Harvey Marcovitch

Harvey Marcovitch was a consultant paediatrician in the UK for 24 years, latterly at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and was also honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford. From 1994-2003 he was editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood and from 2001-7, syndications editor for BMJ Publishing Group. He is now editor of Clinical Risk (Royal Society of Medicine Press), associate editor, BMJ and editor of Black’s Medical Dictionary. He was until this year, chairman of the Committee on Publication Ethics (which has over 6000 editor members) and a board member of the UK Panel for Biomedical Research Integrity. He is currently a director of the Council of Science Editors (US).
For more than a decade, with Tim Albert, he has run courses for medical editors and authors in Europe, Asia and Australasia.
He has authored chapters in How to Write a Paper, edited by George Hall (3rd edition published by BMJ Books) and Medicine for Lawyers edited by Palmer & Wetherill (RSM Press Ltd) and is a contributor to the Council of Science Editors White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications and the European Assoc. of Science Editors’ Handbook.
He was either an officer or co-opted member of the executive committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health throughout its first decade and was awarded its honorary Fellowship in 2007.
He is an associate member of the General Medical Council, chairing its Fitness to Practice Panels. He is regularly instructed to provide expert reports by both Claimants and Defence where negligence in paediatric care is alleged. He is a member of the Expert Witness Institute.