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About the Authors

Elizabeth Willingham

Elizabeth Willingham is a founder of Silverchair and serves as Chief Operating Officer. She focuses on the optimal retrieval and display of medical information. In that pursuit she takes both a macro view in designing website architectures that use semantic metadata for building blocks, and a micro view in leading a team of indexers who classify medical content at a granular level designed to anticipate the needs of health care professionals for quick, accurate answers to clinical questions. In this role, Elizabeth has collaborated with Silverchair software developers to design and build online tools that support taxonomy development and management and that improve the efficiency of topical indexing.

Elizabeth also leads Silverchair’s team of project managers, who play leadership roles in product development with Silverchair’s clients. She has served as the product development leader for AccessMedicine and played a supervisory role in the development of AccessSurgery, AccessEmergency Medicine, AccessPharmacy, and PsychiatryOnline. She currently serves as a leader of the AHRQ Innovations taxonomy development team and launched the Silverchair Search Service for Journal Watch in May 2007.

Elizabeth’s career in medical publishing began in 1986 at Little, Brown & Company in Boston. She is a graduate of Duke University and the Radcliffe Publishing Course.

Jake Zarnegar

Jake was named Chief Technology Officer of Silverchair in early 2003, attained partner status in September 2006, and was named President of Silverchair Information Systems in January 2009.

A pioneer in XML web services for health reference content management, Jake has spearheaded a family of technologies including the automated application of semantic metadata to clinical content, ontology management tools, an online authoring platform for medical authors and editors, and an e-learning CMS/LMS platform.

He is a graduate of The University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.

Thane Kerner

As co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Silverchair, Thane has since 1993 led the organization’s strategic development of platforms and professional services that focus on the intersection of technology with health care knowledge. Medical informatics, the semantic web, clinical information processes, and web-based learning are the foundations for a broad variety of Silverchair-created health reference products delivered via networked digital media.

Thane has served on the Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishers Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers; as Co-Chairman of the American Medical Publishers Committee; and on the National Library of Medicine’s Publishers Advisory Panel. He is an advocate for issues of concern to the health information industry, and a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences including the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Top Management Roundtable, the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the PSP Annual Conference, the AMPC Medical Informatics Seminar, and the AMPC–National Library of Medicine Biennial Symposium.

Prior to establishing Silverchair, Thane was publisher of Experimental Hematology, the official journal of the International Society for Experimental Hematology. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Pam Harley

Pam is VP of Product & Market Development for Silverchair’s Semedica division, where she works to extend Silverchair’s semantic expertise with tools and services that integrate with existing platforms and workflows to allow publishers and other information providers to enrich their content to build products and applications.

Before joining Semedica, Pam was charged with epublishing strategy and product development at American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI). She started her publishing career with the STM journals of the American Diabetes Association, and in 1989 moved to APPI, working as a book production editor before moving into the role of Managing Editor of the Books Department. Her unique position of having knowledge of APPI’s book content and understanding of production technology led to her tapping in 2004 to help APPI develop innovative products that maximize the appropriate use of new and emerging technologies in educating mental health professionals.

Pam graduated from Duke University with degrees in Biology and Psychology.