Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare

Professor Steve Campbell

Clinical Redesign, Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

Professor Campbell undertook his undergraduate education at the Department of Nursing at the University of Manchester in the 1970s, worked as a Health Visitor and then undertook specialist training in children’s nursing. During the 1990s, he was chair of the Association of British Paediatric Nurses, and was founding editor of Child Health journal (now with Sage). He gained his PhD on the topic of mouth care for sick children from Northumbria University. He was made the founding Chair of Nursing Practice at this institution in 2000, leading the Nursing Practice Research Centre at City Hospitals Sunderland, UK.  This is where he developed his international reputation for translational research. He has published widely and is currently Editor-In-Chief of two journals.  He became Head of the School of Health at the University of New England, NSW, in 2009, where he reinvigorated the teaching and research capacity. He moved to the University of Tasmania in January 2013, to become Head of Nursing and Midwifery, then Head of the School of Health Sciences and is now Professor of Clinical Redesign, Nursing. He was an executive member of the Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery (Australia and New Zealand), and a member of the Council of Deans of Health Science.

Prof. Campbell has a long history of translational research, with nearly 100 publications in the applied health arena. Prof. Campbell led Northumbria University’s Nursing Practice Research Centre from 2000 until 2008. As part of this work he led the NHS funded “Delivery of Care” research programme.  Most notably Prof. Campbell developed novel methodological approaches to change, such as his Patient Journey approach. Via this method he led the redevelopment of 18 clinical services from a patient/carer view point, but in partnership with health management and clinical leaders, as well as ensuring that national and international clinical guidelines are fulfilled. Another aspect of Prof. Campbell’s scholarship is in the arena of leadership, with evaluation and innovation expertise in its development. Prof. Campbell is also pioneering the use of the Four Frames of complex organisations in the health services arena.

Prof. Campbell is the joint national lead of the Health Management Research Alliance (Australia). A major part of this work has been the Positive Organisational Scholarship in Health approach, heralding a move away from simply reducing the number or errors, to embracing areas of great success and learning from those areas and making these approaches more pervasive. Prof. Campbell also has a notable history of the development and evaluation of new and developing roles in the health services. These roles have included nurse consultants, Lecturer/Practitioners and Health Care Assistants. Prof. Campbell has a history of over $3million of research grant income since becoming a Professor in 2000.

Dr Scott Fraser

Consultant Ophthalmologist, Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Sunderland, UK

Scott Fraser is a consultant ophthalmologist at Sunderland Eye Infirmary in the North East of the UK. He is also honorary lecturer at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and visiting professor at the University of Sunderland. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

He trained as an ophthalmologist initially in Newcastle and then completed his training at Moorfields Eye Hospital. At Moorfields he was also a research fellow initially looking into risk factors for late presentation of glaucoma and later as the Friend of Moorfields funded researcher looking at the genetics of glaucoma. He was awarded his MD in 2000.

His main clinical interest is in glaucoma in which he completed subspeciality training at Moorfields. His research interests also include glaucoma but more widely he is interested in factors that alter compliance with eye medications. He also has an interest in evidence based medicine and is an editor for the Cochrane Eyes and Vision group. He has published over 50 peer reviewed articles and over 100 presentations at scientific meetings. He has written chapters for 7 textbooks and has co-written a manual for eye care.

Professor Charles Victor Pollack

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS, USA

Dr. Charles Pollack is a Clinician-Scientist with an academic appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. He has long been active in teaching and clinical research and is an international leader in emergency medicine. He is the only physician to have received the American College of Emergency Physicians’ highest national awards in both teaching and research; he also received the national teaching award from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. He was the first US emergency physician to be elected a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. His primary research interests are in the management of thrombosis, reversal of antithrombotic therapy, and other aspects of urgent, emergent, and critical care.

Dr. Pollack has served as a consultant in senior leadership positions in Medical Affairs and Medical Communications for several small pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. He has expertise in clinical trial design and execution, in clinical development and life cycle management, and in working with regulatory authorities. He has served as PI or co-PI on multiple trials in the thrombosis and antithrombotic reversal spaces.

An internationally renowned and dedicated medical educator, Dr. Pollack also currently serves as the consulting Medical Director of AcademicCME, a highly regarded, joint accredited CE/CME content producer and distributor. Among other innovations he has developed with AcademicCME, Dr. Pollack was the first to demonstrate the feasibility, potential reach, and substantial value of accredited education delivered as “tweetorials”, posted serially and in their entirety on Twitter/X.

From 2015-2019, Dr. Pollack served as Associate Provost at Thomas Jefferson University, where he was also Professor and Senior Advisor for Interdisciplinary Research and Clinical Trials, Department of Emergency Medicine. From 2001-2015, Dr. Pollack was Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and served as Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. From 1992-2001, Dr. Pollack served in various positions in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, an urban, tertiary care teaching hospital affiliated with the Medical College of the University of Arizona and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He was Research Director from 1994 to 2000, and he chaired the department from 1997 to 2001. From 2000 through mid-2001, Dr. Pollack was also Director of Emergency Medicine at Arizona Heart Hospital.

