About Katharine O’Moore-Klopf
Katharine O’Moore-Klopf, ELS, is a longtime medical editor who edits medical books and research papers to help nonfluent English writers in 20-plus nations get published in 60-plus medical journals. She is a board-certified editor in the life sciences. Her editing business is KOK Edit.
Katharine believes that her work helps make a difference in the world in two ways:
- Helping physicians communicate research findings that will enable other physicians to treat their patients more effectively
- Increasing cross-cultural cooperation and communication one pair of people (a researcher–author and an editor) at a time
Editing Specialties
- Medical editing in the fields of clinical medicine, general surgery, rheumatology, neurology, pulmonary medicine, hematology, radiology, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, oncology, cardiology, genetics, pediatrics, nursing, music therapy, psychiatry, psychology, physical therapy
- Medical copyediting
- Substantive medical editing
- English-language polishing for multilingual writers, researchers, and physicians
Clients
Go here to find a partial list of Katharine’s clients: researcher–authors, translators, publishers and organizations, and journals and newsletters.
In the Worldwide Community of Editors
Read about how Katharine became an editor for life.
She is a member of ACES: The Society for Editing, the American Medical Writers Association, the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences, the Council of Science Editors, and the Editorial Freelancers Association.
She enjoys helping editors around the world by maintaining the Copyeditors’ Knowledge Base, which is a collection of resources about many aspects of editing and self-employment. She won the 2013 Robinson Prize from ACES: The Society for Editing. In addition, she wrote the chapter “This Pencil for Hire: Making a Career as a Freelance Editor” in the book What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing.