Writing & Science

Douglas McCormick is a communications professional with a strong instinct for audiences and markets, and broad experience in biotechnology, the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, physician markets, and the Internet. He has 20 years' experience managing scientific and technical communications ventures, from research journals and trade magazines through online media, data-based publishing, trade books, and public relations.

Douglas is currently editorial director of BioTechniques, the leading journal of life-science research methods, published by Informa Healthcare.

From 2004 through early 2007, he was editor of Pharmaceutical Technology, the leading monthly for drug manufacturing, published by Advanstar. Earlier, he was founder and president of Physician Verification Services, an online authentication system serving healthcare marketers, and vice president and director of BioNetWork, a Seattle-based provider of business-to-business electronic commerce services. Prior to that, Douglas was corporate director of science public policy and scientific communications at SmithKline Beecham, where he represented molecular biology drug discovery and led teams constructing the corporate World Wide Web presence and writing the company's Internet business strategy.

Before moving to SmithKline Beecham, Douglas was vice president and editorial director of Nature Publishing Company, U.S. publishers of Nature, Nature Biotechnology and other leading biomedical journals. Earlier still, he was computer science editor at Hayden Book Company and a senior editor writing on mechanical engineering, robotics, and computer-aided design at Design Engineering magazine. He has been a newspaper reporter and theater critic.

Douglas received his bachelor's degree in English literature from Yale College in 1979, and did graduate work in theoretical physics at Stevens Institute of Technology.

He is experienced in database design and operation, Web site design and administration, productivity software, and network administration (in both Windows and Linux environments), data security, pharmaceutical regulation, print production and budgeting, and electronic page make-up, with some programming experience. His leisure interests include martial arts, canoeing, personal computing, and photography.

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