Journal Relationships & Activities

Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) requires all board and staff members to disclose financial and non-financial relationships and activities. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if he/she and/or a spouse or partner had a financial relationship in any amount occurring in the last 12 months, and is reported below. Disclosures below report board member and staff affiliation beyond that of a current employer. For a complete list of board members please click here.

Note: Editorial Board Members are excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists. Where an Editorial Board Member is author they must declare this in the competing interests section on the submitted manuscript.

Editor-in-Chief

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, USA

Relationships & Activities: Advisory Board roles at Arcadia Healthcare Solutions, IPRD Solutions, TripleBlind and New Leaf Venture Partners, Orion Healthcare Board of Directors and Gates Foundation Consultant. I am also the co-editor-in-chief of Telehealth and Medicine Today open access peer reviewed journal.

Editorial Board

Mate Beštek, BSc, Slovenia

Relationships & Activities: I am Advisor to Iryo.io

James B. Davis, PhD, USA

Relationships & Activities: I am Co-Founder of Relief Health telemedicine company, acquired by 3T Health. My wife, Dr. Sarah Davis, is a physician and partner at Louisiana Women's Healthcare Associates

Gianluca de Novi, PhD, USA

Relationships & Activities: I am Co-Founder and CEO at XSurgical, Inc. Co-Founder and CEO at Circular Labs, Inc, CTO at ULedger, Managing Partner at Esacode, CEO at Hintvision. I hold several patents in the med-tech space, and advise numerous companies in the space.

Synho Do, MS, PhD, USA

Relationships & Activities: I have research Grants from HEM Pharma, Amazon Web Service
(AWS), Lunit, and Hologic Inc.

Anjum Khurshid, MD, PhD, USA

Relationships & Activities: Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, 2018- 2019

Prasad Kothari, MS, USA

Relationships & Activities: Advisor to Ramanujan Machine

Tim Ken Mackey, MAS, PhD, USA

Relationships & Activities: I am the CEO and Co-Fouder of S3 Research, LLC, a company currently funded by the National Institutes of Health - National Institute on Drug Abuse SBIR contract and also funded by other federal contracts.

Jim Markwith, USA

Relationships & Activities: Apervita, Inc., Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Blue Health Intelligence, CommonWell Health Alliance, Inc., Discover Alliance, Inc., Eligible, Inc., Health Data Link, Inc., Stryker Corporation

Enrico Perfler, MsC Eng, Switzerland

Relationships & Activities: 1MED SA, founder, board member and shareholder, shareholding of Aquatherapeutics Inc., and Aquaheart Inc., shareholder and scientific advisor at Circular Global Ledgers SA, and Circular Global Ledgers Inc.

Jim St. Clair, USA

Relationships & Activities: Independent Contractor at WellnessWits, and MyLigo, Inc, with pending equity positions at both companies

Tamara StClaire, PhD, MBA, USA

Relationships & Activities: Advisor to 2Morrow and also emplyed by ReVive Health

Peer Reviewers

Cees Hesp, Netherlands

Relationships & Activities: I am employed at PharmAccess, serve on the board of Directors of DIAL, and have an unpaid advisory role at SuretyBlock. SuretyBlock is a blockchain-based online insurance marketplace. I have no other commercial interests to disclose.

Joe Hawayek, UAE

Relationships & Activities: I am a board member at TachyHealth, Senior Advisor of Diginova Health a digital health incubator, investor and consulting company. My spouse is the Medical Director and owner of a medical practice in Dubai that offers pediatrics, family medicine and orthopedics specialties

Publishing and Operations Staff

Tory Cenaj, USA

Relationships & Activities: I am the founder and owner of Partners in Digital Health, including the journals Blockchain in Healthcare Today, Telehealth and Medicine Today, all related activities and initiatives associated with these titles, and company portfolio. I volunteer for, and own, SolarCoin. I am advisor for IEEE-SA and NixWhistle.

John Russo Jr., PharmD, USA

Relationships & Activities: I am the owner of The MedCom Resource

Ron Ribitzky MD, USA

Relationships & Activities: Founder and CEO of R&D Ribitzky, Stock shareholder of iSpecimen. Business Partner of DEMTECH.biz, East-West Digital News, ACTIMIRA., and TALENTGRID VENTURES. Strategic Advisor and token rights holder ARNA Genomics, BitMED. MarketsandMarkets Honorarium recipient. Komodo Health

Emma Csemiczky, Sweeden