The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has announced the appointment of Dr. Laura Roberts, as the next editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine, one of its peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. She will succeed Dr. David Sklar, a distinguished professor emeritus of emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a senior advisor and professor at the Arizona State University College of Health Solutions, who has served as editor-in-chief since 2012.
Roberts will begin her five-year term on January 1, 2020, becoming the second female editor-in-chief since the journal was founded in 1926. She has served as editor-in-chief for the journal Academic Psychiatry since 2002, has been a member of the editorial board for Academic Medicine since 2013, and serves as a peer reviewer for many other scientific and education journals.
Roberts is chairman of and the Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is an internationally recognized scholar in bioethics, psychiatry, medicine, and medical education. Widely recognized for her bioethics work and leadership in psychiatric education, Roberts received the 2015 MacLean Center Prize and the Distinguished Psychiatrist Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2005 and 2010, and she was recognized as the foremost leader in psychiatric education in the United States and Canada by the University of Toronto in 2008. Roberts has also received numerous awards for leadership, teaching, and science.
The top-ranked journal in its field, Academic Medicine serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry out its missions in the public interest.
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