Advisory Board and Editors Clinical Trials
Johannie M. Spaan
Dr. Johannie Spaan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest (Western University of Health Sciences). Her research interests focus on stress physiology, disease ecology, eco-immunology and parasitology.
More specifically, Dr. Spaan's research within the Steinauer lab is focused on a neglected tropical disease, Schistosomiasis, a helminth infection that affects over 200 million people. Research carried out within the lab focuses on uncovering potential mechanisms that can be manipulated to break the life cycle of this pathogen in order to reduce or eliminate schistosome transmission to humans.
In addition to this, Dr. Spaan is also involved in a project investigating the effect of schistosome infections in a mouse model system and the links among parasite infection, behavioral and cognitive changes, microbiome alteration, and systemic inflammation.
Nicholas Syn
Nicholas Syn, MBBS, is a researcher at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. His research interests are in general surgery, transplant surgery, and translational oncology. He has published over 109 PubMed-indexed articles in these areas, and has a H-index of 19 (updated as of 16th Apr, 2021).
Kazuki Takakura
Dr. Jonas Frederikson is an orthopedic surgeon who believes that patient care should be a physician's first priority. He specializes in laparoscopic procedures that minimize pain and recovery time, and has expertise in minimally invasive total knee replacement surgeries. Awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the American Medical Association in 2017, Dr. Frederikson has been published in both the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. He holds a medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of orthopedic medicine.
Steven YC Tong
Infectious diseases physician at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Co-head Translational and Clinical Research and Co-head Indigenous Health at Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne. Deputy Chair of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network.
Bernhard Wernly
Dr Bernhard Wernly is a Physician-scientist at the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzberg, Austria. He is trained in cardiology and intensive care medicine, MD, PhD and currently doing a Master in Public Health.
Wei Xu
Dr. Wei Xu received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of Toronto. He is currently a scientist and principle biostatistician in Princess Margaret Hospital on clinical research of cancer diseases. He is a faculty member at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics. Dr. Xu's research interests are statistical genetics and clinical trial design and analysis. He is the author or co-author of over 100 publications in peer-review journals.
Dongjie Yang
Dr. Dongjie Yang MD is Deputy Director, Consultant Surgeon and Doctoral Supervisor within the Center for Gastrointestinal Surgery at The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University. He gained his MBBS in 2002 and MD in 2009 at the Zhongshan School of Medical, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Dr. Yang has held previous previous positions at Kwong Wah Hospital and Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong; John Hopkins University, USA; the Center for GI Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, China; and the Japan National Cancer Centre Central Hospital .
Dr. Yang's clinical and research interests include Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery, and Gastrointestinal Oncology.
Since 2014, he has been a Member of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK (MRCS) & Member of The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong (MCSHK). He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and Associate Fellow of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AFAMEE).
Zhi Yang
Zhi Yang is a Senior Manager in Biostatistics at Bristol Myers Squibb (2021-). She holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Southern California. Her research interests include data science, machine learning, genomics, public health, Bayesian inference, and cancer research.
Jinming Yu
RESEARCH WORK
2011-Present: Vice Director, Office for Medical planning and science research, Fudan University
2010-Present: Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2007-2015: Director of Department of Health education
Vice-Director of Clinical Research Institute, School of Public Health, Fudan University
Director of Fudan University, School of Public Health, VitalStrategic Evidence-based Medicine Research Center
2007-2009: Vice-Director of Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University
2000-2007: Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Director of Department of Preventive Medicine
Director of Center for Medical calculation
Faculty of medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai PRC
1998-2000: Associate professor of Epidemiology
Faculty of medicine, Shanghai Tiedao University, Shanghai PRC
1995-1996, 1998: Cooperative research scholar
Department of public health
Faculty of medicine
Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam NL