Building and managing an editorial team

Lindsay joined the Health and Medical Sciences journal group at Elsevier in 2018 after 10 years publishing engineering, computer science, and technology journals. Her portfolio of journals at Elsevier consists primarily of pathology titles. Lindsay has traveled from Philadelphia to institutions from Toronto to Hong Kong to educate researchers on topics in publishing, including ethics, open access, promoting research, and more.

Heather has worked in the publishing industry since 2008 across editorial, marketing, and sales, and since 2016 at Elsevier as publisher of a portfolio of a dozen cardiology and ophthalmology journals. In addition, Heather has represented Elsevier at industry events and institutional workshops across the U.S. as well as in a publishing roadshow at some of China’s top medical institutions. She has also consulted on strategy for a medical society in Kenya in 2019 through Elsevier Foundation’s Research without Borders Program. Heather was nominated for Publisher’s Weekly Star Watch in 2019.