Linda Ohler, MSN, RN, CCTC, FAAN
Progress in Transplantation

Editor, Progress in Transplantation, (Since 1/1/94)
Editorial Board: Nurse Author & Editor, (Since 1998)

Prior Editor’s Position: Editorial Board, Focus on Critical Care

Years as Editor: Since 1994

Years in INANE: Since 1994

Other Position: Assistant Professor of Nursing, Marymount University

Accomplishment: Growth of the journal from infancy to an indexed publication. Our editorial board is multidisciplinary and includes qualitative and quantitative researchers, statisticians, nurses, transplant coordinators, organ procurement coordinators, physicians, surgeons and social workers. We also added ethicists, psychologists and pediatric nurse practitioners.

Best: The opportunity to mentor new authors and editorial board members. Networking with authors and editors nationally and internationally is very stimulating.

Worst: Receiving less than optimal/inadequate peer reviews from an editorial board member who is also a friend. Having to address the poor grammar, unclear comments reflected in the comments to authors. Amusing: Our journal receives manuscripts from transplant colleagues around the world. Making sure that the language is accurate presents a challenge. An Italian MD, describing the outcomes of an abdominal ultrasound and difficulties with diagnosing a liver problem, referred to "plentiful meteorism". The author could not help to clarify, simply saying that was radiology’s interpretation. Emailing many colleagues yielded the needed clarification; meteorism means "gas".

3 words: Tireless, fair, creativeStrangest request: "Make the revisions yourself. I do not have time". (I didn’t.)

If not editor?: Spend more time with my husband, family and friends.

Relax?: Cooking gourmet meals, exercising on a treadmill. Truthfully, I do not have a good understanding of the word "relax".