STM People

Andrea Kravetz joined Elsevier in May 2001 as the Vice President for the User Centered Design Department (UCD). The UCD department is an international department responsible for creating the user interface for most of Elsevier’s electronic products.  Under Andrea’s leadership, the department ensures that Elsevier’s electronic products are customer focused and provide ease of use.  The UCD team has been involved in all major...

Bradley E. Gernand manages library and information services for two U.S. Government think tanks:  the Institute for Defense Analyses, serving the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the Science & Technology Policy Institute, serving the President’s science advisor and White House in general.  Gernand has served the institutes since 2001; prior to...

Lou Ann Di Nallo is Director of Content Integration & Analysis, part of R&D Informatics at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) where her group is responsible for external content provision and literature analytics.  She has been involved with electronic information over her entire career in a variety of roles in both for-profit and nonprofit settings. Prior to...

Tim Collins joined EBSCO in 1987 when the company he co-founded with his stepfather was purchased.   Under the leadership of Tim and his management team, EBSCO Publishing has grown into a key player in the information industry, with it’s EBSCOhost online research service offering over 300 databases to institutions worldwide.  EBSCO Publishing has made nearly...

Philip E. Bourne PhD is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego,  Associate Director of the Protein Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute. He is a Past President of the International Society for Computational Biology. He is...

Gretchen M. Bataille served as president of the University of North Texas from 2006 to 2010. Prior to her presidency at UNT, she served for six years as senior vice president for the University of North Carolina system.  Bataille is a noted scholar in the field of American Indian literature and is the author or...

Before Pubget, Ramy Arnaout spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to not spend a lot of time searching science. He holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, where he was a Soros Fellow, a DPhil (PhD) in mathematical biology from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and an SB...

Suzie Allard, Ph.D., is an associate professor and assistant director in the University of Tennessee’s School of Information Sciences. Suzie’s interests and teaching include: science information, information retrieval, how scientists use and communicate information, and how these communication processes influence the data preservation process at the point of data creation. She is on the Board...

David Worlock has over twenty-five years of experience in digital publishing marketplaces. David chairs Outsell’s Leadership Councils, a member-service for over 100 CEOs and senior executives of media publishing and information-provider firms in the USA and Europe. A respected thought leader, he frequently speaks at industry conferences and advises clients worldwide. David founded Electronic Publishing...

Paul Thompson is the Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham. He is a Co-Editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. His research work is chiefly in the areas of applied corpus linguistics, and the uses of technology in language learning and research.     Website: http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/staff/thompson.shtml