picture: Outgoing Editor-in-Chief of the Worldwide Journal of Danger & Security in Drugs
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Credit score: I. Ralph Edwards
Amsterdam, Could 22, 2023 – The Worldwide Journal of Danger & Security in Drugs (JRSM) want to announce that Editors-in-Chief I. Ralph Edwards, Hon DSc (College of Benin, Nigeria), MBChB, MRCS, FRCP(Lond), FRACP, FRCP (Edin), and Marie Lindquist, MSc, PhD, Hon FRCP (Lond), each of the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (retired), Gothenburg, Sweden, have determined to step down from their roles. Writer IOS Press needs to acknowledge their many important contributions to the publication since their management of the editorial board started in 2018 and to the sector normally.
Since its launch in 1990, JRSM’s guiding rules have included the presentation of knowledge and analysis that particularly seeks to guage the proof for the appropriate stability of effectiveness/profit in opposition to danger/hurt for medical therapies utilized in on a regular basis observe. “There are only a few journals that may declare this as one in every of their main goals. We’ve got inspired better consideration of the proof base on which therapy and administration will obtain one of the best short- and long-term total outcomes for sufferers,” defined Prof. Edwards. “After some lengthy deliberation, I’ve determined, with a lot unhappiness, that I ought to relinquish my submit as Editor-in-Chief of this distinctive journal.” Dr. Lindquist echoes this sentiment. “We’re assured that the journal will proceed to develop and flourish below the management of the eminent Liliya Eugenevna Ziganshina, and hope that she is going to benefit from the problem as a lot as we’ve achieved.”
Prof. Edwards has loved a protracted and illustrious profession. He has held professorial positions normally medication and medical pharmacology in Zimbabwe, New Zealand, and Sweden. Most notably, he was Director and Medical Advisor of the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) from 1990-2009. The UMC in its function because the WHO Collaborating Centre for Worldwide Drug Monitoring is accountable for the technical assist to all WHO-supported nationwide drug security monitoring applications worldwide. The UMC was the primary to develop knowledge mining in pharmacovigilance and risk-benefit evaluation. Prof. Edwards was the primary president of the Worldwide Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) because it developed from the European Society of Pharmacovigilance (ESoP), of which he was a founding member. He has written/co-written over 400 scientific papers and has contributed to quite a few books.
Dr. Lindquist joined UMC in 1979, and the fruits of her four-decades of service was serving as the middle’s second full-time director from 2009 to 2020. She is well known for her instrumental function in driving the middle’s progress, each in measurement as a corporation and in stature as a number one voice for world affected person security. She has printed many scientific papers within the areas of pharmacovigilance, sign detection, knowledge mining, knowledge administration & high quality, medical and drug terminologies and classifications. She oversaw the UMC scientific analysis program and efficiently led the event of novel instruments and strategies for worldwide monitoring of vaccine and drug security.
“It has been an honor to observe within the footsteps of Founding Editor Graham Dukes and former Editor-in-Chief Christopher van Boxtel, and we’re a lot heartened to see that with the unfailing assist of the writer, the journal has better world recognition, receives extra papers from many nations, and enjoys a broader readership,” commented Prof. Edwards and Dr. Lindquist.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we are saying farewell to Ralph and Marie, whose imaginative and prescient and tireless work on behalf of the journal have contributed a lot to its progress and ongoing success. Working in shut collaboration with Journal Managers Marion Lilley and Axana Scherbeijn, their fixed dedication, enthusiasm, and staff spirit helped form the journal,” stated Dr. Einar Fredriksson, founder and director of IOS Press. “They’ll definitely be missed by the IOS Press household. On the identical time, we want to welcome Liliya Eugenevna Ziganshina.”
Newly appointed Editor-in-Chief Liliya Eugenevna Ziganshina, MD, PhD, DSci, has been a JRSM Editorial Board member since 2003 and an Affiliate Editor since 2020.
Prof. Ziganshina is at present the Head of the Centre for Data Translation on the Russian Medical Academy for Persevering with Skilled Schooling (RMANPO), Moscow, Russian Federation, and holds the positions of Director of Cochrane Russia and professor of epidemiology. She additionally contributes as a professor of pharmacology at Kazan Federal College and on the RUDN College, Moscow. In 2018, she joined the European Advisory Committee on Well being Analysis (EACHR). Her work has targeted on well being priorities-oriented analysis in medical pharmacology, drug utilization, financial evaluations, and Cochrane opinions. She can also be a member of the WHO professional advisory panel on drug analysis, moderator of the Russian-language digital dialogue discussion board on important medicines – E-Lek (since 2003), and Cochrane coach for the WHO Proof-informed Coverage Community (EVIPNet) Europe (since 2017).
“It’s a distinctive privilege and large duty for me to observe within the custom of the excellent staff of JRSM editors: Graham, Chris, Ralph and Marie,” stated Prof. Ziganshina. “The extremely infectious dedication to security of interventions in well being, notably drug interventions, makes the journal much more necessary within the present atmosphere of an increasing number of well being applied sciences with fast-track choices, approvals, and implementations with much less and fewer sturdy analysis proof. Throughout the new challenges of rising infections, pandemics, well being emergencies and crises with the flooding of mis- and disinformation, JRSM retains offering the worldwide well being neighborhood with the distinctive alternative to publish and contribute to extra security in medication for higher well being of all.”
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