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About the Book
Topics:    Committed to Providing Medical Information | Preface | Guide for Readers | Abbreviations and Symbols | Editors and Editorial Board | Editorial and Production Staff | Contributors and Consultants

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Editors and Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Mark H. Beers, MD
Executive Director of Geriatrics, Merck & Co., Inc. and Clinical Professor of Medicine, Drexel University
Editor
Thomas V. Jones, M.D., MPH
Merck & Co., Inc. and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine
Assistant Editors
Michael Berkwits, MD
Merck & Co., Inc. and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Justin L. Kaplan, MD
Merck & Co., Inc. and Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University
Robert Porter, MD
Merck & Co., Inc. and Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University

Editorial Board
Richard W. Besdine, MD
Professor of Medicine, Greer Professor of Geriatric Medicine, and Director, Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research, Brown Medical School

Terry T. Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN
The Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and Head, Division of Nursing, New York University

George T. Grossberg, MD
Samuel W. Fordyce Professor and Director, Geriatric Psychiatry, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW
Education Director, Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Duke University Medical Center; Director, Family Support Program, Duke University Center for Aging

Victor W. Henderson, MD
Professor of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
Richard F. Loeser, Jr, MD
The Dorothy Rhyne Kimbrell and Willard Duke Kimbrell Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Sections of Molecular Medicine and Rheumatology, The Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Joanne Lynn, MD
Director, The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies; Senior Researcher, RAND Health

John E. Morley, MB, BCh
Dammert Professor of Gerontology, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center; Director, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, St. Louis VA Medical Center

Michael W. Rich, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine; Director, Cardiac Rapid Evaluation Center, Barnes-Jewish Hospital

This topic was last updated May 2005.

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