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About Journal Watch General Medicine
The original Journal Watch. Our General Medicine section brings you timely, readable, and practical summaries and commentary from our physician editorial board. We survey 75 of the top general and specialty medical journals to help you focus on the research and guidelines that matter most to internal medicine generalists, family physicians, specialists, and allied health professionals.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
- Allan S. Brett, MD
- Professor of Medicine and Director,
- Division of General Internal Medicine,
- University of South Carolina School of Medicine,
- Columbia
- About Dr. Brett | Disclosure
DEPUTY EDITOR
- Thomas L. Schwenk, MD
- George A. Dean, MD, Endowed Professor and Chair,
- Department of Family Medicine,
- University of Michigan Medical Center,
- Ann Arbor
- About Dr. Schwenk | Disclosure
FOUNDING EDITOR
- Anthony L. Komaroff, MD
- Senior Physician, Division of General Medicine,
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital;
- Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
- Boston
- About Dr. Komaroff | Disclosure
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
- Charleen M. Hamilton, PhD
- Massachusetts Medical Society
MANAGING EDITOR
- Diana Montgomery
- Massachusetts Medical Society
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
- Kirsten E. Fleischmann, MD, MPH
- Attending Physician, Medical Center at the University of California, San Francisco;
- Professor of Clinical Medicine,
- University of California, San Francisco
- About Dr. Fleischmann | Disclosure
- Patricia Anne Kritek, MD, EdM
- Associate Professor,
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
- University of Washington,
- Seattle
- About Dr. Kritek | Disclosure
- Jamaluddin Moloo, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor of Medicine,
- Departments of Medicine and Radiology,
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,
- Aurora
- About Dr. Moloo | Disclosure
- Paul S. Mueller, MD, MPH, FACP
- Chair of the Division of General Internal Medicine,
- Professor of Medicine,
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine,
- Rochester, Minnesota
- About Dr. Mueller | Disclosure
- Robert W. Rebar, MD
- Executive Director,
- American Society for
- Reproductive Medicine,
- Birmingham, Alabama
- About Dr. Rebar | Disclosure
- Bruce Soloway, MD
- Associate Professor and Vice Chair,
- Department of Family and Social Medicine,
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine and
- Montefiore Medical Center
- Bronx, New York
- About Dr. Soloway | Disclosure
- Abigail Zuger, MD
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine,
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
- Senior Attending Physician,
- St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center,
- New York
- About Dr. Zuger | Disclosure
STAFF EDITORS
- Cara Adler, Lyn Whinston-Perry
COPY EDITORS
- Martin Jukovsky, Kara O'Halloran
ONLINE PRODUCTION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
- Martin Jukovsky, Kristin J. Kelley
MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY PUBLISHING DIVISION
- Alberta L. Fitzpatrick, Publisher
- Allison Lawlor, Online Product Manager
- Anne Russ, Print Product Manager
- Matthew O’Rourke, Director, Editorial and Product Development
- Robert Dall, Editorial Director
- Christopher R. Lynch, Vice President for Publishing
- Art Wilschek, Christine Miller, Lew Wetzel, Advertising Sales
- Bette Clancy, Customer Service
Editors who have left the board since January 2007
Howard Bauchner, MD, Associate Editor 1999–2011
Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health,
Director, Division of General Pediatrics,
Boston University School of Medicine,
Boston Medical Center
This information was up to date at the time of Dr. Bauchner’s last affiliation with Journal Watch in 2011.
Robert A. Dershewitz, MD, Associate Editor 1988–2007
The Community Hospital,
Munster, Indiana
This information was up to date at the time of Dr. Dershewitz’s last affiliation with Journal Watch in 2007.
Keith I. Marton, MD, Associate Editor 1987–2007
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President,
Legacy Health Systems,
Portland, Oregon
This information was up to date at the time of Dr. Marton’s last affiliation with Journal Watch in 2007.
Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM, Deputy Editor 1997–2010
Professor
of Medicine and Epidemiology,
Clinical Addiction
Research and Education (CARE) Unit,
Section of
General Internal Medicine,
Boston Medical Center
and Boston University
Schools of Medicine and
Public Health
This information was up to date at the time of Dr. Saitz’s last affiliation with Journal Watch in 2010.

