Why the ‘CytoJournal’ is needed:

The conventional model for journals has performed an admirable job of disseminating research and advancing science. Unfortunately it cannot fully utilize recent technology nor extend its benefits to either the scientific community or the general public.  With the advent of newer technologies, the internet and image digitization, the time has come for the development and implementation a new model. A model beneficial to the scientific community and general public alike. The recent adoption of an open access http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=117246 model by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) http://www.plos.org/journals/model.html and other scientific organizations including the National Institute of Health (NIH) http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-032.html has generated significant interest in and should provide impetus for the creation of a new type of journal. A journal model which yields a free, open access, peer reviewed, research publication.

Additional benefits of an internet-based journal would include rapid turnaround time, real time publication, significant cost savings, and a reduction in the      environmental burden engendered in the production and disposal of a print publication. Presumably in the future, the majority of research publications will be of this type.  At present, none of the existing journals in the field of cytopathology belong to this category.

Free flow of scientific information is crucial for the advancement of disease diagnosis and management in the developed and developing world. CytoJournal as an open access, online journal, quality controlled through traditional peer review processes would be the first of its kind in the field of cytopathology. It should positively influence the advancement of the scientific community around the world.

 

 

Editorial board

 

Editors-in-chief

Barbara F. Atkinson, MD (batkinson@kumc.edu)

Dean,  University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA

Vinod B. Shidham, MD, MRCPath, FIAC (vshidham@mcw.edu)

Director of FNAB Service & Cytopathology Fellowship Program,

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

 

Executive editor

Vinod B. Shidham, MD, MRCPath, FIAC (vshidham@mcw.edu)

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

 

Assistant editor

Anthony Cafaro, MD

(acafaro@mail.mcw.edu)

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,

                                USA


Advisory & Editorial Board

 

Andrea Abati, MD

The National Cancer Institute / National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

R. Marshal Austin, MD, PhD

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Zubair Baloch, MD, PhD

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Douglas P. Clark, MD

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Diane D. Davey, MD

University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY, USA

Richard DeMay, MD

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Hormoz Ehya, M.D

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

James England, MD, PhD

Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Yener S. Erozan, MD

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA

Prabodh Gupta, MD

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ruth Katz, MD

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Center, Houston, TX, USA

David Kaminsky, MD,FIAC

Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, Rancho Mirage, CA, USA

Sudha R. Kini, MD

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA

Leyster Layfield, MD

University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Britt-Marie Ljung, MD

University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

Shahla Masood, MD

University of Florida, HSC, Jacksonville, FL, USA

Dina R. Mody, MD 

Baylor University Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA

Santo V. Nicosia, MD

University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA

Celeste N. Powers, MD, PhD

Medical College of Virginia Campus/VCU, Richmond, VA, USA

R. Nagarjun Rao, MD,FRCPath

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

David L. Rimm, MD,PhD 

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Dorothy Rosenthal, MD

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA

Suzanne Selvaggi, MD

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Mark E. Sherman, MD

The National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA

Mary K. Sidawy, MD

The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

Jan F Silverman, MD

Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Noor Sneige, MD

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Center, Houston, TX, USA

Mark H. Stoler, MD

University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

David C. Wilbur, MD

Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

 

International Editorial Panel

 (Under expansion)

Australia:

Svante R. Orell, ML (Sweden), FRCPA, FIAC

Histopathology - Clinpath Laboratories, Australia

Canada:

Alexander Meisels, CM, MD, FIAC

Laval University, Quebec, Canada

Germany:

Volker Schneider, MD

Freiburg, Germany

India:

Prakash Patil, MD

JN Medical College, Belgaum, India.

Japan:

Toshiaki, Kawai, MD

National Defense Medical College, Tokyo, Japan

UK:

Amanda Herbert, MBBS, MRCS, LRCP

St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.

 

Medicolegal forum

Dennis R. McCoy, JD

Hiscock & Barclay, Attorneys at Law, New York, NY, USA

Theresa M. Somrak, JD, CT(ASCP)

Director Distance Educational Programs, ASCP, Chicago, IL, USA

Mark S. Sidoti, Esq.

Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, PC, New York, NY, USA

Michael S. Berger, JD

Andres & Berger, P.C., Haddonfield, NJ, USA

 

Cytotechnologist’s forum

Jamie L. Covell, BS, CT(ASCP)

University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Gary W. Gill, 

Indianapolis, IN, USA

Catherine M. Keebler, Sc.D.(h), CFIAC

Cytotechnology Registry & Certification Committee, IAC, Chicago, IL, USA

Kalyani Naik, MS, SCT(ASCP)

Detroit Medical Center / Hutzel Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA

Consultant editors

John N. Eble, MD, MBA (jeble@iupui.edu)

Editor-in-chief, Modern Pathology,

Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

Stacey E. Mills, MD

Editor-in-chief, American Journal of Surgical Pathology

University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Mark R. Wick, MD

Editor-in-chief, American Journal of Clinical Pathology

University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA

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Biostatistics consultant

Varghese George, PhD

Professor & Director of Graduate Program in Biostatistics, Dept of Biostatistics,

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

 

Software consultant

Jack Crosby, PhD

CEO/President, Dullas Technology Group, Vienna, VA, USA

Raju Chavan, BS,MBA

CIO/CTO, Cross Industry Solutions, Brookeville, MD, USA

 

Copy editors

Amit Kaul, BS

Milwukee, WI

Jeanette Bjerke, MS, MBA

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

 

Managing editor

Anjani Shidham, BS (ashidham@yahoo.com)

(Updated 2/14/04)