Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Simone de Leo, MD, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy
Simone de Leo graduated in Medicine and completed his fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Milan under the guidance of Prof Luca Persani and Laura Fugazzola. During 2015 and 2016, he spent 18 months at Boston University where he worked as a research fellow supervised by Dr Lewis Braverman and Elizabeth Pearce and he was involved in studies about iodine deficiency, Graves’ disease, and thyroid disease in pregnancy. Currently he works as an Endocrinologist at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano of Milan and his research is focused on thyroid cancer. He published epidemiological, clinical, and molecular studies on this topic and he was an investigator in several clinical trials of TKIs, such as Lenvatinib, Vandetanib, Cabozantinib, and Selpercatinib. Since September 2018, he is a member of the Executive Committee and of the Website and Social Media Board of the European Thyroid Association. He participated and was invited to several national and international meetings, and won a poster contest at the Associazione Italiana della Tiroide meeting in 2012, the 15^th International Thyroid Congress Trainee Grant Program in 2015, and the Presidential Poster Competition at the Endocrine Society in 2016.

Prof Bijay Vaidya PhD, FRCP, University of Exeter Medical School, UK
Bijay Vaidya is Consultant Endocrinologist at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, and Honorary Clinical Professor at the University of Exeter Medical School, United Kingdom. He obtained his MBBS degree from the Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga, India and a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. He has clinical and research interest in thyroid diseases, particularly thyroid disorders in pregnancy and thyroid eye disease. He has served as Secretary, Treasurer and an Executive Committee Member of the British Thyroid Association, and a member of the Clinical Committee and the Programme Committee of the UK Society for Endocrinology. He has served on the guideline development task forces for the European Thyroid Association, the Royal College of Physicians, the European Group for Graves’ Orbitopathy and the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Prof Vaidya has co-authored over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
 

Associate Editors
Arash Derakhshan, MD, PhD, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Antonio Matrone, MD, PhD, University of Pisa, Italy
Ilaria Muller, MD, PhD, University of Milan, Italy
Vijay Panicker, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, University of Western Australia, Australia
Martin Read, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK

Editorial Board
Takashi Akamizu, MD, PhD, Kuma Hospital, Japan
Professor Fereidoun Azizi, MD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medicine, Iran
Professor Tomasz Bednerczuk, MD, PhD, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Professor Bernadette Biondi, MD, Federico II University, Italy
Tim Brandenburg, MD, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany
Julius Brtko, PhD, DSc, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Shiao-Yng Chan, MBBChir., FRCOG, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Professor Marek Dedecjus, MD, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Poland
Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, MD, PhD, DMSc, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jadwiga Furmaniak, MD, PhD, DSc, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Giorgio Grani, MD, PhD, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy
Professor Laszlo Hegedüs, MD, DMSc, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
Professor Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk, MD, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Poland
Jelena Jankovic, PhD, Institute for the Application of Nuclear Energy - INEP,University of Belgrade, Serbia
Tim Korevaar, MD, PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Stine Linding Andersen, MD, PhD, DMSc, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark
Cristina Luongo, MD, PhD, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Dingxie Liu, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Carla Moran, MB BCh BAO, PhD, FRCPI, University College Dublin School of Medicine, Ireland
Marco Medici, MD, PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Robert Negro, MD, V Fazzi Hospital, Italy
Professor Marek Niedziela, MD, PhD, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland
Professor Onyebuchi Okosieme, FRCP, MD, Cardiff University School of Medicine, UK
Professor Ralf Paschke, MD, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada
Elizabeth Pearce, MD, MSc, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, USA
Simon Pearce, MB, BS, MD, FRCP, University of Newcastle, UK
Petros Perros, BSc, MBBS, MD, University of Newcastle, UK
Kris Poppe, MD, PhD, University Hospital St Pierre, Belgium
Professor Marek Ruchala, MD, PhD, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland
Mario Salvi, MD, University of Milan, Italy
George Simeakis, MD, 401 Military Hospital of Athens, Greece
Nikhil Tandon, MBBS, MD, PhD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Peter Taylor, BSc, MBChB, MSc, PhD, FRCP, Cardiff University, UK
Dario Tumino, MD, PhD, University of Catania, Italy
Arkadiusz Zygmunt, MD, PhD, Medical University of Lodz, Poland

Statistical Advisor
Beverley Shields, PhD, MSc, BSc, University of Exeter Medical School, UK