Call for Manuscripts
THEME ISSUE
Pain: Experience, Perception & Therapy
Gender Medicine is currently seeking manuscript submissions for a Theme Issue on Pain Experience, Perception, and Therapy. Dr. Roger K. Cady will serve as Guest Editor of the special issue. Manuscript submissions will be accepted on a continuous basis until August 18, 2008, with projected print publication in Fall 2008. Manuscripts not selected for inclusion in the special issue will be considered for publication in a regular issue of Gender Medicine.
THEME ISSUE
Diabetes, Obesity, and the Cardiometabolic Syndrome
Gender Medicine is currently seeking manuscript submissions for a Theme Issue on Diabetes, Obesity, and the Cardiometabolic Syndrome. Dr. Derek LeRoith will serve as the Guest Editor of the special issue. Manuscript submissions will be accepted on a continuous basis until August 18, 2008, with a projected print publication date of December 2008. Manuscripts not selected for inclusion in the special issue will be considered for publication in a regular issue of Gender Medicine.
Gender Medicine focuses on the impact of sex and gender on normal human physiology, and the pathophysiology and clinical features of disease. Specifically, Gender Medicine seeks to publish reports of original scientific investigations that use biological sex and/or gender as a significant variable in the experimental protocol. These include research that:- Reports significant differences in the normal function of males and females
- Identifies differences in the pathophysiology of disease as a function of biological sex/gender
- Evaluates the efficacy of therapeutic interventions as a function of sex/gender
- Develops protocols that translate the results of gender-specific investigations into clinical practice
The journal also encourages submission of brief reports, commentaries, and letters to the editor that address timely or provocative issues in gender-specific medicine, including cardiology, endocrinology, oncology, dermatology, public and health policy, infectious disease, geriatrics and aging, gastroenterology, and neurology.
Gender Medicine Offers:
- In-depth peer review in 6-8 weeks
- Expert editorial assistance
- Print publication quarterly
- MEDLINE indexing
- Reprints available 1 week after publication
- Circulation to almost 6000 specialists
Contact
Jo-Ann E. West, MSc
Editorial Director & Associate Publisher
Phone: 908-547-2082
j.e.west@elsevier.com
Editor-In-Chief
Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University
gendermed@elsevier.com
