Bauchner signs on as JAMA editor-in-chief
Howard C. Bauchner, MD, of the Boston University School of Medicine, will become the next Journal of the American Medical Association editor-in-chief on July 1. Bauchner will be the 16th editor in the journal’s 127-year history.
Bauchner is currently editor-in-chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, the official publication of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the U.K., and also is a professor of pediatrics and community health sciences at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, the Chicago-based American Medical Association stated.
As editor-in-chief, Bauchner will have editorial oversight of JAMA and the nine Archives journals, the specialty medical journals published by the AMA. He succeeds Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH, who is leaving the post after 11 years to return to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Bauchner is currently editor-in-chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, the official publication of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the U.K., and also is a professor of pediatrics and community health sciences at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, the Chicago-based American Medical Association stated.
As editor-in-chief, Bauchner will have editorial oversight of JAMA and the nine Archives journals, the specialty medical journals published by the AMA. He succeeds Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH, who is leaving the post after 11 years to return to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.