Marcia Angell, M.D.

Marcia Angell, M.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist. She joined the editorial staff of the New England Journal of Medicine in 1979, became Executive Editor in 1988, and Editor-in-Chief in 1999. Dr. Angell writes frequently in professional journals and the popular media on a wide range of topics, particularly medical ethics, health policy, the nature of medical evidence, the interface of medicine and the law, care at the end of life, and the relations between industry and academic medicine. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, "Science on Trail: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case" (1996) and "The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It" (2004). In 1997, Time magazine named Marcia Angell one of the 25 most influential Americans.