Douglas B. Kamerow is an American family physician, medical researcher, and

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editor. He is a professor of

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and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Robert Graham Center. He is also an associate editor and regular columnist for ''

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''.

Personal life

Kamerow was educated at

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, the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He worked for the United States Public Health Service from 1979 to 2001, where he directed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Center for Practice and Technology Assessment. He also led the United States Preventive Services Task Force, the National Guideline Clearinghouse, and became an assistant Surgeon General. In 2001, he retired from the Public Health Service to begin working at RTI International, where he was a chief scientist for twelve years. In 2003, he became the

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of ''

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''. After ''BMJ USA'' ceased publication in 2005, Kamerow remained the ''BMJ''s

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editor.

References

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