Editorial Specialist: Editor, Writer, Editorial Manager, and Workshop Facilitator
FREELANCE WRITING
Newspapers: The New York Times, The Journal News, the New York Daily News, and the Rivertowns Enterprise
Magazines: Ladies’ Home Journal, Parents, Woman’s Day, New Choices, MAMM Magazine, InTouch: The Good Health Guide to Cancer Treatment and Prevention, Mademoiselle, Bride’s, American Baby, Woman’s World, Physician’s Management, Life in Medicine, Arthur Frommer’s Smart Shopping, Westchester Magazine, and The Chironian.
Web
• Breastcancer.org
• Healthmonitor.com
• Healthymagination Blog
• Sharecare.com.
SPECIAL PROJECTS:
Writing Workshop: Developed Write On! Writing workshop for cancer survivors; conducted it at Ann’s Place: the Home of I CAN and the American Cancer Society, both in Danbury, CT and Gilda’s Club Westchester, White Plains, NY.
STAFF POSITIONS:
Health and Medical Editor, Ladies’ Home Journal
•Improved and increased coverage of health and medicine for top-tier consumer magazine.
• Edited, wrote and assigned articles, columns and special sections; tracked healthcare trends.
• Created editorial sections in collaboration with national organizations such as the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
Executive Editor, Health Monitor Network
• Edited patient education magazines covering many therapeutic areas, including cancer, diabetes, arthritis, asthma, heart disease and more.
• Developed editorial calendars; assigned, edited and wrote articles; managed staff.
• Helped re-launch the company’s website, healthmonitor.com
Editorial Director, Healthworld
• Editor-in-Chief, Seasons magazine. Managed and edited Seasons, a single-sponsor publication for midlife women.
• Editor-in-Chief, Newsletter Division. Created and managed patient-oriented newsletters on a variety of medical conditions.
• Co-founder, HEALTHtext, custom publishing division of the Healthworld. Created and edited special sections that ran in Harper’s Bazaar, Parents, Parenting and Working Mother.
Senior Editor, Haymarket Media, Inc.
• Senior Editor/Writer, Medical Group. Wrote and edited articles for Cortland Forum, a magazine for primary care physicians, and Clinical Advisor, a magazine for physicians’ assistants and nurse practitioners. Wrote for Renal & Urology News, a publication for nephrologists and urologists.
Chief News Writer, Healthcare Satellite Broadcasting
• Created radio-style scripts for broadcast on Physician’s News Network.
• Largely responsible for content of daily medical news show.
Articles Editor, Weight Watchers Magazine
• Developed content, recruited freelance writers, designers and national columnists.
• Assigned, edited and wrote articles, blurbs, captions, heads and decks.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
American Medical Writers’ Association (AMWA)
EDUCATION
MA, Journalism, New York University
BA, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
• Senior Editor/Writer, Medical Group. Wrote and edited articles for Cortland Forum, a magazine for primary care physicians, and Clinical Advisor, a magazine for physicians’ assistants and nurse practitioners. Wrote for Renal & Urology News, a publication for nephrologists and urologists.
Chief News Writer, Healthcare Satellite Broadcasting
• Created radio-style scripts for broadcast on Physician’s News Network.
• Largely responsible for content of daily medical news show.
Articles Editor, Weight Watchers Magazine
• Developed content, recruited freelance writers, designers and national columnists.
• Assigned, edited and wrote articles, blurbs, captions, heads and decks.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
American Medical Writers’ Association (AMWA)
EDUCATION
MA, Journalism, New York University
BA, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania