Although she will be on the job through the end of the year, the search for a successor to JADA Editor Marjorie K. Jeffcoat is under way.
The ADA Board of Trustees, at its mid-June meeting, reviewed and approved plans for a search process that anticipates the Board’s appointing a new editor at its December meeting. If all goes as planned, a new editor of The Journal of the American Dental Association will begin work Jan. 1, 2005.
An Aug. 31 deadline has been set for receipt of applications from candidates seeking the JADA editorship.
To receive an application and position description, contact Ms. Laura A. Kosden, publisher and associate executive director, Publishing Division, American Dental Association, 211 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60611.
Ms. Kosden also can be reached by phone (1-312-440-4671), by fax (1-312-440-3538) and by e-mail ("kosdenl{at}ada.org"). The application and position description are posted on the ADA’s Web site ("www.ada.org/goto/jadaeditor") as well.
A search committee will be appointed to review applications from prospective candidates. The committee will narrow the field, interview those candidates who appear most qualified and make a recommendation to the ADA Board.
The JADA editor works off site—not at ADA headquarters—and is expected to devote one-third to one-half of his or her time to the post. Among other duties, the editor oversees the manuscript submission and peer-review process; plans for future issues of JADA; acquires, assembles, reviews and edits all clinical and scientific articles to be published; and advises ADA Publishing staff on content.
A candidate for the JADA editorship must have a dental degree from an accredited U.S. dental school, be a member in good standing of the ADA and meet as many of the following criteria as possible:
- – minimum of 10 to 15 years of experience in clinical dental practice, research or education;
- – recognition in dentistry’s education/research community;
- – extensive publication experience, mainly in journals, secondarily in books;
- – previous experience as an editor or associate editor or active service on an editorial board of a journal;
- – knowledge of organized dentistry, possibly through service in an elective or appointive position at the local, state or national levels;
- – strong awareness of issues facing dentistry and health care today, and a sense of what practicing dentists need and expect from their professional journal;
- – innovative ideas and an ability to translate them into reality, as well as a broad understanding of the dental field, its literature and its relation to other areas in health care;
- – willingness to work within the organizational framework of the ADA, including attendance at various Board meetings;
- – willingness to accept advice and counsel of the publisher, editorial board, associate editors and ADA Publishing staff.
Watch the ADA News and ADA.org for more information on the editor search as the process unfolds.
