In Memory of Warren Pearse

Warren H. Pearse, MD, the founding Editor-in-Chief of Women’s Health Issues and Associate Editor Emeritus, passed away on November 16, 2015. All of us at the journal and at the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at the George Washington University are deeply saddened to lose our friend and colleague. Dr. Pearse was Executive Director of ACOG when he helped establish the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and the journal in 1990.  Dr. Pearse opened the first issue of Women’s Health Issues in the fall of 1990 with an “Apologia,” providing a justification for a new journal on women’s health focusing on the “interface between medical science and social science.”  Interdisciplinary in spirit and a historian by nature, Dr. Pearse was a devoted nurturer of the journal for 12 years and an engaged member of the editorial board thereafter.  He valued scholarship, the power of evidence, and lively editorial board meetings that included good conversation and excellent food.  He never shied away from controversial or difficult topics.  Most of all, he was an amazing colleague who inspired us to carry on his vision for the journal.

- The Editors and Editorial Board of Women’s Health Issues