Michael T. Clarke

Michael Clarke is a long-time veteran of the scholarly publishing industry. During the course of his career he has worked to further improve 6 journals on the Special Library Association’s list of top 100 journals in biology and medicine.  Most recently, he was director of marketing and product development and director of international business at the American Medical Association (AMA), where he was responsible for numerous projects related to the AMA’s publishing activities. While at the AMA he developed the JAMA & Archives Backfiles, a digital collection consisting of over 1.5 million pages of content spanning over a century.

Prior to joining the AMA, Michael held positions at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), where he was senior managing editor of scholarly journals and executive editor of the journal Pediatrics, and at the University of Chicago Press, where he was senior production editor. He currently serves as vice-chair of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Publications Committee, which oversees the AHA’s journal publishing program.

Michael holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

He is an active member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Council of Science Editors, and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.