PloS Medicine Team
Ginny Barbour
Chief Editor, PLoS Medicine
Ginny Barbour joined PLoS in 2004 and was one of the founding editors of PLoS Medicine; she became Chief Editor in 2008. Her background in publishing comes from The Lancet, where she worked from 1999 until joining PLoS.
She initially studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, and then medicine at UCL and Middlesex Hospital School of Medicine, London. After training in Haematology at the Royal Free Hospital, London, she studied globin gene regulation in Oxford and then at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
She is on the Council of the Committee on Publication Ethics, and is a member of the Ethics Committee for the World Association of Medical Editors. She has participated in discussions on revisions to CONSORT statements, the QUOROM statement, and was involved in the first meetings of the EQUATOR initiative.
Larry Peiperl
Senior Research Editor, PLoS Medicine
Trained in Internal Medicine, Larry Peiperl came to PLoS in 2006 from UCSF, where he maintains a faculty appointment as Associate Clinical Professor. 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.
Larry graduated from Princeton University, obtained a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from Stanford University, and completed his MD and residency training at UCSF. 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. He has worked as an attending physician at several not-for-profit clinics in San Francisco.
Jocalyn Clark
Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
Jocalyn Clark came to PLoS in January 2008, where she is now responsible for handling research articles, commissioning and handling magazine articles, and overseeing the home page of PLoS Medicine. Previously she worked at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) (2002-2007) as editorial registrar, assistant editor, and project manager of the international campaign to revitalise academic medicine. During her time at BMJ she 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, health care equity, and global health. 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.
Susan Jones
Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
Susan Jones came to PLoS in January 2009 from Nature Reviews Microbiology where she was the chief editor. Susan was initially appointed as part of the Nature Reviews Microbiology launch team as an Associate editor, following a career-long interest in molecular microbiology and infectious disease.
Following a degree in Microbiology and Virology at Warwick University, Susan was awarded a PhD for studies into the virulence of a plant pathogenic bacterium. Her wide-ranging postdoctoral experience includes research into cell-cycle regulation of chemotaxis genes in the model bacterium Caulobacter; regulation of variable spirochaete virulence genes in Borrelia recurrentis and regulation of Escherichia coli transcription.
Susan is delighted to join an organization committed to open access publishing, in which she can continue and develop her interests in biomedical research.
Emma Veitch
Senior 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. Emma joined PLoS in 2005, and currently divides her time between handling research papers on PLoS Medicine and advising PLoS ONE as a consulting editor for clinical research. She escapes London and Cambridge as often as possible to indulge varied fascinations with bikes, mountains, and obscure cycle componentry.
Andrew Hyde
Editorial 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.
Katie Hickling
Publications Assistant
Katie graduated from Exeter University in 2008 with a degree in English. Since then she has travelled and volunteered in Mexico, Cuba, and Guatemala before moving to PLoS from her hometown in rural Devon. As a student she realised how prohibitive closed access journals are and so she is pleased to be representing PLoS's open-access policy. She has a passion for the English language and its expression, publication, interpretation, and uses in society. Her proudest piece of work was her dissertation, which studied slang languages and social relations in Jazz-Era America. She enjoys writing and does so whenever she can. Her other loves include Wes Anderson films, Simon Pegg, Japanese food and getting lost in a good book.
Darcy Gill
Publications Assistant
Darcy Gill is an English and plant biology double major from UC Davis who is thrilled to be working for PLoS. She enjoys taking walks around San Francisco, reading on public transportation, and people-watching at the corner of Market and Powell.
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