Lange Q &amp; A: Psychiatry
Ivan Oransky, MDis the deputy editor of The Scientist. He has served as editor-in-chief of Pulse, the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) and of Praxis Post. Author or co-author of several books, including The Common Symptom Answer Guide (McGraw-Hill, 2004) and three previous editions of Lange Q&A; Psychiatry, he has written for publications including the Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Fitness, The Forward, The Lancet, The New Republic, The New York Sun, Salon, Slate, U.S. News and World Report, and USA Today, and has served as an editor at Reuters Health information. He received his BA at Harvard and his MD from NYU, and completed an internship at Yale. In 2002, he was elected to the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists.Sean Blitzstein, MDis Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago in Chicago Illinois.