Drummond Rennie
Drummond Rennie | |
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Rennie in 2012 | |
| Born | Ian Drummond Brownlee Rennie January 31, 1936 Leeds, England |
| Died | September 12, 2025 (aged 89) Medford, Oregon, U.S. |
| Occupations |
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| Board member of | World Association of Medical Editors Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials |
| Spouse(s) |
Silvia Nussio
(m. 1958; div. 1984)Deborah Peltzman (m. 1992) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility (2008) Master of the American College of Physicians (2005) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge King's College London GKT School of Medical Education (M.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Nephrologist, physiologist |
| Sub-discipline | High altitude physiology |
| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
Ian Drummond Brownlee Rennie (January 31, 1936 – September 12, 2025) was an American nephrologist and high altitude physiologist who was a contributing deputy editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)[1] and an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.[2][3]
Rennie was an editor of JAMAevidence, a project for education related to evidence-based medicine sponsored by the American Medical Association.[4][5] He was known for involvement in reform of scientific publishing and for advocating improvements in reporting standards for clinical trials.[6] 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]
In 2008, the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded him its Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.[7]
Background
Rennie was born on January 31, 1936, near Leeds in Yorkshire.[8][3] He was a dual British-American citizen of Scottish and Danish American heritage.[8][9]
Rennie married Silvia Nussio of Switzerland in 1958, with whom he had two children.[3] They divorced in 1984, but maintained a friendship.[3][10] He later married data scientist Deborah Peltzman in 1992, who survives him.[3]
Rennie had physical health problems for some years until his death.[11] He died from a stroke in Medford, Oregon, on September 12, 2025, at the age of 89.[9][10][12]
Career
Rennie attended Cambridge University and received his M.D. from Guy's Hospital Medical School.[2] He became an editor at The New England Journal of Medicine in 1977 and later moved to The Journal of the American Medical Association.[13] He described his first contact with serious scientific misconduct in publishing as arising less than four months into his editorship.[14]
He organized the International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication (often known as the Peer Review Congress) for several years from 1989, a project he launched after receiving JAMA's support for the effort in 1986.[13]
Along with Lisa Bero, Rennie served as the co-director of the San Francisco Cochrane Center, a predecessor institution to the United States Cochrane Center, which is a component of the international Cochrane Collaboration.[2][15] He was 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.[2]
Awards and honors
Rennie was awarded a Mastership of the American College of Physicians in 2005.[16] He received the 2008 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and 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."[7]
References
- ^ "JAMA Editorial Staff". JAMA. 310 (16): 1647–1648. October 23, 2013. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.5378. ISSN 0098-7484.
- ^ a b c d e "Drummond Rennie profile". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Warren, Penny (October 10, 2025). "Drummond Rennie obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
- ^ "Editors and Authors". JAMAevidence. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
- ^ Walden, Rachel R. (2010). "JAMAevidence". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 98 (1): 93. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.98.1.026. ISSN 1536-5050. PMC 2801961.
- ^ Smith, Richard (September 22, 2001). "Medical editor lambasts journals and editors". BMJ. PMC 1121229.
- ^ a b "2008 Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Recipient". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- ^ a b Flanagin, Annette; Godlee, Fiona; Goodman, Steven N.; Gunsalus, C. K.; Ioannidis, John P. A.; Knoll, Elizabeth (September 19, 2025). "Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication". JAMA. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.18924. ISSN 0098-7484. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
- ^ a b Thornton, Jacqui (September 17, 2025). "Drummond Rennie: Tributes are paid to "prophet of peer review" after his death at 89". BMJ. 390 r1957. doi:10.1136/bmj.r1957. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 40962409. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
- ^ a b McLellan, Faith (October 11, 2025). "Drummond Rennie". The Lancet. 406 (10512): 1556. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(25)02027-6. ISSN 0140-6736. Retrieved October 12, 2025.
- ^ Gøtzsche, Peter C. (October 2, 2025). "A Giant in Medicine: Tribute to Drummond Rennie". Brownstone Institute. Retrieved October 4, 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is by Peter C. Gøtzsche available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ "Dr. Drummond Rennie Obituary September 12, 2025". Stephens Family Chapel. September 12, 2025. Retrieved September 18, 2025 – via Legacy.com.
- ^ a b "ANNUAL LECTURE 2014: Presented by Dr Drummond Rennie". Equator Network. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
- ^ Rennie, Drummond (June 1, 2010). "Integrity in Scientific Publishing". Health Services Research. 45 (3): 885–896. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01088.x. ISSN 0017-9124. PMC 2875766. PMID 20337732.
- ^ University of California San Francisco Magazine. University Publications, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Public Affairs. 1994. p. 6.
- ^ Physicians, American. "ACP announces new Masters and service awardees". acpinternist.org. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015.