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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. Bauchner's 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 racism in medicine. In a statement emailed to media by the AMA, Bauchner said he was "profoundly disapp...
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 years of Howard Bauchner’s leadership have represented unprecedented progress, growth, and innovation...