Editor-in-Chief

Eugen Romulus Lontis

Eugen Romulus Lontis, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Professor, Department of Health Science and Technology
Aalborg University, Denmark

Biography

Eugen Romulus Lontis is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. He received his doctoral degree in biomedical engineering in 2005 from Aalborg University and the master degree in electrical engineering in 1995 from Technical University of Timisoara, Romania. His research focuses on biological signal processing, stimulation of nervous tissue with electromagnetic fields,and sensor technology for rehabilitation. The aim of Romulus’ work is to providemotor control, functional restoration and assistive devices for persons with disabilities. He has been involved in the past years in development of a tongue control system for control of computers and wheelchairs for persons with spinal cord injury.

Research Interest

Adaptive time-frequency and time-scale analysis of biological signals
Assistive devices
Brain-computer interfaces
Finite element modeling Functional electrical and magnetic stimulation of the nervous tissue
Physiology of the nervous system
Sensor technology for rehabilitation

Katherine M Keyes

Katherine M Keyes, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University, USA

Biography

Katherine M. Keyes is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.  She received her doctorate in Epidemiology from Columbia University in June of 2010, after completion of her MPH degree in 2006.  Katherine’s research focuses on life course epidemiology with particular attention to psychiatric disorders. Her work explores novel study designs to assess the impact of environmental and social determinants of mental health outcomes.Her empirical research has documented a narrowing gender gap in the prevalence and course of alcohol abuse and dependence over time.  She has also examined methodological issues in age-period-cohort effect estimation for common health outcomes, including obesity, breast cancer, and substance disorders. Katherine has explored the effects of early life exposures on adolescent and adult health, documenting long-term consequences of child maltreatment on internalizing and externalizing psychiatric disorders in adulthood and the sensitizing effects of childhood maltreatment on exposures to stress in adulthood.  Katherine’s work has been funded by the National Institute for Drug Abuse and has received multiple national awards.

Research Interest

Epidemiology
Psychiatric disorders

David Randall

David Randall, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Executive Director, The Consumer Driven Health Care Institute
Washington DC, USA

Biography

David Randall, Ph.D. currently serves as Executive Director of the Consumer Driven Health Care Institute based in Washington, DC. (www.cdhci.org) and is Resident Scholar with the American Research and Policy Institute in Washington. Dr. Randall has testified before both U.S. House and Senate committees of Congress on a variety of health policy issues and has extensive experience as a former top insurance regulator, legislative staff member, health care lobbyist, consultant and executive with not only insurance companies, but also with several provider trade groups in Washington. He has over two dozen peer-reviewed and professional publications as well as book chapters on health care entitlements and the policy process surrounding health care reform. His research includes study of Medicaid entitlements and privatization, Health Insurance Exchanges and health care information technology. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science (Policy Analysis and Administration) from Kent State University.

Research Interest

Study of Medicaid entitlements and privatization, Health Insurance Exchanges and health care information technology.