A Letter to the Editor(s) About MDMA

Which now includes me!

I'm pleased to announce I've been appointed to the editorial board of the American Journal Theraputics.

This is a general medical journal, with editor-in-chief Peter Manu, M.D. Dr. Manu, whether he knows it or not, is responsible for the crucial first step leading to my career as an academic—almost single-handedly.

The story is as follows: I was in the midst of my first rotation of residency. Year one, month one. It was at the Zucker Hillside Hospital, a freestanding psychiatric hospital, and we had an internal medicine consultation service. All Psychiatrists spent four months being internal medicine doctors, or up to four months of that could be Pediatrics. In my case, I split it. We also do two months of neurology, before we move along to psychiatry in that first year. Historically, it was an entire year of internal medicine before you got to psychiatry, and I would honestly prefer that still be the case.

Dr. Manu ran that Consult service at the time. Peter Manu is tall, affa…