Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair and Director of the Aging Brain Center, Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, has been named the Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Internal Medicine. Dr. Inouye will assume this position on July 1, 2023.
An internationally recognized leader in internal medicine, geriatrics, and aging research, Dr. Inouye’s research focuses on delirium and functional decline in hospitalized older patients. She is currently the overall principal investigator of the Successful Aging after Elective Surgery (SAGES) study, a $13 million Program Project on delirium and dementia funded by the National Institute on Aging, as well as other active research projects. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. She previously served as an Associate Editor at JAMA Network Open. Dr. Inouye succeeds Dr. Rita F. Redberg, who has been Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Internal Medicine since 2009.
JAMA Internal Medicine is a leading, international peer-reviewed journal providing innovative and clinically relevant research for practitioners in general internal medicine and internal medicine subspecialties. JAMA Internal Medicine receives approximately 3,400 submissions per year with an overall acceptance rate of 11% and 4% for research and has a wide global reach with 14 million article views per year and an impact factor of 44.4.
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