Page 2 - Network Journals News Today

Crain's Health Pulse is your source for actionable, exclusive and inside news on the health care industry.

The key objective of JAMA is “To promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of the public health”; similar objectives and mission statements are

email article In the wake of a controversy centered on structural racism in medicine, Howard Bauchner, MD, is relinquishing his post as editor-in-chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced. Bauchners resignation will be effective June 30, 2021. He took the job about a decade ago, in 2011. In March, Bauchner was put on on administrative leave pending an investigation into a heavily criticized podcast and an accompanying tweet about structural raci...

JAMA. 1 He brought with him experience as editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood and extensive clinical perspective and academic and research experience as a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. But most important, he brought to JAMA and the JAMA family of journals extraordinary vision and creativity, a commitment to absolute excellence, highest integrity and ethical principles, and an insatiable drive and unrelenting work ethic. The past 10 yea...