Who we are?

In all actuality, it is not "we" it is "me." I am a one man show. My name is Todd W. Roat and I have been working in the academic medical environment for over 15 years. I have worked in a clinical trials capacity in the fields of Internal Medicine, Obsterics and Gynecology, Urogynecology and, for last 7 years, in Emergency Medicine. Currently, I work primarily with academic clinician/researcher/educators in the the area of emergency cardiovascular and neurovascular emergencies. Over the past 7 years I have worn many hats in the academic clinical research setting: clincial trials coordinator, industry liaison, IRB coordinator, and clinical trial manager. I am also the coordinator for for an international network of well-known academic emergency cardiovascular clincial researchers knwon as EMCREG-International (the Emergency Medicine Cardiac Research and Education Group). For more information on EMCREG, and examples of my graphic and web design, please visit www.emcreg.org. And as a researcher and author, I have been published as well. To see my accepted manuscript, go to PubMed and do an author search for "ROAT T".

So what does this have to do with graphics, graphic design and this art stuff? Over the course of the years, especially over the past decade, I have also been web designer, graphic designer and desktop publisher. I have created multitudes of web sites, monograph, web graphics, clinical trials logos and enduring material artwork. Through most of these endevours I have recreated many, many graphs, figures and algorithms for journal, manuscripts, monographs and book chapters.

I have been fortunate to work with some very well-know, very well-publsihed thought leaders in emergency cardiovascular medicine. For these faculty, I have been the designated go-to-guy to create, recreate and repurpose countless figures, graphs, algorithms and tables for manuscript, accepted articles, chapters and monographs. I have also produced an equally impressive (at least in my mind) number of graphics for powerpoint presentations. At one time, my faculty used to scan a graph or figure and copy the scan into their Powerpoint presentations. That had to end! That of course led to just as many requests to pull graphs and figures from Powerpoint presentations and convert them to professional black and white press-ready versions.

Because of the manic-like productivity of my faculty, I have become quite adept at quickly turning out graphics for ever impending deadlines at a level that has exceeded my faculty expectations.

And that is my story. And the reason your figures and graphs will be in good hands.

 

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What makes publishers happy?

Receiving high quality images that were downsampled from top end vector-based authoring programs. Having a figure, graph or algorithm image that is press-ready (that they have to do nothing to) and that they do not have to recreate speeds up the layout process and makes you, and your article, look great!

What makes publishers UNhappy?

Receiving an image that was scanned and placed in Microsoft Word. Scans in general make a publisher cringe. It is very difficult to produce a scan of sufficient "press" quality to print well. While they may look good on your computer monitor screen, they often do not print well; and certainly do not resize well when being placed in the article layout.



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