Editorial introductions

Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care was launched in 2007. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of supportive and palliative care are divided into 12 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Anthony H. DickensonAnthony H. DickensonPharmacology at University College, London, UK. He earned his PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, has held posts in Paris, California and Sweden, and was appointed to the Department of Pharmacology at University College in 1983. His research interests are pharmacology of the brain, including the mechanisms of pain and how pain can be controlled in both normal and pathophysiological conditions, and how to translate basic science to the patient. Professor Dickenson was a member of the Council of the International Association for the Study of Pain for 6 years and is an associate editor for the journal Pain. He has authored more than 300 refereed publications and has made many media appearances. Professor Dickenson has given plenary lectures at the World Congress on Pain, the American Pain Society, the European Pain Congress, the Canadian Pain Society, the Belgium Pain Society, the Scandinavian Pain Society, the British Pain Society, the Thailand Pain Society, the Irish Pain Society, the Australian Pain Society, the New Zealand Pain Society and many other international and national meetings. He has also spoken at the Royal Institution, to GPs and schools on pain. Paul W. Farquhar-SmithPaul W. Farquhar-SmithPaul Farquhar-Smith has been a Consultant in Pain, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care for 10 years and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and a Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. He has a PhD on visceral pain and cannabinoids. He works in chronic cancer pain in liaison with palliative care, offering invasive analgesic techniques. A major interest is neuropathic pain in cancer survivors such as chronic pain after surgery and chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain. He has written in reference textbooks and in the British Pain Society guidelines for cancer pain and has lectured nationally and internationally on these subjects. He is currently co-Chair of the British Pain Society / Association for Palliative Medicine Joint Working Group on Pain in Cancer Patients. Wahida RahmanWahida RahmanDr Wahida Rahman, BSc, PhD is a senior Post-Doctoral Researcher in the department of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Physiology (NPP) at University College London (UCL), UK. Wahida began her career with a BSc in Pharmacology at UCL, and then earned her PhD in Professor Tony Dickenson's lab at UCL. Wahida then worked at GlaxoSmithKline and after two years returned to academic research as a post-doctoral researcher working with Professors Tony Dickenson and Steve Hunt in the departments of NPP and Anatomy and Developmental Biology respectively. Currently working alongside Prof. Dickenson, Wahida's research interests involve the mechanisms of neuropathic and osteoarthritis induced pain and she has published a number of research papers and review articles on these chronic pain states. Rachel J. GibsonRachel J. GibsonRachel J Gibson, BHSc (Hons), PhD: is an Associate Professor within the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. She graduated with a PhD in Medicine at the University of Adelaide in December 2004 having focused on a new aspect of supportive care in cancer. Specifically she studied the underlying pathogenesis of gut toxicity following chemotherapy. Rachel was awarded a Cancer Council South Australia Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2004–2009) to continue her research into gut toxicity at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. In 2008 Rachel was appointed as a Lecturer within the School of Medical Sciences, and was quickly promoted in 2010 to Senior Lecturer and in 2014 to Associate Professor. A/Prof Rachel Gibson is an extremely active and highly productive researcher within the field of gastrointestinal mucositis. She has an established research group, a competitive funding record, publishes regularly in top supportive care journals and supervises both staff and students. Matthew CiorbaMatthew CiorbaMatthew Ciorba, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Medical Degrees from the University of Iowa, USA, both with honours. Postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, as well as a Chief Residency, were completed at Washington University. His clinical efforts focus on providing personalized care to improve the health and well-being of patients affected by Inflammatory Bowel Disease. His research focuses on disorders of chronic intestinal inflammation and radiation injury. The group's translational approaches are directed at harnessing the therapeutic potential of tryptophan metabolism, kynurenines and microbes (including probiotics). Support for this research has come from the NIH (NIDDK and NIAID), CCFA, Global Probiotics Council, Longer Life Foundation, American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology and the Siteman Cancer Center. Most rewarding of his endeavours is the opportunity to participate in medical education and to mentor the next generation of scientists and clinicians.

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