Jeffrey M. Drazen was the editor-in-chief of '' The New England Journal of Medicine'' from 2000 to 2019. He currently holds the positions of senior physician at the

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, Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, professor of physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and adjunct professor of medicine at the

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. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from the University of Ferrara, the University of Athens, the

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and the University of Paris-Sud.

Biography

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Drazen majored in physics at Tufts University and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1972. It was at Tufts that he met Erica Lawson Coburn, whom he later married. He performed his

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and

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at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and was a clinical fellow and a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Thereafter, he served as chief of

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at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, chief of the combined Pulmonary Divisions of the Beth Israel and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, and then as chief of Pulmonary Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Other work

Drazen has worked with the National Institutes of Health in a variety of capacities, including membership of study sections, the Pulmonary Disease Advisory Council, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Advisory Council, and the National Library of Medicine Public Access Working Group. He has also served on the Veterans’ Administration National Research Advisory Council. Drazen is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Inter-Urban Clinical Club and the National Academy of Medicine. He co-chaired the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation for 6 years and was a member of the World Health Organization’s Scientific Advisory Group on Clinical Trials Registration. An active researcher in the field of

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, Drazen defined the role of novel endogenous chemical agents in asthma. This led to four new licensed pharmaceuticals for asthma. Drazen has published over 600 papers, editorials, and review articles and has edited six books, including ''Cecil Medicine'' and ''Asthma and COPD''. Drazen has served on the editorial boards of a variety of journals, including the '' Journal of Applied Physiology'', the '' American Journal of Physiology'', ''

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'', ''

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'', the '' Journal of Clinical Investigation'', the '' American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology'', and '' The American Journal of Medicine''. In addition, he has been an associate junior editor of the '' Journal of Clinical Investigation'' and the '' American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine''.

References

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