About the Journal

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Taiane de Azevedo Cardoso, BSc, MSc, PhD (Acting Editor-in-Chief), Scientific Editor at JMIR Publications, Canada

JMIR Cancer is seeking an Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors! Read about the roles at How can I apply to become an editorial board member? and apply for an Editorial Board position with the journal.

Editorial Board Members

Associate Editors

Jyotica Batra, PhD

Instructor, Bellarmine University, USA

Dr. Batra is trained as a biochemical/biophysical scientist, specializing in the characterization of protein folding, protein structure determination, enzyme kinetics, and inhibitor design. She has used structural and biochemical approaches both experimentally and computationally to design new matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors in cancer therapeutics.

Jackie Bender, PhD

Research Scientist, ELLICSR Health Wellness and Cancer Survivorship Centre; Research Scientist, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network; Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada

Jackie Bender is a social and behavioral health scientist. She is a Research Scientist at the ELLICSR Health, Wellness and Cancer Survivorship Centre, and the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University Health Network, and an Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating ways to improve the health and health care experience of people affected by cancer through the use of social support and information and communication technologies. In particular, Dr. Bender has presented and published extensively on the topic of online communities and social media for health.

Rohan Gupta, MD, MBA

Amazon and John Hopkins Medical Institute

Dr. Rohan Gupta is a highly skilled professional with over 10 years of experience in the healthcare industry and holds an MD MBA degree. He has a keen interest in the field of oncology and cancer related research, and his expertise lies in studying the molecular mechanisms of cancer development and progression, identifying novel therapeutic targets, and developing new treatments for various types of cancer.

Past Editorial Board Members

Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Dr.PH, MPAff, Former Editor-in-Chief, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Texas A&M School of Public Health, Senior Fellow, Texas A&M Center for Population Health and Aging

Steven Coughlin, PhD, MPH, Visiting Professor, Division of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA; Core Faculty, Center for mHealth and Social Media, University of Massachusetts, USA

David Gustafson, PhD, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA

Gary Kreps, PhD, University Distinguished Professor of Communication, George Mason University, USA 

Francois Modave, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of mHealth, University of Florida, USA

Han Wu, MS, BE, Senior Scientific Programmer, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Apply to join the Editorial Board!

How can I apply to become an editorial board member?

We are currently looking to expand our editorial board. To apply as subject editor specifically for JMIR, please go to this application form. You should hold a PhD or similar higher degree and have a publication track record (h-index>8) and ideally academic editing experience. 

Guest Editors & Theme Issue Proposals

JMIR Publications welcomes guest editors to assemble a theme issue on a special subtopic. For more information, please visit How to guest edit a theme issue and How to suggest a theme issue.  

This may be particularly interesting for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (eg, with invited experts) on a topic in scope for the journal. JMIR Publications can then be used as a dissemination vehicle. (Funding through grants or other sources is usually required and should be budgeted for in grant proposals. Letters of support are available from the JMIR Publications editor, if needed. Note that granting agencies such as NLM or CIHR usually want to see some sort of knowledge translation activities in workshop proposals, and have in the past funded the JMIR Publications APFs.)

The task of the guest editor(s) is generally

  • to solicit manuscripts from colleagues concerning the selected topic,
  • to select peer-reviewers for incoming manuscripts,
  • to make decisions (together with the editorial board) on article revisions and acceptance, and
  • to write an editorial for the theme issue
  • to secure funding to sponsor the APFs for published papers (usually in the $10-20k range).

Alternatively, the conference abstracts may be published in a supplement, with or without selected full papers published later in a theme issue or in regular JMIR Publications issues. See We are organizing a conference - can we publish our proceedings / abstracts in iproceedings? regarding publishing conference abstracts.