section of Palliative Care, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
Hercília Guimarães
Serviço de Neonatologia, Hospital de S. João, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, RN, PhD, FEANS, FAAN
Hariri School of Nursing, American University of Beirut, Bayrut, Lebanon
Fabian M Johnston, MD, MHS, FACS
Division of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Joshua Jones, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Stein Kaasa, MD, PhD
Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Trondheim, Norway
Allan Kellehear, PhD, FAcSS
DHEZ Health and Wellbeing Centre and 50th Anniversary Professor (End-of-Life Care), University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
Benzi M. Kluger, MD, MS, FAAN
Departments of Neurology and Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Theresa Tze-kwan LAI, RN, RM, DHSc, IMDHA, IFA, FHKAN(Palliative), FHKAN(Education)
Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong
Mari Lloyd-Williams, MD, FRCP, FRCGP, MMedSci, JP, FLSW
Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group (APSCSG), Division of Primary Care, Waterhouse Building, Liverpool, England
Karl Lorenz, MD, MSHS
Department of Medicine, Section of Palliative Care, Stanford University School of Medicine and VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Stanford, California, USA
Jun J. Mao, MD, MSCE
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Bendheim Center for Integrative Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Maurie Markman, MD
Eastern Regional Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Eva Katharina Masel, MD, PhD, MSc
Clinical Division of Palliative Care, Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Sonja McIlfatrick
All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care, Institute of Nursing and Health Research, University of Ulster, Ulster, Northern Ireland
Sebastiano Mercadante, MD
Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit and Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, La Maddalena Cancer Center, Palermo, Italy; Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care & Emergencies, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Mitsunori Miyashita
Division of Palliative Nursing, Health Sciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Alexander Molassiotis, RN, PhD
School of Nursing & WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health Services, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
Donald Moss, PhD
College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences, Saybrook University, Oakland, CA, USA
Elżbieta Nowara, MD, PhD
Clinical and Experimental Oncology Department, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Jeffrey Peppercorn, MD
Division of Medical Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Nancy J Preston, PhD, BSc (Hons), RGN
International Observatory on End of Life Care, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK
Eric Prommer, MD, FAAHP, HMDC
Veterans Integrated Palliative Care Palliative Care UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lukas Radbruch
Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Palliative Care Centre, Malteser Hospital Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Bonn, Germany
Paul Rousseau, MD
Palliative Care, Charleston, SC, USA
Tony Ryan
School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
David Schreiber
Department of Radiation Oncology, Summit Medical Group Cancer Center, Berkeley Heights, NJ, USA
Debbie Selby, MD, FRCP(C)
Division of Palliative Care, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Canada
Wenlong Shao, MD, PhD
Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease & China State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Pasithorn Amy Suwanabol, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Yolanda D Tseng, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, WA USA
Ninghua Yao
Department of Radiotherapy, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu, China
Rebecca Yeung, MBBS, FRCR, FHKCR
Department of Clinical Oncology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Jian Zhang, MD
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (FUSCC), Shanghai, China
Yufeng Zhou, PhD
Division of Engineering Mechanics, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Managing Editors
Grace S. Li
Editorial Office, Annals of Palliative Medicine
Eunice X. Xu
Editorial Office, Annals of Palliative Medicine
Language Editors
Jeremy Dean Chapnick
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; United States University Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA (Sept. 2012 to May 2016)
John Ayric Gray
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Sept. 2004-June 2009)
Science Editors
Wei-En Fan
Editorial Office, Annals of Palliative Medicine
Angelia Zhou
Editorial Office, Annals of Palliative Medicine
Silvia L. Zhou
Editorial Office, Annals of Palliative Medicine
Academic Editors
APM appreciates the support from a strong team of academic editors who help to identify newly published research articles which have great clinical significance and as well as recommend international experts in the field to comment on the new publications. The list of the academic editors is available here: http://www.theaber.com/academicEditorList.
