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45 J.L. Med. & Ethics 1 (2017)

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR


       EDITORIAL STAFF                         It has been my  signal professional honor to serve as the Editor of the
                                                 Journal ofLaw, Medicine &' Ethics since 2003. For nearly fifteen years
                                             F   my co-editors and I have viewed ourselves as caretakers and stewards
 Aaron S. Kesselheim, MI.D., J.D.,           of a publication that has roots stretching back more than four decades. The
                                             last ten years of that stewardship has been shared with my friend and fellow
                                             editor Courtney McClellan, and together we work every day to ensure the
                                             journal meets the high standards set by our many predecessors. However,
         Founiding Editor                    we can't do it alone. No relationship is more important to us in meeting
  George  J. Annas, J.D., MI.P.H.            these lofty goals than our vitally important partnership with our Editor-in-
                                             Chief (EIC).
                                               JLME's  EIC sets the standard for the journal: what questions we should
      Ed%%ard J. Hutchinson                  ask, what form those questions should take, and how we should present the
                                             answers we find. The EIC is also intimately involved in all of the larger ques-
                                             tions about the journal, from its business model to its very look and feel. As
        ASSIIAN    IT 1)11editor I have been blessed by a string of outstanding EICs, including Kathleen
      CourtneyN J. McClellan                 Boozang, Sandra Johnson, and Anna Iltis. They, in turn, followed such nota-
                                             ble scholars as Larry Gostin, Steven Miles, Karen Rothenberg, Ellen Wright
                                             Clayton, and Bernard Lo. The first EIC ofJLME (then under a different title)
                                             was the great George Annas, who is featured in this current issue. One of the
                                             longest-serving EICs in our publication's history is also our most recent one,
                                             Kevin Outterson, who has served with great distinction since 2009. Kevin
                                             led JLME during a critical time of success, when the publication exploded
      EXE cI D IR      T  ) cIin terms of readers, downloads, and revenue earned. I want to thank Kevin
      Edward  J. Hutchinson                  publically for his wonderful service, and note with relief he is still with us at
                                             ASLME:  he is currently serving as our organization's President.
                                               With  tremendous  pleasure, I now introduce our new Editor-in-Chief
                                             Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H. Aaron is an influential scholar
                                             whose work  has addressed a number of topics, including FDA regulatory
                                             practices, prescription drugs and medical devices, and intellectual property.
                   MEME  IDICTOR             He has been published many times inJLMEand   has a history of service to
         Mlargo G. Smith                     ASLME  both as a member on our Board of Directors and in co-chairing (with
                                             David Orentlicher) our 2011 conference on Conflicts of Interest in Medicine
                                             in Pittsburgh. Aaron is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medi-
                                             cal School and a faculty member in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology
                                             and Pharmacoeconomics   in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and
                                             Women's Hospital (BWH).  Within the Division, Aaron created and leads the
                                             Program on  Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL),  an interdisci-
                                             plinary research core focusing on intersections among prescription drugs
 ~The Journal o/ a, edic ~ine & tFINcs   and medical devices,   patient health outcomes, and regulatory practices and
      is ownlied mnd puihed by           the law.   He  is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and serves as a primary
      thI e Am IericanI Society o f Law.
      edicie   & Ethics Inc(..               care physician at the Phyllis Jen Center for Primary Care at BWH. He is a
   The views anmid opinios expressed         also member of the New York State Bar and a Patent Attorney. I hope you all
 in1 the Jom   aire t hose of thle iathors,  will join me in welcoming Aaron to the masthead ofJLME, as the next in the
    and do n[ot necessairily represent
  thle v iews or opinios of the publisher    long line of distinguished scholars leading our esteemed publication.
     or thI eJournal's edi torial stff

                                                                                                   Ted Hutchinson
                                                                                                            Editor
                                                                                                            JLME


RECONCEPTUALIZING   INFORMED  CONSENT  * SPRING 2017                                                             1
The Journal ofLaw, Medicine & Ethics, 45 (2017): 1. @ 2017 The Author(s)
DOI: 10.1177/1073110517703094

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