Harold 'Hal' Sox is an Editor Emeritus of the ''

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'' and member of the

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. Sox was an associate editor of '' Scientific American Medicine'', a consulting associate editor of ''

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'' and a member of the editorial boards of three medical journals, including ''

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''. From 2013-2023, he held several roles at the

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( PCORI), including Senior Advisor and Director of Peer Review. Sox is the main author of the textbook ''Medical Decision Making'' (with M. A. Blatt, M. C. Higgins, and K. I. Marton, Butterworths, 1988; 2nd ed., with M. C. Higgins and D. K. Owens, Wiley, 2013). Sox has been member of different national committees that have influenced clinical, educational, and public policy in the United States. He served as a chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Institute of Medicine Committee to Study

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. He was president of the

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Harold C. Sox, M.D., Chair
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