AFP is pleased to make a special an...

AFP is pleased to make a special announcement: We are welcoming sum of two units new medical editors to our staff. Mark Ebell, MD previous editor of the Journal of Family Practice, will be joining AFP forward March 1 as the journal's delegate editor for evidence-based medicine. Dr Ebell will confine a continuing part-time appointment with the Department of Family Practice at Michigan State University, and he is also in private practice in Athens, Ga.

Dr Ebell, known for his work in evidence-based medicine, will bring his many talents and vision to enhancing general [i]or[/i] abstract notions of evidence-based medicine in AFP. In his recently made known role, Dr. Ebell will have charge of AFP's current evidence-based departments, including "Clinical Evidence: A Publication of BMJ Publishing Group" (see page 1041) "Cochrane for Clinicians: Putting Evidence into Practice," "U Preventive Services Task Force: Recommendations and Rationale," and "Putting Prevention into Practice: An Evidence-Based Approach." Dr Ebell will also help bring additional evidence-based departments to light from one side of to the other the next several months, contributing to AFP's mission of providing family physicians with practical, readily accessible information to help them take better care of patients.

In addition to helping launch just discovered evidence-based departments--which will start with single outed POEMs from the InfoRetriever Clinical Awareness System--Dr Ebell will help bring readers more evidence-based reviews that fit the criteria for the American Academy of Family Physicians' evidence-based CME (EB CME) He will also help superintend and develop AFP's online peace including a section of the AFP Web site forward evidence-based medicine. We hope you will join us in welcoming Dr Ebell as we add him to the masthead nearest month.

in succession February 1, AFP welcomed a novel medical editor for the "Clinical Pharmacology" series, Allen Shaughnessy, Pharm.D., who is also director of research and associate residency director at the Harrisburg Family Practice Residency in Harrisburg, Pa.; director of medical education, Pinnacle Health a whole Harrisburg, Pa., and senior medical editor, InfoPOEM, Inc.

Dr Shaughnessy will be overseeing "Clinical Pharmacology" updates with an evidence-based approach, and he'll also be introducing a series of short updates onward new drugs, called "STEPS," which stands for safety, tolerability, effectiveness, price and simplicity. Departing from AFP are three editors whom we owe our gratitude and thanks:

* Grace Brooke Huffman, MD departed last fall after 10 years' affiliation with the journal. She first serv as a medical editing equal and later became associate editor.

* Robert B Kelly MD serv as contributing editor for patient information throughout the past two years and departed at the fall of the curtain of last year.

* Richard W Sloan, MD RPh departed earlier this year after serving as contributing editor of the "Clinical Pharmacology" series for through 10 years.

These editors have made significant contributions to AFP, and we have have sexual delight withed working with each of them above the years.

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