Drs. Michael A. Hoyt and Tracey A. Revenson have been named as the new Editors-in-Chief of
the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, the official scientific publication of the
International Society of Behavioral Medicine. Both tenured professors in the Department of
Psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and Co-Directors of the
CUNY Doctoral Program in Health Psychology and Clinical Science, Hoyt and Revenson will
officially take on editorship in 2018 for a 5-year term.
The International Journal of Behavioral Medicine presents original research and integrative
reviews on interactions among behavioral, psychosocial, environmental, genetic and biomedical
factors relevant to health and illness. The scope of the journal extends from research on
biobehavioral mechanisms and clinical studies on diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation to
research on public health, including health promotion and prevention.