Editorial Board
The Editor in Chief oversees the reviewing of the papers submitted to the journal, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, supported by the Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members, as well as a large group of other reviewers.
Editorial Board members have a range of expertise from different disciplines across child neurology and developmental medicine. They are appointed for one or two terms (of three years each) and ensure the high quality of the publications of the Press. Editorial Board meetings are held in London in January, April, and July; then in the USA in September or October at the AACPDM annual meeting.
Editor in Chief
Professor Bernard Dan
Paediatric neurologist and rehabilitation physician at Inkendaal Rehabilitation Hospital, Belgium. He is also full professor of neuroscience at Université Libre de Bruxelles, and invited professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Universiteit Gent, member of the Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. His main clinical and research interests include cerebral palsy, neurogenetic conditions, and neurophysiology. He is chair of the European Academy of Childhood Disability. He has received a number of national and international awards, including the John Stobo Prichard Award (2012) and the Elsass Foundation Research Prize (2019). He has written over 300 journal articles; authored books on childhood disability and Angelman syndrome; co-edited a major reference book on cerebral palsy and one on ethics in childhood neurodisabilities.
North American Editor
Professor Peter Rosenbaum
Professor of Paediatrics at McMaster University, where he held a Canada Research Chair (2001–14) and co-founded the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research (1989). Contributing author to more than 400 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Co-authored Cerebral Palsy: From Diagnosis to Adult Life (2012). Co-edited Life Quality Outcomes of Children and Young Adults with Neurological and Developmental Conditions (2013) and Ethics in Child Health (2016). Honorary Doctor of Science, Université Laval (2005). First Canadian President of the AACPDM (1996–98, receiving the Academy’s first Mentorship Award in 2007 and its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. He has been an invited lecturer in more than 30 countries, and remains an active researcher.
Associate Editors
Dr Hank Chambers
Pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California, San Diego. Past President of the AACPDM and Medical Director of the Southern Family Center for Cerebral Palsy Research at Rady Children’s Hospital.
Dr Martin Gough
Paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and One Small Step Gait Laboratory, Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, with a special interest in the orthopaedic management of children with cerebral palsy.
Professor Dido Green
Professor at Jönköping University, Sweden and Co-Director of the Smart Technology Advancements in Health and Rehabilitation research Centre, Brunel University. A background as an occupational therapist, specializing in paediatric neurosciences and neurodisability, focusing on translational medicine, to enhance participation.
Professor Margaret Mayston
Principal Teaching Fellow, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, UK.
Dr Arnab Seal
Neurodevelopmental paediatrician in Leeds, UK. Chair of the European Academy of Childhood Disability and Chair of the Global Professional Education Committee of the International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disability. He has a keen interest in global knowledge transfer initiatives and was the chief editor and contributor to Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (2013).
Professor Brigitte Vollmer
Brigitte Vollmer is Associate Professor of Neonatal and Paediatric Neurology at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at University Hospital Southampton, UK. Her research and clinical focus is on Neonatal and Developmental Neurology, in particular on brain development and associations with neurological and developmental outcomes in infants born preterm or with perinatal brain injury.
Dr Kathy Zebracki
Chief of Psychology, Shriners Children’s Chicago, USA. Clinical Psychologist specializing in Pediatrics/Rehabilitation and an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Former Board Member of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine and American Spinal Injury Association. Chair of the Professional Advisory Council of the Illinois Spina Bifida Association. Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 54 Pediatric Psychology and Division 22 Rehabilitation Psychology).
Editorial Board Members
Dr Lucinda Carr (Chair)
Consultant in Paediatric Neurology and Neurodisability at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London since 1997. Her particular clinical and academic interests are in the diagnosis and management of movement disorders and of cerebral palsy.
Dr Sonika Agarwal
Sonika Agarwal is an Associate Professor of Neurology & Pediatrics and Clinical Director, Fetal Neonatal Neuroscience, & Section Head, Neonatal Neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania. Her clinical and research focus is on fetal and neonatal neurology and she has collaboratively led publication of practice guidelines, education and research to advance the field. Dr. Agarwal is Vice-Chair of the Child Neurology Section & Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and Fellow, Child Neurology Society.
Dr Sam Amin
Associate Professor at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a consultant paediatric neurologist and the head of department at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.. He is Chair of Research and an executive member of the BPNA/UK.
Professor Stéphane Armand
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Geneva, and Director of the Kinesiology Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital. His research focuses on assessing and understanding movement disorders across different conditions, with a particular emphasis on cerebral palsy, to help reduce their impact on patients’ daily lives.
Dr Bhooma Aravamuthan
Bhooma Aravamuthan MD, DPhil is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and Research Director of the Cerebral Palsy Center at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is a pediatric movement disorders specialist and neuroscientist. Her clinical and research focus is on dystonia in cerebral palsy.
Professor Annemieke Buizer
Pediatric physiatrist and Professor of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands. Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Academy of Childhood Disability. Her research is translational and clinical with a focus on underlying mechanisms in cerebral palsy and rare movement disorders in children.
Professor Jeanie Cheong
Principal Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and Neonatologist (Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne) with expertise in perinatal neurology, and long-term development of high-risk newborn infants, especially those born preterm. Leads the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study in Australia. Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine, focused on training and translating research outcomes to practice.
