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.
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