Toward a virtuous cycle: the changing face of academic health centers.

Editor’s Note: This month, the journal features a group of articles that tell important stories of change at 10 academic health centers in the United States. Dr. Steven A. Wartman served as guest editor for those articles and wrote this month’s column discussing them. I thank him for that and also for his extensive efforts and those of his assistant, Alcenia McIntoshPeters, in working with the authors and Al Bradford and his colleagues at the journal to develop and organize the articles so that they share valuable lessons and document pivotal events in an important part of the history of academic medicine.