O’Grady will oversee all aspects of the Society’s publishing enterprise, which includes five scholarly journals (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Endocrinology, Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrine Reviews and Hormones and Cancer), the magazine Endocrine News, and Endocrine Press, a publishing imprint that issues print and electronic books as well as journals for a broad audience of health care professionals and patients.
O'Grady has 25 years combined experience in nonprofit and for-profit scholarly publishing and executive management. Prior to joining the Society, he served as Publisher and CEO of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), responsible for its monthly peer-reviewed journal, BioScience. During his tenure with AIBS, he co-founded the BioOne nonprofit publishing company in conjunction with society, university and library partners to place more than 180 scientific journals in an online, subscription based/open access hybrid model that has generated more than $30 million in revenue for the partnering society publishers to date.
Previously, O’Grady also served as a VP at Taylor & Francis Publishers, managing the company’s portfolio of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals, specializing in business development and acquisitions.
“For nearly a century, the Endocrine Society’s journals have been leaders in publishing authoritative, peer-reviewed biomedical research,” said Barbara Byrd Keenan, executive director and CEO of the Endocrine Society. “Richard’s expertise in overseeing and innovating publishing operations will be invaluable in building on that tradition.” The author of more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific research articles himself, O’Grady earned his BSc and PhD in biology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, his MSc in Biology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC.
Founded in 1916, the Endocrine Society is the world’s oldest, largest and most active organization devoted to research on hormones and the clinical practice of endocrinology. Today, the Endocrine Society’s membership consists of over 18,000 scientists, physicians, educators, nurses and students in 122 countries. Society members represent all basic, applied and clinical interests in endocrinology. The Endocrine Society is based in Washington, DC. To learn more about the Society and the field of endocrinology, visit our site at www.endocrine.org. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/EndoMedia.
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