Lisa Pelzek-Braun

• Review of all submissions to determine if they meet the journal’s content parameters, coordinate and assign articles to Associate Editors for review.
• Coordinates and ensures the integrity of the double-blind peer review process.
• Tracking of all manuscripts through the submission, review, revision, acceptance, editing, and production processes using Scholar One Manuscript Central.
• Oversees editing standards for the journals, working with the publisher’s Journal Managers to ensure the highest quality editing, revision, and proofreading of all accepted articles and issues.
• Works with leadership to create editorials, commentaries and other supplementary materials in support of key articles and topics in the field of Palliative Medicine.
• Leverages content to enhance the reach and visibility of the journals.
• Collaborates with editorial leadership and the publisher on marketing and public relations for the journals, including attending Society conferences.
• Responsible for social media for the journals, selecting appropriate articles to highlight.
• Tracks journal metrics to appropriate stakeholders including Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors and Editorial Board members.

• Journal administrative, business, and correspondence management:
  
  Handles the day-to-day administrative, business, correspondence, and other support functions for the journal.
  Primary point of contact with the journal’s Publisher.
  Assists editorial leadership (including the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Editorial Advisory Board in achieving the goals of the journal, including overall functioning of the journal, coordinating and taking minutes for all editorial leadership meetings, managing appropriate author and reviewer correspondence, facilitating content decisions, and related tasks.
  Handles contracting and payments to external editors as appropriate.
  
  Coordination Of Peer Review
  
  Reviews all submissions to the journal to determine if they meet its content parameters, provide requisite information, and meet basic language standards for scientific literature.
  Coordinates the peer-review of designated articles, ensuring that peer review invitations are sent to an appropriate number of qualified reviewers, that reviewers respond in a timely way, and that reviewer comments are evaluated and, as appropriate, communicated to corresponding authors, all the while adhering to the journal's reviewer integrity and confidentiality policies.
  Contracts and oversees the Assistant Editor cadre that provides reviews of specified articles.
  Creates and maintains a robust reviewer database.
  
  Editing Standards
  
  Responsible for the editing standards for the Journal, working with the Publisher's Journal Manager to ensure the high quality of substantive editing, revision, and proofreading of all accepted articles and compiled issues .
  Monitors any disclosure of use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in all articles and ensures that any such AI use falls within acceptable parameters established in Journal and Publisher policy on AI.
  Understands and attends to complex technical content (including tables, figures, photographs, and line art) in addition to style, format, accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
  Responsible for quality of published articles and issues, including commentaries, editorials, and/or letters as well as multimedia content (e.g., video interviews and transcripts) that may be appended to the articles or developed for the website.
  At the direction of editorial leadership, edits certain articles as necessary.
  
  Journal Liaison
  
  The appointed liaison for journal production with the editorial leadership team and the publisher (Mary Ann Liebert - A Sage Company).
  The publisher's primary contact for all day-to-day production issues, including scheduling and web posting for individual articles and issues.
  Ensures that each issue is published and posted according to schedules.
  Gathers and tracks all data and metrics for the journal and maintains the dashboard that is used to monitor article and issue flow, timeliness, peer review, financials, and other key measures of success.
  
  Production Oversight
  
  Collaborates with Production during copyediting, typesetting, and proofreading.
  Reviews copyeditor’s changes, answers proofreaders’ queries, and checks layout as necessary.
  Ensures that author edits are incorporated as appropriate by Production.
  Directs print and digital layout and presentation of data in tables and figures to ensure that all articles follow established design standards and are intelligible to intended professional audiences.
  
  Journal Table Of Contents
  
  Responsible for assembling issues under the direction of editorial leadership, crafting Tables of Contents, and writing brief blurbs on all accepted articles that can be used in the journal's table of contents and on its website. These blurbs are reviewed by editorial leadership to ensure they accurately describe article content.
  
  Marketing And Public Relations
  
  Participates in determining and implementing marketing and public relations for the journal, in collaboration with the Publisher.
  Reviews promotional copy and press releases as needed.
  Participates in conceptualizing, creating, and/or securing multimedia content on the journal website to complement the peer-reviewed articles, with the goal of maintaining a dynamic web presence for the journal.
  Responsible for the journal’s social media, including identifying and posting key articles and topics with meaningful contextual comments to engage social media users.