About Us

Carl Richmond, ELS, is a Board Certified Editor in the Life Sciences and the senior editor and owner at The Medical Editor. He has been editing medical materials since 1991.

Carl received his editing training at the Yale University School of Medicine where he worked as an editor for a group of physicians in the Department of Pharmacology. While at Yale, Carl also worked as a consultant to a group that edited medical manuscripts destined for peer-review journals written by authors whose native language was not English.

Since Yale, Carl has edited for several New York-based publishers including ELSEVIER, John-Wiley & Sons, and Jason Aronson Publishers. He was a copywriter for an advertising agency whose clients included Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Abbott Laboratories, and AstraZeneca. And before starting The Medical Editor, Carl was a senior editor at a firm that produced continuing medical education materials for physicians.

Besides his work at The Medical Editor, Carl is the author of a memoir that was acclaimed in major print media including Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. He has written and published several short works of fiction. And his poetry is archived in such major institutions as New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Getty Trust in Santa Monica, California. He is an active member of the American Medical Writers Association.

Please note: All of the editors at The Medical Editor have more than 5 years’ experience as senior medical editors with US-based publishers.

We do not use students, whether in a doctoral program or otherwise, as editors of medical and scientific papers.

Charitable Giving

Since its inception in 1991, The Medical Editor has donated 5% of all net proceeds to charities that deliver aid and food to sick children worldwide.

This is some of the most important work we do.

To our clients: Thank you for helping to achieve this record of service.