Jane Shipley

Executive Director
Jane Shipley

After earning her BA in Ancient Languages (Latin and Greek) from William and Mary, Jane worked in a lab at The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health’s Department of Biochemistry and then as a copy editor/proofreader for the Journal of Urology. She moved on to teach English and Latin, write material promoting the City of Baltimore’s dollar house program, and serve as Executive Director of the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and, later, of the Baltimore Chapter of the AIA. When she needed to work from home, she abstracted approximately 6,000 scientific publications for POPLINE, a Johns Hopkins database. Jane then worked for six years as a writer/editor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and also taught writing at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Since 2001, she has co-authored 27 scientific publications and dozens of posters in the field of pain medicine and neuromodulation and made presentations at national and international conferences. She has served on four clinical trial steering committees and peer reviewed submissions for a PUBMED-indexed journal. In 2007, she became the founding Executive Director of The Neuromodulation Foundation.  Since 2013, she has been Managing Editor of WIKISTIM.org.