Patricia McCarthy

Patricia McCarthy has spent the majority of her career in the publishing industry where she has led a number of business units to new levels of profitability and market success.  For most of the last 15 years, McCarthy served in senior leadership positions within the two leading global publishers of professional health and medical information for physicians and specialized clinicians.  She served as Publisher and Executive Editor for multiple clinical news periodicals for physicians within Elsevier Science & Health, then as Publisher for a group of peer-reviewed print and electronic medical journals at Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Earlier in her career, McCarthy worked in new business development for the Baltimore Sun Company where she was the first Director of the Company’s online news, information and transactional services division, then went on to become President and  Publisher of the Company’s subsidiary magazine division.  Prior to this, she served as an Editor within The Reader’s Digest Association Educational Division where she wrote and field tested programs for curriculum development.

Earlier still, McCarthy served as Publications Director at what has since become Family Health International in Research Triangle Park.  It was there that she developed a personal commitment to serve, whenever possible, the needs of organizations that work to make substantial contributions to improve the health and well being of people worldwide.

McCarthy currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Johnson Intern Program, Inc., an Americorps organization that provides post-baccalaureate young adults with the opportunity to experience leadership training while working within socially responsible not-for-profit organizations.  She also serves on the Advisory Board for the Graduate Program in Medical Journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.