THE SCIENCEDOCS NETWORK

 

 

Welcome to ScienceDocs!  We are an integrated network of scientists and professionals dedicated to providing the highest quality research support services in the world.  When the internet is besieged with low cost, low quality editing, translation and statistical services using unknown individuals from unknown locations, we are known for dependable, consistent work, our deep specialization and our absolute dedication to our clients.  As a company we work daily with the NIH, we are a trusted partner of Elsevier and ACS, and we are a research collaborating institution.  Whether you require our services to assist you in your publication efforts, communication or are looking to us as your partner, you have my promise that at the core of ScienceDocs is unparalleled talent and that you can trust us to provide you with unparalleled service.

 

---Charles Replogle, CEO

 

 

 

 

 

ScienceDocs is a network of over 200 professionals hailing from more than 50 universities and 30 countries.  Despite our larger size, we pride ourselves in providing personalized service to our valued clients. Specialists remain in constant contact with their clients during all projects. Below is an abbreviated list of specialists available today to take on projects.

 

Click HERE for the full list of curricula vitae, or click on individual names for further information.

 

 

EDITING DIVISION - CONSULTING DIVISION - TRANSLATION DIVISION - EXECUTIVE CONTACTS

 

 
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EDITING DIVISION

 

             
             
Lelani Arris,
MS
 

Lelani’s writing and editing expertise includes all aspects of climate change, ozone depletion, and related earth, atmospheric, and environmental sciences. With a Masters of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 years of experience in the field, she has a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.

 

 

  Arshad Makhdum,
PhD
 

Arshad studied for his doctorate in clinical pharmacology at University College London. His post-doctoral work focused on the inflammatory mediators of allergic disease. He has ten years’ experience of medical editing and writing. His specialties are allergic disease, internal medicine and surgery.

 

 

 

             

Virginia

Baskerville

 

Virginia Baskerville has edited medical books and journal articles for more than a decade using AMA and publisher-specific styles. She has copyedited hundreds of articles for Blood.

 

 

 

Dolores

Matthews,

ELS, MEd

 

Certified Editor in the Life Sciences with close to 20 years of experience editing a variety of scientific writings, including medical textbooks and manuscripts for peer-reviewed professional journals. Specialized in urology, gastrointestinal disease, pain management, cardiovascular disease, and orthopedics.

 

 

 

   

 

       

Ann Beardsley,

MBA

 

 

AIP editor with extensive book and journal publishing experience, Ann specializes in physical science editing, nutrition, and technical instruction. She has an MBA and long experience correlating scientific data with business environments.

 

 

 

 

Lisa McCullough,
MFA, MA

 

Lisa McCullough has been working as a science writer/editor since 1983.  Lisa specializes in physical sciences, social sciences, engineering and mathematics.

 

 

   

 

       

Marianne
Camarda

 

Marianne Camarda holds a literature degree from Brown University, and she brings over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor across multiple forms of media. 

 

 

Melanie McEwen,
PhD

 

Dr. McEwen is a psychology and neuroscience consultant for the Editorial Division of ScienceDocs.   Dr. McEwen is a bench scientist who has several years experience developing polished abstracts, slideshows, posters, original research manuscripts, and grant applications.

 

 

             

Diane Castilaw,

PhD*

 

Diane Castilaw has 20 years’ experience in medical and scientific editing. She specializes in editing manuscripts written by authors whose first language is other than English and in transforming highly technical material into readable, understandable language for patients and the general public. Ms. Castilaw has worked extensively in oncology, cardiology, gynecology, neurology, and other medical specialties.

 

 

 

 

Mark Miller,

MS

 

Mark Miller has edited hundreds of engineering journal articles.  He also has extensive experience in developing, authoring, and editing engineering books and software documentation.  He has over 15 years of engineering experience, primarily involving complex multidisciplinary analysis.  Mark holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in engineering mechanics.

 

 

 

             

Anthony Chapman,

PhD

 

Anthony Chapman is a former professor of Marine Biology (35 years in Canada and Germany), now working full time as an editor. He specializes in manuscripts in the following fields: marine biology, marine ecology, environmental studies, general ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, weed science, crop science, biological oceanography, aquaculture. Anthony has worked as a part-time journal editor since 1975 and as a full time professional editor since 2002.

 

 

 

 

Brenda Milot,

ELS

 

Brenda Milot is a certified Editor in the Life Sciences with more than 19 years of experience as a writer and editor. Her specialties include clinical nutrition, medicine, alternative medicine, and the general sciences.

