As an award-winning writer with more than 18 years of experience, I help academic health research institutions, hospitals, and healthcare organizations achieve their communication objectives. I partner with my clients to help them build trust with patient and healthcare professional audiences, drawing on my consumer brand management experience and business degree.
My long-standing clients include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Hospital for Special Surgery. I frequently write about cancer, orthopedics, brain health, health research (basic, translational, and clinical), and medical advances.
It has been my privilege to interview hundreds of doctors, researchers, and patients. Interview sources appreciate my friendly professionalism, diligent preparation, and attention to accuracy. Editors and communications managers appreciate that I submit clean work early or on time and have a team attitude when addressing questions and edits. Readers appreciate my ability to translate complex medical and scientific information into prose written to their level of understanding.
My writing has appeared in Mind Over Matter (Women’s Brain Health Initiative), Promise (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital), Cancer Today, STAT, Clinical Leader, Medscape, Doximity, and Targeted Oncology.
Subjects
cancer, orthopedic surgery, COVID-19, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, brain health, health research, women’s health, clinical trials, clinical care, scientific research, medical advances
Skills
Writing Credits
US CLIENTS: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, WorldCare, Worldwide Clinical Trials, AACR, Bristol Myers Squibb
US PUBLICATIONS: MSK OncoNotes, Cornell Chronicle, Promise, STAT, Cancer Today, Clinical Leader, Medscape, AdventHealth blog, Women’s Health Source, Better Medicine, UCLA Health blog.
CANADIAN CLIENTS: Women’s Brain Health Initiative, Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation, ALS Canada, Diabetes Canada, West Park Healthcare Centre
CANADIAN PUBLICATIONS: Mind Over Matter, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Journal for Medical Laboratory Science, Sunnybrook, Canadian Living, Canadian Nurse, Health Research and Innovation, Costco Connection
Awards, Honors, Appointments
2016 Canadian Business Media Awards – Silver. CPA Magazine: The Multitasking Myth
2016 Canadian Business Media Awards – Honourable Mention. CJMLS: The Scare in Saskatoon: How an Ebola scare improved Canadian biosafety measures
2014 Canadian Business Media Awards – Honourable Mention. CPA Magazine: Let Your People Move
2014 Professional Writers Association of Canada – Runner-Up, Short Articles. Canadian Health: The Sinister Side of Sitting
2014 Professional Writers Association of Canada – Honourable Mention, Short Articles. Sunnybrook: A Safe House
2012 CBC Books Canada Writes Contest – Close Encounters with Science Pick of the Day. Paddling with the Jellies
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Weill Cornell Medicine received a large NIH grant to study whether the antibiotic doxycycline may slow the progression of emphysema in people living with well-controlled HIV. The grant is funding a phase 2 clinical trial at collaborating sites across the United States.
This e-newsletter for WorldCare members provides information on the value of medical second opinions for serious and complex medical disorders, fast facts on a common cancer type, and summaries of recent groundbreaking research from participating providers.
This news release promoted a scientific paper published in Nature Communications. The key finding and implications required deft translation of scientific concepts and careful contextual framing in lay-friendly prose.
This article was published under Clinical Updates and Insights on the MSK website and promoted in the MSK OncoNotes newsletter for referring physicians. It summarizes exciting results from a small clinical trial of a new treatment regimen for patients with advanced melanoma and includes background on the study rationale, design, and collaboration.
This research-based blog post discusses six strategies clinical researchers can use to truly engage and accommodate patients in rare disease clinical trials.
A multidisciplinary HSS research team aims to translate research findings on the mechanisms of knee osteoarthritis to the clinic. Identifying patients with the greatest risk may lead to the development of more tailored approaches to treatment and rehabilitation to improve outcomes. This is one of five stories I contributed to the 2021 HSS Annual Report.
I have contributed to CABHI's Annual Report for many years, including crafting the leadership message, programs and services, and looking ahead sections.
Lehigh Valley Health Network provides multidisciplinary neurological rehabilitation for people who have experienced a stroke, brain injury or spinal cord injury.
My cover story told the story of 12-year-old Anaiya, a recipient of a gentler approach to stem cell transplantation that aims to cure severe sickle cell disease. She loves to make TikTok videos. Dance like everyone’s watching!
