Meet the Volume Editors

Allincia Michaud, MD, MPH, is a senior clinical postdoctoral research fellow at St. Luke's University Health Network, where she is engaged in various multidisciplinary research projects. Her research collaborations involve research protocol development, data evaluation, advanced analytics, and manuscript writing and editing. She's a proficient reviewer, editor, and author of several publications in reputed journals and has presented at various con-

ferences. Additionally, she is also the managing editor of the *International Journal of Academic Medicine* (IJAM). She has a keen interest in international health, preventive medicine, the management of chronic diseases, health literacy, and the mitigation of health disparities.

Stanislaw P. Stawicki, MD, MBA, is a professor of surgery and chair of the Department of Research & Innovation at St Luke's University Health Network. A specialist in general surgery and surgical critical care, he co-authored nearly 700 scholarly works, including more than 30 books. In addition to national and international medical leadership roles, he is a member of numerous editorial boards. His areas of expertise include academic international medicine,

international health security, blockchain technology, patient safety, academic leadership, mentorship, trauma/critical care, and sonography.

Ricardo Izurieta, MD, Dr. PH, MPH, is a professor and director of global communicable diseases at the College of Public Health and Director of the Public Health Scholar Concentration at Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr. Izurieta received his MD from the Central University of Ecuador and, after graduation, carried out his postdoctoral training in public health and tropical infectious diseases at the University of

Alabama at Birmingham (USA), Emory University (USA), and Universidad Cayetano Heredia (Peru). In 1991, he faced the cholera epidemic that spread through Latin American countries as national director of the Cholera Control Program in Ecuador's Ministry of Public Health. In 1997, he was appointed chief of the Department of Epidemiology and director of the Vaccine Center of the Armed Forces of Ecuador. During his studies, he has been a USAID Thomas Jefferson fellow, a PAHO Research fellow, an ORISE/CDC fellow, a Gorgas Memorial Institute fellow, and a FUNDACYT fellow. In 2003, Dr. Izurieta was elected vice president of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, and currently he is its Latin American liaison. He has been a panel reviewer for NIH, CDC, NSF, and the Wellcome Foundation, and additionally served on the ACAIM Taskforce on International Health Security and as a consultant for the United Nations Global Water Pathogens Project as well as for the United Kingdom and the Brazilian Academies of Sciences.

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*by Rudra Dahal*
