2005 SSP 27th Annual Meeting
Seminar 2 – Interweaving Print and Online Content
Speakers
Michael held positions at the American Medical Association, where he was Director of Marketing and Product Development, the American Academy of Pediatrics, where he was senior managing editor of scholarly journals and executive editor of the journal Pediatrics, and at the University of Chicago Press, where he was senior production editor. He currently serves as vice-chair of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Publications Committee, which oversees the AHA’s journal publishing program. Michael holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado.
Mady served on the SSP Education Committee as a member from 2002-2004 and as Co-Chair from 2004-2006. She is currently Co-Chair of the SSP Membership Committee.
In 1994 he joined the fledgling IT department and began working on tools to support SGML-based editorial and production processes. His group has developed, maintained, and supported software for peer review, conversion of author files, copyediting, production tracking, typesetting, and electronic publishing.
John has also taught several courses in the publishing and editing programs of the University of Chicago’s Graham School of General Studies and was a co-author of the math and the documentation chapters in the 15th edition of Chicago Manual of Style.
With a heavy background in XML theory and practice, White has spent most of his career evangelizing the benefits of markup languages and related technologies, including content management, workflow enhancements, and authoring tools.
Prior to joining WK, White served as Vice President, STM Sales for Scope eKnowledge Center, and VP of Product Development at Silverchair, Inc., a leading developer of information solutions for health care publishers.
Before Silverchair, White spent five years as Executive Director of Electronic Production at Elsevier, serving the Health Sciences Division. His group performed the production work for such products as MD Consult, Mosby’s Drug Consult, and The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists.
White started in health sciences publishing as an editorial assistant at Current Medicine, and learned SGML at Mosby in the mid-90’s, working on the drug reference Physicians GenRx. He has held electronic publishing positions at Mosby, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, and Unbound Medicine. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a BA in history and has a Masters in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.