Patrick G. O’Malley M.D., M.P.H., M.A.C.P is a Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland. He is currently a Deputy Editor for the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. O’Malley is a practicing internist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he has spent his entire career as an academic general internist and clinical epidemiologist. His areas of interest are clinical research methods, evidence synthesis, medical editing, primary care research and technology assessment. He spent 15 years as a senior deputy editor for JAMA Internal Medicine before joining the New England Journal of Medicine.