Ivan Oransky, MD, is managing editor, online, at Scientific American. Previously, he was deputy editor of The Scientist, editor in chief of the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) and of Praxis Post, an online magazine of medicine and culture. Under his leadership, the editorial team of The Scientist earned the 2006 and 2007 Gold Eddie Awards for science magazines from FOLIO and finalist (top 10) status in the 2007 American Society of Business Publication Editors' Magazine of the Year contest (80,000 and under division). In its first year of publication, Praxis Post was a finalist for the 2001 Online News Association Award for General Excellence. Oransky is the author or co-author of four books, including The Common Symptom Answer Guide (McGraw-Hill, 2004), and has written for numerous publications including the Boston Globe, The Lancet, The New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal Online. He received his BA at Harvard and his MD from NYU, and completed an internship at Yale. He has served on the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists since 2002. That was also the year he began teaching medical writing in the SHERP Program at NYU. Ivan also holds an appointment at NYU Medical School as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, and teaches at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism.