Congress Organizers and Planners
JAMA NETWORK
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
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)
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.

Advisory Board
Congress Directors
John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc
Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)
Stanford, California, USA
Michael Berkwits, MD, MSCE
JAMA and the JAMA Network
Chicago, Illinois, 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
Steve Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD
Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)
Stanford, California, USA
Véronique Kiermer, PhD
PLOS
San Francisco, California, USA
David Moher, MSc, PhD
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Director Emeritus
Drummond Rennie, MD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, USA
Kamran Abassi, MBChB
BMJ
London, UK
Dianne Babski, MIM
National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Vivienne Bachelet, MD, MSc
Medwave
Facultad de Ciencias Médicas
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Albert-László Barabási, PhD
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Howard Bauchner, MD
Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lisa A. Bero, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, USA
Patrick M. Bossuyt, PhD
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lex Bouter, PhD
Vrije University
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Isabelle Boutron, MD, PhD
Université de Paris
Paris, France
An-Wen Chan, MD, DPhil
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kay Dickersin, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Dan Evanko, PhD
American Association for Cancer Research
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
James Evans, PhD
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Fiona Godlee, MBBChir
London, UK
R. Brian Haynes, MD, PhD
McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
James Kigera, MBChB MMed
Annals of African Surgery
Nairobi, Kenya
Sabine Kleinert, MD
The Lancet
London, UK
Christine Laine, MD, MPH
Annals of Internal Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
José Florencio F. Lapeña Jr, MA, MD
University of the Philippines
Manila, Philippines
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
Journal of Global Health
Split, Croatia
Bahar Mehmani, PhD
Elsevier
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Frank Miedema, PhD
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
Jigisha Patel, MRCP, PhD
London, UK
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
Emily Sena, PhD
BMJ Open Science
Edinburgh, UK
Magdalena Skipper, PhD
Nature and Nature Research
London, UK
Deborah Sweet, PhD
Cell Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Sarah Tegen, PhD
American Chemical Society
Washington DC, USA
Martin R. Tramèr, MD, DPhil
Geneva University Hospitals
Geneva, Switzerland
Valda Vinson, PhD
Science
Washington DC, USA
Erik Von Elm, MD
Cochrane Switzerland
Lausanne, Switzerland
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, PhD
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jasmine Wallace, MPS
American Society for Microbiology
Washington, DC, USA