With global experience and presence, LMG creates authoritative, accessible, and award-winning books, media, and films.
K. Lee Lerner, Managing Director
“Critically acclaimed for his use of language, scientific accuracy, and balanced presentation, K. Lee Lerner (Lee), is an author, editor, and producer of science and factual books, media, and film.”
“For the world’s leading academic publishers and commissioning entities, Lee’s extensive portfolio covering science and global issues and includes books named to both the ALA RUSA and Outstanding Academic Title lists.”
“Lee serves as Managing Director for LernerMedia Global (London, Paris, New Orleans). With an internationally established reputation for accuracy and objectivity in science and the arts, LMG works offer accessible, exciting, and imperative insights on complex and urgent topics. Lee also serves as an advisor and contributing editor for award-winning news and academic resource sites and, since 2003, has served on the Advisory Board for American Men and Women of Science.”
“Lee is a lifetime member of Phi Kappa Phi academic honorary society.”
“A diversity of international experience, including a global circumnavigation completed in 2008, enables Lee to manage multi-lingual teams and logistics in challenging environments.”
–From jacketflap profile
Read more at Academia.edu résumé: http://harvard.academia.edu/KLeeLerner or at IMDb Pro résumé: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4449703/resume
Contact Lee via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/k.lee.lerner
Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, Managing Editor
Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, is an author, editor, and producer of science and fact-based books, media, and film.
“An ALA RUSA-award-winning author and editor, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, R.N., is a member of the International Society for Infectious Disease (ISID) and attended the 12th Annual ISID Congress in Lisbon (2006) and the 13th Annual ISID Congress in Kuala Lumpur (2008). Brenda served on the Advisory Board for the Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders and continues to serve as advisor to major media sites covering an array of global issues.”
“Brenda’s 2009 book, Infectious Diseases: In Context, was named an ALA Outstanding Academic Title.”
“In addition to raising four dynamic children, Brenda built a family partnership into a dynamic and internationally respected academic media company. Often traveling and working in areas at high risk to endemic and emerging diseases — including Egypt, India, Russia, China, and Cambodia — Brenda’s work articulates connections among cultural, scientific, and public health issues.”
– From jacketflap profile found at http://ow.ly/8SeP4
Selected backstories are available at: http://lernermedia.net/blog/news-commentary/ Backstory highlights include travel and work during a 19-leg global circumnavigation completed with K. Lee Lerner in 2008.
Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, Executive Director, LernerMedia,™
Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner is the Executive Director for LernerMedia,™ an independent company based in Florida, Ms. Lerner is the editor of several books including Global Viewpoints: Freedom of Expression and has written extensively on a range of legal, social, and science policy issues. Ms. Lerner pursued graduate studies in history at Vanderbilt University and has worked as a field-certified archaeologist. She also holds a degree in law (J.D.) and is Of-Counsel in the areas of administrative law, legislative drafting, contracts, and media and intellectual property law to the Florida firm Hyder Law Group. LernerMedia continues to provide expertise and production support to LMG projects.
Advisors and special contributors for recent LMG projects include:
Stephen A. Berger is the developer of GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network), the world’s premier global infectious diseases database used by the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), PROMED, and other infectious disease specialists and groups. In addition to serving on the GIDEON Board of Advisors, Dr. Berger is currently affiliated with the Tel Aviv Medical Center as both Director of Geographic Medicine and of Clinical Microbiology. He also serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tel-Aviv School of Medicine. He has been awarded the New York Medical College Teaching Award 5 times. Dr. Berger is the author of numerous articles and books, including Introduction to Infectious Diseases, The Healthy Tourist, and Viral Diseases: A Global Guide.
