Professor Andrew Miles BMedSci MSc MPhil PhD DSc (hc) is Senior Vice President and Secretary General of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare (ESPCH) and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare (EJPCH), the official journal of the ESPCH. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief (1994 – 2019) of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (JECP). 

Professor Miles trained at the University of Wales and its medical school in Cardiff, Wales, and was awarded his first Chair in London at the age of 30. He has held senior professorial appointments at the major London medical schools, including Guy’s, King’s College and St. Thomas’ Hospitals’ Medical School in London, and at St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals´ School of Medicine (Bart’s) in London, and was a Senior Fellow at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, Imperial College London. Professor Miles has also been Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Deputy Rector/DVC) of the University of Buckingham, which operates one of the UK’s few private medical schools, the foundational development of which he contributed to prominently in his capacity as DVC during the latter stages of his tenure. 

Professor Miles has been a Visiting Professor in Person Centered Care at the University of Milan (UNIMI), the second biggest university in Italy, and a Visiting Professor in Person Centered Care within the medical school of Francisco de Vitoria University, a private Catholic university in Madrid, Spain. Professor Miles was Foundation Professor of Person Centred Health and Social Care and Co-Director of the European Centre for Person Centred Health and Social Care at the University of West London from April 2018 to May 2021. Professor Miles is currently an Honorary Visiting Professor within the Joint Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at the St. George’s University Teaching Hospital Campus in London. He is an Honorary Visiting Professor in Person Centered Care at Fernando Pessoa University in Porto, Portugal, an Honorary Visiting Professor of Person Centered Care within the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria, and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Theology of the National University of Bulgaria at Sofia. 

Professor Miles holds five degrees, including four higher degrees: two Master’s degrees (prostate diagnostic pathology, clinical audit/evaluation) and two Doctorates (pineal gland neuroendocrinology, person-centered medicine), the latter doctorate being awarded honoris causa for his contribution to the advancement of person-centered healthcare internationally. Professor Miles has published extensively in the peer reviewed medical and biomedical press (some 100 peer-reviewed papers), co-editing some 50 medical textbooks in association with an extensive number of medical Royal Colleges and medical and clinical societies in the UK and Europe, and has organised and presided over some 130 clinical conferences and masterclasses in London and Europe as part of a major and long term contribution to British and European postgraduate medical education.

Professor Miles is a Distinguished Academician of the National Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bulgaria, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine UK, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health UK, a Fellow of the Catholic Medical Association of the USA, a Fellow of the Society of Catholic Scientists, a Fellow of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, and a former Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, USA.

Professor Miles has lectured widely in person-centered healthcare across Europe, and is accredited with having changed the direction of the global EBM debate away from scientistic reductionism based on population-derived aggregate biostatistical data and rigid foundationalism, towards the embrace of the complex and the personal within international medicine and healthcare policymaking. Professor Miles has a profound interest in the modern management of the long term, multi-morbid and socially complex illnesses, and the methods through which medicine´s traditional and indispensable humanism can be effectively re-integrated with rapidly continuing scientific and technological advance. Professor Andrew Miles can be contacted at: andrew.miles@pchealthcare.org.uk

Dr. Marco Bregni is a Specialist in Haematology and Oncology at the Ospedale di Circolo, Busto Arsizio, Italy and Professor of Oncology at University Vita-Salute, Milan. He has worked in stem cell transplantation in leading Italian institutions and has contributed major advances to the field of stem cell transplantation in solid tumours. He is a past Chairman of the Solid Tumour Working Party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) and was elected President of the Annual Meeting of the EBMT held in 2014 in Milan, Italy. He is a Past President of the Italian Society for Medicine and the Person. His interests are mainly in reduced-intensity allografting in solid tumours as adoptive immunotherapy, high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem-cell transplant in solid tumours, gene transfer and gene therapy studies in haematopoietic cells and applications of cellular and molecular therapies in medical oncology.

Professor Drozdstoj (Drossi) St. Stoyanov was appointed as Full Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Psychology and Person Centered Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria at the age of 33 years. He received his MD and PhD from the Medical University of Sofia in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and was Board Certified in 2007. Prior to his appointment to the full professorship, Professor Stoyanov was a tenured Associate Professor in the Medical University of Plovdiv in 2008 and Vice Dean for International Affairs of its Faculty of Public Health from 2009 to 2011. He is currently Special Advisor for Strategic Partnerships to the Vice Rector for International Affairs and is Co-Director of the University Center for Philosophy and Mental Health. Professor Stoyanov practises clinically as a psychiatrist at the ‘St. Ivan Rilski’ State Psychiatric Hospital. Professor Stoyanov is also Vice Chairman of the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Member of its Executive Committee. He is Chairman of the Conceptual Group within the Global Network for Diagnosis and Classification launched by the World Psychiatric Association (2008). He was elected Visiting Fellow to the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 2009. He has published more than 150 scholarly papers, including 5 monographs and 3 textbooks. Since 2007, Professor Stoyanov has acted as a member of the Editorial Board, Secretary- Co-ordinator and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the International Annual for the History and Philosophy of Medicine. He is also an Editorial Board member of Frontiers in Psychiatry, Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neurosciences, Folia Medica, the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, among others.