Editorial Board for section 'Chronic Care'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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1. Division of Physiology, Otto Loewi Research Center for Vascular Biology, Immunology and Inflammation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerpl. 2, 8036 Graz, Austria
2. Center for Spaceflight and Aviation Health, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Interests: cardiovascular system; heart rate variability; gravitational adaptation
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Department of Internal Medicine, National Relevance and High Specialization Hospital Trust ARNAS Civico Di Cristina Benfratelli, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Interests: internal medicine; diabetes; heart failure
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Unit of Sport Medicine, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, 00135 Rome, Italy
Interests: cardiac and circulatory responses to exercise and training; epidemiological, prophylactic and therapeutic aspects of sports activities; sports medicine nutrition; doping; physical activity for the prevention and treatment of the main pathologies
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Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20090 Pieve Emanuele, Italy
Interests: patient reported outcomes; adherence; psychology

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1. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Heraklion, 71500 Heraklion, Greece
2. Sleep Research and Treatment Center, Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University, State College, PA 16802, USA
Interests: aging; sleep; cognitive disorders
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IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: COPD; rehabilitation; lung; artificial respiration; ventilation respiratory insufficiency; dyspnea; interactive ventilatory support; exercise tolerance; respiration; respiratory muscles; airway obstruction; hypercapnia; maximal respiratory pressures

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Robotic Rehabilitation Section, Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine (SIMFER), 00187 Rome, Italy
Interests: rehabilitation; rehabilitation medicine; rehabilitation services; neurorehabilitation

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Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece
Interests: COPD; sleep apnea; sleep disorders; asthma smoking cessation; primary care
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Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
Interests: stroke; cerebrovascular disease; program evaluation; improvement science; economic evaluation
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Department of Surgical, Medical and Molecular Pathology and of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: mindfulness; dynamic psychology; clinical psychology; contemplative practices; oncology
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1. Neurology Department, Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, 28040 Madrid, Spain
2. Neurociencie Department, Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain
Interests: neuroscience; neurological diseases; clinical neurology; movement disorders; neuroimaging; Alzheimer's disease; neurodegenerative diseases; neurodegeneration; neuroprotection; brain diseases; brain health

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The Nethersole School of Nursing, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong 5156, China
Interests: chronic disease management (chronic heart failure management including nurse-led disease management program, transitional care, self-care empowerment, and psychosocial health promotion); gerontological nursing (health promotion for community-dwelling elders including insomnia management, health needs of hidden elders, successful aging; psychological health challenges and quality of life issues among older adults; disease management for dementia; dementia caregiving; psychometric evaluation; research instrument development and psychometric evaluation)

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Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, School of Medicine, Emory University, 1841 Clifton Rd. NE, #553, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Interests: exercise; physical activity; dance; balance; Parkinson's; cognition; neurodegenerative; motor learning; motor control; education; learning

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Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK
Interests: systematic review; meta-analysis; meta-aggregation; mixed method synthesis; chronic care; patient-related outcomes

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Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Interests: rheumatology; arthritis care; lupus; systemic lupus erythematosus

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The MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA 02129, USA
Interests: physical therapy; health behavior; health education; rehabilitation; pain management
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Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: clinical medicine; nursing; frailty; elderly; malnutrition; physical performance, cognative impariment, post-COVID-19 disability; frailty-gender differences.
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Department and Clinic of Psychiatry, Wrocław Medical University, 54-235 Wrocław, Poland
Interests: neurodegeneration processes; molecular base of neurodegenerative disorders; genomic medicine; metabolomic; aging processes; personalized therapy; anti-amyloid Beta vaccine; neuroinflammation; therapy of demenia disorders; superagers
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Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore 169857, Singapore
Interests: mild cognitive impairment; dementia; subjective cognitive decline; brain health; cognitive health; cognitive ageing; geriatric psychiatry; psychogeriatrics
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Faculty of Medicine, Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: stroke self-management; community nursing; capacity building; social inclusion; return to work after stroke

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Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2M7, Canada
Interests: cancer survivorship and quality of life; clinical research of cancer; fear of cancer recurrence (FCR); return to work and vocational rehabilitation after cancer; psycho-oncology and intervention research; nursing research; digital health and knowledge translation in cancer care

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Department of Internal Medicine, Occupational Diseases, Hypertension and Clinical Oncology, Wroclaw Medical University, 213 Borowska St., 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland
Interests: hypertension; blood pressure; cardiovascular medicine; sleep disorders; sleep medicine
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 641 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022, USA
Interests: oncology; psychiatry; communication; end of life care; ethics

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Department of Biomedical, Dental Science and Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, 98100 Messina, Italy
Interests: clinical psychology; psychopathology; chronic conditions; chronic care; assessment
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Respiratory Unit, Cardio-Thoracic Department, Integrated University Hospital, Piazzale Stefani 1, 37126 Verona, Italy
Interests: asthma; COPD; lung cancer; chronic respiratory diseases; respiratory failure

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Institute of Applied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
Interests: health services research; dementia; cardiovascular diseases; healthy ageing
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Department of Clinical Immunology, Aalborg University Hospital, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: neutropenia; multiple myeloma; autoimmunity; hemostasis

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Deusto Business School Health, University of Deusto, 48007 Bilbao, Spain
Interests: integrated care; chronic disease management; multimorbidity; innovation and implementation research
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