Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine – CJGIM – Online Articles

The Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine is the official publication of the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine. CJGIM provides a sharp focus on the topics and issues facing the profession of Internal Medicine with a combination of society news, clinical and scientific original articles. CJGIM is published four times a year and is distributed to all members of the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine along with physicians in various subspecialties of medicine.

The CSIM is pleased to welcome Dr. Mitchell Levine as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine!

MITCHELL A.H. LEVINE, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FISPE, FACP

The Canadian Society of Internal Medicine is pleased to announce that Dr. Mitchell Levine is the new Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Levine received his medical degree from the University of Calgary, followed by postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Toronto. He also received an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from McMaster University.

He is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and in the Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology at McMaster University. He is the Director for the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines and a consultant physician in Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton.

Dr. Levine serves as an advisor to government on issues relating to drug safety, efficacy and pharmaco-economics. He is the Vice-Chair of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board of Canada and is a consultant to the Drug Benefits Program of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.

His academic activities include assessing prescription drug use in the community and developing methods to obtain maximum value from drug therapy resources. He is the Editor for both the Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine and the Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, and is an Associate Editor for ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine.

Please help us in welcoming Dr. Levine.  Also, we would like to take this opportunity to extend our thanks to the previous editors Dr. Hector Baillie and Dr. Donald Farquhar.