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| Author | Nicholas A Tritos, MD, DSc, MMSc, FACE, FACP, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Senior Staff Physician, Department of Endocrinology, Lahey Clinic Medical Center | Nothing to disclose | Details | | Medical Editor | Ghassem Pourmotabbed, MD †, Former Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Tennessee School of Medicine and Health Science Center | Nothing to disclose | Details | | Pharmacy Editor | Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine | Nothing to disclose | Details | | Managing Editor | Arthur B Chausmer, MD, PhD, FACP, FACE, FACN, CNS, Affiliate Research Professor, School of Computational Sciences; Principal, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, C/A Informatics, LLC | Nothing to disclose | Details | | CME Editor | Mark Cooper, MD, Head, Vascular Division, Baker Medical Research Institute; Professor of Medicine, Monash University | Nothing to disclose | Details | | Chief Editor | George T Griffing, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director of General Internal Medicine, St Louis University | Nothing to disclose | Details |
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