PBS 'NewsHour' Correspondent Susan Dentzer Named As New Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief

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Article Date: 01 Apr 2008 - 6:00 PDT

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The journal Health Affairs has named Susan Dentzer, head of the health unit and an on-air correspondent at PBS' "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," as editor-in-chief, effective May 1, CQ HealthBeat reports.

Dentzer, who previously served as chief economics correspondent at U.S. News & World Report and as senior business writer at Newsweek, will continue to serve as an on-air correspondent at "NewsHour." She will replace Jamie Robinson, who will return to his position as professor of health economics at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health.

John Iglehart, founding editor of Health Affairs, said that Dentzer "will be a perfect fit" for the journal. Dentzer "has consistently made complex issues understandable to a broad audience," he said, adding, "This parallels the journal's goal of presenting the highest-quality peer-reviewed health policy research in an accessible manner, so that it becomes part of the policy-making process" (CQ HealthBeat, 3/28).

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