PloS Medicine Team
Virginia Barbour
Chief Editor, PLoS Medicine
Ginny Barbour's background in publishing comes from The Lancet, which she joined in 1999, becoming molecular medicine editor in 2001. While at The Lancet she was involved in peer review of research articles, commissioning reviews, series, and supplements, and writing news and editorials. She initially studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and then medicine at University College and Middlesex Hospital School of Medicine, London. In 1994, after training in Haematology at the Royal Free Hospital, London, she moved to the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford to study aberrant alpha globin gene regulation in Doug Higgs' lab. After finishing her DPhil, she worked on beta globin gene regulation in the Division of Experimental Hematology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She believes that open access medical publishing will not only facilitate medical research and patient care, but is also a vital part of improving communication and understanding between physicians, scientists, and the general public.
Jocalyn Clark
Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
Jocalyn Clark came to PLoS from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) where she was first editorial registrar and then assistant editor and project manager of the international campaign to revitalise academic medicine. During her time at BMJ (2002-2007) she was involved in peer review, writing news and editorials, and commissioning, and edited special theme issues on A Good Death, Academic Medicine, and Africa.
Jocalyn did undergraduate studies in biochemistry and microbiology and then an MSc and PhD in public health sciences. She worked as a health services researcher at the University of Toronto focusing on access to care, gender, and performance measurement. She has a keen interest in open access publishing, knowledge translation, and global health equity. Jocalyn is an assistant professor of medicine (adjunct) at the University of Toronto, a member of the Council of Science Editors and the Society for General Internal Medicine, and serves on the editorial policy committee of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
Outside of work, Jocalyn is a runner, yogi, news junkie, and like most Canadians, an ice hockey fan.
Larry Peiperl
Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
Trained in Internal Medicine, Larry Peiperl comes to PLoS from UCSF, where he is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. He was the founding director of the UCSF Center for HIV Information and served for 6 years as editor-in-chief of the HIV InSite Web site. As an investigator in the NIAID-sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Group and subsequently the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, he has participated in the design and leadership of several multicenter clinical trials, and edits the HVTN Pipeline Project Web site. He has written several widely distributed sources of information on HIV, starting in 1992 with the first pocket clinical handbook published on this topic. Larry has served as a teaching attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital and at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and is currently a volunteer physician at San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic.
Gavin Yamey
Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
Gavin Yamey is a product of three continents - he was born in Cape Town, raised in London, and now lives in San Francisco. He studied medicine at the University of Oxford and University College London, graduating in 1994. After five years of working as a physician in a variety of settings - including an AIDS hospice, a dialysis ward, and a brain injuries unit - he joined the British Medical Journal (BMJ)in 1999 as a trainee in medical journalism and editing. In 2001, he moved to San Francisco to be the deputy editor of the Western Journal of Medicine, published by the BMJ and the University of California. Gavin has written extensively on global health, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, and has helped to train medical editors at workshops in Barcelona and Addis Ababa.
Emma Veitch
Associate Editor, PLoS Medicine
Consulting Editor, PLoS ONE
Emma Veitch graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1996, and subsequently moved to London to do a Ph.D. with Anthony Graham at King's College London. Her work at King's focused on the role of neural crest cells in the development of pharyngeal arches in the chick embryo. There she became passionate about the Web and its potential for transforming scientific communication. Having learnt about the open access movement which was taking shape at that time, she joined the then fledgling BioMed Central as an editorial assistant, and subsequently senior assistant editor. At BioMed Central she handled peer review of primary research papers, as well as project-managing development of online submission and peer review systems. Emma subsequently moved to another fledgling operation published by Elsevier's FIRSTConsult, an online clinical decision support tool. There she oversaw commissioning and peer-review of new content for the site and furthered her interest in clinical research. Delighted to make a return to the world of open access publishing, Emma is thrilled to be initiating a project where she can combine her enthusiasm for biomedical research with experience developing electronic publishing systems.
Mai Luen Wong
Editorial Intern, PLoS Medicine
Mai Luen Wong joined PLoS Medicine in 2008 as its first editorial intern. She is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and continues clinical practice part-time with the UK National Health Service. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. Away from the clinical setting, she has worked as a Content Editor for the Map of Medicine®, a Medical Research Reviewer in the Business Development and Strategy Unit at Bazian and a freelance clinical analyst.
Originating from Singapore, she studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland graduating in 1998. She has enjoyed working in a variety of clinical care settings and specialities throughout the world, including the UK, Ireland, Australia, Singapore, Bangladesh and Vietnam.
Her interests include global mental health and health policy, specifically, strategies and initiatives for providing an equitable distribution of healthcare resources internationally.
Andrew Hyde
Publications Manager
Andrew joined PLoS in April 2005, starting as an Editorial Assistant before being promoted to Publications Manager of PLoS Medicine in 2007. As well as assisting authors, reviewers and academic editors, he schedules the monthly issue and provides support to the PLoS Medicine editors. He is also the press contact for the UK office, responding to enquiries from journalists and other interested parties. Andrew graduated with an MA in English from the University of Sussex in 2003. In his spare time he enjoys reading, learning Spanish (very slowly) and following the fortunes of Nottingham Forest football club.
Josh Eveleth
Publications Assistant
Josh graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 with a B.A. in English. He's spent the past four years working in the marijuana policy reform movement, spending the majority of that time at the Marijuana Policy Project lobbying for laws that protect medical marijuana patients from arrest. During his time at MPP, he helped to get medical marijuana laws enacted in Vermont, Montana, and Rhode Island. Most recently, he served as Assistant Campaign Manager for the Yes on 7 Campaign, which sought to pass an initiative in Nevada that would tax and regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol. Although the measure did not pass, it received a landmark 44% of the vote. Some of his passions include: good coffee, grammar, the Washington Nationals, subway systems, and urban architecture.
Alan Kershaw
Publications Assistant
Having studied Genetics at the University of Cambridge, Alan decided that scientific research was not for him. After a 4.5 month stint in the NHS as a Healthcare Assistant, he left his days of cleaning bodily fluids behind him and started work as a Publications Assistant for PLoS Medicine. In October 2008, Alan will be returning to the University of Cambridge (it would appear that neither Cambridge nor Alan have the ability to learn from their previous mistakes) to take a Graduate Course in Medicine, hopefully leading to a frightening career in surgery. In his spare time, Alan enjoys inflicting his cooking on his innocent housemates, reading, drinking tea, "socialising" and wasting years of his life on his Xbox 360 (a great source of mockery for Alan’s office colleagues).
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