JAMA Internal Medicine Author Interviews

Interview with Diana M. Zuckerman, PhD, author of Lack of Publicly Available Scientific Evidence on the Safety and Effectiveness of Implanted Medical Devices, and Joshua Sharfstein, MD, author of Improving Medical Device Regulation: A Work in Progress

Interview with Lena M. Chen, MD, MS, author of Use of Medical Consultants for Hospitalized Surgical Patients: An Observational Cohort Study, and Gulshan Sharma, MD, MPH, author of Medical Consultation for Surgical Cases in the Era of Value-Based Care

Interview with Walter N. Kernan, MD, author of Litigation Seeking Access to Data From Ongoing Clinical Trials: A Threat to Clinical Research, and I. Glenn Cohen, JD, author of Clinical Trials and the Right to Remain Silent

Interview with Arnold S. Relman, MD, author of Physicians and Politics, and David J. Rothman, PhD, author of The Political Polarization of Physicians in the United States: An Analysis of Campaign Contributions to Federal Elections, 1991 Through 2012

Interview with Karen Smith-McCune, MD, PhD, author of Choosing a Screening Method for Cervical Cancer: Papanicolaou Testing Alone or With Human Papillomavirus Testing, and Sarah Feldman, MD, MPH, author of Can the New Cervical Cancer Screening and Management Guidelines Be Simplified?

Interview with Daniel J. Elliott, MD, MSCE, author of Effect of Hospitalist Workload on the Quality and Efficiency of Care, and Robert M. Wachter, MD, author of Hospitalist Workload: The Search for the Magic Number

Interview with Timothy F. Jones, MD, author of High-Risk Use by Patients Prescribed Opioids for Pain and Its Role in Overdose Deaths, and Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, MPH, author of Sources of Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers by Frequency of Past-Year Nonmedical Use: United States, 2008-2011

Interview with Jeff D. Williamson, MD, MHS, author of Cognitive Function and Brain Structure in Persons With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus After Intensive Lowering of Blood Pressure and Lipid Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Madhav Goyal, MD, MPH, author of Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with Lillian C. Buchhalter, author of Features and Outcomes of Patients Who Underwent Cardiac Device Deactivation, and Sunita Puri, MD, MS, author of Deathbed Shock: Causes and Cures

Interview with Eileen Rillamas-Sun, PhD, MPH, author of Obesity and Late-Age Survival Without Major Disease or Disability in Older Women

Interview with Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, author of The Institute of Medicine Report Sodium Intake in Populations: Assessment of Evidence: Summary of Primary Findings and Implications for Clinicians

Interview with Donald S. Likosky, PhD, author of Growth in Medicare Expenditures for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Comparison of 1998 Through 1999 and 2008, and Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, author of Going After the Money: Curbing the Rapid Growth in Medicare Expenditures for Medical Services More Than 30 Days After Hospital Admission

Interview with Christine A. Sinsky, MD, author of Medicare Payment for Cognitive vs Procedural Care: Minding the Gap, and Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD, author of Using Science to Shape Medicare Physician Payment: Comment on "Medicare Payment for Cognitive vs Procedural Care"

Interview with Erin L. Richman, ScD, author of Fat Intake After Diagnosis and Risk of Lethal Prostate Cancer and All-Cause Mortality, and Stephen J. Freedland, MD, author of Dietary Fat and Reduced Prostate Cancer Mortality: Does the Type of Fat Matter?

Interview with Melissa W. Wachterman, MD, MPH, MSc, author of Relationship Between the Prognostic Expectations of Seriously Ill Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis and Their Nephrologists, and Mack Lipkin, MD, author of Shared Decision Making

Interview with Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, author of Improving Health With Partnerships Between Academia and Industry, and Richard S. Lehman, MA, BM, BCh, MRCGP, author of Nullius In Verba: Don't Take Anyone's Word for It

Interview with Alexis L. Beatty, MD, author of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T Levels and Secondary Events in Outpatients With Coronary Heart Disease From the Heart and Soul Study, and Patrick G. O'Malley, MD, MPH, author of Is There a Role for Further Risk Stratification of Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease?

Interview with Lisa Bero, PhD, author of Medicaid Drug Selection Committees and Inadequate Management of Conflicts of Interest

Interview with Jaclyn Yoong, MBBS, FRACP and Jennifer S. Temel, MD, authors of Early Palliative Care in Advanced Lung Cancer: A Qualitative Study, and Alexander K. Smith, MD, MS, MPH, author of Palliative Care: An Approach for All Internists Comment on "Early Palliative Care in Advanced Lung Cancer: A Qualitative Study"

Interview with Ateev Mehrotra, MD, author of A Comparison of Care at E-visits and Physician Office Visits for Sinusitis and Urinary Tract Infection

Interview with Edgar P. Simard, PhD, MPH, author of The Influence of Sex, Race/Ethnicity, and Educational Attainment on Human Immunodeficiency Virus Death Rates Among Adults, 1993-2007 and William Cunningham, MD, MPH, author of HIV Racial Disparities: Time to Close the Gaps

Interview with Jarett D. Berry, MD, MS, author of Midlife Fitness and the Development of Chronic Conditions in Later Life, and Diane E. Bild, MD, MPH, author of Thriving of the Fittest

Interview with David H. Howard, PhD, author of Declines in Prostate Cancer Incidence After Changes in Screening Recommendations, and Mitchell H. Katz, MD, author of Time to Stop Screening for Prostate Cancer

Interview with Carla M. Perissinotto, MD, MHS, author of Loneliness in Older Persons: A Predictor of Functional Decline and Death, Jacob A. Udell, MD, MPH, author of Living Alone and Cardiovascular Risk in Outpatients at Risk of or With Atherothrombosis, and Emily M. Bucholz, MPH, author of Loneliness and Living Alone: What Are We Really Measuring?: Comment on "Loneliness in Older Persons" and "Living Alone and Cardiovascular Risk in Outpatients at Risk of or With Atherothrombosis"

Interview with Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, author of Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer and Radiation From Medical Imaging: Findings From the Institute of Medicine Report.

Interview with Leeat Granek, PhD author of Nature and Impact of Grief Over Patient Loss on Oncologists' Personal and Professional Lives and Timothy E. Quill, MD author of Oncologists Responding to Grief.

Interview with Nicolas Rodondi, MD, MAS, author of Subclinical Hyperthyroidism and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality and Kenneth D. Burman, MD, author of What Is the Clinical Importance of Subclinical Hyperthyroidism?

Interview with Joshua J. Fenton, MD, MPH, author of The Cost of Satisfaction: A National Study of Patient Satisfaction, Health Care Utilization, Expenditures, and Mortality and Brenda E. Sirovich, MD, MS, author of How to Feed and Grow Your Health Care System

Interview with Glenn V. Ostir, PhD, author of Assessing Gait Speed in Acutely Ill Older Patients Admitted to an Acute Care for Elders Hospital Unit

Interview with Michael L. Barnett, MD, author of Trends in Physician Referrals in the United States, 1999-2009

Interview with Mitchell H. Katz, MD, author of Opioids for Chronic Pain