Gideon Gil, the health and science editor at The Boston Globe, joins five incumbents in being seated on the Association of Health Care Journalists’ 2011-12 board of directors.

Incumbents starting a new two-year term include Felice Freyer of The Providence (R.I.) Journal,  Carla K. Johnson of The Associated Press, independent journalist Maryn McKenna, Charles Ornstein of ProPublica and Karl Stark of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Independent journalist Andrew Holtz, a longtime board member and former interim executive director, chose not to run for re-election.

Gil has served on AHCJ’s membership committee for two years, helping to shape new rules to reflect recent changes in journalism while ensuring AHCJ remains an organization of journalists.

Read more about Gil and the board of directors.

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