 

 

 

   

 

       

Kristin

Demarest,

PhD

 

 

 

Kristin has a BS in Psychology and a PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior. She is a UCSD-certified copyeditor and has experience with diverse topics such as genetics, neurology, neurobiology, medicine, protein sciences, biotechnology, oncology, psychology, and behavior. Kristin also has expertise in editing manuscripts written by authors whose first language is not English.

 

 

Ann Conti Morcos,
MA, ELS

 

Ann Conti Morcos has been editing medical manuscripts since 1987. She edits according to AMA style and to journal-specific guidelines, and is familiar with CSE and APA styles. She has worked for physicians worldwide whose first language is not English and has edited manuscripts in cardiology, hypertension, urology, laparoscopy, oncology, ob/gyn, nutrition, exercise, and other specialties.

 

 

 

           

 

Sonia Elabd,

MA

 

Sonia Elabd has more than 10 years' experience editing medical and scientific journal articles. She specializes in the areas of public health, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, and neonatology. She has worked extensively with authors whose native language is not English.

 

 

 

David Nordstrom,

PhD, MPH

 

 

Successful medical researcher, teacher, author, reviewer, editor, and consultant in practice and academic settings in the U.S. and abroad.    Expert in design and style of all parts--text and tables--of scholarly journal papers in epidemiology, public health, clinical research, and health services research.

 

 

             

Glenn Floyd,

MA

 

Glenn has worked since 1992 in various writing and editing positions in medicine, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, publishing, and academia. Glenn holds a M.A. in Media Communications.

 

 

 

Scott O'Brien,

MA, ELS

 

Professionally accredited freelance copyeditor specializing in epidemiology, infectious diseases, and clinical research.

 

           

 

Vanessa Fogg,

PhD

 

Dr. Fogg is a molecular cell biologist with special expertise in the field of signal transduction.  She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from Washington University in St. Louis, and has done postdoctoral research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of Michigan Medical School.  Her most recent areas of research interest have been in oncology and cell polarity.  She enjoys helping scientists polish their manuscripts, and welcomes the chance to edit papers in any field of molecular cell biology.

 

 

 

 

Jeff Van Pelt,

Ed.D.

 

 

 

Expert editing in the fields of psychology and behavioral health, and with nonnative speakers of English.

 

           

 

Ken Goldstein,

PhD

 

Dr Goldstein holds a PhD in neuroscience.  He has experience writing and editing papers destined for peer reviewed journals on topics such as neurology, cardiovascular medicine, immunology, hematopoiesis and adult stem cell research.

 

 

 

Carol Anne

Peschke

 

 

 

 

Established editor specializing in medicine, nursing, and environmental sciences; long-time editor of the American Journal of Psychology.

 

 

           

 

Rebecca Goldstein,

PhD

 

Dr. Goldstein received her PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  Her specialties are protein biochemistry and cellular immunology, and she has extensive experience working with basic science professionals who are nonnative English speakers.

 

 

 

 

Virginia

Peschke,

MS, PhD

 

 

 

 

Well-published editor specializing in botany, genetics, molecular biology, and plant biotechnology.

             

Bob Gutman,

MS, PhD

 

Dr. Gutman holds a PhD in Microbiology.  He is an experienced bench-research scientist now morphed into an editor and rewriter of many manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals as well as a journal and book copyeditor and editor consultant. 

 

 

 

 

Carol

Raemsch,

PhD

 

Dr. Raemsch is an editor in the social and medical sciences, particularly biological anthropology, skeletal anatomy, archaeology, and community health/epidemiology.

 

 

           

 

J. M. Haile,

PhD

 

 

 

Author of several books and formerly an editor of a professional journal, Jim earned a PhD in chemical engineering and, for 24 years, taught courses in science, engineering, and technical communications.

 

 

 

 

Melissa Ryan,
PhD

 

Dr. Adriance is a research scientist by profession and has editing expertise in the areas of life science and oncology. She also has experience in writing and reviewing manuscripts for academic journals.

 

 

   

 

       

Judy Halpern,

RN

 

Judy Halpern is an advanced practice nurse with over 25 years of journal and textbook editing experience. She specializes in primary care, community health, emergency, trauma, emergency preparedness and disaster response. She works with all levels of authors, from students to established health care professionals. Since 1994, she has worked with CV Mosby and Elsevier Science as an editor-in-chief for multiple nursing publications and has expertise working with various editing formats.

 

 

 

 

Roxanne D. Ryan,

MA, PhD

 

Roxanne D. Ryan has a PhD in neurophysiology with a subspecialty in physiology.  She has edited and prepared many manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals with a primary focus in cardiology, obesity, pharmacology, neuropsychopharmacology, neurobiology and behavior.

 

 

 

   

 

       

Lillian L. Hauler

 

20+ years experience editing medical journals in a variety of disciplines, including radiology, neurosurgery, and orthopedics, using AMA, APA, or Chicago style.  Extensive experience editing horticultural journals as well.  Meets tight deadlines.  Experience working with nonnative English-speaking authors.

 

 

 

Caroline

Simmons,

MS

 

Ms. Simmons’ qualifications include Editor in the Life Sciences certification, MS in Physiology, and 18 years of experience as a published scientist and writer/editor in several fields: bone physiology, dentistry, epidemiology, birth defects, and cancer.

 

 

 

             

Jackie Herring

 

Medical editor and writer with more than 25 years' experience copyediting medical journals and medical textbooks for a variety of publishers. She has special expertise in clarifying journal articles written by nonnative English-speaking authors.

 

 

 

Mick Spillane,

MA

 

 

Copyeditor and coder for American Psychological Association journals and several other presses.

 

             

Duaine R. Jackola,

PhD

 

Dr. Jackola holds a doctorate in Biophysical Sciences with 30+ years research and publication history in immunology, cell biology, biochemistry and mathematical modeling.

 

 

 

 

Marta Goodrich Tanrikulu,

PhD

 

Marta Tanrikulu's editing specialties include plant and microbial physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, biotechnology, and renewable resources.

 

 

 

             

Desirée Jackson,

PhD

 

Dr. Jackson holds a PhD in Biomedical Science. Her scientific specialties are parasitology, molecular biology, and genomics. She edits material in the biological sciences including molecular genetics and developmental biology.

 

 

 

Victoria Tepe,

PhD

 

Dr. Tepe holds a PhD. in Behavioral Neuroscience (psychophysiology, cognitive neurophysiology) with more than 20 years of experience as a published researcher, writer, and editor in the biobehavioral sciences, including human performance, human factors, neuropsychology, and stress/resilience. 

 

 

 

             

Judy Jamison,

MS

 

Judy is an experienced science editor specializing in biotechnology, molecular biology, and diverse topics in medicine.

 

Holly

Thesieres,

MA

 

Holly Thesieres is a full-time editorial freelancer and APA and Chicago expert. She specializes in geophysical and psychological editing.

 

 

             

Charlotte

Kelchner,

MS, MS

 

Charlotte Kelchner is an experienced editor specializing in geoscience and environmental topics. She began her career in publishing at Encyclopaedia Britannica, where she was the Earth Science editor. As a freelancer, she primarily edits textbooks and journal articles. She holds Master’s degrees in Marine Science and in Earth Science.

 

 

 

 

Wendy Tymchuk,

PhD

 

Dr. Tymchuk is currently doing research in conservation and ecological genomics. Her broad, interdisciplinary expertise includes zoology, evolution, ecology, molecular biology, genomics, and aquaculture.

 

 

 

             

Dvora Konstant

 

Skilled editor with over 20 years of experience editing medical textbooks and journals in a number of disciplines as well as producing scientific information aimed for the lay public. Experience working with authors who are nonnative English speakers. Personable.

 

 

 

Will Vaughan, PhD, PA-C

 

Editor with broad expertise in chemistry and medicine.  Holds Ph.D. in chemistry and practices as a physician assistant in hospital internal medicine.  True clinical perspective.

 

   

 

       

Melody Kroll,

MA

 

 

 

Experienced editor and writer in plant science, biochemistry, medicine, and education.

 

 

Christopher
Walsh,

MSc

 

Former Senior In-house Editor of Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. Edits primary and review articles to exceptional journal standards for a broad range of topics, including genetics and development, microbiology, biochemistry and biochemical engineering. Chris edits in both American and British English.

 

 

 

   

 

       

Leslie LaConte,
PhD

 

Dr. LaConte received her PhD in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota. She has an in-depth knowledge of the scientific literature in the fields of structural biology, spectroscopy, and molecular imaging. As both an author and an editor for scientists who are nonnative English speakers, she has extensive experience with the scientific publication process.

 

 

Thomas Wolf,

MA

 

Experienced medical textbook and web editor specializing in oncology, dentistry, nursing and veterinary science.

 

 

   

 

     

 

Michael Loeb,
PhD

 

Dr. Loeb edits material in the biological sciences including studies of population, evolutionary, and molecular genetics; theoretical and applied ecology; morphology and animal behavior; and epidemiology. Dr. Loeb also edits content and presentation of statistical analyses and experimental design.

