Alex Frost is Vice President for Research Initiatives at Sermo, Inc. In his role at Sermo, Alex leads business development and is responsible for establishing strategic alliances with medical societies, publishers, government agencies, and patient safety organizations. He is the architect of Sermo’s recently announced agreements with the AMA and FDA.
Prior to joining Sermo, Alex was the founder and president of Science Editors Company, a consulting firm involved in strategic planning, proposal development, and science communications. Alex was a bench researcher in cell biology prior to beginning his 15-year career in consulting in research design and communications.


Dr. Ben Goldacre is a British doctor and journalist, and the author of the Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column.
He studied medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford where he obtained a first class degree in his preclinical studies in 1995.
While at Oxford he also edited the student magazine Isis. Before going on to clinical medicine at University College London,
he was a visiting researcher in cognitive neurosciences at the University of Milan, working on fMRI brain scans of language
and executive function. According to his biography, he also has a masters degree in philosophy from King's College London.
Goldacre writes a weekly column, Bad Science, in the Saturday edition of The Guardian newspaper's daily science page,
with expanded versions of the columns with reader comments on his website badscience.net. Devoted to satirical criticism
of scientific inaccuracy, health scares, pseudoscience and quackery, it focuses especially on examples from the mass media,
consumer product marketing and complementary and alternative medicine in Britain.

Richard Kidd is Manager of Editorial Production Systems at the RSC in Cambridge, UK. He has a background in Chemical
Engineering and works within the Publishing division to implement new technologies into the publication process. Over the past
few years this has involved switching to an advanced XML-based journals publication workflow, the digitization and delivery of
the RSC Journals Archive, and most recently launching Project Prospect to structure researchers' science within journal articles.

Sally Morris was the Chief Executive of ALPSP from 1998 to 2006; she was also Chair of the cross-industry Publishing Skills
Group in the UK, President of the International Federation of Scholarly Publishers, and a member of the UK’s Legal Deposit
Advisory Panel.   Since retiring at the end of 2006 she has taken on the role of Editor-in-Chief of the journal Learned Publishing,
as well as offering consultancy on copyright and other aspects of scholarly publishing. Her publishing career started in the not-
for-profit sector, at Oxford University Press;  before joining ALPSP she spent 25 years as a real publisher, including 11 years
running a programme of 50 medical journals, and several years in charge of copyright and licensing for a large commercial
publisher. She has degrees in English and Medieval Studies from the Universities of Cambridge and York, and is a member of
the Chartered Institute of Management. 

Dr. Kieron O'Hara is Senior Research Fellow, Memories for Life, at the University of Southampton, and a Fellow of the Web
Science Research Initiative. He researches into political, philosophical and epistemological issues relating to technology,
specialising in the Semantic Web. He is the author of several books about technology and society, including "Trust: From
Socrates to Spin", "Plato and the Internet" and "inequality.com: Power, Poverty and the Digital Divide" (with David Stevens).
His next book in this field, "The Spy in the Coffee Pot" (with Nigel Shadbolt), about privacy in the digital age, will be published
in 2008.

Pritpal S Tamber is a physician by training, and now the Managing Director of Medicine Reports Ltd, the company that
produces Faculty of 1000 Medicine. Before joining Medicine Reports Ltd, he was a Senior Editor at the BMJ and Editorial
Director for Medicine at BioMed Central.

Edward Wates is Global Journal Content Management Director at Wiley-Blackwell. He joined Blackwell Publishing in 1979 after
working in commercial magazine production, having graduated from the London College of Printing in 1978. He has worked in
both book and journal production, and is currently responsible for the print and online production of Wiley-Blackwell’s 1350
journals.