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, getting experiences as a clinician and researcher in the field of Primary Health Care and General Practice. He is now an Associate Professor of Social and Family Medicine at the Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete. |  |
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
Ann Larson is Director of the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Western Australia. She is a demographer
and public health researcher with a commitment of many years to the rural health sector.
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| Peter Jones, a generalist paediatrician, has recently been director of a
combined Australian university department of rural health and rural clinical
school, and Deputy Dean of Medicine, Bond University,
Queensland.
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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 School 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 Chair of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society for which she was one of the founding members.
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Production Editor
Melbourne-based Jennifer Richmond offers expert editorial assistance to authors at each stage in the publication process. Jen works with some authors on English-language improvement or assists with re-writing before the submitted
paper goes for review. After review, she offers help to authors to make the changes required by reviewers, then copyedits accepted papers to journal style. Jen is responsible for editorial development and generates information for authors. |  |
Journal Manager
Jenny Bigelow has been with the journal for 3 years. She works from Geelong, Victoria, and deals with the day-to-day running of the journal. She manages the smooth flow of articles through the publication process and coordinates development
of the journal site. She is also involved in formatting articles, tables and graphics for Web publication and is available to advise authors and answer user queries. She is the friendly response from the ejrh email address. |  |
