Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences
Editors and Editorial Board

Editor-in-chief
Dr. George Zahariadis, Director, Health & Medical Sciences Division, ATINER & Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
Associate Editors

Dr. Zoe Boutsioli, Research Fellow & Vice President of Publications, Athens Institute.
Dr. Adel Zeglam, Deputy Director, Health & Medical Sciences Division, ATINER and Consultant Neurodevelopment Pediatrician & Professor of Pediatric and Child Health, Tripoli University Hospital & Faculty of Medicine Tripoli University, Libya.
Dr. Apostolos Tsiachristas, Academic Member, ATINER & Senior Researcher, Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Dept. of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK.
Dr. Paul Contoyannis, Head, Health Economics and Management Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics, McMaster University, Canada.
Managing Editor
Afrodete Papanikou Certificate of Publishing, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.
BA in Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece.
Editorial Board
• Dr. Steven M. Oberhelman, Vice President of International Programs, ATINER & Professor of Classics, Holder of the George Sumey Jr Endowed Professorship of Liberal Arts, and Interim Dean, Texas A&M University, USA, s-oberhelman@tamu.edu.
• Dr. H R Chitme, Academic Member, ATINER & Professor, Oman Medical College, Sultanate of Oman, hrchitme@rediffmail.com.
• Dr. Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Academic Member, ATINER & Professor, University of Kragujevac, Serbia, sidartagothama@gmail.com.
• Dr. Elizabeth Poster, Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, University of Texas Arlington, USA, poster@exchange.uta.edu.
• Dr. Paolo Ricci, Professor, University of Bologna, Italy, apricci@earthlink.net.
• Dr. Iga Rudawska, Head and Professor, Chair of Health Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Szczecin, Poland, igita@wneiz.pl.
• Dr. Donald Rob Haley, Associate Professor, Health Administration Program Department of Public Health, Brooks College of Health, University of North Florida, USA, rhaley@unf.edu.
• Dr. Jarmila Kristová, Associate Professor, Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovakia, jarmila.kristova@szu.sk.
• Dr. Amardeep Thind, Academic Member, ATINER & Professor and Director, Western University, Canada, athind2@uwo.ca.
• Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, USA & Professor and Director for Global Health Studies, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, USA, YHuang@cfr.org.
• Dr. David P. Keys, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, New Mexico State, USA, davekeys@nmsu.edu.
• Dr. Emmanouil Mentzakis, Academic Member, ATINER & Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Southampton, UK, E.Mentzakis@soton.ac.uk.
• Dr. Laurence G. Rahme, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts & Director of Molecular Surgical Laboratory, Burns Unit, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.
• Dr. Blazej Lyszczarz, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, blazej@cm.umk.pl.
• Dr. Melina Dritsaki, Academic Member, ATINER & Senior Health Economist, Oxford Clinical Trials Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences , University of Oxford, UK, melina.dritsaki@ndorms.ox.ac.uk.
• Vice President of Publications: Dr Zoe Boutsioli
• ICT Managing Editor Mr. Kostas Spyropoulos