Career Development: Freelancers' Corner
Directory of independent journalists
These AHCJ members are independent journalists who have agreed to be listed for potential employers. We encourage potential employers to contact these writers and editors using the contact information they have provided in their résumés. Employers should also consider placing an ad with AHCJ to reach an even wider group of expert health journalists.
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Alabama |
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Alyson McNutt English |
Huntsville |
General health and wellness, workplace safety, home health and safety, children/family health and wellness, nutrition, holistic/alternative medicine, pregnancy, fertility, environmental toxins and health |
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Dave Parks |
Birmingham |
Consumer health, public health, medical research, insurance, health disparities, mental health, military/VA health and health business |
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Alaska |
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Arizona |
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Sharon B. Salomon, M.S., R.D. |
Phoenix |
Nutrition, weight loss, exericse and lifestyle for the public and professional; restaurant reviews; profiles of food professionals and others; health related issues. |
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Arkansas |
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California |
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Larry Beresford |
Oakland |
Hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care and related health care subjects. |
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Heather Boerner |
San Francisco |
Nutrition, alternative therapy/yoga, mental health, sexual health, LGBT health, chronic illnesses and health care policy |
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Hannah Douglas |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Health care reform, policy and new media reporting |
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Mari Edlin |
Sonoma |
Managed care, pharmacy, disease management, health care business, health care reform |
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Shuka Kalantari |
San Francisco |
Health disparities; minority health; multimedia reporting |
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Arline Kaplan |
Huntington Beach |
Psychiatry and behavioral health; consumer health; health care politics, policy and business; pharmaceuticals and medical devices; complementary and alternative medicine; women's health; health disparities and cultural literacy; aging; and death and dying |
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Yolanda (Linda) Reid Chassiakos, M.D. |
Los Angeles |
Features, technical reporting, general medicine, opinion, ethics |
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Sue Pondrom |
San Diego |
Transplantation, arthritis, cancer, general medicine |
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Noelle Robbins |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Individual, community, and environmental health issues. Social ventures. Activism. |
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Jane Neff Rollins |
Montrose |
Conference coverage; consumer health and wellness; cancer; complementary and alternative medicine; dermatology; diabetes; doctor-patient communication; endocrinology; epidemiology; gastroenterology; health care navigation; health insurance; heart health; immunology/transplantation infectious disease, neurology; ophthalmology; patient education; pharmacoeconomics; public health (especially HIV/AIDS and TB); rheumatology; women’s health |
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Sue Russell |
San Diego/Los Angeles |
Health and fitness. Alternative/integrative health. Violence in women. Abuse of children. Mental and physical health issues affecting criminals and law enforcement personnel, including their impact on criminal justice issues, investigations, and forensic science. Celebrity health and business profiles. |
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Stephanie Stephens |
Calif./New Zealand |
General health and wellness, women's health, baby boomer health and lifestyle, mental health, psychology/psychiatry, natural/integrative health, health policy, neurology, cardiology, cancer, aging and caregiving, physical therapy, healthcare professions, dermatology and plastic surgery |
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Lisa Zamosky |
Los Angeles |
Health insurance, health care business and policy, consumer health, health literacy and biopharma |
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Colorado |
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Tammy Parker |
Boulder |
Mobile healthcare (mHealth), caregiving, eldercare, geriatrics, long-term care, telemedicine in developed and developing countries, wirelessly enabled healthcare and fitness/wellness devices |
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Connecticut |
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Sheryl Kraft |
Wilton |
Women's health, breast cancer, fitness, baby boomer wellness |
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Delaware |
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District of Columbia |
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Washington, D.C. |
Science policy; health; behavior; higher education; relationship of science, ethics, and religion; gender; disability; genetics and genomics |
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Donya Currie |
Washington, D.C. area |
Health disparities, mental health, public health, health and aging, child health, health reform |
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Howard Gleckman |
Washington, D.C. |
Long-term care financing and delivery, elder care, health policy, Medicare, Medicaid, also fiscal policy |
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Merrill Goozner |
Washington, D.C. |
Health policy; coverage of federal health-related regulatory agencies, especially FDA and CMS; technology development, especially pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; neglected and rare diseases |
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Stephenie Overman |
Washington, D.C. area |
Workplace health, safety and wellness |
