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Marcia
Angell, M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine
at Harvard Medical School. She stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the
New England Journal of Medicine on June 30, 2000. A graduate of Boston
University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine
and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist. She joined
the editorial staff of the New England Journal of Medicine in 1979,
became Executive Editor in 1988, and Editor-in-Chief in 1999.
Dr. Angell writes frequently in professional journals and the popular
media on a wide range of topics, particularly medical ethics, health
policy, the nature of medical evidence, the interface of medicine and
the law, and care at the end of life. Her critically acclaimed book,
Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast
Implant Case, was published in June, 1996, by W. W. Norton & Company.
In addition, Dr. Angell is co-author, with Dr. Stanley Robbins and,
later, Dr. Vinay Kumar, of the first three editions of the textbook,
Basic Pathology. She also wrote chapters in several books dealing with
ethical issues.
Dr. Angell is a member of the Association of American Physicians, the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences, the Alpha
Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society, and is a Master of the American
College of Physicians. In 1997, Time magazine named Marcia Angell one
of the 25 most influential Americans.
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