The American College of Gastroenterology has announced the new Co-Editors-in-Chief of The American Journal of Gastroenterology, the official clinical journal of the ACG. The team of Dr. Jasmohan S. Bajaj and Dr. Millie D. Long were approved by the ACG Board of Trustees for their deep experience as AJG Associate Editors, their individual reputations as clinician-scientists, and their national leadership in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology. They assume their new roles with the January 2022 issue.
Together Dr. Long and Dr. Bajaj will continue AJG’s tradition of clinical and educational excellence, along with ensuring diversity, prompt decisions, and focus on prospective experiences and randomized trials across the field of gastroenterology. They will be partners in leading ACG’s flagship journal into its next era.
The new Co-Editors-in-Chief view the clinical guidelines developed by College members as practical, important, useful, and highly relevant to patient care. Guidelines will continue to be the center piece of the Red Journal, along with clinically relevant manuscripts and initiatives, pertinent clinical review articles, a continuation of the “How I Approach It” series, and an enhanced focus on clinical education.
Dr. Bajaj is Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Virginia Commonwealth University and Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, VA. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in London and to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Active in research, Dr. Bajaj has served as a principal investigator or co-investigator for numerous clinical trials in areas such as hepatic encephalopathy, chronic liver disease, and the microbiome. Dr. Bajaj has been an Associate Editor for The American Journal of Gastroenterology for more than 10 years and is on the editorial board for Journal of Hepatology, Hepatology, and Liver Transplantation.
Dr. Long is board certified in internal medicine, preventive medicine, and gastroenterology. Her research interests include prevention of complications of IBD, women’s health, and clinical epidemiology. Dr. Long has contributed numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and review articles to the medical literature. She has published in journals including Gastroenterology, The American Journal of Gastroenterology, and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, among others. She previously served as Associate Editor for The American Journal of Gastroenterology. She currently serves as an invited reviewer for journals such as Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Gastroenterology, and The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Published monthly since 1934, The American Journal of Gastroenterology (AJG) publishes scientific papers relevant to the practice of clinical gastroenterology. It features original research, review articles, and consensus papers related to new drugs and therapeutic modalities. The AJG Editorial Board encourages submission of original manuscripts, review articles, and letters to the editor from members and non-members.
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