Sabine Kleinert

Dr. Sabine Kleinert studied Medicine in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the USA, and trained as a Paediatrician in the UK and Belgium. After further specialist training in Paediatric Cardiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

After she received research training at the Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, USA, she joined The Lancet as a full-time Medical Editor in 1998. In March 2002, she became Executive Editor, and in July 2006 Senior Executive Editor. She joined the Committee on Publication Ethics in 1999, was elected to Council in 2002, and served as Vice-Chair from 2006 to March 2012. She was a member of the planning committee of the first and second World Conference on Research Integrity (Lisbon 2007, Singapore 2010), co-chaired the planning committee for the third and fourth World Conference on Research Integrity (Montreal 2013, Rio 2015), a member of Steering Committee of the 2017 (Amsterdam) World Conference on Research Integrity, and co-chair of the seventh World Conference on Reserach Integrity (Cape Town 2022).