Drummond Rennie
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January 31, 1936
- Nephrologist
- physiologist
- academic journal editor
- professor of medicine
Drummond Rennie | |
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.jpg) 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]
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]
