Alumna Named Editor-in-Chief of American Thyroid Association’s Clinical Journal.
Alumna Angela Leung (MED’03, SPH’10) has been named editor-in-chief of the American Thyroidology Association’s (ATA) monthly clinical journal, Clinical Thyroidology. Leung will begin her three-year term on January 1.
The online journal features a broad range of abstract and commentary by experts in the field on the most impactful and cutting-edge clinical thyroid literature. The ATA selected Leung to be editor-in-chief based on “her abilities to promote the growth, quality, reputation, and scholarship” of the journal.
“I am truly excited and honored for the chance to lead Clinical Thyroidology,” Leung says. “As one of several ATA journals, it is the one that is solely devoted to clinicians in helping them stay abreast of the current literature.”
Leung is currently a health sciences clinical assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System—but she honed her medical skills in Boston. Leung received her medical degree from the School of Medicine in 2003 and then a Master of Science in Epidemiology from SPH in 2010. Between the degrees, she spent six years in postdoctoral training at the School of Medicine and then became an instructor of medicine and assistant professor of medicine at the school.
Leung also served as a clinician at Boston Medical Center, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, and in the UCLA health system.
She says her public health knowledge has played a vital role in her clinical work.
“The training I received from my public health degree at BU has been greatly relevant toward my career path,” Leung says. “As a clinician-investigator, my background in epidemiology forms the basis of my clinical research, especially in thinking of how to best design a clinical study or critically review those in the published literature.”
Leung has been a member of the ATA since 2006 and has chaired committees on public health. She lends her expertise on the editorial boards of the AACE’s Endocrine Practice and the Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology, and has co-edited the annual thyroid issue of Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Obesity since 2013. Leung has lectured nationally and internationally on thyroid disease and other clinical topics, and has also completed research on iodine nutrition, thyroid disruptors, and thyroid cancer.
Now in its 95th year, the ATA is an international organization dedicated to understanding, preventing, diagnosing, and treating thyroid disorders and thyroid cancer. About 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease, and up to 60 percent of people with thyroid disease are unaware that they have the condition.