McMahon Publishing
McMahon Publishing was founded in 1972 by Raymond E. McMahon. McMahon Publishing has grown to become one of the nation’s largest family-owned medical publishers, with a projected 2009 annual revenue of about $23 million across all product categories.
Today, McMahon publishes a broad array of medical newsmagazines in various specialties, including anesthesiology, gastroenterology, general surgery, hospital pharmacy, infectious diseases, pain medicine and oncology. McMahon publications are at or near the top of their markets in independent readership scores. The combined circulation of McMahon Publishing publications approaches 330,000 doctors and pharmacists. Foremost among McMahon publications is Anesthesiology News. Launched 35 years ago, Anesthesiology News has grown to become the best-read publication in the field according to Nielsen PERQ/HCI, and has remained No. 1 for the past 12 years. Every month, 96% of the 43,984 The mission of Anesthesiology News is threefold: to improve the quality of anesthesia care, to increase its cost-effectiveness and to facilitate the job of the anesthesiologist. To achieve these goals, the editorial staff of Anesthesiology News follows developments in the field, both in the academic and private-practice settings. The majority of Anesthesiology News’ coverage comes from major anesthesia meetings. The magazine reports on 10 to 15 meetings each year, including the annual meetings of the American Society of Anesthesiology, the American Society for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, the International Anesthesia Research Society, the PostGraduate Assembly of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists, the Society for Airway Management, the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology and the Society for Technology in Anesthesia.
The Special Projects division of McMahon Publishing produces educational reviews, wall charts and custom pocket guides and Special Reports and Literature Reviews. The educational reviews, written by authorities in a given treatment area, are comprehensive summaries of state-of-the-art thinking on a specific disease state. These often are published as wall charts and pocket guides that serve as on-the-spot educational tools for health care providers. Special Reports are individual, custom-written monographs that are bound inside Anesthesiology News or other McMahon publications. Special Reports can be based on symposium coverage, interviews with experts, the medical literature and any combination of these. Special Reports can be CME/CE accredited. Literature Reviews also are individual, custom-written monographs that are bound inside Anesthesiology News or other McMahon publications and distributed to the newsmagazine’s full readership. We conduct a literature search for all peer-reviewed, published studies on a given subject and compile a detailed, scientifically sound review of these articles. Literature Reviews also can be CME/CE accredited. The McMahon Web site, McMahonMed.com, contains a wealth of medical information gleaned from the company’s print publications along with “Web only” content. CMEZone.com provides free continuing medical education and continuing education for pharmacists and nurses. At AnesthesiologyNews.com, you can find articles from the print edition of the publication, as well as Web-exclusive content such as breaking news and expanded coverage of stories that appear in the newsmagazine. This corporate profile was reviewed and approved by McMahon Publishing.
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McMahon Publishing also produces a wide variety of Special Editions, compendia of educational reviews written by thought leaders in various specialties. These include anesthesiology, gastroenterology and endoscopy, hospital pharmacy, general surgery, infectious disease, oncology and pain medicine.