Eric Rubin

Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Fireside Chat

Eric Rubin has been Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine since 2019 after serving as an Associate Editor for several years. He is an infectious disease physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a tuberculosis researcher at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

Eric holds an AB degree from Harvard College and MD and PhD degrees from Tufts University. He was a resident and clinical fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. Eric was the Irene Heinz Given Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease before joining NEJM full time but continues to do lab work at the Harvard Chan School. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.