PLoS Medicine is the leading open-access medical journal, providing an innovative and influential venue for research and comment on the major challenges to human health worldwide. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. They specifically seek to publish papers which have relevance across a range of settings and that address the major environmental, social, and political determinants of health, as well as the biological.

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Workshop scientific writing by Emma Veitch

Emma Veitch is currently a Senior Editor at PLoS Medicine, where she handles peer review of research papers as part of a team of 5 editors. In addition she acts as a consulting editor at another Public Library of Science journal, PLoS ONE, advising on issues relating to peer review and publication of clinical research studies. During the workshop Emma will present on how to write a clinical research paper, how to get your article into high impact journals and what the differences are between most medical journals and open-access journals such as PLoS Medicine. She also will speak in what way Open Access is important and innovative in online information exchange.

Before joining Public Library of Science, Emma graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1996, and subsequently moved to London to do a Ph.D. with Anthony Graham at King's College London. Her work at King's focused on the role of neural crest cells in the development of pharyngeal arches in the chick embryo. Emma joined PLoS in 2005.