Council Member

Biography

Trish Groves is a deputy editor of the BMJ and senior research editor. She studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, and then specialised in psychiatry, gaining MRCPsych. She was also an honorary research fellow at the School for Public Policy, University College London. Trish is a member of the international groups developing the SPIRIT statement on trial protocols and updating the CONSORT statement on reporting randomised controlled trials. She was first author of the HarperCollins Consumer’s Guide to Mental Health (1996), and has written and presented programmes on research and health for BBC World Service Radio, and presented TVam’s DocSpot.

Competing interests statement

Trish is the BMJ’s senior research editor. She contributes to and maintains the BMJ’s editorial policies, is the main decision maker on whether to send research submissions for external peer review, and often chairs the committee meetings where decisions on which research to publish are made. Trish used to edit articles for the journal Prescrire International, which receives no funding from industry. She has received modest standard fees for speaking at NHS postgraduate centres. If any such fees have been provided indirectly by industry she have not been aware of it. Trish follows the policy that states that editors and publishers within BMJ Group may accept necessary and reasonable paid-for travel, meals, daily subsistence costs, and accommodation from meeting organisers only when the organisation is a not-for-profit one. Trish's competing interests statement is publicly available at http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/about-bmj/declaration-of-competing-interest... June 2008

Posted by Trish Groves, COPE Council Member on August 4^th 2008