Happy spring! As we approach the third anniversary of the launch of Intersections, we are pleased to announce an exciting new step in expanding the journal’s reach and further securing its sustainability. Beginning this fall we will join forces with the school and programs of Baylor College of Medicine to become a collaborative journal of the health sciences at Emory and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)! This collaboration is a full circle moment because the Baylor Editor-in-Chief, Hugh Stoddard, was a member of the Emory group who originally envisioned Intersections and served as a member of the original Intersections Advisory Board. Hugh is now an educational leader at Baylor and remains deeply committed to Intersection’s mission of: 1) providing a forum for dissemination of health sciences related educational scholarship in all of its forms, 2) supporting a diverse cadre of health science educators in refining their scholarship, writing and reviewing skills, 3) contributing to the evidence base for best teaching and learning  practices across disciplines and educational settings, and 4) elevating the stature of health science educators and educational scholarship at our institutions.   

At BCM, Intersections will be sponsored by the Huffington Department of Education, Innovation, and Technology, which, like Emory, is an interprofessional organization that encompasses educational programs for several health professions. This interprofessional, interorganizational collaboration will support our work to share ideas and highlight ways we can learn from those with different perspectives on health and healthcare. Details of each institution’s health professions programs are available at https://www.bcm.edu/education and https://whsc.emory.edu/education/index.html. 

Intersections’ mission feels increasingly important as the years pass. The job of educating health professionals for an ever-changing landscape of societal expectations, technologic capabilities, and learning environments make it imperative for us to identify, support, and retain outstanding health professions educators. The lessons that each of us learns from our own teaching practice, whether in classrooms, labs, clinics, simulation centers, hospitals, or in the community, need to be shared with our colleagues and peers. As the Intersections experience has demonstrated, sharing best practices across programs and professions in one institution is impactful, but we are now expanding that impact by adding experience and perspective from a different environment.  Our shared vision brings a new depth to the publication that enriches us all.  

Over the next few months, we will be ironing out the details; but we want to take a moment to thank all who have contributed to Intersections to date: the Advisory Board, editorial staff, authors, reviewers, and readers who proven the value of this enterprise. We look forward with anticipation and joy to broadening Intersections and continuing to learn with and from each other. 

All the best,

Kate Garber, PhD
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Emory University Department of Human Genetics, Emory School of Medicine

Linda Lewin, MD
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Emory University Department of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine

Hugh A. Stoddard, MEd, PhD
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Huffington Department of Education, Innovation, and Technology at Baylor College of Medicine