Howard Bauchner, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He served as the 16th Editor in Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network between 2011 and 2021 and Editor in Chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood between 2003 and 2011. At BUSM, prior to JAMA, he was Vice-Chair of Research for the Department of Pediatrics and Chief, Division of General Pediatrics. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the National University of Singapore between 2022-2026 and has continued to write on issues such as conflict of interest, pre-print servers, drug-approval, open-science, the role of AI in scientific publication, and maintaining research integrity. During his time at JAMA, the Archives journals were renamed, 4 new journals were launched, social media accounts grew to ~1.5M, and President Barack Obama was the first president to publish a manuscript in a major research journal.

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  1. Describe the difference between research misconduct and scientific misconduct
  2. Describe the key aspects of research integrity
  3. Interpret key approaches to improving the reporting of research studies
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04/15/2026 - 8:00am to 9:00am EDT
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