 

 

 

 

Lee Young,

PhD

 

Lee A. Young, with a PhD in physics from Harvard, did research in high-temperature physics and chemistry, spectroscopy, and electrical engineering, with publications in major journals. Copyediting scholarly and scientific monographs and textbooks followed. He has copyedited 182 manuscripts for non-native English writers. His editing skills also include mathematics, organic chemistry, and biochemistry.

 

 

   

 

       
       

Rosemary

Young

 

AMA substantive editor of manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, especially radiology, neuroradiology, pharmacology; experience working with nonnative English–speaking authors.

 

 

   

 

       
             
             
 
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CONSULTING DIVISION
         
BIOSTATISTICIANS AND EPIDEMIOLOGISTS
 
         
         

Haiyan Chen,

MD, PhD

 

Senior Biostatistician

 

 

 

Dr. Chen is a Biostatistician and Epidemiologist with extensive experience in clinical trial, grant application, health surveys, translational study, disease GIS mapping, disease surveillance data, and space-time data analysis. Disease areas with experience include cancer, oral health, infectious disease, and mental health epidemiology.

 

 

Myrna Khan,

PhD

 

 

 

Myrna Khan is a biostatistician who has broad experience in study design, analysis, consulting and data management in academic medicine and private industry. She is proficient in a number of analytic methodologies.

 

 

         

Rohit Chitale,

MPH, PhD

 

 

Infectious disease epidemiologist, specializing in study design, setup, logistics, analysis, interpretation, and writing. Experience with cross-sectional and longitudinal data analyses.

 

Cindy Liu,

PhD

 

 

 

 

Epidemiologist specializing in longitudinal nutrition and physical activity studies, Cindy has extensive experience in large-scale surveys and randomized controlled trials.

         

Sadie Costello,

MPH, PhD

 

 

Epidemiologist and study design expert in exposure assessment, gene-environment interactions, cardiology, neuro-epi and chronic diseases.

 

 

 

Xiaowu Lu,

PhD

Dr. Lu has a PhD in Horticulture and Biostatistics. He also specializes in surveillance data, health surveys and has an extensive programming background.

 

 

         

Laurence T.

Crossan,

MD, MPH

 

Physician and epidemiologist with extensive experience in clinical trial study design, data collection and data analysis. Areas of specialization include women’s health, STDs. HIV/AIDS, oncology and vaccines.

 

 

 

Mark Massing,

MD, PhD, MPH

 

Clinical and interventional epidemiologist with practical experience in medicine, public health, healthcare quality improvement, and health services research. Skilled in research at multiple levels including grant preparation, study design, data collection, analysis, statistical interpretation, manuscript preparation.  

         

Claudia

Der-Martirosian,

PhD

 

Dr. Der-Martirosian has worked as a freelance statistician for 7 years. Her clients include: UCLA, UC Davis, and SCUHS. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed scholarly journals in oral health and dental research studies. She is highly proficient in SAS, Stata and SPSS statistical programming. 

 

 

William Robinson

PhD

As a biostatistician and social scientist, Dr. Robinson has extensive experience in manipulating and analyzing data from many public health and behavioral settings.  He is fluent in all major statistical, geographic and database software packages including SAS, LISREL and Arc/GIS.

 

 

         

C. Sloane Furniss,

PhD

 

Dr. Furniss has a PhD in Biological Sciences in Public Health from Harvard. She is an expert in cell biology, cancer biology and virology. Dr. Furniss has advanced SAS skills and experience in industry collaboration.

 

Norbert Schmitz,

PhD

Biostatistician and Epidemiologist specializing in mental health research. International experience in cross-sectional and longitudinal data analyses, outcomes research and risk factor surveillance.

 

 

         

Farooq Ghouri,

MD, MPH

 

Extensive SAS experience, epiinfo, and SPSS. Specializes in diabetes, heart disease and bioterrorism preparedness.

 

Michael Walsh,

PhD, MPH

 

Chronic disease epidemiologist, with expertise in population-based and clinical research in metabolic disease and the inflammatory process, as well as the advanced mathematical and statistical modeling of such disease and outcomes in general.

 

 

         

Demarc Hickson,

PhD

 

Biostatistician with several years' experience in HIV/AIDS and cardiovascular disease (CVD) research. Highly skilled in a large number of statistical software packages and statistical methods.

 

 

Qi-long Yi,

PhD, MSc

 

Qilong has a PhD in Medical Statistics and a MSc in Biostatistics. A well-published researcher, Qilong specializes in cancer and other chronic disease studies that require substantial inferential statistical methodology.

