Derek Angus, professor and chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Pitt and chief health care innovation officer at UPMC, will become a senior editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Christopher Seymour, director of the Translational and Clinical Science Program at the Clinical Research, Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center in Pitt’s School of Medicine and UPMC intensivist, will take Angus’ place as associate editor at JAMA, focused on critical care medicine.
“Derek is among the most prominent ICU physicians in the world and has helped JAMA recruit the best papers in this specialty,” said Howard Bauchner, JAMA’s editor-in-chief. “After consideration of many possible replacements, we have decided that Christopher Seymour — also from UPMC — will become an associate editor … Christopher has been an important contributor to JAMA as an author and reviewer and is a well-known trialist in the field.”
Angus joined UPMC and Pitt in the early 1990s after earning his medical degree and completing residency training in internal medicine at the University of Glasgow, UK. His specialties include epidemiologic, economic and health services research aspects of critical illness, with a particular focus on improving randomized control trials to better serve the sickest of the sick.
Seymour joined UPMC and Pitt nearly a decade ago after earning his medical degree and completing his residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington. His research focuses on the early recognition and treatment of sepsis and critical illness, using machine learning and translational science.
Read more about the appointments on the UPMC website.