North American Conference Agenda

Tuesday August 9

• 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Registration and Breakfast
• 9:00 AM - Opening remarks from Glenn Collins, Vice President, ISMTE 
• 9:15 AM - ISMTE Update from President Elizabeth Blalock
• 9:30 AM - Keynote Speaker - Michael Clarke, Executive Vice President for Product and Market Development at Silverchair Information Systems
• 10:30 AM - Coffee Break
• 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM - Breakout Sessions
• A. Production - Rebecca Airmet,  Managing Editor, Applied Spectroscopy
• B. Ethics   – Maja Zecevic, North American Senior Editor of The Lancet
• 12:00 PM - Lunch - Join a lunch table for discussion if you wish.  Tables for Medical Journals, Small Journals, Working Solo, Do you need a Computer Science Degree to be a Managing Editor?
• 1:00 PM - ISMTE Presentation – Training and Resources Committee – Jason Roberts and Erin Dubnansky, ISMTE Board Members
• 1:15 PM - Open Access Update - Caroline Sutton, PhD, Publisher, Co-Action Publishing
• 2:30 PM - Coffee Break
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM - Breakout Sessions
• A. International Expansion of Journals – David Sampson, Executive Publisher, Elsevier
• B. Utilizing Social Networking as a Method of Journal Content Distribution - Bob Sumner, Editorial Coordinator, Clinical Chemistry
• 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM - Exchange Forum - One of the most popular parts of our meeting. "The floor is open" - and this is your opportunity to ask your fellow managing and technical editors for advice on those burning questions you have but haven't had a good resource to go to for possible solutions and answers.
• 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Wine and Cheese Reception

Wednesday August 10

• 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Breakfast
• 8:30 AM - Breakfast Session: Past President Jason Roberts on Securing Reviewers: Is a Crisis Looming?
• 9:00 AM - Big Ideas for Small Journals - Kathleen Mulcahy, Sr. Marketing Manager, Wiley-Blackwell, Max M. Houck, PhD, founding co-editor of Forensic Science Policy and Management, Barbara M. Ford, MA, President, Meyers Consulting Services
• 10:00 AM -  Reporting Statistics and Measuring Journal Quality - Glenn Landis, Managing Editor, Journal of Clinical Oncology
• 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM - Wrap Up and Closing Remarks - Glenn Collins and Elizabeth Blalock

About the Keynote Speaker

Michael Clarke is the Executive Vice President for Product and Market Development at Silverchair Information Systems. In this role he leads Silverchair’s development of next generation semantic tools and platforms for STM and scholarly publishers. Prior to joining Silverchair, Michael was the founder and principal of Clarke Publishing Group, a consultancy specializing in electronic publishing. Before founding Clarke Publishing Group, Michael held positions at the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the University of Chicago Press. Michael holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado. He is a frequent contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen.