Richard T. O’Grady, PhD, CAE, has joined the Endocrine Society as Chief Publications Officer. In this newly created role, he will oversee all aspects of the Society’s publishing endeavors, both in print and online.
“Richard’s background and expertise is a perfect match for our current and future publications strategy,” says Endocrine Society CEO Barbara Byrd Keenan. “His experience as a publisher, editor-in -chief, research scientist and author, and CEO complements our staff team beautifully! I know everyone will give him a warm ES welcome!”
O’Grady has 25 years combined experience in nonprofit and for-profit scholarly publishing and executive management and joins us from the American Institute of Biological Sciences where he served as Publisher and CEO. 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 $30M in revenue for the partnering society publishers to date. He transformed AIBS’s monthly peer reviewed journal, BioScience, from print-only publishing at a loss to online publishing at a profit with an open access option. He oversaw a revenue program within the Scientific Peer Advisory and Review Services Division of AIBS to review client grant proposals in medicine, biotechnology, and advanced technologies and launched ActionBioscience.Org, a bilingual website publishing peer-reviewed articles in genomics, biotech, and science policy.
“I look forward to putting my experience in scientific publishing and membership association programs to work with the rest of the Society’s team to have its publishing and communications activities build on strengths and move ahead on savvy and strategic innovations that can benefit all aspects of the organization’s goals,” O’Grady says. “Above all, I want to see the Society increase the impact, content breadth, and global audience of its peer-reviewed publications while providing its membership and readership communities with new and better tools for research, discovery, education, and collaboration.”
He also served as a VP at Taylor & Francis Publishers, managing 80 STM books and journals annually and specializing in business development and acquisitions. He has broad experience as a publisher and editor-in-chief, directing multi-journal programs in print and online, budgeting, tracking performance, managing contractors and consultants, supporting editorial, production and sales teams, and working with authors, EICs, and editorial boards.
The author of more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific research articles himself, he 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.
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