Editor of the BMJ to take up new post

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1276-a

BMJ 2004;328:1276 (29 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1276-a

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Editor of the BMJ to take up new post

Zosia Kmietowicz

London

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The editor of the BMJ, Dr Richard Smith, is to leave the journalafter 25 years to become the chief executive of a new Europeanarm of a US healthcare company.

UnitedHealth Group is the largest healthcare company in theUnited States—with revenue last year of $28.8bn (£16.1bn; ${euro}$ 24bn).

Commenting on his decisions to leave the BMJ, Dr Smith saidin an email to staff: "I've spent long hours considering themany pluses and minuses of leaving, but ultimately I have tworeasons for going. Firstly, it must be a good thing to be `repotted':25 years in one place, albeit a very agreeable one, is a longtime, probably too long.

"Secondly, I'm lucky at 52 to be presented with a new challenge.The new company, although part of a huge one, will in effectbe a `start up,' with all the excitement and uncertainty thatimplies. . . . [Full text of this article]

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