About Everyday Health's Contributing Writers and Editors

Meet the writers and editors who contribute stories, slideshows, and other content to Everyday Health.


Jennifer Acosta Scott: Jennifer Acosta Scott is a writer for Healthday. She resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with her husband, Mark, and two sons, Patrick and Hayden. A native of the Mobile, Ala. area, she attended the University of Alabama's College of Communications and Information Sciences in Tuscaloosa, graduating with a major in journalism and a minor in history. Her career began in newspapers, and she has previously worked as a news reporter for the Tuscaloosa News, the Phenix (Ala.) Citizen and the Weatherford (TX) Democrat, covering health, environment and local government. Acosta Scott's work has also been published in outlets like Health, Bankrate, Society Life, The Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She is also the publisher of a popular Dallas-Fort Worth area blog, Fort Worth on the Cheap, and a running blog, Little Blue Sneakers. 
When she's not writing or spending time with her family, you can usually find Acosta Scott running. Her main goal is to to stay injury-free long enough to get to the starting line - and eventually, to become fast enough to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Her hobbies include running, lifting weights, gardening from seed, sleeping late, watching Crimson Tide football and rehabbing antique furniture. She also serves as a volunteer at her kids' school. During rare extended periods of free time, Acosta Scott likes to explore museums in the DFW area - the Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a favorite - and hunt for great barbecue joints and Tex-Mex restaurants. (DFW has plenty of both!) She hates the heat and looks forward to the few weeks of winter that Texas gets each year. Her favorite places to vacation are Tabernash, Colo. and anywhere in France.

Lesley Alderman: Lesley has been a staff writer at Money magazine and a deputy editor at Real Simple. She currently co-writes the Patient Money column for The New York Times.

Karen Asp: Karen is a freelance journalist who specializes in fitness, health, nutrition, pets, and travel. She's a contributing editor for Woman's Day and the Fit Travel blogger for AOL. She also writes regularly for numerous other publications, including All You, Shape, Self, Weight Watchers, Women's Health, Men's Fitness, Natural Health, More, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, Prevention, and Fitness.

Lisa Baertlein: Lisa is a journalist at an international wire service, where she has covered general news, public financing, personal technology, consumer health, and restaurants. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Chris Bahls: Chris is a veteran reporter and editor who wrote for a number of years at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has written about medical and pharmaceutical issues for professional and consumer audiences for the past decade. Her work has appeared in print and online media, including The Scientist and WebMD.

Rachel Grumman Bender: Rachel is an award-winning freelance health and beauty writer and editor. She writes regularly for The New York Post, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Health, Spa, Healthline.com, and Lifescript.com. Prior to going freelance in 2003, she was the senior health editor at Cosmopolitan magazine. Rachel earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism at Boston University and her master’s degree in journalism at New York University.

Felissa Benjamin: Felissa is a New York City-based freelance writer who specializes in style and beauty. She is About.com's Celebrity Style Guide, a website focusing on the the red carpet style of today's hottest celebrities. Felissa started out her journalistic career at Health where she learned the benefits of living a healthy and beautiful life. She became an expert at pitching stories that accentuated the health aspects of the beauty world, including choosing non-invasive cosmetic procedures. Prior to becoming a full-time freelancer, Felissa was on staff as a fashion writer at Life & Style Weekly and also wrote for the New York Daily News.

Eric Berlin, MD: Dr. Berlin is a medical writer with 12 years of experience in medical education and communication. He can be found in upstate New York, researching and writing on recent advances in medicine.

Juhie Bhatia: Juhie has almost 10 years of experience writing and editing mostly health- and science-related content. She has written for Reuters Health, HealthDay, Bulletin for the World Health Organization, MSNBC.com, Natural Health magazine, and Women's eNews and worked as a nutrition consultant for the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Nutrition Action Healthletter. She graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2004 and also has a bachelor's degree from the University of Guelph, Canada, in nutritional sciences.

Andrea Bledsoe: Andrea is a freelance writer and editor based in the Charlottesville, Va., area. She has a doctorate in virology and specializes in health-related stories. She worked for 12 years in research labs at Harvard University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research has been published in scientific journals, and she has presented her work at national scientific meetings. She has also taught DNA research at a local community college.

Michele Bloomquist: Michele is a full-time freelance writer and editor based near Portland, Oregon. She has covered the health, diet, and fitness beats for more than a decade for various award-winning Web, print, and newspaper clients, including EverydayHealth, WebMD, iVillage, Shape magazine, CNN, MSN, and others. Michele also writes often on home and garden topics and pursues a career in creative writing.

Sharon Boone: Sharon is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Health, Natural Health, Wine Enthusiast, Weight Watchers, and Forbes Life Executive. She was formerly the Lifestyle Editor at Fitness magazine and Senior Health Editor at Essence. She lives in Hoboken, N.J.

Elizabeth Shimer Bowers: Elizabeth Shimer Bowers has more than 16 years of experience in the editorial field, and she has written for numerous publishers, companies, and Web sites, including WebMD, HealthDay, Reader's Digest, Rodale, Oxmoor House, and Facts on File. Some of the specific publications she has contributed to include Prevention magazine, Runner’s World magazine, Yoga Journal, The Doctor’s Book of Food Remedies, Stealth Health, Prevention’s Maximum Immunity, Don’t Get Sick, and The List Maker’s Get-Healthy Guide. Elizabeth has also collaborated with physicians and other health experts on ghostwriting projects covering topics ranging from allergies to diabetes to sports injuries. In addition to health-related copy, Elizabeth has also crafted numerous profile articles on successful players in business, education, and science, as well as feature articles and books in the areas of fashion, art, and psychology. She also has experience with research and fact checking, copywriting, and editing. Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Science degree and a minor in business and liberal arts from Penn State University. She lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Steve, a family physician, and her three children, Marin, Lila, and Drew. Elizabeth is an avid exerciser and works out by running and lifting weights. She also enjoys reading, cooking, listening to music, and spending time at the beach. Learn more about Elizabeth and her background and experience at www.lizshimerbowers.com.