Dr Ana Carolina de Campos
Dr. Ana Carolina de Campos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physical Therapy, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil. Her clinical and research interests are cerebral palsy, transition to adulthood, evidence-based physical therapy and knowledge translation.
Dr Mauricio Delgado
Dr. Mauricio R. Delgado is a Professor of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He served as director of neurology at Scottish Rite for Children from 1990-2017. His clinical and research interests on childhood motor disorders led him to establish specialized clinics in Cerebral Palsy, Holoprosencephaly and Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis.
Dr Thomas W Frazier
Licensed clinical psychologist who received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in 2004. In 2017, he was hired as the Chief Science Officer at Autism Speaks overseeing all science programs before joining John Carroll University in January 2020. He has maintained active clinical research focused on autism, ADHD, and related conditions.
Professor Christina Høi-Hansen
Professor in Paediatrics at the University of Copenhagen and Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. Research focus in early identification and intervention in brain damage in the newborn and in paediatric stroke, also extending to optimized follow-up of comorbidities including epilepsy and nutrition. Head of database steering group of the Danish Cerebral Palsy Register.
Professor Jakob Lorentzen
Clinical Professor at University of Copenhagen, Department of Neuroscience and Department of Paediatrics at Rigshospitalet where he runs and supervises projects aiming to transfer knowledge from basic science into clinical practice with special attention to cerebral palsy. In parallel, he has worked with examination and treatment of young people with CP with the aim of developing methods that can be used in a transition clinic.
Dr Kshitij Mankad
Consultant neuroradiologist with the National Health Services since 2011, serving Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College London Hospital, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, and is also the Clinical Lead for the Paediatric Neuroradiology service at GOSH. He is an Associate Professor at the GOS UCL Institute of Child Health.
Dr Faith Mosha
Dr Faith Mosha is a Paediatric Neurologist originally from Tanzania, trained at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital under the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She currently resides and practices in Malawi, where working in a resource-limited setting has given her first-hand insight into the significant challenges faced by children with neurological conditions and their families.
Professor Charles Newton
Current affiliations are Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Programme, Kilifi, Kenya and Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK. Investigations include mechanisms of brain damage in infections (particularly malaria, bacterial meningitis, tetanus, HIV); causes and consequences of brain damage in sickle cell disease; cause and management of acute coma and seizures; and the identification and management of autism, neurodevelopmental disorders and epilepsy.
Dr Phillip Pearl
Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology and William G Lennox Chair in the Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr Pearl, originally from Baltimore, attended Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, and University of Maryland School of Medicine. His major research interest is inherited metabolic epilepsies. Dr Pearl is Past President of the Professors of Child Neurology and current President of the Child Neurology Society.
Professor Jennifer Ryan
Associate Professor and Director of CP-Life Research Centre at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Her research focuses on investigating long-term conditions, health services and physical activity among adults with cerebral palsy using quantitative and qualitative research methods. She also has a keen interest in knowledge translation.
Dr Gillian Saloojee
Dr. Gillian Saloojee is a paediatric physiotherapist with a special interest in childhood disability, particularly cerebral palsy in rural and resource-limited African settings. She is the Founder and former Executive Director of Malamulele Onward and currently works as an early intervention consultant for UNICEF in Uganda, Peru, and Bulgaria. She is the former Chairperson of SA-ChilD, serves on the IAACD Executive and Best Practice Committees, and is an honorary senior lecturer at Wits University.
Dr Pratibha Singhi
Currently Head of Pediatric Neurology at Amrita Instituite Faridabad, Dr Singhi worked earlier at Medanta Gurugram and as Head, Pediatric Neurology, PGIMER and Chief Consultant at The Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children, Chandigarh. She also worked as consultant Neurologist at The Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. Her research areas include neurodevelopmental disorders, epilepsy and CNS infections. She is the current President of the International Child Neurology Association (ICNA).
Dr Catherine Tuffrey
Consultant Neurodisability Paediatrician working on the UK South Coast. After clinical training, Dr Tuffrey undertook a PhD at Newcastle University (awarded 2012). Her research involved designing a questionnaire to measure social participation for adolescents with cerebral palsy. She is the consultant research lead for children in my NHS Trust, a member of BACCH research group and the General and Adolescent Paediatric Research in the UK and Ireland (GAPR-UKI) committee, and Chair of the British Academy of Childhood Disability.
Statistical Advisors
Dr Mario Cortina Borja
Professor of Biostatistics at the Population, Policy and Practice Programme in the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London. He has published over 350 articles in at least 175 different publications.
Dr Steven Day
President and CEO of Mortality Research & Consulting, Inc, California, USA. Dr Day is a Fellow of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and a member of the American Statistical Association.
Dr Karine Pelc
Karine Pelc is a paediatric neurologist and rehabilitation specialist at Inkendaal Rehabilitation Hospital near Brussels, Belgium, where she is in charge of the paediatric ward, and works within the cerebral palsy and the neuromuscular disorders reference centres. She teaches biostatistics at the Faculty of Motor Sciences at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Dr Jufen Zhang
Medical Statistician at Anglia Ruskin University Medical School. She is interested in clinical trials research and epidemiological studies. She is a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society.