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Editorial Team Dr Mark Levy, Editor in Chief, HarrowMark L Levy, FRCGP, graduated as a medical doctor in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1974. Since 1977 he has been practising as a general practitioner in London with a special interest in respiratory diseases and allergy. His experience, in addition to caring for patients in a busy general practice, includes research, authoring papers and books, editing a medical journal, research and lecturing about respiratory disease. He is a general practice appraiser and Quality Outcomes Assessor. He has been actively involved in managing and implementing change in the field of primary care respiratory medicine, both in the UK and through involvement with international colleagues. He was one of the six GPs who founded the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK and was the first chairman and is currently editor for the group.  Dr Paul Stephenson, Deputy Editor,Haverhill, Suffolk Paul Stephenson has been a full-time GP principal in Haverhill, Suffolk, since 1991. He trained at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. He has been an active member of the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK since 1993, and was on the Steering Committee of the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK from 1996-1999. He was editor of Asthma Care Today in the mid-1990s, has previously served as a Trustee of the National Asthma Campaign, and was until recently the Lead GP for the UK Eastern Region Confidential Enquiry into Asthma Deaths. He was appointed to the editorial board of the PCRJ in 1996, became Deputy Editor in 2004, was appointed Supplements Editor in 2007, and is also the copy-editor for all PCRJ papers. He has just been elected to Fellowship of the RCGP. He has had a special interest in respiratory medicine throughout his general practice career. Aside from his editing work for the PCRJ, his main interests are focussed on the differential diagnosis of respiratory disease in both adults and children, and on audit and outcome measures – including asthma deaths – on which he has presented and published papers fairly regularly over the years. Outside of medicine his main interest is music, with regular String Quartet playing and Chamber Choir singing providing a regular change from the rigours of general practice…
He was chairman of the International Primary Care Airways Group and the scientific group 1.7 of the European Respiratory Society. He is also vice-chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Dutch Asthma Foundation and participates in several commissions of ZonMw and the Dutch Health Council (Gezondheidsraad). He is also honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. Recently, he has been in charge of approximately 50 research projects, mainly focused on the diagnosis and treatment of asthma and COPD and smoking cessation in primary care. These projects have lead to more than 250 articles in peer reviewed journals published by 45 PhD-students of whom he is promotor. In 2008 he was the most cited researcher in the world in his research area. This relates to both the research area "asthma and general practice/primary care"' as to "COPD and general practice/primary care”. In the past 18 years he has obtained 59 research grants (21 from NWO/ZonMw), with a total funding of almost 20 million Euro.
His main interest in research is within pulmonary medicine in general practice especially how care is delivered to patients and how the use of computer based follow-up can improve care. He has also participated in developing the first smoking cessation guidelines for primary care in Norway and is now actively involved in their implementation. |
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