Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Susan Woods, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Medicine and Medical Informatics, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
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Susan Woods is a general internist, informaticist, researcher and Associate Professor in Medicine and Medical Informatics at Oregon Health & Science University. She is Principal at HiTecHiTouch, LLC, and Past-President of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Her research focuses on the development and implementation of virtual services, digital therapeutics, and digital inclusion. Previously she served as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Northern Light Mercy Hospital, and as Director of Patient Experience for the Veteran Health Administration’s Connected Care Office where she led national deployment of portal and mobile apps, Open Notes, and architecture for patient-generated data. She serves on the boards of Maine’s ConnectME Broadband Authority and Maine Medical Association. She founded MaineHealth’s Center for Tobacco Independence, and practices part-time in an addiction treatment clinic. She received an MD from Oregon Health Sciences University and an MPH from the University of Washington.
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Matthew F. Hudson, PhD, MPH
Director, Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR),Prisma Health (Greenville, South Carolina); Associate Professor of Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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Dr. Hudson conducts and oversees research on patient, provider, and organization-based interventions improving cancer care outcomes and patient well-being. Dr. Hudson is an alum of the National Cancer Institute's Multilevel Intervention Training Institute, and previously served the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) as a member of their Patient Engagement Advisory Panel. Dr. Hudson received his BA from the University of San Francisco, MPH from the University of California at Berkeley, and Ph.D. from Dartmouth College
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Editorial Board Members/Section Editors
Marge Benham-Hutchins, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Marge Benham-Hutchins' research is guided by the principles of complexity science and includes the use of social network analysis to examine nursing unit communication patterns and relationships to patient outcomes. Research projects include a focus on how patient access to medical information during hospitalization, including participation in nursing bedside shift change report and medical rounds, influences chronic disease self-management. Dr. Benham-Hutchins completed her PhD at the University of Arizona with a substantive research focus area of Health Informatics and a minor area of Health Systems. She received her ADN from Tarleton State University and a BSN in Nursing Science and MSN in Nursing Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington. She previously served as faculty at Northeastern University, teaching health informatics in the graduate and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs, and Texas Woman’s University and taught philosophy, theory, and informatics in the RN to BSN, graduate, and PhD programs. In addition to research, she taught health systems, quality and safety, biostatistics, informatics, and interprofessional education (IPE) at undergraduate and graduate levels. As an affiliate of the Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education she was active in multiple IPE initiatives with faculty and students from the Steve Hick’s School of Social work, College of Pharmacy, School of Nursing and Dell Medical School. She continues as an associate of the Center for Health Communication at the Moody College of Communication. She is active in numerous professional organizations and advocates for the Celiac Disease patient community and is currently on the patient advisory board for Beyond Celiac.
Karen L. Fortuna, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
Karen L. Fortuna holds a doctorate in Social Welfare and a master’s degree in Social Work. Her primary research interest is service delivery strategies for older adults with serious mental illnesses and chronic health conditions. Dr. Fortuna developed the Academic-Peer Support Specialists Model for Community Engagement to develop and implement peer-supported mobile health interventions. Dr. Fortuna was awarded an early career development K01 NIMH award, a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Foundation and the Alvin R. Tarlov & John E. Ware Jr. Award in Patient Reported Outcomes for her work. She is Co-Investigator on a PCORI pragmatic clinical trial and leads the community engagement. Dr. Fortuna served on the International Standards Advisory Committee to develop the first-ever international accreditation standards for behavioral health care for older adults. Dr. Fortuna’s work can be seen in several book chapters on digital peer support, in peer-reviewed journal publications, and in Forbes and Innovators Magazine.
