Editor Profiles

Dirk Krüger, Editor

New Content Item Dirk studied biomedical engineering, education and religious studies at the Braunschweig Institute of Technology, Germany, the University of Sydney, Australia and King’s College London, UK . As a PhD student, he worked on positive contrast MRI sequences to be used with novel iron-based nanoparticles for cancer imaging. Dirk is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

Dirk became interested in a career in publishing in 2007 with two internships in scientific journal and book publishing at Springer Verlag. He joined BioMed Central in 2015 as Editor for the BMC series.

Since September 2017, Dirk is the Editor of BMC Medical Research Methodology and is excited to continue the journal’s great track record of high quality publications.

Section Editors

Chiu-Hsieh Hsu

Data analysis, statistics and modelling

Chiu-Hsieh (Paul) Hsu, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Assistant Director for Biostatistics, Phase I & II Consortium in the University of Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona. He received a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan. He has been on the faculty of the University of Arizona since 2003. His research interests include development of robust statistical methods for missing data, survival analysis and personalized risk prediction models for colorectal cancer research. He is also heavily involved in collaborations in the areas of health disparities, patient care, cardiovascular and cancer prevention research. He has served as a Section Editor at BMC Medical Research Methodology since 2011.

Livia Puljak

Data collection, quality, and reporting

Livia Puljak, MD, PHD is professor at the University of Split School of Medicine in Split, Croatia. Prof. Puljak has extensive experience in conducting systematic reviews, methodological and meta-epidemiological studies. Prof. Puljak was inaugural director and founder of Cochrane Croatia. Her research interests are focused on methods in evidence-based medicine, clinical epidemiology and pain. She has served as Section Editor for BMC Medical Research Methodology since 2018.

Demosthenes Panagiotakos

Study design

Demosthenes Panagiotakos is Professor for Biostatistics, Research Methods and Epidemiology at Harokopio University in Athens. Since 2016 he is the vice Rector of Financial Affairs, Research and Development at Harokopio University. He is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra and the School of Allied Health at La Trobe University in Australia. He is furthermore visiting Distinguished Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers State University of New Jersey. His research interests include medical research methodology, epidemiologic study design and multivariate data analysis. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Health, Environment and Emerging Risks of the European Commission as well as the National Council for Nutrition Policy. He joined the editorial board of BMC Medical Research Methodology as Section Editor in 2018.

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