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Jagoda Mackowiak, Editor

New Content ItemJagoda’s background is interdisciplinary and revolves around molecular biology and neuropsychopharmacology. She graduated from Maastricht Science Program at Maastricht University in the Netherlands where her focus was on cognitive neuroscience. Following the move to Germany, she completed her master’s degree at Humboldt University of Berlin. At the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, she delved into CRISPR Cas9 methods. She gained publishing and medical education experience at MIND Foundation, where her focus was on psychedelic research and therapy. In that role she contributed to several projects; most recently coordinating the development of MOLECULES program, which is a part of the Augmented Psychotherapy Training. With the desire to advocate for open access, she joined the BMC Series as an Associate Editor and is the Editor for BMC Nursing and BMC Medical Education in 2023.


Senior Editorial Board Members 
Peter Anderson, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Samy Azer, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Salman Yousuf Guraya, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Sigrid Harendza, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
Blossom Yen-Ju Lin, Chang Gung University, Taiwan 
Jacqueline McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Chris Roberts, Hull York Medical School, UK
Olwyn Westwood, Brunel University London, UK
Marjo Wijnen-Meijer, Technical University of Munich
Tim Wilkinson, University of Otago

Editorial Board Members
Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla Elsayed, University of Limerick, Ireland
Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Usman Abubakar, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Karthik Adapa, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA
Tauseef Ahmad, King Saud Univerisity, Saudi Arabia
Soleiman Ahmady, KI and SBMU, Sweden
Samar Ahmed, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Ibrahim Al-Busaidi, University of Otago, New Zealand
Sausan Al Kawas, College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Utd.Arab.Emir.
Abdullah Alismail, Loma Linda University, USA
Mitra Amini, Shiraz Medical School, Iran
Steven Andersen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Elize Archer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Stefanie Attardi, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, USA
Dinesh Badyal, Christian Medical College & Hospital Ludhiana, India
Renren Bai, Hangzhou Normal University, China
Nobutaro Ban, Aichi Medical University, Japan
Soham Bandyopadhyay, University of Southampton, UK
Yajnavalkaa Banerrji, MBRU, UAE
Wegdan Bani-issa, University of Sharjah, UAE
Elizabeth Beckett, University of Adelaide , Australia
Abebe Bekele Zerihun, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
Joana Berger-Estilita, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland
Shoaleh Bigdeli, Center for Educational Research in Medical Sciences (CERMS), Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine & University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Justin Bilszta, University of Melbourne, Australia
Prateek Bobhate, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, India
James Boyle, University of Glasgow, UK
Malcolm Boyle, Monash University, Australia
Jeremy Branzetti, Geisinger Community Medical Center, USA
Jan Breckwoldt, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Giampiera Bulfone, University of Catania, Italy
Bryan Burford, Newcastle University, UK
Annette Burgess, The University of Sydney, Australia
Jamiu Busari, School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Tudor Calinici, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Sandra Carr, University of Western Australia, Australia
Caroline Carrico, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Elizabeth Cerceo, Cooper University Health Care, USA
Jessica Chacon, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, USA
Yu-Che Chang, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Fei Chen, University of North Carolina, USA
Yen-Yuan Chen, Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Bioethics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan R.O.C.
Dimitrios Chytas, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Michael Co, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Claire Condron, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland
Maurizio Costabile, University of South Australia, Australia
Ian Couper, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Monica Cuddy, NBME, USA
Angelo Dante, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Mayssoon Dashash, Damascus University, Syrian Virtual University, Syrian Arab. Rep.
Arnout Jan de Beaufort, Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands
Dianne Delva, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jacqueline Dias, University of Sharjah, Utd.Arab.Emir.
Constance Dine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Rebecca Donkin, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Robbert J Duvivier, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Jan P. Ehlers, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Melih Elcin, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Lia Fluit, Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, Netherlands
Chan Choong Foong, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Gaetano Gallo, Sapienza University of Roma, Italy
Roghayeh Gandomkar, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Neil Gesundheit, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Saeideh Ghaffarifar, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Morris Gordon, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Megan Gray, University of Washington, USA
Christina Gummesson, Malmö University and Lund University, Sweden
Shaista Salman Guraya, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Sissel Guttormsen, University of Bern, Switzerland
Siti Nurma Hanim Hadie, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Faizal Aminmohamed Haji, Queen’s University, Canada
Mohammed Hassanien, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Inam Haq, University of Sydney, Australia
Dylan Henssen, Radboudumc, The Netherlands
Cheng-Maw Ho, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taiwan
Laura Hopson, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
Jianlin Hou, Peking University, China
Zhengwei Huang, Jinan University, China
Yera Hur, Hallym University College of Medicine / Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, Korea
Sören Huwendiek, University Bern, Switzerland
Halah Ibrahim, Khalifa University College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE
Rintaro Imafuku, Gifu University, Japan
Kshama Jaiswal, University of Colorado, USA
Brian Jolly, The University of Newcastle, UK
Jaime Jordan, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA
Salah Eldin Kassab, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Rajneesh Kaur, University of Sydney, Australia
Masego Kebaetse, University of Botswana, Botswana
Iain Keenan, Newcastle University, UK
Nagina Khan, Touro University Nevada, USA
Priya Khanna Pathak, University of Sydney, Australia
