Publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced the appointment of new editors for two of its evidence based titles - Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Evidence-Based Nursing.
Dr Richard Saitz, professor of medicine and epidemiology, associate director of the Office of Clinical Research, and director of the Clinical Addiction, Research and Education (CARE) Unit, at Boston University Medical Center (BUMC), has been named editor of EBM. The second appointment is Dr Alison Twycross, who began her role as editor of Evidence-Based Nursing, this month.
Dr Saitz is a primary care physician and researcher. He directs the Division of Clinical Research Resources for the Boston University Clinical Translational Science Institute. His primary areas of expertise and research are screening and brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol and drug use, integrating substance related and general health care, and improving the quality of care for people with addictions. He has written over 100 peer reviewed publications in this field and is an editor of Principles of Addiction Medicine.
Dr Twycross is Reader in Children's Nursing at the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences at Kingston University and St George's University of London. She is also course director for the MSc in Maternal and Child Health at the faculty. Dr Twycross is an expert in children's pain management and child health, and has published widely in these fields. She is a member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's wider reference group for the current review of pre-registration nurse education and a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain's (IASP) taskforce to review and update the IASP Curriculum on Pain for Schools of Nursing.
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