In the eleventh installment of the OFID podcast, Editor Paul Sax, MD, explores the ins-and-outs of manning the helm of one of the leading journals in ID – Clinical Infectious Diseases – with Sherwood Gorbach, MD. He will have held the Editor-in-Chief position for 17 years when he retires in December. Dr. Gorbach divulges the biggest challenges of the job, what it was like before electronic publishing, and how the journal has dealt with sticky subjects, such as conflicts of interest and retractions.