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Lisa Bero, Co-DirectorLisa A. Bero, PhD, Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy and Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, is a pharmacologist with primary interests in how clinical and basic science is translated into clinical practice and health policy. This includes developing and validating methods for assessing the quality of research and scientific publication and measuring influences on the quality of research. Dr. Bero has also conducted analyses to examine the dissemination and policy implications of scientific publications. She has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles related to her research as well as co-authored The Cigarette Papers (UC Press, 1996). She is currently involved in Tobacco Control Policy Research. Her international activities include: advisor of the World Health Organization Drug Action Programme, member of the editorial board of the British Medical Journal and editor for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care Group -- an international group of researchers conducting meta-analyses of the literature on interventions to change health professional behavior. She serves on several national and international committees related to technology assessment. |
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Drummond Rennie, Co-DirectorDrummond Rennie, MD, FRCP, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and Deputy Editor (West) of JAMA, has done numerous studies on the pathophysiological effects of acute and chronic hypoxia in the Andes, Alps, the Yukon, Alaska, and the Himalayas. Before arriving at UCSF, he was nephrologist at Rush-Presbyterian St. Lukes Hospital and Rush Medical School, Chicago (1967-1977), Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard (Brigham and Women’s Hospital), and Deputy Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. He organized and directed the First and the Second International Congresses on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication (held in 1989 and 1993, with the Third Congress to be held in 1997). He served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Scientific Integrity to the Public Health Service, which recently issued its final report. He also currently heads the Council of Biology Editors as President and serves on the American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. He is interested in editorial issues, in ethical issues in science and publication, in the peer review system, and in the integrity of the biomedical literature. |
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