DiagnosticsMedical Students Chosen For Global Pulse Editorial Board
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation"s largest, independent medical student organization, is proud to announce the 2009-2010 editorial board for its online international health journal, Global Pulse.
Editors-in-Chief
Julio Bracero-Rodriguez, MD, Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico
Hana Akselrod, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Sujal Parikh, University of Michigan
Webmaster
Din Garcia, New Jersey Medical School
Editors
Wilnise Jasmin, American University of Antigua College of Medicine
Paul Johnson, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine
Susan Lewis, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago Medical School
Rebecca Mitchell, University of California, San Francisco
Daniel Pak, University of Michigan Michael Richards, University of Illinois-Chicago
Jennifer Weinberg, University of Pennsylvania
Global Pulse has a readership of more than 17,000 individuals and medical institutions. The journal is written and produced by medical students and is funded by AMSA; it does not accept third party funding.
"With our 5th volume in as many years, Global Pulse has established itself as an internationally renowned publication that exposes global health topics and showcases medical student"s life-changing experiences abroad," says Dr. Julio Bracero-Rodriguez, editor-in-chief, Global Pulse. "Easily our most successful issue ever, the superb quality of articles we have received, as well as the interest and enthusiasm of global health leaders in our publication, clearly demonstrates the need for a global health journal among the medical community."
The current issue is available at: http://www.globalpulsejournal.com/blog. Included is an exclusive, in-depth interview with Dr. Julio Frenk, Dean of Harvard"s School of Public Health; personal reflections on the Native Health Initiative; bringing breast cancer diagnosis to the developing world; the mental health of child soldiers; and amazing photo galleries from Ghana, Mozambique, and Sudan.
Follow the latest news and developments at the Global Pulse blog, http://www.globalpulsejournal.com/blog. Readers can also follow Global Pulse via Twitter at "GlobalPulse" and Facebook by searching "Global Pulse Journal."
American Medical Student Association