NEJM Interviews

Dr. Deborah Anderson is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, microbiology, and medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D.J. Anderson. Population and the Environment — Time for Another Contraception Revolution. N Engl J Med 2019;381:397-399.

Dr. Katherine High is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and president and head of research and development at Spark Therapeutics. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. K.A. High and M.G. Roncarolo. Gene Therapy. N Engl J Med 2019;381:455-464.

Dr. Pieter Cohen is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. P.A. Cohen and J. Sharfstein. The Opportunity of CBD — Reforming the Law. N Engl J Med 2019;381:297-299.

Anita Berlin is a professor of primary care education at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. A. Berlin and Others. The Right and Left Hands of the State — Two Patients at Risk of Deportation. N Engl J Med 2019;381:197-201.

Dr. Julie Cantor is an adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J.D. Cantor. Mandatory Measles Vaccination in New York City — Reflections on a Bold Experiment. N Engl J Med 2019;381:101-103. R.D. Silverman, D.J. Opel, and S.B. Omer. Vaccination over Parental Objection — Should Adolescents Be Allowed to Consent...

Dr. Roy Perlis is the director of the Center for Quantitative Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Kim and Others. Esketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression — First FDA-Approved Antidepressant in a New Class. N Engl J Med 2019;381:1-4.

Dr. Evan Eichler is Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.E. Eichler. Genetic Variation, Comparative Genomics, and the Diagnosis of Disease. N Engl J Med 2019;381:64-74.

Dr. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Oberlander. Sitting in Limbo — Obamacare under Divided Government. N Engl J Med 2019;380:2485-2487.

Dr. Héctor Carrasco is a physician and a doctor of public health candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. H. Carrasco, L. Messac, and S.M. Holmes. Misrecognition and Critical Consciousness — An 18-Month-Old Boy with Pneumonia and Chronic Malnutrition. N Engl J Med 2019;380:2385-2389.

Dr. Deborah Dowell is the chief medical officer of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D. Dowell, T. Haegerich, and R. Chou. No Shortcuts to Safer Opioid Prescribing. N Engl J Med 2019;380:2285-2287.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. C.I. Paules, H.D. Marston, and A.S. Fauci. Measles in 2019 — Going Backward. N Engl J Med 2019;380:2185-2187. R.D. Silverman, D.J. Opel, and S.B. Omer. Vaccination over Parental Objection — Should Adolescents Be Allowed to...

Dr. Michael F. Clarke is a professor at Stanford Medical School and Associate Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. M.F. Clarke. Clinical and Therapeutic Implications of Cancer Stem Cells. N Engl J Med 2019;380:2237-2245.

Dr. Sanjeev Krishna is a professor of molecular parasitology and medicine at St. George’s, University of London. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Wang and Others. A Temporizing Solution to “Artemisinin Resistance”. N Engl J Med 2019;380:2087-2089.

Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr is the director of ICAP at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. W.M. El-Sadr and Others. AIDS in America — Back in the Headlines at Long Last. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1985-1987. S. Kishore, M. Hayden, and J. Rich. Lessons from Scott County — Progress or Paralysis on Harm Reducti...

Dr. Daphna Stroumsa is a fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program and a clinical lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D. Stroumsa and Others. The Power and Limits of Classification — A 32-Year-Old Man with Abdominal Pain. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1885-1888.

Dr. Scott Podolsky is a professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. S.H. Podolsky, D. Herzberg, and J.A. Greene. Preying on Prescribers (and Their Patients) — Pharmaceutical Marketing, Iatrogenic Epidemics, and the Sackler Legacy. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1785-1787.

Dr. Jeremy Farrar is the director of the Wellcome Trust. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J.J. Farrar. Stopping the Gaps in Epidemic Preparedness. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1788-1789.

Dr. Matthew Fiedler is a fellow with the Center for Health Policy at the Brookings Institution. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. M. Fiedler and Others. Building on the ACA to Achieve Universal Coverage. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1685-1688.

Dr. Helen Blau is the director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. H.M. Blau and G.Q. Daley. Stem Cells in the Treatment of Disease. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1748-1760.

Dr. J. Brian Byrd is an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J.B. Byrd, G.M. Chertow, and V. Bhalla. Hypertension Hot Potato — Anatomy of the Angiotensin-Receptor Blocker Recalls. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1589-1591.

Dr. David Ansell is the senior vice president for community health equity at Rush University Medical Center. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. K. Pallok, F. De Maio, and D.A. Ansell. Structural Racism — A 60-Year-Old Black Woman with Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1489-1493.

Dr. Isaac Kohane, the interviewee, is chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and professor of biomedical informatics and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. A. Rajkomar, J. Dean, and I. Kohane. Machine Learning in Medicine. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1347-1358.

Terry Langbaum is chief administrative officer at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Dr. Tom Smith is a medical oncologist and the director of palliative medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. T. Langbaum and T.J. Smith. Time to Study Metastatic-Cancer Survivorship. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1300-1302.

Dr. Ingrid Binswanger is a senior investigator at the Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. I.A. Binswanger. Opioid Use Disorder and Incarceration — Hope for Ensuring the Continuity of Treatment....

Dr. Laszlo Madaras is chief medical officer of the Migrant Clinicians Network and a clinical assistant professor at Penn State College of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. L. Madaras and Others. Social Distance and Mobility — A 39-Year-Old Pregnant Migrant Farmworker. N Engl J Med 2019;380:1093-1096.