Wallace S. Broecker, Newberry Professor of Geology, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, is a member of both the US National Academy of Science and the British Royal Society. In 1996, he received the National Science Medal. A member of the Columbia faculty since 1959, Dr. Broecker serves as the Newberry Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and as member of The Earth Institute Academic Committee. His ongoing research interests include paleoclimatology, ocean chemistry, isotope dating and other important facets of environmental science. He has authored or co-authored close to 500 journal articles, textbooks, and books, including How to Build a Habitable Planet (1987) and Fixing Climate (2008) with Robert Kunzig. Among a list of honors and awards, Dr. Broecker is the recipient of the Alexander Agassiz Medal by the National Academy of Sciences, the Japanese Blue Planet Award, the Swedish Crafoord Award, and has been honored by both the Geological Society of America and Geological Society of London.
James Corbett, an alumnus of the London School of Economics and the University of London, is an author and journalist living in London. He is a regular contributor to outlets including the BBC World Service, The Guardian, The Observer and The Sunday Times and has reported from more than 20 countries across five continents, including Palestine, China and South Africa. He was formerly Contributing Editor of the award winning Observer Sport Monthly and London Correspondent of English language Egyptian newspaper, Al Ahram Weekly. He is regularly sought for his opinions by a range of broadcasters on his speciality subject, sport politics, including the BBC, al-Jazeera, ABC, SBS and CNN. He the author of four books, including a history of the England football team England Expects (Aurum Press 2006).
Antonio Farina M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Universita’ di Bologna and has served as Visiting Associate Professor, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan, Visiting Professor at the Woman & Infants’ Hospital Division of Prenatal and Special Testing, Providence, RI, and as a Research Fellow at New England Medical Center, Division of Genetics, Boston, MA.
Thomas Hayden is a journalist and lecturer at Stanford University. A former staff writer at both Newsweek and US News & World Report. his writing appears Nature, National Geographic, and other respected publications.
Joseph Patterson Hyder, J.D. is the managing partner for the Hyder Law Group in Jacksonville, Florida. An honors graduate with a degree in history from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Mr. Hyder was editor-in-chief Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy at the University of Tennessee Collage of Law. He has written extensively on international treaties and political issues.
Alexander I. Ioffe,Senior Scientist, Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia. Alexander I. Ioffe is a physicist who serves as Senior Scientist, Geological Institute. Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia. Dr. Ioffe has served as contributing advisor on a number of projects related to science and the environment.
David T. King, Jr., is a Professor, Dept. of Geology, Auburn University. Dr. King’s research interests include the effect of asteroid and comet impact upon Earth history and the stratigraphic record. Dr. King has been honored as the outstanding science/math faculty member and as an Auburn Alumni Association outstanding teacher.
Kenneth T. LaPensee PhD, MPH is Senior Director of Outcomes Research at The Medicines Company (MDCO) in Parsippany, NJ, a biotechnology company specializing in the development of acute care biologic medicines in cardiology, neurocritical care and infectious disease. He is currently a member of a development team working on a long-acting antimicrobial drug for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) with activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). He is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy (JMCP) specializing in the review of epidemiological, public health-related, and health care system-related journal submissions. Previously, he served as chairperson of the Depression Working Group for the C-Path Process, a FDA-private industry partnership to improve patient-reported outcome assessment instruments used to obtain regulatory approval of new pharmaceuticals. In the early 1980s he was the first epidemiologist to do field work assessing the prevalence of mental illness in the general community (ie, outside of psychiatric institutions), working under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Centers for Epidemiological Studies. In this fieldwork he pioneered the use of the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), a computer-scored symptom inventory aimed at improving the validity and reliability of psychiatric research, and which is currently the data collection instrument used by NIMH in the Catchment Area Studies to assess the need for mental health services across the US. He has pursued a career in private industry for more than 30 years that has encompassed epidemiological and clinical research in therapy areas ranging from oncology and antibiotics to mental illness.
Christopher Lawrence is an author, professor of the history of medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London , and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Dr. Lawrence is a contributing advisor for Scientific Thought: In Context and was editor along with Steven Shapin at Harvard of Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (University Of Chicago Press, 1998)
