Meet the Editors Webinar 2014

Free

Thursday, October 2, 2014, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. EDT

Overview: This skill and career development webinar was designed to help authors improve their success rate of being published in top journals in the field of health services research and gain a better understanding of what each journal publishes. Specifically, panelists improved authors' understanding of the respective journals' peer review process and gave useful hints about how to design and write a strong manuscript. Finally, speakers helped authors differentiate among the journals (e.g., what types of subjects and presentation format each journal prefers and which groups compose its audience).

Faculty: Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Global Public Health Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, and VA Boston Healthcare System (moderator); Gregory Curfman, M.D., Executive Editor, New England Journal of Medicine; Edward Livingston, M.D., Deputy Editor, JAMA; Patrick S. Romano, M.D., M.P.H., Co-Editor in Chief, Health Services Research; Sarah Dine, Senior Deputy Editor, Health Affairs 

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of the session, participants were able to: 

  • Understand each journal’s submission and review priorities and processes 
  • Recognize how to present research in a way that increases its probability of acceptance 
  • Know what journals consider to be “fatal flaws” and their various grievances when it comes to submissions

Acknowledgement: This webinar was brought to you by AcademyHealth's Membership Department. For questions, please email membership@academyhealth.org. 

Faculty Bios:

Ashish Jha Photo Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H. is director for the Harvard Global Health Institute, professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and a practicing internal medicine physician at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. Jha received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco where he also served as Chief Medical Resident.  He completed his General Medicine fellowship from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and received his M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Jha's major research interests lie in improving the quality and costs of healthcare with a specific focus on the impact of policy efforts.  His work has focused on a broad set of issues including transparency and public reporting of provider performance, financial incentives, health information technology, and leadership, and the roles they play in fixing health care delivery systems. 
Gregory Curfman Photo Gregory Curfman, M.D.: Dr. Curfman's professional medical editor at the New England Journal of Medicine spans 28 years. He is currently the executive editor of the Journal, a position that he has held for 13 years. Prior to being appointed executive editor, he served as deputy editor of the Journal for 14 years. The New England Journal of Medicine is an international medical journal that has been published continuously for over 200 years. Dr. Curfman is a board-certified internal medicine physician and cardiologist, and he holds two academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, in the Department of General Internal Medicine and lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy. He also holds an appointment on the affiliated faculty at Harvard Law School. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, and cum laude from Harvard Medical School. He joined the editorial staff of the New England Journal of Medicine in 1986, where he now serves as an editor for cardiovascular disease. He also has a longstanding interest in health policy, and he founded the Perspective section of the Journal. Dr. Curfman has authored nearly 70 editorials and Perspective articles for the New England Journal of Medicine on a variety of topics in medicine and health care, including health policy, health law, and the regulation of drugs and medical devices.
Edward Livingston Photo Edward H. Livingston, M.D., FACS, AGAF : Dr. Livingston has served as deputy editor for clinical content of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association since July 1, 2012. Before that, he was a contributing editor at JAMA for three years. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Dr. Livingston received his medical degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He completed a general surgery residency at UCLA and served as the administrative chief resident for surgery in 1992. After residency, he remained on the faculty at UCLA eventually serving as assistant dean of the medical school and surgical service line director for the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System. He also founded the UCLA Bariatric Surgery Program. In 2003, he moved to Dallas to become the professor and chairman of GI and endocrine surgery at the University Of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine (UTSW). During this time period, Dr. Livingston headed the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs's national effort in bariatric surgery quality improvement. He was appointed as a professor of biomedical engineering in 2007 at the University of Texas Arlington. Dr. Livingston became chairman of the graduate program in biomedical engineering at UTSW in 2010. Dr. Livingston has had peer review funding and has published in excess of 150 peer reviewed papers as well as numerous other scientific writings. He has also served on numerous local and national committees and is a past president of the Association of VA Surgeons. He continues to serve as a professor of surgery at UTSW.
Patrick Romano Photo Patrick S. Romano, M.D., M.P.H.: Dr. Romano is a professor of medicine and pediatrics and senior faculty in the Graduate Groups in Epidemiology, Public Health, Clinical Research, and Nursing Science and Healthcare Leadership at the University of California (UC) Davis. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He completed training in internal medicine and pediatrics at University Hospitals of Cleveland, followed by fellowship training in health services research at UC San Francisco. His research interests include developing, testing, and validating health care quality measures, using outcomes data to improve the quality and effectiveness of health care, and studying the role of physicians and nurses in optimizing quality and safety. Over the past 22 years, he has written or co-written nearly 150 peer-reviewed papers and provided technical assistance to many agencies involved in measuring or reporting on health care quality, including the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and Office of the Patient Advocate, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He has served on or chaired expert panels for the National Quality Forum, The Joint Commission, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the World Health Organization, the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), and the American Medical Association's Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. Effective April 2014, he also serves as co-editor in chief of Health Services Research (HSR), an official journal of AcademyHealth.
  Sarah B. Dine, M.A., is the senior deputy editor of Health Affairs. Dine holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history and American studies from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. Dine worked with historical documentary editions and in the history of medicine field before doing more contemporary health and science editing for the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and Spaceline, a NASA affiliate. She has been an editor with Health Affairs since 2004.
   

 

 

 

 



 

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