Ivan Oransky M.D. is the vice president and global editorial director of MedPage Today and co-founder of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Retraction Watch. He previously was executive editor of Reuters Health and held editorial positions at Scientific American and The Scientist. A 2012 TEDMED speaker, he is the recipient of the 2015 John P. McGovern Medal for excellence in biomedical communication from the American Medical Writers Association. Oransky teaches medical journalism at New York University’s science, health, and environmental reporting program, and serves as vice president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.