Elsevier appoints Judy Verses as President, Academic and Government Markets - April 28, 2022
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has announced the appointment of Judy Verses to the newly created role of President, Academic, and Government Markets. Judy will join Elsevier on May 2, 2022, as a member of the company’s executive leadership team, reporting to… Read More
Stephen Welby’s tenure as IEEE Executive Director and COO to conclude on January 1, 2023 - April 27, 2022
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for the benefit of humanity, has announced that the tenure of Stephen Welby, IEEE Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, will conclude on January 1, 2023. Welby joined IEEE as Executive Director in 2018. Under his leadership, IEEE… Read More
eLife names Fiona Hutton as new Head of Publishing - April 27, 2022
eLife has announced the appointment of Fiona Hutton as its new Head of Publishing. A long-time advocate for open science, Hutton will lead eLife’s transformation to a ‘publish, then review’ model that puts preprints first. Originally a life scientist specializing in cancer virology, Hutton brings 20 years… Read More
Project MUSE names Matthew Treskon as Metadata Strategist - April 15, 2022
Project MUSE has named Matthew Treskon as its new Metadata Strategist working as a liaison with MUSE’s libraries and discovery partners. Prior to arriving at Project MUSE, Treskon served as the Technology Librarian and subsequently Assistant Director at the Loyola Notre Dame Library (the academic library of… Read More
AMA names Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo as new editor-in-chief of JAMA and JAMA Network™ - April 13, 2022
The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced the appointment of Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo as the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and JAMA Network™. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is the Lee Goldman, M.D,. Endowed Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Epidemiology… Read More
Cochrane appoints Catherine Spencer as new CEO - April 11, 2022
Cochrane’s Governing Board has announced the appointment of Catherine Spencer as Cochrane’s new Chief Executive Officer. Catherine joins Cochrane from The Seafarers’ Charity where she held the position of CEO. Prior to her role at The Seafarers’ Charity, Catherine was acting Chief Operating Officer and Director of… Read More
Learned Publishing appoints three new Associate Editors - April 11, 2022
Learned Publishing, the journal on the publication of scholarly information, has appointed Mathias Astell, Haseeb Irfanullah, and François van Schalkwyk as Associate Editors. Mathias Astell is Chief Journal Development & Marketing Officer at Open Access publisher Hindawi, working towards greater openness in research, removing the barriers to access, and striving… Read More
Graeme Forrest appointed new Editor-in-Chief for ASM’s Clinical Microbiology Reviews - April 6, 2022
ASM has announced the appointment of Dr. Graeme Forrest, a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical Center, as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of ASM’s Clinical Microbiology Reviews. Forrest will begin his term as EiC… Read More
Prof. Paul D. Cotter succeeds Prof. Martin G. Klotz as new Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology - April 6, 2022
Frontiers in Microbiology has named Prof. Paul D. Cotter, the Head of Food Biosciences at Teagasc and a Principal Investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland, Vistamilk and Food for Health Ireland, as the new Field Chief Editor. He succeeds Field Chief Editor, Prof. Martin G. Klotz, who is… Read More
The Permanente Federation appoints Dr. G. Richard Holt as editor-in-chief of The Permanente Journal - March 23, 2022
The Permanente Federation has announced the appointment of Dr. G. Richard Holt as editor-in-chief of The Permanente Journal, which relaunches in 2022 with a focus on health care delivery science, value-based and high-value care, and applied clinical research. Dr. Holt is professor emeritus and teaching professor… Read More
