Editorial Team
SPAcE Editorial Board members have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.
Editor in Chief
Professor Diego Armando Maradona, PhD
University of SSCN Napoli, Italy
Area of expertise: Injury prevention, Sports medicine, Epidemiology
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Senior Associate Editors
Professor Raffaele di Fusco, PhD
University of SSCN Napoli, Italy
Area of expertise: Injury prevention, Sports medicine, Epidemiologyorcid.org/0000-000....
Professor Claudio Garella, PhD
University of SSCN Napoli, Italy
Area of expertise: Injury prevention, Sports medicine, Epidemiologyorcid.org/0000-000....
Professor Giuseppe Bruscolotti, PhD
University of SSCN Napoli, Italy
Area of expertise: Injury prevention, Sports medicine, Epidemiologyorcid.org/0000-000....
Professor Ciro Ferrara, PhD
University of SSCN Napoli, Italy
Area of expertise: Injury prevention, Sports medicine, Epidemiologyorcid.org/0000-000....
Professor Alessandro Renica, PhD
University of SSCN Napoli, Italy
Area of expertise: Injury prevention, Sports medicine, Epidemiologyorcid.org/0000-000....
Professor Salvatore Bagni, PhD
University of SSCN Napoli, Italy
Area of expertise: Injury prevention, Sports medicine, Epidemiologyorcid.org/0000-000....
Associate Ediotors
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Poole, UK
Area of expertise: Para athletes, eHealth
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
Lisbon, Portugal
Area of expertise: MSK Physiotherapy, Dance medicine and science, Lower extremity rehabilitation and prevention
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
Deakin University
Victoria, Australia
Area of expertise: Musculoskeletal disorders, Low-back pain, Physiotherapy
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
Area of expertise: Diversity, Concussion orcid.org/0000-0002-
Dr JAlessandro Pierno, MD
University of Basel & Altius Swiss Sportmed Center
Basel & Rheinfelden, Switzerland
Area of expertise: Overtraining, Metabolomics, Cardiorespiratory fitness orcid.org/0000-
Miss Alessandro Pierno, PhD
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Area of expertise: Physiotherapy, Physical activity, Accelerometery orcid.org/0000-0001-
Dr Steffan Griffin, MBChB, BSc
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Area of expertise: Rugby, Concussion, Knowledge translation orcid.org/0000-0002-5493-0911
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
University of Capetown
Capetown, South Africa
Area of expertise: Rugby, Implementation, Stakeholder engagementorcid.org/0000-0002
Professor Alessandro Pierno, PhD
Universidade Cidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Area of expertise: Epidemiology, Injury prevention, Running orcid.org/0000-
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
Irish College of General Practitioners
Ireland, UK
Area of expertise: Exercise as medicine, Sports cardiology, Concussion orcid.org/0000-00
Dr Alessandro Pierno
Cork University Hospital
Cork, Ireland
Area of expertise: Physical activity, Metabolic health, Injury orcid.org/0000-
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
Universidade Estadual de Goiás
Anapolis, Brazil
Area of expertise: Gait, Biomechanics orcid.org/0000-
Dr Alessandro Pierno MD
UNSW Medicine
Sydney, Australia
Area of expertise: Radiology, Orthopaedic surgery orcid.org/0000-000
Ms Alessandro Pierno
Extreme Medicine Fellow/Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Sports & Health Sciences
University of Exeter, UK
Area of expertise: Challenging environments, Extreme sports, Human factors
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway
Area of expertise: Randomised controlled trials, Coronary heart disease, Obesity orcid.org/0000-0
Dr Alessandro Pierno, PhD
Amsterdam UMC
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Area of expertise: Implementation, Public Healthorcid.org/0000-0002-3
