The International Journal of Person Centered Medicine

Focus and Scope

The International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine (IJPCM) is dedicated to the development of the theory and practice of Person-Centered Medicine (PCM).  All aspects of PCM and multi-disciplinary person-centered clinical care are therefore of interest to the Journal, particularly: (a) medical epistemology and the nature of knowledge for the individualisation of clinical practice; (b) reductionism and complexity in clinical care; (c) methodologies for the individualisation of clinical practice and for the evaluation and development of person-centred medicine; (d) methodologies for the development, use and evaluation of person-centered history taking, diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up; (e) clinical practice recommendations and guidelines for PCM; (f) narrative-based medicine; (g) values-based medicine; (h) transcultural medicine; (i) psychosocial and psychosexual medicine; (j) social and environmental care in PCM; (k) spiritual and religious care; (l) economic aspects of PCM and policies for the funding of PCM; (m) individualised/personalised (genomic) medicine; (n) sociological aspects of PCM; (o) the medical humanities and PCM; (p) ethical and medico-legal implications of PCM; (q) the role of the family and of friends in caring and decision making; (r) the development and use of information technology and medical informatics for the development, application and evaluation/audit of PCM; (s) person-centred design and operation of healthcare facilities; (t) health service policies and policy-making for PCM; (u) the national and international health politics of PCM, (v) the role of medical education and PCM & (w) people-centred care (population approaches to clinical care).  The Journal welcomes learned submissions from doctors, nurses, the allied professions and all those clinical and non-clinical colleagues with an interest in, or responsibility for, the development and application of person-centred approaches to clinical care and public health.

Publication formats

The IJPCM accepts submissions in the following formats: (a) Full scientific papers deriving from original research; (b) Learned review articles presented as structured or systematic reviews; (c) Commentaries and Editorials; (d) Brief and Rapid Communications; (e) Essays, Opinions and Viewpoints; (f) Critiques and Analyses; (g) Book Reviews; (h) Conference Reports; (i) Letters to the Editor; (j) Research Letters.  All papers will be initially reviewed by a Submissions Working Group before selection for peer review by two distinguished reviewers in the field and a statistician if appropriate.

For further information on below, please follow the links:

• Focus and Scope
• Section Policies
• Peer Review Process
• Article Purchase
• Financial Support and Competing Interest Policy
• Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Submissions

For all information on submissions, please follow the links:

• Online Submissions
• Author Guidelines
• Privacy Statement

Editorial Team

Editor

• Professor Juan E Mezzich, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States

Editorial Board

• Professor Mohammed Abou-Saleh, St George’s, University of London
• Doctor Azman Abu Bakar, Institute for Health Systems Research, Ministry of Health, Malaysia, Malaysia
• Neal Adams, United Behavioral Health, Illinois
• Professor Yrjö Olavi Alanen, University of Turku, Finland
• Professor Anne-Françoise Allaz, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Professor Michaela Amering, Medical University of Vienna
• Professor James Appleyard, British Medical Association International Association of Medical Colleges, United Kingdom
• Olayinka Ayankogbe, University of Lagos
• Mr Terry Bamford, International Federation of Social Workers Human Rights Committee
• Professor Claudio Banzato, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil
• Doctor Claudia C Bartz, International Council of Nurses eHealth Programme, United States
• Professor Giuseppe Rodolfo (R.) Brera, Università Ambrosiana and Person Centered Medicine International Academy, Italy
• Doctor Michel Botbol, Paris Psychoanalytic Society; and Paris Catholic University
• Professor Luis Caravedo, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
• Professor Eric Cassell, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Faculty of Medicine McGill University
• Dr Rita Charon, Columbia University
• Professor George Christodoulou, World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH),
• Professor John Cox, University of Gloucestershire; and Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
• Professor Jan De Maeseneer, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at Ghent University, Belgium
• Professor Ted Epperly, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, Boise; and University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle
• Prof Arnstein Finset, Universitet i Oslo
• Doctor L Patt Franciosi, World Federation for Mental Health
• Prof Bill Fulford
• Assistant Professor Elena Gayvoronskaya, Voronezh N. N. Burdenko State Medical Academy, Voronezh, Russia., Russian Federation
• Doctor Tesfamicael Ghebrehiwet, International Council of Nurses (ICN)
• Joanna Groves, International Alliance of Patients' Organizations
• Professor Wolfgang Holzgreve, European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology EBCOG; World Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics FIGO
• Professor Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Dept of Psychiatry Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvalla, India
• Professor Marianne Kastrup, European Psychiatric Association
• Dr Yvonne Kayiteshonga, Psychosocial Consultation Center, Ministry of Health, Rwanda, Rwanda
• Prof Simon-Daniel Kipman
• Prof Laurence J Kirmayer, McGill University, Canada
• Professor Michael Klinkman, University of Michigan Medical School; and Wonca International Classification Committee
• Prof Zoraya E Leopando, University of the Philippines
• Dr Wim Van Lerberghe, World Health Organization
• Dr Michael Loughlin, Manchester Metropolitan University; University of Buckingham
• Dr Marion Lynch, University of Buckingham, United Kingdom
• Prof Hans-Jurgen Moeller, Ludwig Maximilians University
• Professor Roger Montenegro, World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH); World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR).
• Mr Jeremiah Mwangi, International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO)
• Professor Oscar Pamo
• Professor Salman Rawaf, WHO Centre at Imperial College London; and St George’s University of London
• Professor Bernard Rüedi, Swiss Society of Medicine and Palliative Cares; International Group of Medicine of the Whole Person
• Professor Wolfgang Rutz, University for Applied Sciences of Coburg (Germany); Public and International Mental Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Dr. Javier Esteban Saavedra, Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental Lima -Peru Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
• Ihsan M. Salloum, United States
• Professor Luis Salvador-Carulla, University of Cadiz; and Spanish Association for Research on Healthy Ageing (AECES), Spain
• Prof Kenneth Schaffner, University of Pittsburg
• Doctor Margit Schmolke, Training and Research Institute of the German Academy for Psychoanalysis in Munich
• Jon Snaedal, Iceland
• Prof. Dr Drozdstoy Stoyanov Stoyanov
• Dr Ekaterina Sukhanova, City University of New York (CUNY), USA, United States
• Professor Ralph Tarter, Pittsburg University
• Professor Tim Thornton, University of Central Lancashire
• Professor Jitendra Kumar Trivedi, Department of Psychiatry, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University U.P. India
• Professor Michel Vallotton, Council of International Organisations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
• Sandra van Dulmen, Netherlands
• Doctor Eugenio Villar, WHO (HQ)
• Doctor Janet Wallcraft, Centre for Mental Health Recovery, University of Hertfordshire; and Centre for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health, University of Birmingham

Regional Editors

• Professor Luis Salvador-Carulla, University of Cadiz; and Spanish Association for Research on Healthy Ageing (AECES), Spain
• Professor C. Robert Cloninger, Sansone Family Center for Well-Being at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
• Raul Leon-Barua, “Víctor Alzamora-Castro” Post-Graduate School of Medicine
• Yongyuth Pongsupap, National Health Security Office, Nonthaburi, Thailand
• Professor Werdie van Staden, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Professor Chris van Weel, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands

 Statistical Editor

• Professor Levent Kirisci, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh; and Co-Investigator and Director of the Statistics Core of the U.S. NIDA-funded Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research., United States