npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine is an open access, 
online-only, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing 
high-quality research in all areas of the primary care management of 
respiratory and respiratory-related allergic diseases. Papers published 
by the journal represent important advances of significance to 
specialists within the fields of primary care and respiratory 
medicine. We are particularly interested in receiving papers in relation
 to the following aspects of respiratory medicine, respiratory-related 
allergic diseases and tobacco control:
epidemiology
prevention
clinical care
service delivery and organisation of healthcare (including implementation science)
global health.
The journal is an indexed, international, academic publication 
relevant to anyone with an interest in the primary care management of 
respiratory and respiratory-related allergic diseases. It is the 
official journal of the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK) 
and the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG). The 
journal publishes Articles, Review Articles, Perspectives, Matters 
Arising, Brief Communications, Editorials, Protocols, Comments, 
Case-based Learning and Case Reports. We are interested in research 
undertaken using all appropriate study designs, these including 
observational and analytical studies, qualitative research, randomised 
controlled trials, implementation research and systematic reviews.

Article
Brief Communication
Case-based Learning
Case Report
Comment
Editorial
Matters Arising
Perspective
Protocol
Review

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Aziz Sheikh, MD, FRCP
Professor of Primary Care Research & Development
University of Edinburgh
Scotland, UK
 
Prof. Sheikh is Director of the Usher Institute, and his interests include studying asthma and health inequalities. Currently Prof. Sheikh holds a number of visiting chairs, namely: University of Birmingham (UK), Queen Mary’s University of London (UK) and Maastricht University (Netherlands) and was recently appointed as Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has Fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians in both London and Edinburgh and the Royal College of General Practitioners. He has editorial experience of working with a number of journals, including the BMJ (editorial advisor, Primary Care editorial advisor) and PLOS Medicine (section advisor, Guidelines and Guidance). 
Associate Editors
Dr. Jasper V Been, MD, PhD, MPH
Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC
Sophia Children's Hospital
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 
Dr. Jasper Been trained as a paediatric at Maastricht University Medical Centre, where he also obtained his PhD in neonatal pulmonology an MPH in epidemiology, as well as an MSc in Public Health. He is a clinician-academic with a research focus around perinatal public health, and particular expertise in tobacco control, large-scale analysis of routinely collected health care data and systematic reviews. In addition to being a leading paediatrician and researcher, his investigations into smoke-free legislation and child health have been published in several leading medical journals.
Prof. Niels H. Chavannes, MD, PhD
Professor of Primary Care Medicine
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
 
Prof. Dr. Niels H. Chavannes' area of interest is in eHealth, disease management, chronic diseases and smoking cessation. In addition to being Professor of Primary Care Medicine, he is also the Strategic Chair of eHealth Applications in Disease Management, and the Head of Research in the Dept. of Public Health and Primary Care at Leiden University Medical Center. During his Assistant Professorship at LUMC, he coordinated several (inter)national clinical research projects, and teachings on chronic disease management, eHealth and mHealth applicability, therapy adherence and smoking cessation strategies. He is the Vice-Chair of the Dutch Asthma and COPD Advisory Group (CAHAG) and the National Advisor of the Dutch Action Program on Chronic Lung Diseases of the Lung Alliance Netherlands (LAN).
Prof. Anthony D’Urzo, MD, MSc, BPHE, CCFP, FCFP
Director, Primary Lung Care Clinic
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
 
Prof. Anthony D’Urzo's primary research interests are in respiratory health-asthma and COPD, and experimental case studies. He is actively involved in clinical and pharmaco-therapeutic research in the areas of asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management. Since 1994 Prof. D’Urzo has been working closely with the Ontario Lung Association and the Ontario Thoracic Society. He is also actively involved in the Comprehensive Research Experience for Medical Students (CREMS) summer program (UofT) as a supervisor and recently served as the Associate Director of the Health Science Research course in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Toronto Medical School.
Dr. Irem Patel, PhD, FRCP
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Integrated Care
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
 
