Mabel is a part time GP in Sydney. She graduated from the University of Sydney, then worked in various fields including geriatric medicine, palliative medicine and microbiology. She has also held a post as lecturer, Department of General Practice, University of Sydney. She joined the BMJ as associate editor in 2006, after seven years as deputy editor at the Medical Journal of Australia.

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?
Yes, but I don't hold direct shares in any biomedical companies and don't know which companies my superannuation managed fund invests in.

Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No

I have no competing interests.