Danny van Leeuwen, Opa, MPH, RN
Founder and Principal, Health Hats, DC, USA
Danny van Leeuwen is the Founder and Principal of Health Hats where he advocates for patients and caregivers, focusing on health equity, healthcare decision making, and communicating health information. Danny is a member of the PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) Board of Governors. He previously served as the Vice President for Quality Management at Advocates, Inc., providing support services to individuals and families with mental illness and developmental disabilities, among other challenges, and led Boston Children's Hospital's Patient-Family Experience Initiative. A patient-caregiver activist, a person with disabilities from Multiple Sclerosis, care partner to several family members’ end-of-life journeys, a registered nurse for over 45 years, informaticist, and podcaster (https://www.health-hats.com/
Adam C. Powell, PhD
President, Payer+Provider Syndicate, Massachusetts, USA
Adam C. Powell, Ph.D. is the President of Payer+Provider Syndicate, a management advisory and operational consulting firm focused on the managed care and healthcare delivery industries. A healthcare economist and published author, Dr. Powell's specialty as a consultant is using quantitative techniques to examine issues concerning healthcare technology, quality, and operations. His peer-reviewed research has focused on improving healthcare quality in mHealth (mobile health) and in high-cost areas of medicine. He additionally is a Senior Partner at SSB Solutions, a healthcare strategic advisory firm. He serves on the editorial boards of Discover Health Systems and the Journal of Participatory Medicine. Due to his interest in mental health apps, he is a co-founder of the Society for Digital Mental health. He is known for his expertise in global health informatics, and has lectured extensively in Asia. Dr. Powell holds a Doctorate and Master's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Health Care Management and Economics. He also holds Bachelor's degrees in Management Science and Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jay Spitulnik, PhD, EdM
Associate Teaching Professor, Director of the Health Informatics Graduate Program, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jay Spitulnik's research has focused on how relationships between physicians and other members of the care team affects patient safety culture and the resulting patient outcomes. His current teaching focuses on project management and on general introduction to the intricacies of the American healthcare system. He has practiced as an internal and external consultant in the areas of organizational and process improvement, organizational development, individual and organizational learning, project management, and quality management and improvement. In addition to his experience in healthcare and higher education, he has worked in industries associated with electric power generation, financial services, manufacturing, and professional services. He has served on local chapter Boards for the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), and the Association for Talent Development (ATD). He received his PhD from Walden University and his EdM from Boston University.
Jonathan Wald, MD, MPH, FACMI
Data Analytics Product Manager, InterSystems HealthShare, Massachusetts, USA
Jonathan Wald is the data analytics product manager for the InterSystems HealthShare platform, where he leads design and development of population health solutions since 2018. Before that, he directed the Digital Health and Clinical Informatics program at RTI International from 2011 to 2018, focused on the design and use of health information technology (IT) by providers and patients. He has been broadly engaged in health systems improvement through health IT, and specifically at how individuals can actively and proactively self-manage their health, partner in care, and use technology effectively. Between 2000 and 2010, Dr. Wald led the design and enterprise-wide rollout of Patient Gateway, the internet patient portal at Partners HealthCare in Boston, MA, and served as Associate Director for Clinical Informatics Research and Development. Before that he worked at Cerner Corporation as a physician executive, and was formally trained in informatics at Beth Israel Hospital’s Center for Clinical Computing in Boston, MA. Dr. Wald received his BA from Dartmouth College, MD from Brown Medical School, and MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Past Editorial Board Members
Brian Eastwood, PhD, Staff Scientist, Imaging Specialist, MBF Bioscience, Vermont, USA
Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD, CEO, CureMyWay, New Jersey, USA
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Guest Editors
We are also seeking guest editors who may wish to compile a theme issue on a special subtopic. Click here for more information on how to suggest a theme issue.
This may be particularly interesting for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (eg, with invited experts) on an eHealth-related topic. JMIR can then be used as a dissemination vehicle.
The task of the Guest Editor(s) is generally to:
- Solicit manuscripts from colleagues concerning the selected topic;
- Select peer-reviewers for incoming manuscripts;
- Make decisions (together with the editorial board) on article revisions and acceptance;
- Write an editorial for the theme issue; and/or
- Secure funding to sponsor the APFs for published papers (usually in the $10-20k range).
Alternately, the abstracts of the conference may be published in a supplement in iProc, with selected full papers published later in a theme issue or in regular JMIR issues.