Holland Johnson is the managing editor of Medical Device Daily, the premiere daily medical technology news source, and the Biomedical Business and Technology Newsletter, which is celebrating its 34th anniversary in 2011. Holland has more than 14 years of editorial and reporting experience, including the last 11 years in the newsletter industry covering medical technology, home healthcare and clinical advances in oncology and women’s health. Prior to that, Holland was a beat reporter for the Athens Observer. Holland has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Georgia. You can connect with Holland via LinkedIn.
Omar Ford is a staff writer for Medical Device Daily. Omar has nearly a decade of experience in the reporting field and has spent the last 3 years in the newsletter industry covering medical technology, home healthcare and diagnostics. Prior to that, Omar served as a beat reporter for the Beaufort Gazette in Beaufort, South Carolina, and then the Griffin Daily News, in Griffin, Georgia. Omar has a Bachelor of Arts in Print Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of South Carolina.
Mark McCarty has served as the Washington editor for Medical Device Daily since March 2006. He has covered FDA’s regulation of the medical device industry from both a regulatory review and compliance/enforcement aspects, but has also routinely reviewed Medicare reimbursement. Mark’s portfolio at Medical Device Daily includes coverage of medical device advisory committees, congressional hearings and medical specialty society meetings. Among the subjects he has covered are patent law and patent reform legislation, medical liability law, healthcare reform and the science of cardiovascular disease. Mark has also led strategic discussions of AHC Media’s medical device publication portfolio and has assembled several publication proposals. As the editor of the Oncology Extra feature appearing weekly in Medical Device Daily, he has also extensively covered cancer treatments and diagnostics. Previously Mark served as the managing editor for two publications by the Washington Information Source, Inspection Monitor and Warning Letter Bulletin, and was a contributing writer for WIS’s Validation Times. See McCarty’s Linkedin page here.
Amanda Pedersen is the senior staff writer at Medical Device Daily. She has covered medical technology news for MDD since 2006. Prior to that Amanda worked as a community newspaper reporter for the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Georgia and The Galesburg Register-Mail in Galesburg, Illinois. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois. You can connect with Amanda via LinkedIn.
