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ABOUT ANNALS
Hal Sox, Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine,
received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1966. After
serving as a medical intern and resident at Massachusetts General
Hospital, he spent two years doing research in immunology at the
National Institutes of Health and three years at Dartmouth Medical
School. There he served as chief medical resident and began his
studies of medical decision-making. Sox then spent fifteen years on
the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine where he served
as chief of the division of general internal medicine and as a
director of ambulatory care at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration
Medical Center.
In 1988, he returned to Dartmouth to chair the department of medicine. He was the Joseph M. Huber Professor of Medicine and chair of the department of medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center until 2001 when he became Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine.
Sox has led national committees that have shaped clinical, educational, and public policy in the United States. He has served as chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Institute of Medicine Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood Products, and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Health Effects of Exposures in the Persian Gulf War. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
A general internist, Sox has also been a leader of internal medicine nationally and of ACP in particular. He served as president of the American College of Physicians from April 1998 to April 1999 during the organization's merger with the American Society of Internal Medicine.
Sox was an associate editor of Scientific American Medicine and has served on the editorial boards of three medical journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine. He also served as consulting associate editor of The American Journal of Medicine. He is the author of ten books and many book chapters and journal articles. Sox is the principal author of Medical Decision Making—an introductory textbook used throughout the world. He was also editor of both the first and second editions of Common Diagnostic Tests, a groundbreaking evaluation of commonly used medical tests, first published by the American College of Physicians in 1987. In his lifetime of research and writing, Sox has explored issues such as technology assessment, medical decision-making, disease prevention and health promotion, cost effectiveness analysis, physicians' and patients' risk preferences, and medical education.
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