 

 

         

Verughese Jacob,

PhD, MPH

 

 

Verughese Jacob has a PhD in economics and has a decade of consulting experience with federal, state, and local government clients. Dr. Jacob's current research interest is in economics and culture as factors for disparate maternal and child health outcomes.

 

 

Fei Yu,

PhD

A biostatistician with extensive experience in statistical consulting on study design, data management, data analysis, and interpretation of statistical results. Area of interest includes analysis of correlated data, hierarchical modeling, analysis of massive dataset, and statistical issues in epidemiology and ophthalmology.

 

         
         

 

       
DATA ANALYSTS
         
         
         

Lihao Chu,

MPH, MS

 

 

 

 

 

 

A published molecular epidemiologist, Lihao brings years of experience to our data analysis team and specializes in genetic data and cancer incidence. Lihao uses SAS and SPSS.

 

Epidemiologist specializing in case-control and cross-sectional studies, and evaluation. Experience with SAS, SPSS, Access (database creation and management), and Excel.

 

 

         

Uzo Chukwuma,

MPH

 

 

 

Epidemiologist with research background in childhood obesity, perinatal birth outcome, HIV/STDs, teenage pregnancy, risk factor surveillance and alcohol substance use. Her proficiency extends to SAS programming, EpiInfo and Excel.

 

 

Epidemiologist experienced in tropical medicine and global health issues. Health data analysis using R, SPSS, SAS, and Epi-Info. Fluent in French.

 

         

Desirée A. H. Oliver,

PhD

 

 

 

Desirée is a Behavioral Scientist with a background in HIV/STDs, teen pregnancy, cultural competence, mental health and substance use. She is experienced in evaluation and survey development and skilled in SPSS, SAS, MS Access, MS Excel, and EpiInfo.

 

 

Roland Richard holds a MPH in Epidemiology and is an experienced data manager and analyst. He has advanced skills in SAS, SPSS, ArcGIS, and Epi Info.

 

 

         

Leah Lind,

MPH

 

 

 

Epidemiologist experienced in clinical studies for a private company and infectious disease surveillance for state health department.  Extensive experience using SAS as well as other data analysis software.

 

Epidemiologist who has worked with with HIV/AIDS surveillance for the MA Dept. of Health and more recently is working for the Red Cross. Karen has extensive software knowledge.

         
         
         
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TRANSLATION DIVISION
         
         

John Alleman,

MA, MPhil

 

 

Finnish, Hungarian

 

 

 

George Mirtzanis,

M.Sc.**

 

Greek

 

Sigrid Block,

MA

 

 

Afrikaans, Dutch,

German

 

 

 

Alexandros Mouratidis,

M.Sc.

 

Greek

 

Anu Carroll

 

 

Finnish

 

 

 

Anh Nguyen,

MPH

 

 

Vietnamese

 

 

Kwei Chang,

PhD

 

Chinese

 

 

Nora O'Hara,

MS

 

Arabic, Swedish

 

 

Mindy Christlieb

Senior Translator

Korean

 

Nicole Paul,

MS, MA, DVM*

 

German, Russian

 

 

Turkish

 

Katalin Pearman**

 

Hungarian

 

Erika Dobbs

Lithuanian

 

Rhamat Rhamat,

MBA, MS

 

 

Indonesian

 

 

Brooks Haderlie,

MS

 

 

German to English

 

 

Aida Ridanovich

 

 

Bosnian, Crotian, Serbian

 

 

Pei Ling Haußecker,

PhD

 

 

Chinese, Malay

 

 

Maritza Rivas

 

 

Spanish

 

 

Nora Favorov,

MA

Russian

 

 

John Rock,

PhD**

 

French, German, Italian,

Portuguese, Spanish

 

 

Gerald Geiger

French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

 

 

Elizabeth Ruggiero,

MA

 

 

Chinese

 

 

 

Cristian Iscrulescu,

PhD

Romanian, Swedish

 

 

Magda Samaha,

MS

 

 

Arabic

 

 

 

Anna Jung,

PhD

 

English to Korean

 

 

Reinhold

Seizinger**

 

 

German

 

 

 

Monica Kalsnes

 

Norwegian, Danish

 

 

Shen, S. and Liang, L.,

PhD*/MS

 

 

Chinese

 

Mitsy Kendall

MA

 

 

Korean

 

 

Alexander S.

Sosnovsky, MD

 

 

Russian

 

Seija Kerttula,

PhD

 

 

Finnish