JAMA Editor Out Over Colleague s Racism Comments
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Dr. Howard Bauchner will step down as editor in chief of
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association and JAMA Network at the end of June, the American Medical Association announced Tuesday. Bauchner was previously on administrative leave, pending an association investigation into comments another
JAMA editor made denying that structural racism exists in medicine. “I remain profoundly disappointed in myself for the lapses that led to the publishing of the tweet and podcast,” Bauchner said in a statement. “Although I did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast, as editor-in-chief, I am ultimately responsible for them.”
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In the wake of a controversy centered on structural racism in medicine, Howard Bauchner, MD, is relinquishing his post as editor-in-chief of
JAMA and the JAMA Network, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced.
Bauchner s resignation will be effective June 30, 2021. He took the job about a decade ago, in 2011.
In March, Bauchner was put on on administrative leave pending an investigation into a heavily criticized podcast and an accompanying tweet about structural racism in medicine.
In a statement emailed to media by the AMA, Bauchner said he was profoundly disappointed in myself for the lapses that led to the publishing of the tweet and podcast. Although I did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast, as editor in chief, I am ultimately responsible for them.
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