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Asterisks indicate Editorial Board members of the 19th Edition (print version, pending) only.

Richard K. Albert, MD

Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Chief of Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center

Marjorie A. Bowman*, MD, MPA

Professor and Founding Chair of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Glenn D. Braunstein, MD

Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Chairman, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Sidney Cohen, MD

Professor of Medicine and Director, Research Programs, Thomas Jefferson University

Linda Emanuel*, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Buehler Center on Aging

Jan Fawcett*, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Eugene P. Frenkel, MD

Professor of Internal Medicine and Radiology, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research, Elaine Dewey Sammons Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research in honor of Eugene P. Frenkel, MD, A. Kenneth Pye Professorship in Cancer Research, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Susan L. Hendrix, DO

Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Michigan State University School of Osteopathic Medicine, and Detroit Medical Center/Hutzel Women's Hospital

Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, MD

Harry K. Davis Professor, Titus H. Harris Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Michael Jacewicz, MD

Professor of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Memphis

Matthew E. Levison, MD

Adjunct Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine
Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health, Drexel University

James Jeffrey Malatack, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine
Chief of Diagnostic Referral Service and Medical Liver Transplantation, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD

Professor and Vice Chairman of Medicine, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University

Gerald L. Mandell*, MD, MACP

Professor of Medicine (Emeritus), Owen R. Cheatham Professor of the Sciences (Emeritus), Chief of Infectious Diseases (Emeritus), University of Virginia Health Center

Judith S. Palfrey*, MD

T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston

Albert A. Rundio, Jr.*, PhD

Associate Professor of Nursing, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Nurse Practitioner, Lighthouse at Mays Landing

David A. Spain, MD

Professor of Surgery and Chief of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Stanford University

Paul H. Tanser, MD, FRCP(C), FRCP (Glasgow)

Professor of Medicine (Emeritus), McMaster University
Medical Consultant, North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals, Auckland

Eva M. Vivian, PharmD

Clinical Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy

Michael R. Wasserman, MD

Private Practice, Senior Care of Colorado, PC

Last full review/revision February 2010

Content last modified February 2012

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