Editor-in-Chief position, Cochlear Implants International from 1 January 2023.

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I’m delighted to introduce our new Editor-in-Chief Helen Cullington. Helen has a long history of involvement with Cochlear Implants International. She has played all roles within the Journal: subscriber since the very first issue in 2000, author since 2003; reviewer since 2010; on the Editorial Board since 2013, and assistant editor since 2016. Our two previous Editors-inChief were men – it is time to have a woman. Women are underrepresented among Editors-inChief of leading medical journals (around 21%) (Pinho-Gomes et al. 2021). Helen has worked clinically in the cochlear implant field for 29 years – at six cochlear implant centres around the world, and is also active in research https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5093-2020. She is currently Chair of the British Cochlear Implant Group (BCIG).