Age and Ageing 2005 34(6):541; doi:10.1093/ageing/afi207
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Additions to the Editorial Team
We are very pleased to introduce two new Associate Editors who
will be joining our Editorial Team. Professor Rajkumar will
be advising on some cardiovascular papers and Professor Francis
on those involving bone health.
Professor Chakravarthi Rajkumar
After completing his training in geriatric medicine, Professor Rajkumar undertook a PhD programme as an NH and MRC scholar at the prestigious Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. On moving to England he joined Professor C. J. Bulpitt at Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, as a Senior Registrar and then became a Senior Lecturer in Geriatrics for the Faculty of Medicine. He has published over 150 abstracts, peer reviewed papers and book chapters. He is currently chair of the Cardiology section of the BGS and holds offices in various other organisations.
His research interests include vascular compliance, hypertension, living wills, Probiotics, and clinical trials in the elderly. He has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of research projects, funded by grants from the BHF, PPP Healthcare, and others. He is UK Country Coordinator for the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET), an international project involving over 100 centres in 12 countries. He is also chair of the HYVET side project on arterial compliance and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). In January 2005 he was appointed as Charles Hunnisett Foundation Chair of Geriatrics and Stroke Medicine at the newly formed Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Professor Roger M. Francis
After graduating in Medicine from the University of Leeds in 1975, Roger Francis developed a major clinical and research interest in osteoporosis, whilst working as a member of the Clinical Scientific Staff at the MRC Mineral Unit at Leeds General Infirmary. He was subsequently awarded a Smith and Nephew Travelling Fellowship, which allowed him to spend a year working on the cellular mechanisms of bone resorption in St Louis, USA. On returning to the United Kingdom, he worked as Honorary Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine at University College, London, before moving to Newcastle in 1986. He is now a Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Consultant Physician at Freeman Hospital. Professor Francis runs a large Bone Clinic and supervises a research programme examining the pathogenesis, sequelae and treatment of osteoporosis in men and women. He writes and speaks extensively on osteoporosis and was a Council Member of the National Osteoporosis Society (NOS) from 1995 until 2000. He remains on the Scientific Advisory Group of the NOS, and is the Editor of their journal Osteoporosis Review. He is also a Committee Member of the British Geriatrics Society Falls and Bone Health Section.
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