Academic Medicine Announces Next Editor-in-Chief
As we look ahead to the end of David Sklar’s term as editor-in-chief at the end of this year, we are excited to announce that Laura W. Roberts, MD, MA, has been selected as the next editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine!
Dr. Roberts will begin her five-year term on January 1, 2020, becoming the second female editor-in-chief since the journal was founded in 1926. She has served as editor-in-chief for the journal Academic Psychiatry since 2002 and has been a member of the editorial board for Academic Medicine since 2013.
Dr. Roberts is chairman of and the Katharine Dexter
McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of
Medicine. She is an internationally recognized scholar in bioethics,
psychiatry, medicine, and medical education. Dr. Roberts completed her
undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chicago and her medical
degree and a fellowship in clinical medical ethics at the University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Medicine. She received her residency training in psychiatry
at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Academic Medicine David Sklar Editor in Chief Laura Roberts Source Type: blogs
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