Editor-in-Chief
Paul Worley, Dean of the School of Medicine at Flinders University, based in Adelaide, Australia is the Editor-in-Chief of Rural and Remote Health. Paul is a rural doctor and, as Editor, shapes and guides the journal, oversees the review process and supports and advises authors, taking an active interest in the progress of each article in production.
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European Regional Editor
Christos Lionis acted as the manager and medical director of the Spili Health Centre, a pilot for the University of Crete Primary Care Centre, for 9 years, gaining experience as a clinician and researcher in the field of primary health care and general practice. He is now a Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at the Medical Faculty, University of Crete, Greece. |  |
African Regional Editor
Ian Couper is Professor of Rural Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is also Principal Specialist (Rural Medicine), in the North West Province of South Africa. He is a trained family physicain. He spent ten years practising in a remote rural hospital in nothern KwaZuluNatal province. |  |
Australasian Regional Editors
Amanda Barnard is Associate Dean of the School of General Practice, Rural and
Indigenous Health at the Australian National University Medical School, and
Foundation Head of the Rural Clinical School. She works as a GP in Braidwood, a
small rural town in south-east New South Wales. While her interests include
rural medical education, interprofessional learning and health service
delivery, she has a particular interest in the primary care management of
respiratory illness.
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| Timothy Skinner is the Director of the Rural Clinical School at the University
of Tasmania, Australia. He is a UK trained health psychologist who
moved to Australia in 2007 and has worked in rural/remote Australia since 2008.
His clinical practice and research background is in chronic disease care,
especially diabetes, with a core interest in clinical communication skills. He
has an enthusiasm for rural and remote health research. |  |
North American Regional Editors
Bob Bowman has found yet another distributional medical education home at the ATSU School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. He is a Professor, adds the family practice and rural perspective to curricula, and contributes to admissions and to small group teaching activities. He will work with medical students and faculty at ten underserved site training locations from Hawaii to Brooklyn. He continues to post his research studies at http://www.ruralmedicaleducation.org/physician_workforce_studies.htm.
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| Judith Kulig is a Professor in the Nursing Program within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. She has devoted her research program to understanding rural health issues specifically addressing unique groups who live in rural areas, nursing practice in rural and remote Canada and community resiliency in rural communities. Judith is past Chair of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society for which she was one of the founding members.
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Asian Regional Editor
Masatoshi Matsumoto is an associate professor of community medicine
at
Hiroshima University, Japan. He is a general practitioner who worked
for
some years in the least populated mountain village in rural Japan. He
has
taught rural health at Jichi Medical University, the Japanese medical
school
founded solely for producing rural doctors, for more than ten years.
His
academic interests are rural health policy, rural medical education,
medical
anthropology and rural community-based epidemiology.
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Production Editor
Melbourne-based Jennifer Richmond has
offered expert editorial assistance and advice to authors at each stage in the
publication process since 2002. Jen works with some authors on English-language
improvement and, after review, she copyedits accepted manuscripts to journal
style and oversees the proofing process. Jen is responsible for editorial
development and generates and maintains the formal information
for authors and reviewers on the site. She manages copyright and permissions,
and has other administrative roles which include liaison with Regional Editors
and their Editorial Panels, and special project management. She works closely with the Journal Manager. |  |
Journal Manager
Jenny Bigelow has been with the journal for over 10
years. She works from regional Geelong, Victoria, and deals with the day-to-day
running of the journal. She manages the smooth flow of manuscripts through the
publication process and coordinates development of the journal site. She has
specific graphics skills which are essential to formatting and presenting
tables and figures for online publication. Jenny is an expert advisor for
reviewers and journal users. Post-production, Jenny is the efficient liaison
for indexing services and other agencies, and manages site statistics as well
as creating the article printable pdf version. She is the friendly response
from the ejrh email address. Jenny works closely with the Production Editor.
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