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About the Physician’s First Watch Editorial Board
David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Fairchild has been practicing internal medicine for 19 years. Before coming to Tufts Medical Center in 2003, he was the Director of Primary Care Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After completing his residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut and an additional year there as Chief Resident, Dr. Fairchild spent 3 years on the Navajo Reservation as a physician in the Indian Health Service, serving as the Chief of Staff of his IHS hospital in Chinle, Arizona. He is board-certified in internal medicine, is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and, in addition to his clinical and administrative duties, is a health services researcher with an interest in quality improvement in ambulatory care settings.
Susan Sadoughi, MD, Deputy Editor
Dr. Sadoughi is trained and board-certified in internal medicine. Former Chief Medical Resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Sadoughi has been a staff clinician educator in the Division of General Medicine at that institution. Her academic career and administrative roles have focused on medical education. She is actively involved in training residents and medical students and has received a number of outstanding teacher awards. She is the Co-Chair of the Education Subcommittee of Harvard Medical School's Women's Health Center of Excellence.
André Sofair, MD, MPH, Deputy Editor
Dr. Sofair has practiced general internal medicine in both rural and academic settings. His research focus is on the epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases, particularly viral hepatitis, and he has lectured both nationally and internationally on these topics. He is currently principal investigator on a number of longitudinal studies investigating the epidemiology of hepatitis C in the United States.
Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, Associate Editor
Dr. Di Francesco is residency-trained and board-certified in internal medicine. He is an accomplished teacher and has received the Society of Hospital Medicine National Teaching Award in 2003; he also has numerous housestaff teaching awards within his institution, including the Golden Apple Teaching Award and the Juha P. Kokko Teaching Award. Dr. Di Francesco lectures both regionally and nationally and has primary academic interests in community-acquired pneumonia, acute heart failure, acute aortic dissection, acute pericarditis, pulmonary embolus, PDAs in medicine, teaching at the bedside, and physical examination skills.
Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD, Associate Editor
Dr. Hefner’s primary teaching and research interests focus on primary healthcare for women and health disparities. She has lectured extensively and has been the recipient of grant funding in the area of primary care for patients with disabilities. She is currently developing a web-based educational curriculum for health providers to learn to care for women with physical disabilities. Dr. Hefner is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician and hospitalist in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, as well as an Associate Physician and hospitalist in the Department of Medicine, Division of Women’s Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Jacob Reider, MD, Associate Editor
Dr. Reider is a family physician from Slingerlands, New York, where he practices in a three-physician office doing the full spectrum of family medicine: from newborn care to geriatrics, including obstetrics and outpatient gynecology. He has 15 years of experience in healthcare information technology with a special interest in user interfaces and usability. Dr. Reider is the creator of medlogs.com, an aggregator of medical weblogs, and is the author of docnotes.net, the longest-running medical weblog on the Internet. He is the creator and project coordinator of FMDRL.org (the Family Medicine Digital Resource Library) and advises the New York Academy of Family Physicians and the Medical Society of the State of New York on issues relevant to health information technology. Dr. Reider's clinical interests focus on the evidence-based management of common clinical problems in outpatient medicine such as otitis media, sinusitis, and bronchitis.
Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM, Associate Editor
Dr. Saitz is a primary care clinician, educator, and researcher who trained at the former Boston City Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health. A board-certified internist, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and Director of the CARE Unit at Boston Medical Center, he conducts studies of alcohol- and drug-related problems, supported by the NIH. He is President of the Association for Medical Education and Research on Substance Abuse and Co-Chair of the Society of General Internal Medicine's Substance Abuse Task Force. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, is editor of a leading addiction medicine textbook, is certified in addiction medicine, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Dr. Saitz has been writing for Journal Watch since 1997 and has served as its Deputy Editor since 2001.
Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSc, Associate Editor
Dr. Scheurer is a practicing hospitalist and Director of the General Medical Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. She is also the Web Editor for the Society of Hospital Medicine and author of their medical blog. Her clinical and research interests include the prevention and treatment of noscomial infections, as well as resident education and evidence-based medicine.