Bio | Website | Clips |
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Claudia Perry |
Washington D.C. metro area |
See Website. |
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David Pittman |
Washington, D.C. |
General medical and health, mental health, pharmaceuticals, health policy, hospital care and management, medical education, cancer, HIV/AIDS |
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Tabitha M. Powledge |
Washington, D.C. area |
Infectious disease and microbiology; cancer; endocrinology and hormones (estrogens and testosterone, menopause, and menstruation); test-tube babies, IVF, prenatal diagnosis, and other embryo and fetal technology; bioethics; health policy; medical policy; basic biomedical research; diet and nutrition; the brain and neuroscience; human behavior, animal behavior, and psychology; genetics, genomics, and biotechnology; epigenetics; archeology and paleontology; evolution (including primate evolution and human evolution); and science policy. |
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Helena Gail Rubinstein, J.D., M.A., M.P.H. |
Washington, D.C. area |
Law & public health, neurological issues, nutrition & diabetes management/prevention, bioethics, biopharma, health care business & policy |
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Florida |
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Georgia |
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Vikki Conwell |
Atlanta |
Health and wellness, converting complex medical issues into insightful consumer content |
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Nancy Groves |
Lawrenceville |
Ophthalmology, optometry, cancer, public health, general health and wellness, conference coverage, notetaking |
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John Andrew "Andy'' Miller |
Atlanta |
Health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid; the uninsured and underinsured; medical industry trends; consumer health; prescription drugs; hospitals and physicians; long-term care; medical research; mental health and substance abuse. |
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Hawaii |
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Kenneth Rubenstein, Ph.D. |
Haleiwa |
Subjects written about include: molecular diagnostics, next-generation DNA sequencing, DNA microarrays, pain drug discovery, neurological drug discovery, and others listed in my resume. |
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Idaho |
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Illinois |
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Rita Colorito |
Family, children's and pet health; consumer, household and travel safety; women's health and reproductive issues; psychology and mental wellness; nutrition and food safety; eldercare and caregiving; and insurance issues and health benefits |
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Marcia Frellick |
Chicago |
Specializes in nursing issues, weaving stories from studies, explaining how medical devices work, exploring ethical issues. |
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Richard Hyer |
Chicago |
General medicine, including allergy/immunology, critical care, diabetes, hematology/oncology, influenza, ophthalmology, radiology, renal, and surgery. |
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Mary Chris Jaklevic |
Chicago |
Business of health care, public policy, quality measures, nutrition and obesity |
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Indiana |
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Glenda Fauntleroy |
Carmel |
Women's health, children's health, chronic diseases, consumer health and wellness, health insurance |
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Catherine Guthrie |
Bloomington |
Women’s health, breast cancer, nutrition, yoga/fitness, medical investigative reporting |
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Kurt Ullman, R.N., M.H.A. |
Carmel |
Diabetes, asthma, cardiology, rheumatology, oncology, psychiatry |
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Iowa |
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Kansas |
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Kentucky |
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Louisiana |
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Maine |
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Maryland |
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Karen Infeld Blum |
Baltimore |
Health and medicine; cardiology; transplant; developmental disabilities/autism; pharmacy; anesthesiology; oncology |
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Pat McNees |
Bethesda |
Consumer health, clinical research, mental health and illness, grief and bereavement, health care policy, history of medicine |
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Massachusetts |
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Joseph Burns |
Falmouth |
Health care business strategies and health care policy, particularly how health plans and physicians implement health care strategies and health care policy. |
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Phyllis M. Hanlon |
Central Massachusetts |
Human-interest stories, profiles and articles on medical/healthcare topics, religion, academics and business for magazines and newspapers; custom publications |
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Tinker Ready |
Cambridge |
Health policy, biomedical research, women’s health |
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Michigan |
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Andrea King Collier |
Lansing |
Health care disparities, medical and health care for consumers, professional papers |
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Steve Raphael |
Metropolitan Detroit |
The business of health care, with an emphasis on provider financial performance; high tech, including all areas of life sciences, as well as engineering and automotive; signficant editing and supervisory experience. |
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Minnesota |
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Harriet Hodgson, B.S., M.A. |
Rochester |
Children's health, caregiving, dementia, anticipatory grief, post-death grief |
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Maryn McKenna |
Minneapolis |
Public health, global health, infectious disease, epidemiology, medical narrative |
