By MATTHEW HOLT

ePatientDave and Giles Frydman have been working on the Society of Participatory Medicine for a while  and Alan Greene MD will be the first President. Now there’s a editorial board for the Journal of Participatory Medicine. The editors will be Charles W. Smith (who announced it at the end of last month at his blog eDocAmerica), and Jessie Gruman, patient extraordinaire from the Center for Advancing Health. There’s also an advisory board including Kevin Kelly, Adam Bosworth, Esther Dyson, David Kibbe, Howard Rheingold, Eric von Hippel, & Peter Yellowlees—which is a good mix of Ubbergeeks and geeky doctors.

To me there’s a slight difference between Health 2.0 which in my definition is more about using tools and technology to change the health care system, and participatory medicine which is centered around the e-Patients blog. But that hasn’t stopped other definitionistas (yes, I mean you Ted!) from crunching them together—and of course any tension between them is significantly less than the common purpose of changing health care using the best tools available.

And the thing I’m most excited about is that I’m not involved, so I don’t have to do anything other than enjoy the results! The list of suckers esteemed volunteers on the Editorial Board (and despite my kidding it is a great group) is below. Kudos to all of them for working hard to get this off the ground.

Editorial Board Members Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, MD, Patients Know BestJack Barrette, WEGO Health Mike Battaglia, Health care consultant; formerly Intuit and Humana Jeffrey Bland, PhD, Metagenics and The Institute for Functional Medicine Kate Christensen, MD, Kaiser Permanente Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA, Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, MGH Ted Eytan, MD, MPH, Permanente Federation Patty Feist, Pediatric Oncology Resource Center Rushika Fernandoupulle, MD, MPP, Renaissance Health Peter Frishauf, Crossix Solutions, Medpage Today, Omnimedix Institute Gilles Frydman, ACOR Alan Greene, MD, Dr.Greene.com, Standford Univ. Sarah Greene, Keas Inc. Dan Hoch, MD, MGH & Harvard Medical School; Braintalk.org Alejandro Jadad, MD, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Univ. Toronto Greg Juhn, A.D.A.M. Inc. Gary Kreps, PhD, Health Communications, George Mason University Joseph Kvedar, MD, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare, Harvard Medical School David Lansky, PhD, Pacific Business Group on Health Jon Lebkowksy, Social Web Stragegies; Weblogksy blog Kate Lorig, RN, DRPH, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine and Stanford Patient Education Research Center Amy Marcus, Wall Street Journal Faith McLellan, PhD, World Health Organization Carol Peckham, Medscape Carlos Rizo, MD, Health Strategy Innovation Cell and eHealth in Motion David Rosenthal, MD, Brigham & Womens Hospital (Resident) Andrew Schorr, Patient Power radio program and webcasts Josh Seidman, PhD, Information Therapy Clay Shirky, Interactive Telecommunications, New York University Amy Tenderich, DiabetesMine.com Trisha Torrey, DiagKNOWsis, About.com, Allexperts.com Roni Zeiger, MD, Google Health