Philip Seo, MD, MHS, is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. He is director of both the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center and the Johns Hopkins Rheumatology Fellowship Program.
It turns out that I was correct on both accounts. Although you may not have known this, Paul’s fingerprints have been on every edition of The Rheumatologist that has been published since I became its medical editor. Paul always had fresh new ideas and a new perspective, and made this publication much better than it would have been otherwise.
I wrote today that physicians should not have to steal time “from other pursuits that allow us to rejuvenate and make us whole.” In this spirit, Paul has taken steps to improve his work-life balance, first by leaving his old position at Boston University for new ones at the VA and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and now, sadly, by resigning his position at The Rheumatologist. I want to thank him, personally and publicly, for his help keeping The Rheumatologist running when I was getting my bearings and wish him nothing but the best in the years ahead.
Ethan Craig, MD, MHS
I am pleased to announce that Ethan Craig, MD, MHS, will become our new associate editor of The Rheumatologist. Ethan trained in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota and in rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. He is now an assistant professor of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Rheumatology and is a staff rheumatologist for the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center. His passion has been for advocacy—he is a member of the ACR’s Government Affairs Committee (GAC) and serves as the liaison between the GAC and the Insurance Subcommittee of the Committee for Rheumatologic Care. Up to this point, we have not had expertise in any of these areas on our editorial board, and we look forward to Ethan taking us in some exciting new directions!