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Sarah Moran |
Minneapolis |
General health and wellness, prevention, nutrition, fitness, environmental health, pregnancy, alternative and complementary medicine and holistic health. |
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Kay Schwebke, M.D., M.P.H., M.A. |
St. Paul |
Investigative health stories, health quality, public health, consumer health |
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Kathlyn Stone |
St. Paul |
Neurology, medical physics, conference coverage, health and science policy |
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Mississippi |
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Missouri |
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Lola Butcher |
Springfield |
Health care business and policy; Medicare policy |
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Jeanne Erdmann |
Wentzville |
Erdmann writes features, news, and narrative. Her stories cover immunology, neuroscience, cancer, genetics, and technology. |
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David L. Fortney |
Kirksville |
Consumer health and wellness, safety, health care business, human interest stories and profiles, medical narrative, hospital and medical history, custom publications, international and public health, environmental issues, mental health |
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Tammy Worth |
Kansas City |
Consumer health, business, policy, social determinants |
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Montana |
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Nebraska |
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Nevada |
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New Hampshire |
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New Jersey |
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Cornelia (Nikki) Kean |
Montclair |
Gastroenterology, oncology, psychiatry, surgery, pharmacy practice, pediatrics and aging issues |
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Gale Maleskey, M.S., R.D. |
Bridgewater |
Integrative/preventive medicine, nutrition, women's health, health coaching, aging, weight loss, medical consumerism, nutritional |
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Jennifer Maybin, M.A., E.L.S. |
Branchburg |
General health and wellness, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, pain management, nursing, menopause, dementia, geriatric health and aging, assisted living, Medicare |
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Jennifer Ringler |
Woodbridge, N.J. |
Writing & proofreading B2B, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, executive profiles, healthcare organization/group profiles/interviews, report/data summaries, features, human interest profiles, healthcare marketing/advertising articles, health and wellness, healthcare/marketing/leadership book reviews, and newsletter/blog pieces, for consumer and business publications. |
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Ann Roberts Brice |
Morristown, N.J. |
Feature articles and news stories on the business of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Topics include: evolving US health care policies. FDA prescription drug approvals and withdrawals. Generic drugs and biosimilars. OTC switch products and dietary supplements. Company R&D pipelines and clinical trials. Industry lawsuits. Medical research breakthroughs. Company financial results. Profiles of emerging biotech firms. |
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Christina Hernandez Sherwood |
Collingswood |
General health and wellness, communities of color and health, health disparities, senior health, women’s health, medical technology and innovation, diabetes, nutrition and food |
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New Mexico |
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Bryant Furlow |
Albuquerque |
Health care policy and legislation, cancer research, public health and epidemiology, international health issues, investigative journalism |
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New York |
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Rita Baron-Faust |
New York City |
Women’s health issues, aging issues, Alzheimer’s disease, autoimmune diseases, mental health (depression, anxiety, etc), cardiovascular diseases, breast cancer, cancer/oncology, culture and health, sexuality |
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Katherine Eban |
Brooklyn |
Investigative, Homeland security/bio-terror, Public health, Drug safety, Pharmaceutical supply chain: counterfeiting, diversion, parallel trade |
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Martica Heaner, Ph.D. |
New York City |
Nutrition, fitness, weight loss and all health |
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June M. Lay, M.S. |
New York City |
Health/medical topics, medical research, fitness/exercise, nutrition, weight management, women’s health |
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Irene S. Levine, Ph.D. |
Chappaqua |
Mental health, mental illness, relationships, aging, women, travel health |
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Jordan Alexandra Lite |
New York City |
Consumer health (news and features), public health medicine and policy including HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and reproductive health, mental health, alternative medicine, environmental health, bioethics, opinion. |
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Carol Milano |
Brooklyn |
Careers in health and science; occupational health; practice management; complementary/alternative medicine; environmental health |
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Laura Newman |
New York City |
Newsletters, feature stories, profiles, oncology, evidence based medicine, urology, imaging, clinical outcomes research, practice guidelines, Medicare, public policy |
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Cynthia Ramnarace |
New York City |
Caregiving, eldercare, Long-term care, end-of-life care, dementia, women’s health, children’s health, pregnancy, narrative, investigative, profiles |
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Barbara Sadick |
New York City |
Consumer health and medical articles, health study interpretation, articles on the patient experience, features, news, obesity |
