Hello and goodbye

Author(s):

SSMJ is delighted to welcome:

  • Dr. Charles Ochero Cornelio Langoya, MBBS, MSc(TMID), MSc(Internal Medicine), MPH, PGDipHIV, HCMTC, MRCP (UK) who has been appointed to the Editorial Board. Charles is from South Sudan and is presently subspecialist registrar in clinical haematology at St James University Hospital, Leeds, UK. Charles was a core medical trainee through the Medical Training Initiative (MTI) of the Royal College of Physicians and has, after just 2 years, obtained his membership (MRCP-UK).
  • Gore Laku Loro, a South Sudanese IT expert living in Cambridge, UK, who has accepted to support us in managing and uploading content on SSMJ. Gore will eventually take over from Rob Flooks who will be leaving SSMJ due to other work commitments. Rob has uploaded all the issues of SSMJ onto the website over the past 9 years – so many thanks to you, Rob.
  • And the following who are helping to edit, proofread and/or review articles: Dr Nyakomi Adwok (Foundation year 1 trainee in West Yorkshire, UK), Peter Jones (Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, West Lancashire, UK), Dr Constantine S.L. Loum (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Uganda), Christine Ro (managing editor of another journal and freelance journalist, UK), Mitesh Shrestha (Researcher at Research Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kathmandu, Nepal), and Dr Grace Juan Soma (Registrar in Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya).

Thanks to AuthorAid and HIFA who helped to locate some of these people.