George D. Lundberg is the Editor at Large of Medscape Medical News

George D. Lundberg, MD Editor-at-Large, Medscape

As Editor-at-Large for Medscape, Dr. Lundberg delivers to readers his informed perspective on up-to-the minute issues affecting healthcare and the practice of medicine. In addition to his work with Medscape, he serves as Editor-in-Chief at Cancer Commons, as President and Chair of the Board of Directors of The Lundberg Institute, and as a clinical professor of pathology at Northwestern University. Dr. Lundberg has more than 30 years' combined experience as Editor-in-Chief of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), the 10 AMA specialty journals, AM News, Medscape, The Medscape Journal of Medicine, eMedicine from WebMD, and MedPage Today from Everyday Health. He was called a medical Internet "pioneer" in 1995. A frequent lecturer and radio and television guest, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the Industry Standard dubbed Dr. Lundberg "Online Healthcare's Medicine Man" in 2000.

Latest Articles by George D. Lundberg

Are We Transfusing Too Much Blood? Pathologist George Lundberg questions the necessity of administering 16 million units of blood or blood products in a single year.
Medscape Internal Medicine, January 30, 2023
ChatGPT: To Bot or Not to Bot? Chatbots are taking the information world by storm, including medicine and scholarly medical publications.
Medscape Internal Medicine, January 25, 2023
Care, Not Incarceration, for the Mentally Ill A new law in California puts the emphasis on psychiatric treatment rather than jail or homelessness.
Medscape Internal Medicine, December 8, 2022
The Orifices -- Where Most of Medicine's Money Is Made Over the course of a long career, Dr Lundberg has witnessed huge, even astounding advances in what he calls orificial medicine.
Medscape Internal Medicine, November 2, 2022
How an Expert Would Manage Her Own Advanced Cancer Dr Lundberg is hosting a series of Q&As with cancer experts on his blog, Curious Dr. George.
Medscape Internal Medicine, September 23, 2022
Would You Like to Live to a 'Ripe Old Age'? We can control much about our quality of life, our length of life, and parameters of dying, by our volitional actions. Here's my advice.
Medscape Internal Medicine, August 31, 2022
Why We Order Lab Tests Redux Is ordering a test that comes back negative a sham treatment or a good placebo?
Medscape Internal Medicine, August 3, 2022
Sweet Holey Pillow Dreams Dr Lundberg treats his own suspicious ear lesion. Did he have a fool for a patient?
Medscape Internal Medicine, June 20, 2022
Profiling Killers: ID-ing Mass Shooters Before They Strike We aren't using all we know about mass shooters who plan to kill themselves as well as others.
Medscape Internal Medicine, June 7, 2022
Is the AMA Irrelevant or the Main Player? Books and articles expose the problems inside medicine but solutions don't seem to follow.
Medscape Internal Medicine, May 3, 2022

About George Lundberg, MD

Prior to joining CollabRx, Dr. Lundberg served as President of the American Society for Clinical Pathology; Professor of Pathology and Associate Director of Laboratories at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center for 10 years; and for 5 years was Professor and Chair of Pathology at the University of California, Davis. He served in the US Army during the Vietnam War, leaving as a lieutenant colonel after 11 years. Prior to his military service, Dr. Lundberg completed a clinical internship in Hawaii and a pathology residency in San Antonio. He holds earned and honorary degrees from North Park College, Baylor University, the University of Alabama (Birmingham and Tuscaloosa), the State University of New York (Syracuse), Thomas Jefferson University, and the Medical College of Ohio. Dr. Lundberg has worked in tropical medicine in Central America and forensic medicine in New York, Sweden, and England. His major professional interests are toxicology, violence, communication, physician behavior, patient safety, and health system reform.