The Manuals Staff
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Sandy Falk, MD
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA;
Clinical Instructor, part-time, Harvard Medical School, and Director of Gynecology of the Sexual Health Program, Adult Survivorship Program, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Monica R. Curtis, MD, MPH
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA;
Instructor of Medicine, part-time, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Physician, Rheumatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
PHYSICIAN EDITORS
Richard B. Lynn, MD
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA
Ernest Yeh, MD
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adjunct), Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Jeremy M. Archer, MD, MS
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA
Sairaman Nagarajan, MD, MPH
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Adjunct), State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Karen T. Albright
Joanne P. Christopher
Crystal G. Norris
Susan C. Short
Michelle A. Steigerwald
PUBLISHING AND PRODUCTION STAFF
Michael DeFerrari
Jennifer Doyle
Vahe Grigoryan
Caroline Harvey
Ahmad Ibrahim
Brian Konrad
Jamie Poole
Sheryl Olinsky Borg
MARKETING AND BRAND AWARENESS STAFF
Melissa Adams
Adeyemi P. Adegoke
Leta S. Bracy
Kayla Marie Farrer
Keith Guse
Eryn Werner
PRODUCTION CONTRIBUTORS
Christopher C. Butts
David Goldman, MD
Bram Greenberg, MD
Marjorie Lazoff, MD
Michael Reingold
Susan Schindler
Roger I. Schreck, MD
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- Internal medical writer
- Editor-in-Chief
- Executive editor
- Final review and revision by author
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