Howard Bauchner - USA

Howard Bauchner - USA

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Howard Bauchner is a professor of paediatrics and public health at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. He is the director of the division of general paediatrics and vice chair of academic affairs, Department of Pediatrics. He completed his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1979.

His residency and fellowship training (biostatistics and epidemiology) was completed at Boston City Hospital and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Pediatric Scholar at Yale in 1984-86.

Howard Bauchner has been conducting clinical and health services research for over two decades. His research has focused on health promotion, clinical trials, and quality improvement. He has published more than 125 papers in peer reviewed journals. He has support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), foundations, and industry. He was recently awarded a senior career mentoring award from the NIH. He has been on sabbatical twice—both times as a scholar in residence—at the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

He became editor in chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood in July 2003. He is the first US editor of the journal, which is the official publication of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the United Kingdom. He is a member of numerous professional societies, including the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society, and a fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

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 Competing Interests

Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?

a) Reimbursement for attending a symposium?
No

b) A fee for speaking?
No

c) A fee for organising education?
No

d) Funds for research?
No

e) Funds for a member of staff?
NIH, USDA

f) Fees for consulting?
No

Have you in the past five years been employed by any organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
No

a) Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation?
No

b) Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No

c) I have no competing interests
But, I write for Journal Watch, published by the Massachusetts Medical Society for which I am paid. We excerpt Journal Watch in ADC. This was worked out independently of me.


 

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