Joan Marsh is our invited speaker at PUBMET2017! Joan is the deputy editor of Lancet Psychiatry, worked as an editor with The Ciba/Novartis Foundation in London, and for John Wiley & Sons, commissioning medical books. With PhD in molecular biology she is fascinated by the neurobiology of brain development and function. Joan is interested in all aspects of editing and publishing: she served as President of the European Association of Science Editors for six years and is still on Council as Past-President.