Kara McArthur
JWM Consulting, Albuquerque NM, USA
KARA MCARTHUR received the B.A. degree in sociology and completed graduate work in healthcare ethics from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. She is currently on two Institutional Review Boards, an oncology IRB and a community IRB in the Dominican Republic. She is an American Medical Writers Association certified medical editor and writer. She has more than 20 years of experience in scholarly publishing, including as the Founding Managing Editor of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society’s first Gold Open Access journal. Past positions include the Managing Editor of Cambridge University Press’s International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care and the Director of Communications for the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. She has more than 20 peer-reviewed research publications. Her freelance work includes writing, editing, and evaluation research for national and international nonprofits.