Drummond Rennie, MD, MACP, FRCP. was educated at Cambridge University and Guy's Hospital Medical School, London, where he carried out research into cyanotic congenital heart disease and received his Cambridge MD for this. He served as Deputy Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine when at Harvard, and is now the Deputy Editor (West), JAMA, and adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco.
He is a nephrologist and conducted numerous investigations in the Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas, the Yukon and Alaska into the pathophysiology of hypoxia, publishing over 60 papers in this area. Starting at UCSF in 1988, he set up a program in biomedical publication. As part of this, he originated and directed all five International Congresses on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication; dedicated to the presentation of research into the process of peer review of manuscripts and grants.
He also chaired a multi-journal group researching interventions in peer review. He was co-director of the San Francisco Cochrane Center; served on the Proposal Review Advisory Team of the National Science Foundation; and was elected Master of the American College of Physicians. He served as president of the Council of Science Editors and president of the World Association of Medical Editors. He was a founder member of the CONSORT, QUOROM, MOOSE, STROBE and STARD committees to improve the reporting of clinical trials, observational studies, meta-analyses and diagnostic tests. Having taken a leading role in the debate on scientific misconduct, he was a member of the Commission on Research Integrity to the Public Health Service. He formed a group to research the influence of money on the conduct and reporting of clinical research, which, together with studying, and raising standards, of reporting of science is his chief interest. He is also a member of the Alpine Club, the American Alpine Club and the Tobogganing Club of St Moritz. His life is equally divided between United Airlines and his home in a forest, a mile from Buncom, a ghost town in the mountains on the California/Oregon border. For further details, see his obituary: Rennie D. The living, structured auto-obituary. Lancet. 1996;348:875-6.
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