Arnold S. Relman

Who was Arnold S. Relman?

Arnold Seymour "Bud" Relman was an American professor of medicine and social medicine from New York City, New York. He was professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also editor of The New England Journal of Medicine from 1977 to 1991 and wrote extensively on medical publishing and reform of the U.S. health care system. While editor of The New England Journal of Medicine he instituted two important policies one asking the popular press not to report on articles before publication and another requiring authors to disclose conflicts of interest. Relman was editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation from 1962 to 1967. He is the only person to have been president of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

In November 1988 Relman was awarded Honorary Fellowship by the New York University School of Medicine. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts of melanoma in 2014 at the age of 91.