Eric Zorn (born January 6, 1958) is an American former op-ed columnist and daily blogger for the Chicago Tribune who specialized in local news as well as politics.
15-666: JAMA is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association Jama or JAMA may also refer to: JAMA JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association . It publishes original research, reviews, and editorials covering all aspects of biomedicine . The journal
30-489: A digital offering from the JAMA Network called JN Learning CME & MOC from JAMA Network. JN Learning provides CME and MOC credit from article and audio materials published within all 12 JAMA Network journals, including JAMA. On 11 July 2016, JAMA published an article by Barack Obama entitled " United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps ", which was the first academic paper ever published by
45-489: A newsletter named after the newsletter once published by his grandfather, Max Zorn . Zorn is a Democrat and has stated, "I’m a Democrat because I think man-made climate change is real, that it’s vile to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, that access to quality health care should be a right, that the death penalty should be abolished, that income inequality should be diminished and that we shouldn’t privatize public education. I’m
60-418: A sitting U.S. president . The article was not subject to blind peer-review. It argued for specific policies that future presidents could pursue in order to improve national health care reform implementation. After the controversial 1999 firing of an editor-in-chief, George D. Lundberg , a process was put in place to ensure editorial freedom. A seven-member journal oversight committee was created to evaluate
75-433: A very real problem" and that "taking racism out of the conversation would help" to ensure "all people who lived in disadvantaged circumstances have equal opportunities to become successful and have better qualities of life." In addition to the comments made during the podcast, JAMA then tweeted out the podcast with the caption "No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care" which further added to
90-614: A week of columns that consisted of a back-and-forth exchange of letters. Each December since 1999 (except for during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020), Schmich and Zorn have hosted the "Songs of Good Cheer" holiday caroling parties at the Old Town School of Folk Music to raise money for the Tribune Holiday Fund charities. Zorn co-wrote the 1990 book Murder of Innocence , about Laurie Dann . The book served as
105-700: Is a graduate of the University of Michigan , where he majored in English literature and creative writing . He is the grandson of the mathematician Max Zorn , author of Zorn's lemma . After serving a four-month internship at the Miami Herald , Zorn started working for the Chicago Tribune in summer 1980. He has been a columnist for it since 1986. About four times a year for some years, Zorn and fellow Tribune columnist Mary Schmich wrote
120-452: Is commonly referred to as JAMA . Continuing Education Opportunities for Physicians was a semiannual journal section providing lists for regional or national levels of continuing medical education (CME). Between 1937 and 1955, the list was produced either quarterly or semiannually. Between 1955 and 1981, the list was available annually, as the number of CME offerings increased from 1,000 (1955) to 8,500 (1981). In 2016, CME transitioned into
135-560: The basis for a 1993 made-for-TV movie of the same name. From 2003, Zorn penned "Change of Subject", the Tribune ' s first blog. When Alden Global Capital took control of the Chicago Tribune in the spring of 2021, Zorn was among the many columnists and other journalists who accepted a buyout offer from the company. His final column appeared on June 27, 2021. In September of that year he began writing The Picayune Sentinel ,
150-473: The controversy. The comments were immediately criticized by some, resulting in deletion of the podcast and resignation of the Deputy Editor. On June 1, 2021, the editor-in-chief announced that he would resign effective June 30, 2021 to "create an opportunity for new leadership at JAMA." Columnists Eric Zorn and Daniel Henninger asserted in separate Op-Eds that the resignation of the two editors
165-413: The editor-in-chief and to help ensure editorial independence. Since its inception, the committee has met at least once a year. Presently, JAMA policy states that article content should be attributed to authors, not to the publisher. From 1964 to 2013, JAMA used images of artwork on its cover and it published essays commenting on the artwork. According to former editor George Lundberg, this practice
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#1732765140057180-538: Was an unfortunate substitute for meaningful conversations about racism and health care, and the episode was highlighted as a case study of social media, polarization, and radicalization in Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott's 2023 book The Canceling of the American Mind. The following persons have been editor-in-chief of JAMA: The JAMA journal is abstracted and indexed in: Eric Zorn Zorn
195-487: Was designed to link the humanities and medicine. In 2013, a format redesign moved the art feature to an inside page, replacing an image of the artwork on the cover with a table of contents. The purpose of the redesign was to standardize the appearance of all journals in the JAMA Network . On a February 2021 JAMA podcast a Deputy Editor of the journal proposed that "structural racism is an unfortunate term to describe
210-672: Was established in 1883 by the American Medical Association and superseded the Transactions of the American Medical Association . Councilor's Bulletin was renamed the Bulletin of the American Medical Association , which later was absorbed by the Journal of the American Medical Association . In 1960, the journal obtained its current title, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association . The journal
225-447: Was established in 1883 with Nathan Smith Davis as the founding editor. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of the University of California San Francisco became the journal editor-in-chief on July 1, 2022, succeeding Howard Bauchner of Boston University . According to Journal Citation Reports , the journal's 2024 impact factor is 63.1, ranking it 4th out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal". The journal
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