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Devon Schuyler |
New York City |
Evidence-based medicine, consumer health, trade publications, women’s health, geriatrics, cardiology, orthopedics, general surgery, ophthalmology, and oncology |
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Liz Seegert |
Little Neck |
Issue and policy concerns range from health disparities to health literacy to e-health. |
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New York City |
Neuroscience, addictions, psychology, brain and behavior, health. |
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Paul Raeburn |
New York City |
Families, psychology, psychiatry, science, genomics, medicine, health policy. |
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Jessica Wapner |
New York City |
Biomedical issues, cancer research and treatment, gastrointestinal and liver diseases, the ethics and economics of health care, human interest stories, complementary medicine |
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Irene Wielawski |
Pound Ridge |
Health care policy and financing, barriers to medical care among the poor and uninsured, health system reform, medical science |
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Arlene Weintraub |
New York City |
Health care, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medicine, aging |
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North Carolina |
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John Suddath |
Raleigh |
Eldercare, long-term care |
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North Dakota |
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Ohio |
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Cleveland/Northeast Ohio |
Geriatrics/aging issues; eldercare; long-term care issues (including financing); chronic disease management; consumer health/wellness; integrataive/holistic medicine; medical education (all levels), healthcare technology; the “business” of healthcare, the “business” of eldercare; doctor/patient relationships. |
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Oklahoma |
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Oregon |
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Andrew Holtz, M.P.H. |
Portland |
Public health, social determinants, medical research, health literacy |
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Rhonda Morin |
Portland |
Health care public policy, reform, delivery, profiles, human interest stories, the business of health care, health disparities, reproductive health, Medicare, Medicaid, medical care barriers, medical research, emergency medicine, wilderness rescue medicine |
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Pennsylvania |
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Richard M. Kirkner |
Phoenixville |
General and vascular surgery, bariatric surgery, colon, esophageal and breast cancers, eye care, health economics and medical practice management. |
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Bob Mitchell |
King of Prussia |
Currently, serving as contract moderator for Modern Healthcare. Previously, served as managing editor of ADVANCE for Health Information Executives, covering health information technology and management topics for the CIO audience. |
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Eric T. Rosenthal |
Wynnewood |
Issues and controversies in oncology; social history of cancer; appropriate and effective communication of medical information to the public; medicine and the media; medical consumerism |
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David Woods |
Philadelphia |
Health policy, communications, editorial |
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Rhode Island |
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South Carolina |
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South Dakota |
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Tennessee |
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Salynn Boyles |
Nashville |
All health/medical topics; have written extensively about cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, alternative treatments, weight loss, and nutrition |
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Texas |
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Laura Beil |
Dallas |
Consumer health, medicine, science, health policy, narrative |
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Charlotte Huff |
Dallas/Fort Worth |
Medicine, science, psychology, business of health, health insurance, doctor-patient interactions |
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Utah |
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Vermont |
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Virginia |
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Washington |
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| Megan Clark | Seattle |
Health/Medical topics: consumer health, biomedical research, bioengineering and clinical research. |
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Sally James |
Seattle |
Genetics and cancer, biotechnology, neuroscience of learning, consumer health, vaccines |
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Diane Mapes |
Seattle |
General health, cosmetic trends, behavior / mental health issues, unusual body phenomenon, and health-related product reviews |
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Harris Meyer |
Yakima |
Health politics, policy and business; health insurance; comparative effectiveness research; hospital and physician organizations; patient-centered medical homes; physician-assisted dying; Medicaid and long-term care |
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Carol Smith |
Seattle |
Medical research, biotechnology, mental health, veteran's health affairs, consumer health, occupational health, neurology, aging, environmental health, genomics, public health, science literacy |
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Washington, D.C. |
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West Virginia |
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Wisconsin |
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Lin Grensing-Pophal |
Chippewa Falls |
Human resources, employee relations/communications, social media, crisis management, the Baldrige award process. |
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