GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2026

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Friday, October 23, 2026

9:00 am to 5:00 pm EST

Hybrid Format—In-Person and Online Presenters and Attendees

GW Arlington Education Center

950 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203

Integrity by Design

Hosted by the Graduate Program in Publishing at the George Washington University

2026 ABBREVIATED CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

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Schedule subject to change; all times listed EST

9:00 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks

Puja Telikicherla, Licensing and Subsidiary Rights Manager, American Psychiatric Association

John W. Warren, Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Publishing, George Washington University

9:15 am – Designing for Equity, part 1

Moderated by Kathleen Lewis, George Washington University

Peer Review by Design: Building Integrity into High-Stakes Clinical Editorial Workflows

Daniella Thoren, Wolters Kluwer, and Jennifer Regala, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Building Global Editorial Boards at ASM

Adrianna Borgia, ASM

10:10 am – Designing for Equity, part 2

Moderated by Amrutha Nathan, George Washington University

Addressing Textbook Piracy Through Ethical Global–Local Publishing Partnerships

Shawana Adbiah Raka, Bloomsbury

Creativity has no limits. Design does.

Ringo Seeber, George Washington University; Glyph Co.

11:00 am – break

11:15 am – Designing for Equity, part 3

Moderated by Tina Donnelly, Penguin Random House

When Is a Paper Really Research? Ethical Challenges in Undergraduate Publishing

Amelia Baker, Kiara O'Neal, Mikkel Cullen, Kennesaw State University

Enabling alt text at Scale with Generative AI: A Case Study from the Science family of journals

Jennie Pajerowski, AAAS, Jason Hillman, AAAS, Colin Trumbull, Wiley

12:05 pm – LUNCH

1:15 pm – Keynote: Integrity in Innovation and Transformation

Wendy Queen, Chief Transformation Officer, Johns Hopkins University Press

2:25 pm – AI, Workflows, and Research Integrity

Moderated by Anand Balasubramani, American Association of Immunologists

Rising Volume, Rising Risk: How Surging Outputs Are Straining Research Integrity

Melissa Wagner, IGI Global Scientific Publishing, Priyanka Chandi, Frontiers, and Danielle Rayner, Emerald Group Publishing

From Detection to Decision

Kritika Khulbe, American Chemical Society

Detecting AI in Editorial Workflows: Establishing Policies and Procedures

Thad McIlroy, Future of Publishing

3:35 pm – break

3:45 pm – When AI Use in Research Raises Ethical Concerns: Roundtable

Moderated by Moderated by Danielle Padula Tillmann, Scholastica

Aashi Chaturvedi, ASM

Erum Ilyas, Drexel University College of Medicine

Allegra Torres, AIP Publishing

4:15 pm – Integrity, AI, and Metadata Management

Moderated by Hannah Earl, George Washington University

Metadata Management and AI Development in a Community Library

Daniela Galatro, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Designing for What AI Can Know: Content Gaps, Metadata, and Integrity in Publishing Ecosystems

Stacy Masucci, New York State Department of State

5:00 pm – Closing Remarks

5:30 pm - In-person Social Hour to follow conference; location TBA

HOSTED BY:

The Graduate Program in Publishing, College of Professional Studies, George Washington University

Conference coordinator:

Amrutha Nathan, MPS in Publishing candidate, George Washington University

Conference co-organizers: