“My First Year at JAMA”, Editor-in-Chief Howard Bauchner, MD, Returns to BUMC as Alpert Lecturer
Save the date, May 17! Join Howard C. Bauchner, MD, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications as he speaks on “My First Year at JAMA.” Dr. Bauchner was named Editor-in Chief on July 1, 2011, after serving as a faculty member of pediatrics and community health sciences on the Medical Campus for 25 years. He also served as the vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at BMC/BUSM and assistant dean, alumni affairs and continuing medical education at BUSM.
Dr. Bauchner is coming to the Medical Campus as the Joel and Barbara Alpert Lecturer in General Pediatrics. This is the 16th year of the lectureship and the associated fund supports the pilot research of pediatric residents, fellows and junior faculty largely directed at the medical and social needs of children at risk. Click here for information on the fund.
A BUSM alumnus, Dr. Bauchner is the 16th editor in the journal’s 127-year history. As Editor-in-Chief, he has editorial oversight of JAMA and the nine Archives journals, the specialty medical journals published by the AMA.
Dr. Bauchner will speak on Thursday, May 17 at 12:15 p.m. at 670 Albany St., in the Ground Floor Auditorium (lunch will be served).
Dr. Bauchner completed his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1979. He completed his internship and junior-year residency at Boston City Hospital, his senior-year residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and then returned to be Chief Resident at what was then Boston City Hospital. He received additional training in epidemiology and statistics as a Robert Wood Johnson General Pediatrics Academic Development Scholar at Yale-New Haven Hospital and has been on sabbatical twice, first as a Scholar in Residence at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and then as a Scholar in Residence at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.