Dr. Pollack graduated summa cum laude from Emory University in 1980 with bachelor’s degrees in history and chemistry and with a master’s degree in the history of science and medicine. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Pollack earned his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.

Dr. Pollack has written more than 500 original research articles, chapters, and abstracts, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals and on the steering committees of multiple national and international studies. He is a strong advocate for entrepreneurism and innovation in healthcare, and is passionate about addressing social inequality and access barriers in medicine. Dr. Pollack served two terms as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Mississippi Medical Research Foundation. He is also a founding Board member of the Hospital Quality Foundation, a non-for-profit education and research organization dedicated to improvement in the quality of care provided to patients in the hospital and at transition back to the outpatient setting.

Dr Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob

Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Service Professor of Nursing, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Jacqueline (Jackie) Dunbar-Jacob is Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She is a registered nurse and a licensed psychologist. Jackie’s long standing scientific interests lie in health behavior with an emphasis in patient adherence, chronic disease, and more recently, aging and workforce well-being. She has received over 15 million dollars from the NIH as principal investigator on grants primarily addressing chronic disease and/or patient adherence. In addition, Jackie has significant experience in the behavioral aspects of multicenter clinical trials, having served as the deputy director of the behavioral science consultants in the Coronary Primary Prevention Trial (NHLBI), behavioral science advisor to the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (NIDDK), with consultation to additional NIH supported multicenter trials. She has served on over 30 NIH panels, including state of the science panels, as well as chaired the Scientific Advisory Board of the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) initiative during its first phase. She has over 240 publications (refereed articles, book chapters, published abstracts, and other) with a google h-index of 57. Jackie is currently a consultant on the Teaching Nursing Home Collaborative, a leadership mentor in three nursing organization fellowship programs, a board member in several healthcare focused organizations, and chairs the health behavior expert panel of the American Academy of Nursing.

Jackie received her BSN in nursing from Florida State University, her MSN in psychiatric nursing from the University of California San Francisco, and her PhD in counseling psychology from Stanford University. She has served as president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing. She has also served on the NINR National Advisory Council. She has been an Honorary Advisory Professor at Capital Medical University and Fudan University, China. Jackie’s awards include the pathfinder Distinguished Research Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, National Student Nurses’ Association Weingarten Leader of Leaders Award, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Mary Tolle Wright Founders Award for Excellence in Leadership. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the American Psychological Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the American Heart Association.

Dr Jagdish Khubchandani

Dr. Jagdish Khubchandani, Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA

 

Dr. Jagdish Khubchandani is a Professor of Public Health at New Mexico State University, USA. He received his Doctorate in Clinical Medicine from India, Master’s in Public Health from Western Kentucky University, USA; and PhD in Health Education and Epidemiology from University of Toledo, USA. Within the past decade, coauthored more than 100 research articles in prestigious journals such as the Lancet, Journal of American Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine with emphasis on global health, social epidemiology, and injury and violence prevention. More recently, his research has received widespread attention from prominent media outlets such as NY Times, MSN, Bloomberg News, Chicago Tribune, WSJ, and Huffington Post. Dr. Khubchandani has also served as an elected Director and Secretary for the World Association of Medical Editors.

Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Laudanski

Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Krzysztof "Kris" Laudanski, MD, Ph.D., is a Professor and a Senior Associate Consultant in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care at the Mayo Clinic. His research interests focus on regulating DNA expression in survivors after critical care illnesses, healthcare operations/medical decision-making processes, and healthcare innovation (artificial intelligence, nanotechnology). He is a PI on the NIH-funded grant investigating abnormalities in gene regulation after critical care insult.

Dr. Laudanski founded a start-up, Qbimm Diagnostic, a company oriented at diagnosing immune disorders using nanotechnology. He is also a President of the Society for HealthCare Innovation. Since his research showed that suboptimal decision-making processes might expose patients to unnecessary risks and have negative economic consequences for hospital systems, he suggested, developed, and implemented artificial algorithms in critical care settings integrating AI with wearable biosensors and predictive diagnostics. Adjusting healthcare operations and delivery based on availability, cultural specificity, and local demands is another area of interest that Kris frequently pursued.

He is a committed mentor, with several of his mentees attaining positions in academia (Stanford, Yale), private companies (Merck), or being awarded prestigious scholarships (NSF).

Dr David C. Mohr

Health Law, Policy & Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

David C. Mohr, PhD is a health services research scientist at the National Center for Organization Development and an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He holds a doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University, OH since 2002.

He has a wide range of research interests including the health care workforce, well-being and safety, patient-centered care, patient safety, outcomes of care, and the influence of organizational systems and teams on outcomes. He has more than 100 publications on a range of organization and patient-focused topics. He also serves on the Senior Editorial Board for BMC Health Services Research and reviews on an ad hoc basis.