Dr. Irem Patel's research interests include COPD, respiratory infection, respiratory failure and the development and delivery of pathways of care for patients with chronic respiratory disease. She holds one of the first posts in Integrated Respiratory Care in the UK and leads a multidisciplinary specialist team delivering integrated respiratory care in South East London. She is a clinical advisor to the British Lung Foundation and has served on the BTS Council and Education and Training Committees. She was also involved in the development of competency frameworks to support the National COPD Strategy and has worked as Clinical Adviser and Steering Group member for various NHS Improvement COPD and Asthma projects.
Prof. Hilary Pinnock, MB, ChB, MRCGP, MD
Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
University of Edinburgh
Scotland, UK
 
Dr. Hilary Pinnock's research interests include the delivery of care within the ‘real-life’ primary care setting including implementing self-management for asthma, telehealthcare for supporting management of respiratory disease, supporting people with COPD and depression to attend pulmonary rehabilitation and supportive care for people with severe COPD. Some current projects include tele-monitoring of asthma and COPD, the role of GPs with a Special Interest, the reconfiguration of respiratory services within primary care organisations and supported self-management for people with long-term conditions.
Dr. Ioanna Tsiligianni, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine
University of Crete
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
 
Dr. Ioanna Tsiligianni's areas of interest focus on health outcomes assessment, as well as the use of diagnostic tools in chronic diseases. Her research is mainly related to COPD and asthma, health status and lung function, primary health care and family medicine. She collaborates as a researcher with the University Medical Centre of Groningen, the Department of General Practice, and Pulmonologist Department at the University of Crete. She also coordinated the development of the first national guidelines for primary care on COPD and asthma in Greece.
Statistics Editor
Prof. Gopal Netuveli, PhD
Professor of Public Health
University of East London
London, UK
 
Professor Gopal Netuveli's research interests include quality of life, ageing, resilience, health inequalities, mental health, chronic diseases like asthma and diabetes, oral health, medical errors, cross national comparisons and welfare state policies. His area of expertise also lies in quantitative data analysis and advances social statistics, systematic reviews and meta-analysis. His special interests include longitudinal data analysis and management of missing data. 
Editorial Board Members
Professor Chunxue Bai, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Shanghai, China
Professor Peter Barnes, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK
Professor Eric Bateman, National Research Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Justin Beilby, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Dr. David Bellamy, Bournemouth, UK
Professor Jean Bousquet, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Professor Andrew Bush, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK
Professor Andrew Cave, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Professor Mario Cazzola, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Professor Alan Crockett, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Professor Adnan Custovic, Imperial College London, Manchester, UK
Professor Paul Enright, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Professor Charles Feldman, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mrs. Monica Fletcher, Warwick, UK
Associate Professor Leonard Fromer, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Assistant Professor Maureen George, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Dr. Dianne Goeman, Monash University, NSW, Australia
Professor Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Dr. John Haughney, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Professor Liam Heaney, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, N Ireland
Dr. Svein Hoegh Henrichsen, Oslo, Norway
Professor Maria Teresa Herdeiro, Institute of Biomedicine-iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Dr. Antonio Infantino, Bari, Italy
Dr. S Gunnar Johansson, Uppsala, Sweden
Dr. Alan Kaplan, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Duncan Keeley, Thame, UK
Professor Ee Ming Khoo, Malaya, Malaysia
Professor Janwillem Kocks, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr. Lorcan McGarvey, Belfast, N Ireland
Professor Paul O'Byrne, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Professor Søren Pedersen, Syddansk Universitet, Kolding, Denmark
Professor Klaus Rabe, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Großhansdorf, Germany
Professor Helen Reddel, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Professor Jim Reid, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Dr. Miguel Roman-Rodriguez Instituto de Investigación de Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain
Dr. Dermot Ryan, Loughborough, UK
Dr. Sundeep Salvi, Pune, India
Associate Professor Tjard Schermer, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Professor Dave Singh, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Dr. Iain Small, Peterhead, UK
Associate Professor Björn Ställberg, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Associate Professor Marianne Stubbe Østergaard, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor Mike Thomas, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Professor Thys van der Molen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Onno Van Schayck, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Dr. Samantha Walker, London, UK
Professor Wisia Wedzicha, London, UK
Professor Scott T. Weiss, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Dr. Barbara Yawn, Rochester, MN, USA