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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 1999;281:2275-2276.

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Chicago—A governance plan promising editorial independence for the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) was announced at AMA headquarters here on May 26.

The plan creates a seven-member journal oversight committee that will act as a buffer between the JAMA editor, who is also editor-in-chief of the AMA Scientific Information and Multimedia group, and AMA management. The plan was developed by members of the JAMA search committee that is charged with finding a new editor for THE JOURNAL.

At a press conference, Roger N. Rosenberg, MD, chair of the search committee and editor of the AMA's Archives of Neurology, said he was proud of the plan. "We put in place important safeguards so that editorial independence would be protected under times of stress and times of vulnerability," he said.

Roger N. Rosenberg, MD (Photo credit: Ted Grudzinsk)

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