About the Authors

Cheryl Iverson, MA, chair of the committee that prepared the 10th edition of the AMA Manual of Style, has worked for over 30 years in the Editorial group at JAMA/Archives. She has been active in the Council of Science Editors, has taught medical editing in the University of Chicago Publishing Program and Writing for Publication in a Scientific Journal as part of the New England Epidemiology Summer Program. She is on the editorial board of Science Editor and Copy Editor and also chaired the committees that prepared the 8th and 9th editions of the AMA Manual of Style.

Stacy Christiansen, MA, director of manuscript editing for JAMA, has worked in medical publishing for more than 10 years. She teaches in the University of Chicago Medical Writing and Editing Program and is an active member of both the Council of Science Editors and the American Medical Writers Association.

Annette Flanagin, RN, MA, is managing deputy editor for JAMA and director of Editorial Operations for JAMA and the Archives Journals. She served as a member of the committee for the 9th and 10th editions of the AMA Manual of Style and has been a journal editor for 20 years. She is a past president of the Council of Science Editors and serves as the coordinator of the International Congresses on Peer Review in Biomedical Publications. She participates in research, gives lectures, and publishes articles on issues related to scientific publication for authors, peer reviewers, and editors.

Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, MBA, is the executive deputy editor of JAMA, and is vice president of Scientific Publications at the American Medical Association. Dr Fontanarosa is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, is board certified in emergency medicine, received an MBA from the University of Notre Dame, and is an adjunct professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Dr Fontanarosa has been an editor at JAMA since 1993.

Richard M. Glass, MD, has been a JAMA deputy editor since 1989 and was a coauthor of the 9th edition of the AMA Manual of Style. He also sees patients and teaches at the University of Chicago as a clinical professor of psychiatry, and has served on the editorial board of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Brenda Gregoline, ELS, manages the copyediting team for 5 of the Archives Journals. She is a member of the Council of Science Editors and has worked in scientific publishing for nearly 15 years.

Stephen J. Lurie, MD, PhD, is a former senior editor at JAMA. He is currently on the faculty at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Harriet S. Meyer, MD, was the JAMA, book review editor from 1979 through 2006 and coauthored the Nomenclature chapters of the 8th, 9th, and 10th editions of the AMA Manual of Style.

Margaret A. Winker, MD, is a JAMA deputy editor and Web editor for JAMA and the Archives Journals. She has been an editor at JAMA for 15 years and a contributor to the 9th and 10th editions of the AMA Manual of Style. She is board certified in internal medicine and completed fellowships in geriatrics and clinical pharmacology. She currently serves as vice president of the World Association of Medical Editors.

Roxanne K. Young, ELS, is director of the Department of Medical Humanities of JAMA and has been an editor with JAMA since 1977. She is editor of JAMA's Piece of My Mind column and has edited 2 collections of the essays (winner of the 2001 Morris Fishbein Award from AMWA). She has also edited 2 collections of The Art of JAMA. She is a coauthor of the 8th, 9th, and 10th editions of the AMA Manual of Style. She was a member of the editorial board of CBE Views (Science Editor) and is now quality control editor for Science Editor.

In addition to the 10 members of the committee that prepared the 10th edition, 2 others were authors or coauthors of chapters in this edition.

R. Bruce McGregor, MLS, was indexing associate for JAMA and the Archives Journals from 2000 through 2006 and is a member of the Medical Library Association.

Jennifer Reiling is an assistant editor at JAMA, edits the weekly column JAMA 100 Years Ago, and has worked in various departments in scientific publishing for 20 years. She assists in planning the International Congresses on Peer Review in Biomedical Publications and managing the content of its Web site.

Contact the committee by e-mailing us at stylemanual@jama-archives.org