Mark Lesney is the editor of MDedge.com/IDPractioner and of Hematology News. He has been at Frontline Medical Communications since 2005, before which he worked as an editor/writer for the American Chemical Society. He has a PhD in plant virology and a PhD in the history of science. He has served as an adjunct assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular & celluar biology at Georgetown University, Washington, and an assistant professor in the department of forestry at the University of Florida, Gainesville.