Dr Harvey Marcovitch

Harvey Marcovitch was a full-time NHS consultant paediatrician until 2001 and latterly honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford. From its foundation until 2006, he was a Council member and external relations adviser of the Riyal College of Paediatrics & Child Health.

He was editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood for 10 years and is now syndication editor for BMJ Publishing Group.

He chairs COPE, the committee for publication ethics, and is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Council of Science Editors (US).

He is an associate member of the General Medical Council, for whom he chairs Fitness to Practice Panels.