Jigisha Patel

Jigisha Patel leads the Research Integrity Group at BioMed Central with responsibility for standards and expertise in publication ethics and peer review. Jigisha earned her first degree in Medicine and her PhD on postprandial physiology from Queen Mary, University of London. Before joining BioMed Central in 2007, she spent several years in hospital clinical practice and a year at the National Institutes of Health for her PhD. She has taught on professional development for medical students at University College London Medical School and human biology at the Open University. She is currently involved in research on publication ethics and peer review.