Can the choice to publish in journals that use open licenses vs. proprietary copyrights affect global health and clinical practice? Dr. Peiperl will offer an editor’s perspective on recent successes and current challenges to open-access publishing in medical research.
Larry Peiperl, MD, is Senior Research Editor of the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. He is as an associate clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, where he was founding director of the Center for HIV Information and served for 6 years as editor-in-chief of the HIV InSite Web site. Prior to joining the Public Library of Science in 2006, he was also an investigator in the NIAID-sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Group and subsequently the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, where he participated in the design and leadership of multicenter clinical trials.
Larry graduated from Princeton University, obtained a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from Stanford University, and completed his MD and residency training at UCSF. He has served as a teaching attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital and Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He currently serves as chief medical consultant at Glide Health Services, a not-for-profit clinic in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.
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