The latest AHCJ members in the news are Julie Rovner, Cynthia Saver, Gary Schwitzer, Mary Shedden, Ed Silverman, Fran Smith, Mike Stobbe and Tom Wilemon. See the latest about them:
Julie Rovner, who was an NPR health policy correspondent, has been named the Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Rovner has begun her fellowship and will work as a senior correspondent with Kaiser Health News and its news partners, covering health policy and politics and doing enterprise reporting for a variety of platforms.
The second edition of Cynthia Saver’s book, “Anatomy of Writing for Publication for Nurses,” was published by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Gary Schwitzer, publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, will receive the American Medical Writers Association’s McGovern Award for preeminent contributions to medical communication in October. The Informed Medical Decisions Foundation named Schwitzer one of 25 Shared Decision Making Champions. Schwitzer will travel to Australia to give two talks at the National Medicines Symposium 2014 in Brisbane May 21-23.
Mary Shedden, who was with The Tampa Tribune for more than eight years, is now a radio reporter and part of the Health News Florida team at WUSF Public Media in Tampa.
Ed Silverman recently joined The Wall Street Journal to run a forthcoming blog on the pharmaceutical industry. He had run the Pharmalot site for about seven years.
Fran Smith’s book, “Changing the Way We Die: Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement,” co-authored by journalist Sheila Himmel, has been published by Viva Editions. The authors have started a blog on end-of-life care, also called “Changing the Way We Die,” at Psychology Today.
Mike Stobbe, an Associated Press medical writer, has written “Surgeon General’s Warning: How Politics Cripple The Nation’s Doctor,” (University of California Press) due out in June. The book traces how surgeons general, including Luther Terry, C. Everett Koop and Joycelyn Elders, courted controversy in facing issues such as smoking, AIDS and masturbation, and takes the reader on a quick tour of U.S. public health history and explains why the surgeon general’s decline is harming our national well-being.
Tom Wilemon and Shelley DuBois of The Tennessean won a first-place Green Eyeshade Awards in the print dailies category for “Navigating Health Care Reform.” The awards recognize the best journalism in the southeastern United States.
