Howard Bauchner, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.  He served as the 16^th 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 2022-2025 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. 

Howard Bauchner, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.  He served as the 16^th 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 2022-2025 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. 

At JAMA Howard focused on publishing important and novel research articles including randomized clinical trials, opinion pieces, and special communications, improving and expanding clinical content, using electronic/digital approaches to enhance communication, ensuring a commitment to innovation and increasing diversity.  During his tenure followers on social media increased from ~13,000 to ~1,200,000 and the electronic table of contents was distributed to over 1,000,000 individuals each week.  In print, via eTOC, and social media content published by JAMA reached over 1.5M physicians worldwide each week.  Views (PDF and HTML) increased from 10M in 2011 to over 100M in 2020 (50% from outside the U.S.).   Podcast downloads increased from 300,000 in 2014 to 6M and videos were viewed more than 16M times in 2020.  The print journals were redesigned for the first time in over 20 years and the website updated twice.  All 9 of the specialty journals were renamed (Archives of Pediatrics became JAMA Pediatrics, etc.), 4 new journals were launched – JAMA Oncology (2015), JAMA Cardiology (2016), and JAMA Network Open (2018); and JAMA Health Forum (2020/2021), the latter 2 are both fully open-access journals.  Howard authored and recorded over 200 editorials and podcasts (including live-stream events) discussing issues such as open-science (data-sharing, pre-print servers, open access), conflict of interest, diversity in medicine, the interpretation of randomized clinical trials, mentoring, maintaining editorial standards during a pandemic, the language and reporting of race and ethnicity, scientific misconduct, authorship and team science, and numerous health policy issues, including healthcare as a right, waste in medicine, the cost of health care, health care disparities, and race, racism, equity, and poverty in medicine. 

Last updated January, 2025