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Key Objective
To promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of the public health

Critical Objectives

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH

Executive Deputy Editor: Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, MBA
Deputy Editors: Richard M. Glass, MD, Drummond Rennie, MD, Margaret A. Winker, MD
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Senior Contributing Editor: M. Therese Southgate, MD
Senior Editors: Robert M. Golub, MD, Ronna Henry Siegel, MD
Contributing Editors: Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, Helene M. Cole, MD, Thomas B. Cole, MD, MPH, David S. Cooper, MD, David R. Flum, MD, MPH, Michael S. Lauer, MD, David H. Mark, MD, MPH, Robert A. McNutt, MD, Boris Pasche, MD, PhD, Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, Jeanette M. Smith, MD, Janet M. Torpy, MD, John L. Zeller, MD, PhD, Gianna Zuccotti, MD, MPH, Jody W. Zylke, MD
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Associate Editors: Charlene Breedlove, Roxanne K. Young
Contributing Writers: Christine K. Cassel, MD; Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD; Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LLD; Kevin Grumbach, MD; Howard Markel, MD, PhD; Bruce M. Psaty, MD, PhD
Medical News & Perspectives: Joan Stephenson, PhD (editor); Tracy Hampton, PhD, Bridget M. Kuehn, Mike Mitka (senior staff writers); Rebecca Voelker
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Editors of International Editions: Bassel Atallah, MD, Middle East; Eugeniu Pascal Ciofu, MD, PhD, Romania; Csaba Farsang, MD, DSc, Hungary; Igor Francetic, MD, PhD, Croatia; Evin Kantemir, MD, Turkey; Li Chengyi, MD, China; Ivan Málek, MD, PhD, Czech Republic; Aleksander N. Neskovic, MD, PhD, Serbia and Montenegro; Helena Saldanha, MD, Portugal; Ivan Vidmar, MD, Slovenia

Daniel M. Albert, MD, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, Massachusetts
Philip Cagle, MD, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
Cyril Chantler, MD, FRCP, London, United Kingdom
Joseph T. Coyle, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Pierre Durieux, MD, MPH, Université Paris 6, Paris, France
Ronald G. Evens, MD, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Missouri
Julie Freischlag, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Philip Greenland, MD, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
Michael M. E. Johns, MD, Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Mary-Claire King, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Wayne F. Larrabee Jr, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Paul A. Levine, MD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey
Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
C. David Naylor, MD, DPhil, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June E. Osborn, MD, Josiah Macy, Jr Foundation, New York, New York
Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Povl Riis, MD, DSCI, DHC, Professor of Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sarah Ringold, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
June K. Robinson, MD, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
William L. Roper, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Roger N. Rosenberg, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Masaaki Terada, MD, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan

Frank F. Davidoff, MD (chair), Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Wethersfield, Connecticut
Kathleen Case, American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jordan J. Cohen, MD, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC
Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC
Robert A. Musacchio, PhD, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois
Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Vivian W. Pinn, MD, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

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