Care of Patients With Endocrine Conditions

In this issue, we present the study by Ohtsuru and colleagues who analyzed clinical characteristics of thyroid cancers screened by ultrasonography in children and young adults during the first 5 years after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. Along with the publication of this landmark study, I am excited to announce a new section editor in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery who will be dedicated to the care of patients with endocrine conditions. I invited Louise Davies, MD, MS, to serve as the first Endocrinology Section Editor. Dr Davies is an internationally recognized expert on thyroid cancer with a focus on appropriate treatment of adults diagnosed with small thyroid nodules and has methodologic expertise in epidemiology and mixed-methods research approaches. I am also excited to announce the appointment of Luc G. T. Morris, MD, MSc, to the editorial board. Dr Morris' research program straddles head and neck cancer genomics and the epidemiology of overdiagnosis, and he has methodologic expertise in biostatistics and bioinformatics. Together, they will provide breadth and depth to this renewed area of clinical focus.

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