Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
September 19, 2018
They came to Chicago from across medicine and around the world, converging on a dingy downtown hotel to witness the birth of a new field. It was a chilly May week in 1989. Guests muttered about clogged bathtubs and taps that ran cold, while a bushy-bearded Drummond Rennie, a deputy editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), hurried the crowd away from morning bagels and coffee and into the meeting hall.
A British nephrologist who scaled mountain peaks in his spare time, Rennie had moved to a Chicago hospital from London in 1967. But while studying how the thin oxygen of high altitudes affects the kidneys, he became interested in the world of scientific publishing. Curious about how scientists report their work and how editors make their decisions, Rennie took a job at The New England Journal of Medicine in 1977, and later switched to JAMA.
Read More...A British nephrologist who scaled mountain peaks in his spare time, Rennie had moved to a Chicago hospital from London in 1967. But while studying how the thin oxygen of high altitudes affects the kidneys, he became interested in the world of scientific publishing. Curious about how scientists report their work and how editors make their decisions, Rennie took a job at The New England Journal of Medicine in 1977, and later switched to JAMA.
