Early Career Researcher Editorial Fellowship
About
When you are a graduate student, postdoc, or junior PI, journals can seem like a ‘black box’. We want to help Early Career Researchers navigate the journals landscape, explain how to prepare a manuscript for submission, provide support and feedback when becoming a peer reviewer, and generally offer more transparency about how journals operate and how researchers and clinicians can get involved.
The npj Digital Medicine Editorial Fellowship was created in 2021, and its goal is to provide clinical and academic trainees with unique opportunities to contribute to the peer review process and operations of a high-impact journal in an exciting and rapidly evolving field.
Our first Editorial Fellowship ran from the academic year 2021-2022 and was completed by Jayson Marwaha, MD, a general surgery resident physician and biomedical informatics postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. You can read about Jayson’s experience of the fellowship here. The second Fellowship was completed by Mirja Mittermaier, MD, and Master of Biomedical Informatics (Harvard Medical School). She is a resident physician in respiratory medicine and a Digital Clinician Scientist at Charité – Academic Hospital Berlin, Germany. You can read about Mirja's experience of the fellowship here.
The Fellowship program is managed by Joseph Kvedar, MD, Editor-in-Chief of npj Digital Medicine, and the journal’s Senior Managing Editor, Tillie Cryer.
Format of the fellowship
The 1-year fellowship is divided into three phases:
- Peer review phase: The first four months of the fellowship involves peer-reviewing manuscripts under the guidance and supervision of the journal’s editorial board members. Fellows will learn to write high-quality, thoughtful, and constructive reviews on a wide range of informatics and digital health-related topics. Fellows will be expected to complete at least 2 reviews per month.
- Editorial phase: The second four months of the fellowship involves highlighting recently published important work in the journal. With the help of the editorial board, the fellow will identify impactful work published in the journal and write Editorials that make the findings of these studies and their real-world utility accessible to a wider audience beyond the traditional readership of the journal. Fellows will be expected to write approximately 2 Editorials.
- Operations phase: The final phase of the fellowship involves contributing to the journal’s operations. With the help of the editorial board, the fellow will identify a few projects that impart a meaningful impact on the quality and efficiency of the journal’s peer review processes and/or expand its scope to new readers, topics in digital medicine, or types of content.
Editorial Fellows
2023-2024
Jethro C.C. Kwong, MD
Jethro Kwong is a resident physician within the Division of Urology, Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. He is currently in the Surgeon Scientist Training Program where he is completing a Master's degree in Health Systems Artificial Intelligence at the University of Toronto. His research interests revolve around the application of AI for clinical decision support, with a focus on prostate and bladder cancer; and improving the reporting quality of clinical AI studies.
2022-2023
Mirja Mittermaier, MD, MBI
Mirja Mittermaier is a Senior Resident in internal and respiratory medicine at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine at the Charité Academic Hospital in Berlin, Germany. She also serves as a Digital Clinician Scientist at Charité’s Berlin Institute of Health. Her research aims to further our understanding of pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome by combining clinical data analysis, basic research, and machine learning-based approaches. She is also interested in how AI-driven digital applications and physician support systems help to improve patient care. She holds a Master of Biomedical Informatics (MBI) from Harvard Medical School and an MD (Dr. med) from the Medical School of Hannover (MHH), Germany, where she graduated summa cum laude.
2021-2022
Jayson S. Marwaha, MD
Jayson Marwaha is a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, MA, and a general surgery resident at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Jayson's research interests lie in applying informatics and machine learning to surgery. His work so far has focused on using informatics to address post-surgical opioid prescribing, surgical transitions for chronic medical diseases, and responses to public health crises. Jayson's clinical interests are trauma surgery, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care.
