JAMA Editor to Step Down and Return to Johns Hopkins U.

The editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Catherine D. DeAngelis, announced today that she would leave the medical publication next June, after 11 years at the helm. “I’m going to return to my academic home, Johns Hopkins University, … and I’m going to start a center for professionalism—that’s the ethics,” Dr. DeAngelis said. A search committee for her successor will be led by Ronald G. Evens, of the medical school at Washington University in St. Louis.