Harvey Marcovitch was an NHS consultant paediatrician for 25 years and is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, for whom he was Press and Public Relations Officer for 15 years. Previously a gossip columnist and features writer on the now defunct World Medicine, he was editor of Archives of Disease in Paediatrics, from 1994-2002, syndications editor for BMJ Publishing Group from 2000-2008 and is currently an associate editor of BMJ. He is editor in chief of Clinical Risk (an RSM journal) and has worked with Tim Albert Training, designing and running courses for editors and writers worldwide. He is a director of the Council of Science Editors (US) and past chairman of the committee on Publication Ethics as well as previously a board member of the UK Panel for Research Integrity. He is a chapter author of several books and editor of Black's Medical Dictionary. He is an associate of the General Medical Council, chairing Fitness to Practice Panels.

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?

Reimbursement for attending a symposium?
Only from chairing BMJ Masterclass symposia

A fee for speaking?
No

A fee for organising education?
No

Funds for research?
No

Funds for a member of staff?
No

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

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

Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No

I have no competing interests/I have the following competing interests?
Chairman of Committee for Publications Ethics (unpaid)