George D. Lundberg is a
physicianA physician — also known as medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, medical doctor, or simply doctor — practices the ancient profession of medicine, which is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease or injury...
,
board-certifiedBoard certification may refer to:* Board certification, for physicians in an area of medical specialization.* Board Certified Chaplain, a chaplain who has met the requirements through the Association of Professional Chaplains....
pathologist, and, from February 1999 to January 2009, editor of
MedscapeMedscape is a web resource for physicians and other health professionals. It features peer-reviewed original medical journal articles, CME , a customized version of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database, daily medical news, major conference coverage, and drug information—including a...
. For 17 years prior to joining Medscape Dr. Lundberg served as editor of the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American Medical Association...
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One month before joining Medscape Lundberg was dramatically fired from JAMA by E. Ratcliffe Anderson, who was then executive vice president of the AMA over a research study report from the
Kinsey InstituteThe Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, often shortened to The Kinsey Institute, exists "to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction"....
that Lundberg had selected for publication.
George D. Lundberg is a
physicianA physician — also known as medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, medical doctor, or simply doctor — practices the ancient profession of medicine, which is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease or injury...
,
board-certifiedBoard certification may refer to:* Board certification, for physicians in an area of medical specialization.* Board Certified Chaplain, a chaplain who has met the requirements through the Association of Professional Chaplains....
pathologist, and, from February 1999 to January 2009, editor of
MedscapeMedscape is a web resource for physicians and other health professionals. It features peer-reviewed original medical journal articles, CME , a customized version of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database, daily medical news, major conference coverage, and drug information—including a...
. For 17 years prior to joining Medscape Dr. Lundberg served as editor of the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American Medical Association...
.
One month before joining Medscape Lundberg was dramatically fired from JAMA by E. Ratcliffe Anderson, who was then executive vice president of the AMA over a research study report from the
Kinsey InstituteThe Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, often shortened to The Kinsey Institute, exists "to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction"....
that Lundberg had selected for publication. The JAMA article reported, among other things, that 60% of college students surveyed in 1991 considered "oral sex" as not "having sex," which Anderson said was "inappropriately and inexcusably" timed to influence the debate over the
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and "to extract political leverage." Lundberg subsequently successfully sued the AMA and was awarded an undisclosed settlement. Anderson was later fired himself as a result of other unrelated disputes with the AMA board.