Welcome and introduction |
Welcome and introduction
This issue marks a number of changes in the editorial team of Age and Ageing. These include the appointment of Professor Roger Francis as Editor in Chief, Dr Frazer Anderson as Abstracts Editor, Dr Taj Hasan as Web Review Editor and Dr Terry Aspray, Professor Carol Jagger and Dr Steve Parry as Associate Editors. In taking over Professor Gordon Wilcock's role as Editor in Chief, Roger Francis paid tribute to his predecessor's success in enhancing the reputation of Age and Ageing, improving its impact factor and expanding its global influence, thereby consolidating its place as one of the major international journals in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. He also acknowledged the important contributions made by Professor John Gladman, Dr Jolyon Meara and Dr David Oliver in their former positions as Abstracts Editor, Web Review Editor and Associate Editor respectively. Professor Francis highlighted the invaluable support provided to the Editor and editorial team by Katy Ladbrook, who runs the Editorial Office in Bristol. He also expressed his gratitude to the Assistant Editor (Professor John Potter), Associate Editors, Editorial Board, Oxford University Press and the large number of peer reviewers, for their role in ensuring the continuing success of Age and Ageing. If readers have suggestions to make regarding the format or content of the journal, or are interested in serving as a peer reviewer, they are welcome to contact Professor Francis at the Editorial Office (office@ageingmedicine.com).Editor in Chief: Professor Roger Francis
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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 Metabolism 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 is Vice-Chairman of the Medical Board of the National Osteoporosis Society (NOS) and has served as Editor of their journal Osteoporosis Review for the past 6 years. He is also a Committee Member of the BGS Falls and Bone Health Section. Having been an Associate Editor of Age and Ageing for the past 2 years, he is now looking forward to the challenge of serving as Editor in Chief.
Abstracts Editor: Dr Frazer Anderson
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Frazer Anderson graduated from Edinburgh University in 1986 and undertook training posts in Durham and Northumberland. After an early flirtation with Haematology he decided not to spend his career poisoning people and changed tack to Geriatric Medicine. He developed an interest in osteoporosis while working for Roger Francis in Newcastle upon Tyne, researching treatments for male osteoporosis. He moved to his current post as Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Southampton in 1995. He has spent much of the last 10 years working as an investigator on clinical trials of vitamin D and calcium supplementation for fracture prevention in older people, which have recruited over 18,000 subjects. His main clinical interests are improving orthogeriatric services and secondary fracture prevention in older people. He is a member of the BGS Academic & Research Committee and a referee for several journals including Bone and the British Journal of Nutrition.
Web Review Editor: Dr Taj Hassan
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Taj Hasan is a Senior lecturer in Geriatric Medicine at Cardiff University and Honorary Consultant Physician/Geriatrician with a special interest in Stroke Medicine with the Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust. He qualified from Patna University in India and obtained his MD in General Medicine from the same university before moving to the UK. He undertook his General Medical training in Aberdeen and moved to Wales for higher training in Geriatric Medicine. His particular interests concern all aspects of Medical Education and Stroke. He obtained a Masters degree in Medical Education from the University of Wales in 1997. He has many years of experience in the organisation and delivery of undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing medical and multidisciplinary education. He is the Director of Student Selected Component (SSC) at the School of Medicine in Cardiff and the founder and Course Director of the innovative and highly successful multidisciplinary MSc course in Ageing, Health and Disease. He joined the editorial board of the Reviews in Clinical Gerontology in 2006. Taj is on the ‘Taking Knowledge Overseas Initiative’ of the Royal College of Physicians of London, which supports the continuing professional development as well as the teaching and curricular development skills amongst physicians internationally. Recently he was awarded a grant by the UK government Department for International Development to advance medical education in Ethiopia.
Associate Editor: Dr Terry Aspray
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Terry Aspray is a Consultant in Metabolic Medicine and Care of the Elderly in Sunderland. Having qualified from Newcastle in 1986, his clinical training was mostly on Tyneside and Wearside. However, he also spent a number of years in sub-Saharan Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean, working for the Medical Research Council, Department for International Development and Newcastle University. His MD was on osteoporosis in West Africa and research interests now focus on metabolic disease and bone heath in frail older people, particularly those living in institutions. He is a member of the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University, where he is Honorary Senior Lecturer and Strand Leader for the Masters Teaching Programme in Ageing. It is not surprising that, with such overseas experience, Terry is keen to help Age and Ageing develop its profile as the international journal for medicine in older age.
Associate Editor: Professor Carol Jagger
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Carol Jagger is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Leicester and Director of the Leicester Nuffield Research Unit. She has a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and a MSc in Statistics from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Leicester. She joined her Department (then Community Health) in Leicester as a medical statistician where she worked on the Melton Mowbray studies of the elderly and was awarded a personal Chair in 2000. Her research crosses the interface between demography and epidemiology of ageing with a particular focus on healthy active life expectancy and its use to monitor population ageing. Carol maintains an active interest in more statistical topics including the design and analysis of cohort and longitudinal surveys of ageing. Carol is a Chartered Statistician, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and a Member of MRC College of Experts Health Services and Public Health Research Board.
Associate Editor: Dr Steve Parry
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Steve Parry qualified from Newcastle Medical School in 1991 and trained in Newcastle and Phoenix, Arizona. His PhD was on carotid sinus syndrome and unexplained falls. In 2002 he was appointed Consultant Physician in Newcastle with a specialty interest in falls and syncope, and was subsequently appointed to a Senior Lecturer post in the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University in 2006. The Falls and Syncope Service in Newcastle (of which Steve is currently clinical lead) continues to provide innovative services, having recently developed rapid access referral pathways for GPs, fallers presenting to A&E and acute medicine, and the North East Ambulance Service. Steve's research interests are strongly focussed on falls and syncope, with particular interests in the pathophysiology and management of neutrally mediated disorders in older patients and novel investigative strategies in older patients with syncope.
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