Organizers and Advisory Board

• JAMA NETWORK https://jamanetwork.com

  Building on a tradition of editorial excellence, the JAMA Network brings JAMA together with JAMA Network Open, and 11 JAMA Network specialty journals to offer enhanced access to research, reviews, and opinion shaping the future of medicine. Through a variety of publication and access options, innovative tools, and multimedia, the JAMA Network provides information and insights that matter most to medical research and practice. The JAMA Network journals are leaders in reach and impact, with more than 135 million article views per year.

• BMJ https://bmj.com/company

  Global medical publisher BMJ supports its vision of a healthier world by sharing knowledge, evidence, and expertise that improve health outcomes. Our medical journal portfolio includes our flagship, The BMJ, and 70+ open access and hybrid specialty titles in oncology, pain medicine, and more. Launched in 2022, BMJ Medicine is a new open access, multispecialty journal from The BMJ that aims to improve clinical practice, policy, and medical science. In addition, we are a co-founder of medRxiv and offer digital clinical decision support tools that help healthcare professionals improve the quality of healthcare delivery.

• Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) https://metrics.stanford.edu

  The Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) is a research to action center focused on transforming research practices to improve the quality of scientific studies in biomedicine and beyond. METRICS fosters multi-disciplinary research collaborations to help produce solutions that increase the effectiveness and value of scientific investigation.

Congress Directors

• John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)
  Stanford, California, USA
• Michael Berkwits, MD, MSCE Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Congress Executive Director

• Annette Flanagin, RN, MA JAMA and the JAMA Network
  Chicago, Illinois, USA

European Director

• Theodora Bloom, PhD BMJ
  London, UK

Associate Directors

• An-Wen Chan, MD, DPhil Women’s College Research Institute at Women’s College Hospital,
  University of Toronto
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Steve Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS);
  Stanford Program on Research Rigor and Reproducibility (SPORR)
  Stanford, California, USA
• Véronique Kiermer, PhD PLOS
  San Francisco, California, USA

Director Emeritus

• Drummond Rennie, MD

• Kamran Abbasi, MB ChB, FRCP BMJ
  London, UK
• Luís A.N. Amaral, PhD Northwestern University
  Evanston, Illinois, USA
• Michele Avissar-Whiting, PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
• Dianne Babski, MIM National Library of Medicine
  Bethesda, Maryland, USA
• Vivienne C. Bachelet, MD, MSc MedwaveUniversidad de Santiago de Chile
  Santiago, Chile
• Howard Bauchner, MD Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS JAMA and the JAMA Network
  Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Patrick M. Bossuyt, PhD Amsterdam University Medical Centers
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Lex Bouter, PhD Vrije Universiteit
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Isabelle Boutron, MD, PhD Université Paris Cité
  Paris, France
• Dan Evanko, PhD American Association for Cancer Research
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• James Evans, PhD The University of Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Taís Freire Galvão, MSc, PhD Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Quinn Grundy, PhD, RN University of Toronto
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• James Kigera, MBChB MMed, PhD Annals of African Surgery
  Nairobi, Kenya
• Sabine Kleinert, MD The Lancet
  Munich, Germany
• Christine Laine, MD, MPH Annals of Internal Medicine
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• José Florencio F. Lapeña Jr, MA, MD University of the Philippines
  Manila, Philippines
• Vincent Larivière, MA, PhD Université de Montréal
  Montreal, Canada
• Yang Liying, PhD National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Beijing, China
• Malcolm MacLeod, MBChB, PhD The University of Edinburgh
  Edindburgh, UK
• Emilie Marcus, PhD University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, California, USA
• Ana Marušić, MD, PhD University of Split School of Medicine
  Split, Croatia
• Bahar Mehmani, PhD Elsevier
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
• David Moher, MSc, PhD Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Brian Nosek, PhD Center for Open Science
  Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
• Jigisha Patel, MRCP, PhD London, UK
• Tony Ross-Hellauer, PhD Know-Center GmbH
  Graz, Austria
• Eric J. Rubin, MD, PhD New England Journal of Medicine
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• David Schriger, MD, MPH University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, California, USA;
• Nihar B. Shah, PhD Carnegie Mellon University
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
• Deborah J. Sweet, PhD Springer Nature
  New York, New York, USA
• Sarah Tegen, PhD American Chemical Society
  Washington DC, USA
• Valda Vinson, PhD Science Journals
  Washington DC, USA
• Steven Woloshin, MD, MS Dartmouth Institute
  Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA;
• Lisa Schwartz Foundation for Truth in Medicine
  Norwich, Vermont, USA