Dr Brian Nyatanga

Doctor of Nursing Science Emeritus, Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Apprenticeships, University of Worcester, England, UK

Born and raised in Rhodesia, Brian moved to the UK in the 1980s to train as a general nurse as a mature student. After qualifying he worked in the NHS and developed clinically in different areas before pursuing his passion in palliative care. His academic journey was intense and at times studying two courses at the same time (i.e., Diploma in Nursing Studies and English National Board 931 - specialist palliative care) while working full time. Brian was one of a few students recommended to go straight to study for a master’s degree and he successfully gained his MSc in Advancing Nursing Practice at Birmingham City University. He used the findings from his master’s degree to argue and reassure Hospice Governors to allow capable hospice patients to self-medicate their prescribed medicines, which was a first and welcomed by both patients and relatives.

Brian later received his postgraduate certificate in education, at which point he decided to take a break from studying, but instead embarked on writing and published his first book “Why is it so difficult to die?”, which turned out to be a classic with its second edition covering sensitive topics like Assisted dying (a taboo in England at the time). After publishing a few articles in palliative care in the 1990s, Brian was invited to join the Editorial board of the International Journal of Palliative Nursing. He later became its Consultant Editor between 2017-2024 during which he drove through changes and diversified the reviewers pool and board membership to reflect the international audience the journal served. Brian was asked to extend his tenure to ensure continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he is proud to have steered the journal through this difficult period in healthcare.

Brian went back to studying and gained his Doctorate PhD in 2010 in Wales. Post-doctoral research focussed on different aspects of palliative and end of life care including use of Death cafes in palliative care, experiences of living with Brain tumour, Homelessness, Empathy, benefits of complimentary therapies on people’s quality of life. Brian’s passion was always to make research everybody’s business, empower novice researchers, and share his research knowledge widely. Brian ‘convinced’ his university to allow him to create a Centre for palliative care jointly with a local hospice, and was its academic lead between 2012-2019. This was a proud moment, as the Centre engaged with, trained, guided and supported ‘research-shy’ clinical healthcare professionals and some university staff to conduct their own studies with confidence, while raising the profile of palliative care.
Brian has had the privilege of working with other universities in the UK and abroad as a visiting adjunct academic giving research lectures and examining PhD theses in Australia and Ireland.

In 2011, Brian was invited to write his own monthly palliative care column for the British Journal of Community Nursing to encourage open conversations about death and dying within the community as many people preferred to die at home. Soon after the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, Brian agreed to write a monthly palliative care column for his local newspaper aimed at normalising conversations about death and dying and hopefully remove the taboo-ness that still surrounds death. The column has received positive reviews from its readers, and helps to disseminate the philosophy that death is part of us all, and we should always strive to better humanity. Death is always nearby, hence ... Si vis vitam, para mortem.

Dr Pavani Rangachari

Department of Population Health and Leadership, School of Health Sciences, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA

Pavani Rangachari, Ph.D., CPH, serves as Professor of Healthcare Administration and Public health and Director of the Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program in the School of Health Sciences at the University of New Haven. Her expertise is in health policy and administration, including healthcare organization, financing, health disparities, and public health. Her special interest lies in the implementation of innovation and change in healthcare organizations. Dr. Rangachari holds an M.S. in Health Management & Policy from the School of Public Health at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), and a Ph.D. in Public Administration & Policy, from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. While completing her graduate studies, she also gained extensive work experience in the healthcare industry, with service in leadership roles at both a state hospital association and a community hospital.

Dr. Rangachari has received independent research grants as Principal Investigator from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and has published numerous primary-authored articles in the fields of healthcare management, leadership, health informatics, and public health. Her scholarship has contributed towards the: 1) identification of evidence-based management strategies for successful innovation implementation in healthcare organizations and 2) development of policy implications for consistent implementation of evidence-based and patient-centered care practices to promote population health. Her research projects have also contributed towards improving healthcare practices and outcomes at her study institutions. Dr. Rangachari’s scholarship has been recognized at a national level with the "Best-Theory-to-Practice Paper Award" from the Academy of Management Healthcare Management Division and nomination for the "Distinguished Paper Award" from the American Medical Informatics Association.

Dr. Rangachari is Certified in Public Health (CPH) and is an elected member of the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society. She has served on a variety of journal editorial boards and grant review panels for federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, and AHRQ. She currently serves as Associate Editor for BMC Health Services Research, Associate Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Healthcare Leadership, and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal for Environmental Research and Public Health, and the Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy.

Dr Laura Schwab-Reese

Department of Public Health, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Laura Schwab-Reese, MA, PhD is a researcher and educator specializing in child maltreatment prevention, family science, and mental health promotion. As an Associate Professor at Purdue University, she bridges public health, computational social science, and intervention science to address critical societal challenges. Her research focuses on leveraging technology to create adaptable, community-centered interventions to improve outcomes for children and families. Dr. Schwab-Reese is passionate about advancing interdisciplinary collaboration, ethical research practices, and innovative methodologies, including the integration of artificial intelligence in public health applications.

Dr. Schwab-Reese actively contributes to the academic community through her editorial leadership. She serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare and Journal of Family Violence and previously held editorial roles with Journal of Child and Family Studies and PLOS ONE. Additionally, she is a Review Editor for Frontiers in Public Health and a longstanding Editorial Board Member for Child Abuse & Neglect and the American Journal of Public Health, where she has contributed to AI policy development and strategic planning initiatives.