Editorial Board

Associate Editor

Yonghong Ding, PhD, Springer Nature, China
Yonghong is the Locum Editor for BMC Cancer and BMC Palliative Care. He joins the BMC Series after working at a Cancer Therapeutic company in Shanghai where he helped develop analytical methods to monitor purity and charge heterogeneity of antibodies. Prior to that he completed his master and PhD at the University of Leipzig and undertook postdoctoral work as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen. There he was involved in developing a quick magnetic resonance-based assay to image tumors ​in vivo. He is currently based in Springer Nature Shanghai Office.




Senior Editorial Board Members

Jane Phillips, PhD, RN, FACN, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Professor Jane Phillips, PhD, RN, FACN is Head of School at the QUT School of Nursing and Professor of Palliative Nursing. She is a Registered Nurse with extensive experience as a leader in research and education in the health sector. She has just been named Australia’s top researcher in the field of hospice and palliative care in the Australian’s list of top 250 researchers in 2021.  Jane was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2021 and is an Inaugural Fellow of Palliative Care Nurses Australia. Jane is at the forefront of her field and brings her considerable clinical nursing, national policy and academic expertise to deliver outcomes that are changing practice and enhancing palliative care globally.  Her interdisciplinary program of research targets the delivery of care that enables people to spend more days in their place of choice, move seamlessly between care settings and receive the best evidence-based palliative care.  She was previously the Director of IMPACCT, (Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care Through Clinical Research and Translation), at the University of Technology Sydney where she is an Emerita Professor.

Barry Quinn, PhD, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Barry, is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Cancer and Palliative Care at Queen’s University Belfast and Mohamed Bin Rashid University, Dubai. He has been working as a clinician, academic and researcher in the field of cancer and palliative care for over 30 years. He has published numerous articles on a range of palliative and end-of-life care issues including, spirituality, symptom management, communication and compassionate leadership. He is the Chair of two European expert groups, Managing Advanced Cancer Pain (MACPT) and European Oral Care in Cancer (EOCC). He is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international meetings, he has published articles and book chapters on a range of palliative and nursing issues. He is a member of the All Ireland Palliative Care Research Network. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Palliative Care in 2020 and has appointed as a Senior Editorial Board Member in October 2022. 


Assistant Editors
Anuj Kankariya, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Ashif Mujawar, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India

Manuscript Editors
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Gayatri Kanade, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, M.Tech, B.Tech, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pranitha Pandit, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pratibha Verma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pravin Giri, PhD, MSc, Bsc, Springer Nature, India
Priya Sharma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Raunaq Singh Nagi, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Swayamsidha Pati, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India

Editorial Board Members
Bárbara Antunes, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
Maho Aoyama, PhD, Tohoku University, Japan
Emmanuelle Belanger, PhD, Brown University, USA
Eva Bergstraesser, MD, MSc, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Sascha Bolt, PhD, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Augusto Caraceni, National Cancer Institute of Milan, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ping-Jen Chen, MD, PhD, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Hon Wai Benjamin Cheng, Dr. med., Medical Palliative Care Team, TMH, Hong Kong
Michael Chapman, MBBS, PhD, Australian National University and Canberra Health Services, Australia
Michael Connolly, PhD, University College Dublin, Ireland
Ludovica De Panfilis, PhD, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jinfeng Ding, PhD, Central South University, China
Virginie Guastella, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, France
Janice Firn, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
Geraldine Foley, PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Shannon Freeman, PhD, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Maria Friedrichsen, MD, PhD, Clinic of advanced palliative home care, Sweden
Tanja Fusi-Schmidhauser, PD, PhD, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Switzerland
Wei Gao, PhD, Nanchang University, China
Jan Gärtner, Palliative Care Center Basel, Switzerland
Luca Ghirotto, PhD, Azienda USL - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Italy
Arunangshu Ghoshal, MD, MRes, Tata Memorial Center, India
Ping Guo, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK
Qiaohong Guo, PhD, Capital Medical University, China
Muhammad Hamza Habib, MD, JD, MBA, Rutgers Cancer Institute of NJ/ Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, USA
Takahiro Higashibata, PhD, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Mevhibe Hocaoglu, PhD, King's College London, UK
Minna Hökkä, PhD, Diaconia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Emma Kirby, PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jonathan Koffman, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, UK
Amanda Landers, MBChB, University of Otago, New Zealand
Thomas LeBlanc, MD, MA, MHS, Duke Cancer Institute, USA
Juho Lehto, PhD, Tampere University and Palliative Care Centre, Tampere University Hospital, Finland
Chia-Chin Lin, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Cheng-Pei Lin, PhD, Institute of Community Health Care, College of Nursing, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Carina Lundh Hagelin, PhD, Marie Cederschiold University, Stockholm, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research, Zimbabwe
Tetsuya Ito, MD, PhD, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Paul Maciejewski, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Francis Magaji, MBBS, MSc, MSHA, University of Jos/University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Chetna Malhotra, MD, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Eva Katharina Masel, MD, PhD, MSc, Medical University of Vienna, Division of Palliative Medicine, Austria
Tracey McConnell, PhD, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Jason Mills, PhD, Flinders University, Australia
Mitsunori Miyashita, PhD, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hibah Osman, MD, MPH, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Kiyofumi Oya, MD, MPH, Peace Home Care Clinic Kyoto, Japan
Carole Parsons, PhD, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Natasja Raijmakers, PhD, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), Netherlands
Angela Rao-Newton, PhD, BN (Hnos), University of Tasmania, Australia
Seema Rao, MBBS, DPM, MSc, Karunashraya Institute for Palliative Care Education and Research, India
Carla Reigada, PhD, European Association for Palliative Care, Spain
Miguel Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas, PhD, Universidad El Bosque, Colombia
Eva Schildmann, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany
Shane Sinclair, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada
Yu Uneno, M.D, PhD, Kyoto University Hospital, Japan
Jing-Yu (Benjamin) Tan, PhD, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Liesbeth van Vliet, Leiden University, Netherlands
Claudia Virdun, RN, PHD, MSc, BN (Hons), FACN, Flinders University, Australia
Kirsten Wentlandt, PhD, MD, University Health Network, Canada
Nicola White, PhD, University College London, UK
Anne Wichmann, PhD, Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands
Leeroy William, BSc, MBBS, MSc, Monash University, Australia
RUISHUANG Zheng, Dr. phil., Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital, China


Editorial Advisors
Julia Addington-Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Paul Daeninck, University of Manitoba, Canada
Robert Dunlop, King's College London, UK
Robin Fainsinger, University of Alberta, Canada
Albert J Kirshen, University of Toronto, Canada
Barbara A Koenig, Stanford University, USA
Henry McQuay, University of Oxford, UK
Diane Meier, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Liliana Orellana, Deakin University, Australia 
Carla Ripamonti, National Cancer Institute, Italy