Two New Editors-in-Chief Named for BMES Journals

A search sub-committee of the BMES Publications Committee selected two new editors-in-chief to replace the outgoing editors for two prestigious Society journals. Joel D. Stitzel replaces Stefan Duma as Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering; and Edward Sander replaces Michael King as Editor-in-Chief of the BMES Journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. 

Joel D. Stitzel has been at Wake Forest University since 2003 and currently serves as associate head of the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, as well as program leader of the Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics. He have served as a reviewer, Associate Editor, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Annals of Biomedical Engineering since 2011. He has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief since 2016 until now. Dr. Stitzel's specialty and area of training is biomechanics with interests including human injury biomechanics, particularly computational modeling of the human body and the relationship between computational model-based metrics and criteria and real-world injury and disease. He has served as co-PI of a Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) Center at WFU since 2005. He was the founding PI of the Global Human Body Models Consortium (GHBMC) Integration Center at Wake Forest, a global endeavor to create an industry-standard virtual human model for injury prediction. His research group’s multidisciplinary teams have received support from the NIH NINDS to study concussion and subconcussion. He also works in the areas of automotive, sports, military, aerospace, and medical device applications. His research teams have received support from industry and government sponsors, including the DOT, NASA, NSF, CDC, DOD, and NIH.

Ed Sander is a Professor and Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty Fellow in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Iowa, with secondary appointments in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Therapy. He obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University. He was also a visiting research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and a research associate at the Cincinnati Shriners Hospital for Children and the Department of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Sander’s research interests are broad, span multiple disciplines, and include both computational and experimental work. His primary focus is on the role of mechanobiological processes in wound healing, fibrosis, and scar formation. He has secured multiple federal and private foundation grants including an NSF CAREER award. He has been an associate editor for CMBE since 2018