Giselle qualified as a doctor in 1996 and worked as a general physician for two years. She then moved to the Birmingham Poisons Information Service where she continued her clinical work and compiled evidence based information for health professionals dealing with cases of poisoning, and for the Department of Health.

She moved to the BMJ Publishing Group in 2000 and soon after became the deputy editor of Clinical Evidence (a compendium of the best evidence on common clinical interventions). In 2002 she became the papers editor of the BMJ and has been the editorials editor for the past two years.

Competing Interests

Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?

Reimbursement for attending a symposium?
No

A fee for speaking?
No

A fee for organising education?
No

Funds for research?
No

Funds for a member of staff?
No

Fees for consulting?
No

Have you in the past five years been employed by any organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
No

Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation?
No

Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No

I have no competing interests/I have the following competing interests?
None