“Donna is fast, accurate, efficient, helpful — everything a good copy editor should be.” — Bert Katzung, MD, PhD, professor emeritus, UC-San Francisco; author, Basic & Clinical Pharmacology

Editorial Services:

• Creative content development
• Copy editing (line and substantive editing)
• Proofreading and sense reading
• Fact checking
• Manuscript triage and rescue editing
• Development editing
• Comparative analysis*
• Project management

* Including detailed competitive grids highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of a publisher’s proposed or existing textbook against its competitors.

I’m experienced in applying AMA, APA, and Chicago Manual styles. If you are developing a manuscript for submission to a publisher or biomedical journal, I’ll conform your copy to the required style.

Digital and Print Media:

• Books (ebook and print formats)
• Academic textbooks (ebook and print formats)
• Textbook learning packages (online learning materials and digital spinoffs)
• Web-based technical and educational content
• Continuing medical education (CME) programs, including slide decks, transcripts, CME test questions, and promotional materials
• Digital content management
• Journals (articles and abstracts)
• Scientific papers and scholarly monographs
• USMLE-format test questions

Articles I’ve edited have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Cardiology, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, and FEBS Letter, as well as BMJ: Point of Care, the online treatment resource of the British Medical Journal.

Subjects:

I edit a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to:

• Allied health | Dentistry | Health promotion
• Anthropology | Sociology | Social sciences
• Architecture | Interior design
• Biomedical sciences | Life sciences
• Climate science | Climate policy | Biodiversity | Sustainability
• Ecology |Earth science | Environmental studies
• Fashion | Costume design
• Humanities
• Marketing | Retailing
• Medicine | Nursing | Pharmacology
• Science (general)
• Veterinary medicine