Ivan Oransky is Editor in Chief of The Transmitter, Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University's Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, and co-founder of Retraction Watch.He is the recipient of the 2015 John P. McGovern Medal for excellence in biomedical communication from the American Medical Writers Association, and in 2017 was awarded an honorary doctorate in civil laws from The University of the South (Sewanee). In 2019, the judges for the John Maddox Prize, which promotes those who stand up for science in the face of hostility, gave him a commendation for his work at Retraction Watch.From 2018 until 2020, he was vice president of editorial at Medscape, and from 2013 until 2017, he was vice president and global editorial director of MedPage Today. He spent 2009 to 2013 as executive editor of Reuters Health and 2008-2009 as managing editor, online, of Scientific American. From 2002 to 2008, he was at The Scientist, Magazine of the Life Sciences, first as web editorial director (2002-2004) and then as deputy editor (2004-2008). Under his leadership, the editorial team of The Scientist earned the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Gold Eddie Awards for science magazines from FOLIO, the 2008 Magazine of the Year Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors'​ Magazine of the Year contest (80,000 and under division), and the and finalist (top 10) status in the 2007 Magazine of the Year contest. He also conceived of and edited a supplement on schizophrenia that won ASBPE's top award for supplements in 2008.Praxis Post, an online magazine of medicine and culture of which he was the founding editor, was a finalist for the 2001 Online News Association Award for General Excellence.He has written for publications including the Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Lancet, Nature, The New York Times, and Slate.He served as president of the Association of Health Care Journalists from 2017 to 2021, has taught medical journalism in New York University’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting program since 2002, and taught at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism from 2007 to 2009. He has served as a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, where he received his MD. During medical school, he served as editor-in-chief of Pulse, the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association. He completed his internship at Yale University earned a BA from Harvard.