Biography:Drummond Rennie
Drummond Rennie is an American nephrologist and high altitude physiologist who is a contributing deputy editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)[1] and an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.[2] He is an editor of JAMAevidence, a project for education related to evidence-based medicine sponsored by the American Medical Association.[3][4] He is known for involvement in reform of scientific publishing and for advocating improvements in reporting standards for clinical trials.[5] He was the director of the first seven International Congresses on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, which he also helped to develop along with JAMA.[2]
In 2008 the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded him its Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.[6]
Career
Rennie attended Cambridge University and received his M.D. from Guy's Hospital Medical School.[2] He became an editor at The New England Journal of Medicine in 1977 and later moved to The Journal of the American Medical Association.[7] He has described his first contact with serious scientific misconduct in publishing as arising less than four months into his editorship.[8]
He has organized the International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication (often known as the Peer Review Congress) since 1989, a project he launched after receiving JAMA's support for the effort in 1986.[7]
Along with Lisa Bero, Rennie served as the co-director of the San Francisco Cochrane Center, a predecessor institution to the United States Cochrane Center, which is a component of the international Cochrane Collaboration.[2][9] He is a former president of the World Association of Medical Editors and a founding member of several efforts to improve and standardize the reporting of clinical trial data, most notably the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) project.[2]
Awards and honors
Rennie was awarded a Mastership of the American College of Physicians in 2005.[10] He received the 2008 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom & Responsibility, cited “for his career-long efforts to promote integrity in scientific research and publishing”, recognizing “his outspoken advocacy for the freedom of scientists to publish in the face of efforts to suppress their research.”[6]
References
- ↑ "JAMA Editorial Staff". JAMA 310 (16): 1647–1648. October 23, 2013. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.5378. ISSN 0098-7484.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Drummond Rennie profile". https://metrics.stanford.edu/about-us/bio/drummond-rennie.
- ↑ "Editors and Authors". http://jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/ss/EditorsAuthors.aspx.
- ↑ Walden, Rachel R. (2010). "JAMAevidence". Journal of the Medical Library Association 98 (1): 93. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.98.1.026. ISSN 1536-5050.
- ↑ Smith, Richard (September 22, 2001). "Medical editor lambasts journals and editors". BMJ.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "2008 Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Recipient". American Association for the Advancement of Science. http://www.aaas.org/page/2008-award-scientific-freedom-and-responsibility-recipient.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "ANNUAL LECTURE 2014: Presented by Dr Drummond Rennie". Equator Network. http://www.equator-network.org/2014/08/11/equator-annual-lecture-2014-presented-by-dr-drummond-rennie/.
- ↑ Rennie, Drummond (2010-06-01). "Integrity in Scientific Publishing". Health Services Research 45 (3): 885–896. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01088.x. ISSN 0017-9124. PMID 20337732.
- ↑ University of California San Francisco Magazine. University Publications, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Public Affairs. 1994. p. 6. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_s2AQAAMAAJ&q=drummond+rennie+lisa+bero+cochrane+directors&pg=RA6-PA6.
- ↑ Physicians, American. "ACP announces new Masters and service awardees". http://www.acpinternist.org/archives/2005/04/awardees.htm.
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