Robin Klein, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Claudia Krebs, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Lalit Krishna, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore
Jason Last, University College Dublin, Ireland
Delyse Leadbeatter, The University of Sydney, Australia
Michael Lee, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA
Shuh Shing Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yong-Mee Lee, Korea University College of Medicine, South Korea
Kathleen Leedham-Green, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Steven Lillis, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Gianni Lorello, University of Toronto, Canada
Kayley Lyons, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mohi Eldin Magzoub, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
Usman Mahboob, Khyber Medical University, Pakistan
Md Anwarul Azim MAJUMDER, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Barbados
Bunmi Malau-Aduli, James Cook University, Australia
Priya Martin, The University of Queensland, Australia
Russell Seth Martins, Hackensack Meridian Health, USA
Ken Masters, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
David Matheson, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Yasushi Matsuyama, Jichi Medical University, Japan
Margaret McNulty, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Sreenivasulu Reddy Mogali, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore
Anthony Montogomery, University of Macedonia, Greece
Alexandre Moura, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Brazil
Aloysius Gonzaga Mubuuke, Makerere University, Uganda
Peter Musaeus, Aarhus University, Denmark
David Musick, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, USA
Sareesh Narayanan Naduvil, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Curtise K. C. Ng, Curtin University, Australia
Stella Ng, University of Toronto , Canada
Kathleen Norman, Queen's University, Canada
Champion N. Nyoni, University of the Free State, South Africa
Maree O'Keefe, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Ravi Parekh, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Caroline Paul, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, USA
José Miguel Pêgo, University of Minho, Portugal
Harm Peters, Dieter Scheffner Center for Medical Education, Germany
Alexander Phillips, Royal Victoria Infirmary, UK
Gominda G Ponnamperuma, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Amy Prunuske, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Christina Puchalski, George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, George Washington University, USA
Sue Pullon, University of Otago, New Zealand 
Bo Qu, China Medical University, China
Sayeeda Rahman, American University of Integrative Sciences, Barbados
Preman Rajalingam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tobias Raupach, University of Bonn, Germany
Florian Recker, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
Eliot Rees, Keele University, United Kingdom
Linda Regan, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Daniel Ricotta, Harvard Medical School, USA
Victoria Roach, University of Washington, USA
Bidyadhar Sa, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Dujeepa Samarasekera, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Stefano Sandrone, Imperial College London, UK
Nirav Shah, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Ralf Schmidmaier, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Kai Schnabel, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Nicola Serra, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Pathiyil Ravi Shankar, International Medical University, Malaysia
Malissa Kay Shaw, Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, Taiwan
Kiyoshi Shikino, Chiba University, Japan
Saurabh Shrivastava, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, India
Veena Singaram, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Tanmay Sinha, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tony Skapetis, University of Sydney, Australia
Anne D Souza, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
KM Stegers-Jager, Erasmus MC, Netherlands
Goran Strkalj, Flinders University, Australia
Jeanine Suurmond, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Netherlands
Meenakshi Swamy, Newcastle University, UK
Olga Szafran, University of Alberta, Canada
Mohamed H. Taha, Medical Education Center and College of Medicine University of Sharjah, Utd.Arab.Emir.
Chengxiang Tang, Macquarie University Centre of Health Economy, Australia
David Taylor, Gulf Medical University, UAE
Ying Pin Toh, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Daniel Tolks, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany
Marco Tomietto, Northumbria University, UK
David Topor, VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Annie Topping, University of Huddersfield, UK
Çetin Toraman, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Adrienne Torda, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Sevgi Turan, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Rachel Umoren, University of Washington, USA
Jacqueline van Wyk, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Marta van Zanten, FAIMER, USA
Martin Veysey, Gosford Hospital, Australia
Ling Wang, Michigan State University, USA
Ahmed Waqas, Human Development Research Foundation, Pakistan
Bernadette Watson, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Kerry Wilbur, Qatar University, Qatar
Andrea Woltman, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
Anouk Wouters, VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
Anette Wu, Columbia University, USA
Peter Wyer, Columbia University, USA
Junhua Xiao, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Xuesong Yang, Jinan University, China, People's Republic
Ying-Ying Yang, Taipei Veteran General Hospitals, Taiwan R.O.C.
Tim Young, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Nahid Zarifsanaiey, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Marko Zdravkovic, University Medical Centre Maribor, Slovenia

Editorial Advisors
Mark Albanese, University of Wisconsin Medical School, USA
Vanessa Burch, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Chris Candler, University of Oklahoma, USA
Philip Davies, Centre for Management and Policy Studies, UK
Richard M Frankel, Regenstrief Institute, USA
Trisha Greenhalgh, University College London Medical School, UK
Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Michigan State University, USA
Michael Hortsch, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
Cindy L Lam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Harold P Lehmann, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Chris McManus, University College London, UK
Charlotte E Rees, University of Dundee, UK
Matthias Siebeck, University of Munich, Germany
Deborah Simpson, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
John R Skelton, University of Birmingham, UK
James Wofford, Wake Forest University, USA
Fredric M Wolf, University of Washington Medical Center, USA

Statistical Advisors
Patrick Barlow, The University of Iowa, USA
Rose Calixte, Winthrop University Hospital, USA
Melanie Goodman, Washington University, USA
Marianna LaNoue, Vanderbilt University, USA
Yoon Soo Park, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

 

 

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