Publisher Future Science Group has announced the appointment of David H Hickam as the new Senior Editor of the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research.
Hickam is a Program Director of the Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He is responsible for developing PCORI’s research program that evaluates comparisons among alternative clinical strategies in a broad range of clinical domains, and he also provides staff support to the PCORI Methodology Committee. He is a specialist in internal medicine and has 30 years of experience as a health services researcher.
The Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research is a peer-reviewed journal for the presentation of studies of patient-centered outcomes, effectiveness or comparative effectiveness yielding new findings relating to diagnostics, therapeutics, surgical procedures, or other healthcare services or options. The role of Senior Editor provides vital support and guidance to the journal’s editorial team.
Hickam succeeds Sheldon Greenfield (University of California, Irvine, USA) and Eugene Rich (Mathematica Policy Research, USA), who have been co-Senior Editors since the journal’s launch in 2012. Greenfield and Rich have been instrumental in the journal’s success, including indexing on Medline/PubMed and achieving its most recent impact factor of 1.906.
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