HITEC Medical and Dental Journal (HMDJ) ethics committee convene as per requirement but not less than three meetings per year. Editors can consult members by email and can consult experts who have broad expertise including clinical medicine, research, bioethics, and medical editing. Responses are coordinated by the and a decision is made by majority. The committee is advisory. The editor can ignore its advice but must justify his/her action to the chairman in writing. The advice and the editor's response would both be published. In the event of a dispute, the committee's chairman can appeal to the journal committee of HITEC Medical and Dental Journal (HMDJ).

Roles of the committee

The committee has following roles:

• Clarifying, reviewing and developing on issues such as:
  • Material arising from the doctor patient relationship
  • Competing interests for authors, reviewers, editors, and ethics committee members
  • Prior disclosure of results to research participants
  • Editors' duty of confidentiality to authors
• Formulating new editorial policies
• Advising editors on ethics questions that arise during routine editorial work including scrutinizing papers referred by editors or peer reviewers worried about some aspect of the conception, design, conduct, presentation, authorship, or peer review of the work described in those papers.
• Advising editors on duties and responsibilities to patients, research participants, authors, reviewers, publishers, other editors and readers.
• Keeping editors informed of developments in research and publication ethics.

Ethical Committee Members

• 1. Maj. Gen. Dr. Hamid Shafiq
  Chief Editor, HMDJ
  Professor, Medicine
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 2. Dr. Wajiha Mahjabeen
  Managing Editor, HMDJ
  Professor, Pathology
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 3. Brig. Dr. Farhat Bhatti
  Professor, Pathology
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 4. Dr. Asma Hafeez
  Professor, Anatomy
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 5. Dr. Aashi Ahmed
  Professor, Community Medicine
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 6. Dr. Salma Ambreen
  Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 7. Brig. Javid Hassan Hashmi
  Director Adm & Ops
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 8. Mr. Noman Bashir
  Statisitician
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 9. Mr.Naeem Afzal
  Teacher Islamic Studies
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

All appeals and complaints regarding (but not limited to) misconduct, authorship conflicts or plagiarism in publications at HMDJ will be directed to the Complain and Appeal Scrutiny Committee. Authors whose articles have been rejected have the right to send a letter of appeal giving detailed explanations. This will be reviewed in-house and a decision will be taken accordingly. Revised articles will not be considered at this stage.

Complain and Appeal Scrutiny Committee Members

• 1. Dr. Nasser Rashid Dar
  Editor, HMDJ
  Professor, Dermatology
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 2. Dr. Ambreen Javed
  Managing Editor, HMDJ
  Professor, Biochemsitry
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 3. Dr. Wajiha Mahjabeen
  Managing Editor, HMDJ
  Professor, Pathology
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

A journal’s reputation is predicated on its ability to publish high-quality scientific works and depends upon the trust of authors, researchers, readers, reviewers, editors, and administrators of public health policy. This trust is enhanced by describing the journal’s policies as explicitly as possible to ensure the ethical treatment of all participants in the publication process. This can be achieved only, if the entire peer review and publication process is thorough, objective, and fair. Almost every aspect of this process should involve important ethical principles and decisions which are seldom openly stated and even less often shared with the readership.

Plagiarism Committee Members

• 1. Dr. Wajiha Mahjabeen
  Managing Editor, HMDJ
  Professor, Pathology
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 2. Dr. Aashi Ahmed
  Member Academic Editorial Board, HMDJ
  Professor, Community Medicine
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

• 3. Mr. Noman Bashir
  Statisitician
  HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan