Maxine Papadakis, M.D. is Attending Physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and Professor Emeritus of Medicine and formerly Associate Dean for Students at the UCSF School of Medicine. A general internist by training, Dr. Papadakis has been one of the primary editors of Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment (CMDT) since 1992. Her role on CMDT, alongside Stephen McPhee, MD and Michael Rabow, MD is to set the content for each annual edition of CMDT, to select contributors, and to edit all chapters into the practical, authoritative format readers around the globe have come to rely on for more than 50 years.