Drummond Rennie

[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][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.

[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]