Cleveland Clinic Press :: Our Staff

Medical and Health Book Publishers

Cleveland Clinic Press authors are acclaimed subject matter specialists and medical experts backed by Cleveland Clinic's worldwide reputation as a top hospital. The CCP staff is comprised of very experienced, award-winning writers and editors. The combination of these credentials makes us a leading medical book publisher.

Dr. John Clough, our publisher and executive director, came to Cleveland following his graduation from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1965 and began his post-graduate training in internal medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He completed a three-year tour of duty at the National Institutes of Health (1967-1970) and joined the Clinic staff as a clinical rheumatologist in 1971.

A year later, Dr. Clough set up the special immunology laboratory in the department of immunopathology and directed the lab until 1991. He chaired the department of rheumatic and immunologic disease and retired from this practice in December 2007.

Dr. Clough served on the Clinic's board of governors from 1988 through 1992. He chaired the division of health affairs and served on the Clinic's administrative council from 1991 until 2004, when he was assigned to develop Cleveland Clinic Press.

Dr. Clough is also an author and editor, having edited the latest version of To Act as a Unit: The Story of the Cleveland Clinic and having written Arthritis, the Press' first Cleveland Clinic Guide. Dr. Clough is also the former editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine and a member of the Clinic's office of government affairs.

Peter Studer manages the scientific publications department of Cleveland Clinic and, in that capacity, serves as editor-in-chief of Cleveland Clinic Press and publisher of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine.

Mr. Studer joined the Clinic in March 2002. A native Clevelander, he graduated from John Marshall High School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, magna cum laude, from Cleveland State University in 1972. His first job in publishing was with The Cleveland Press. He moved into medical publishing in 1982 with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, where he became chief editor of Neurology, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology. He held this post for a decade.

Next, Mr. Studer became editorial director and then director of operations of the medical education services group for Advanstar Communications, which publishes such titles as Geriatrics, Formulary, and Ophthalmology Times. He has had a longtime interest in continuing medical education and is a member of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education.

Kathryn DeLong works with writers and copy editors and is otherwise responsible for the editorial side of the Press. Before joining CCP in September 2005, she was editor of Northern Ohio Live magazine, a city-regional publication, which, during her tenure, was named the Best Magazine in Ohio for the first time in its 25-year history.

She also has served as managing editor of Scene magazine, a Cleveland weekly; lifestyle editor of The Detroit News; features editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington; and features writer for The Columbus Dispatch in Columbus, Ohio. A native of Cleveland, Ms. DeLong is a graduate of the Ohio State University School of Journalism.