Board of Directors

Board of Directors

The role of the Directors (who are also Trustees of the charity) is vital in safeguarding the good governance of Mac Keith Press. They provide the overarching control and management of the Press, and ensure that it delivers its charitable aims effectively and efficiently. Members have a wide range of expertise, in publishing, finance and business as well as the charity sector, and work closely with the Chief Executive and Editorial Board. The oversight of the scientific quality of the publications of the Press is delegated to the Editorial Board.

The day-to-day management of Mac Keith Press is delegated to the Chief Executive, John MacFarlane: [email protected]

Harvey Marcovitch was consultant paediatrician at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford. He was editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood and an honorary officer (external relations adviser) for the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH). He has held a number of editorial roles, including with the BMJ Publishing Group and RSM Press Ltd. He has completed a term as chairman of the Committee on Publication Ethics, was a board member of the UK Research Integrity Office and director of the Council of Science Editors (US). For the last 11 years he has chaired Fitness to Practice Panels of the General Medical Council (now Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service).

Danny is an ACMA with many years finance experience in a range of line, advisory and interim management roles in the Public, Not for Profit and Private Sectors. He has significant experience as a financial management consultant with such organisations as PwC and IBM. He also has past experience as a Financial Controller in the Telecoms industry and as a Finance Director with PwC Consulting.

Dr Lucinda Carr has been a consultant in Paediatric Neurology and Neurodisability at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London since 1997. Her particular clinical and academic interests are in the diagnosis and management of movement disorders and of cerebral palsy.

Bob Eames is a qualified chartered accountant with an engineering background. He has been a member of the Trustee Board of Scope.

Martin Gough is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and One Small Step Gait Laboratory, Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, with a special interest in the orthopaedic management of children with cerebral palsy.

Dr Joan Marsh is currently Editor of the Lancet, Psychiatry.  She trained at Cambridge University and the National Institute for Medical Research, London, and has worked for major academic publishers (Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons), an internationally renowned charity (The Ciba/Novartis Foundation) and a Clinical Trials Centre (Hong Kong University). She is a Past-President of the European Association of Science Editors.

Mike Okninski is a senior HR and change management specialist. He had extensive experience with PwC as part of its management consultancy where he was responsible for the HR function including recruitment, resource management, and the integration of HR processes and systems. He also acted as a trustee for Changing Faces, the UK’s leading charity for everyone with a scar, mark, or condition on their face or body that makes them look different.