Drummond Rennie

Drummond Rennie is an American nephrologist and high altitude physiologist who is a contributing deputy editor of the The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

He is an editor of JAMAevidence, a project for education related to evidence-based medicine sponsored by the American Medical Association. He is known for involvement in reform of scientific publishing and for advocating improvements in reporting standards for clinical trials. He is the director of the International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication.

In 2008 the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded him its Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.

Rennie attended Cambridge University and received his M.D. from Guy's Hospital Medical School. He became an editor at The New England Journal of Medicine in 1977 and later moved to The Journal of the American Medical Association. He has described his first contact with serious scientific misconduct in publishing as arising less than four months into his editorship.

He has organized the International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication (often known as the Peer Review Congress) since 1989, a project he launched after receiving JAMA's support for the effort in 1986.

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