Connie Brichford: Connie is Boston-based freelance writer who focuses on science and current events. Her interests include child development, science literacy for children and adults and the intersections of feminism and pop culture.

Jennifer Bright Reich: Jennifer has more than 10 years of experience in publishing, and she has contributed writing, editing, fact-checking, copyediting, or indexing to more than 150 books, eight magazines, five newspapers, and three Web sites. She is the author of The Babyproofing Bible, and she is the creator and sole writer for DisneyWithKids.net, saving families traveling to Walt Disney World with kids money, time, and sanity.

Sara Calabro: Sara is a health care journalist who writes about prevention, treatment, and disease management for a variety of publications. Most recently, she was editor-in-chief of OneMedPlace, a communications company focused on emerging healthcare and life sciences companies. She led conception and development of the company's publications Med Tech Sentinel and Medical Technology Investment Digest. Before that, she was managing editor for Pharmaceutical Executive magazine. Sara got her start in health care journalism at PRWeek magazine, where she covered the communications strategies of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. She has also worked as senior writer for Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and as health and fitness editor for About.com. She is currently studying Chinese medicine in New York City.

Ylonda Gault Caviness: Ylonda is a New Jersey-based journalist who frequently writes about health, parenting, and women's lifestyle issues. She contributes to The New York Times, Redbook, and other publications.

Bronwyn Becker Charlton, PhD: Dr. Charlton is a co-founder of SeedlingsGroup, a private parenting practice in New York City. She received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University. Charlton was a research scientist at the Center for Research on Culture, Development and Education at New York University. She has published findings from her work in prestigious journals (including Child Development, Educational Psychology, and Journal of Research on Adolescent Psychology), presented at professional conferences, and conveyed the most up-to-date mental health information to numerous PTA groups, teacher meetings, and parent seminars. Charlton is certified in Parent Management Training from the Yale Parenting Center.

Nancy Christie: Nancy contributes regularly to consumer magazines and informational web sites along with presenting a variety of personal growth and writing-related workshops nationwide. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, author of The Gifts of Change, and creator of the Community of Change Website.

Elizabeth Connor: Elizabeth is a freelance writer in Roswell, Ga., who specializes in health and health care administration. She began her career in daily newspapers, covering science and medicine. After several years as a health care consultant, she returned to journalism to write for magazines, corporate clients, online outlets, and other media. She holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a master of arts from the University of Florida, and a master of science in health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Karen Cooksey: Karen has more than 25 years’ experience in health and medical writing for pharmaceutical advertising, sales training, and medical communications agencies. Over the years, she has worked in diverse therapeutic areas and her writing has appeared in New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Oncology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Diabetes Care, Circulation, Blood, Chest, Journal of Immunology, Molecular Endocrinology, and Neurology. She has also taught writing classes at the University of California-San Diego and San Diego State University extension programs, as well as an introductory biology laboratory course at Florida State University. Karen has a B.S. in biology and psychology from Florida State University.

Lisa Costantini: Lisa is a full-time freelancer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prior to becoming a full-time freelancer, she was on staff at Parenting, Entertainment Weekly, and Cosmo Girl! She has written for Glamour, Marie Claire, ESPN, Fit, Backpacker, Sherman's Travel, and the New York Post.

Lauren Cox: Lauren is a freelance health and technology reporter whose work has appeared online, on air, and in print. A former reporter for ABC News, she has also contributed to local and national public radio, LiveScience, MyHealthNewsDaily, and Technology Review. Lauren is a Colorado native who moved east to earn her bachelor's degree at Smith College and a master's in science writing from Boston University. She has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

David Craig: David is a broadcaster and marketing specialist who is based in St. Louis. His background includes hosting morning radio shows in Dallas, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. In addition to writing each day for his on-air work, David has written for several radio station Web sites. He has interviewed numerous physicians and other medical personnel on his programs. David has done pro bono PR work for NAMI/St. Louis (National Alliance for Mental Illness) and for the St. Louis chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association. David has a B.A. in broadcast communications from the University of Alabama.

Julie Davis Canter: Julie is the author of more than 50 books, including diet, health, fitness, beauty, and wellness titles for all ages. Many have been excerpted in major women’s magazines, translated in up to 14 foreign languages and appeared on bestseller lists including The New York Times. She has also launched more than two dozen magazines on health, fitness, and special interests, including Pilates Style.

Mary Elizabeth Dallas: Mary Elizabeth Dallas is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience. Before pursuing a freelance career, Dallas was a news writer and producer working in the newsrooms of CNN and Bloomberg News. There she wrote and produced live news that focused on the state of the global economy and the impact of geopolitical risk on financial markets around the world. Dallas also conducted extensive research for Brian Ross's Investigative Unit at ABC's 20/20. Additionally, she wrote and supervised the production of documentaries and specials for The History Channel, including a 24-part series that chronicled the last 24 weeks of WWII. Today, Dallas specializes in health news and feature stories. She has covered several key public health issues, including microbial stewardship, immunizations, obesity, allergies and asthma, diabetes (type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes) and heart disease. Dallas has also covered issues affected pediatric health and behavior, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorders, sensory integration disorder, biting and other forms of aggression and breath holding spells. In addition to writing extensively for HealthDay, her work has appeared on numerous websites, including KidsHealth.org and BabyGooroo.com. Dallas' areas of expertise also include economics and personal finance. She has written and produced live news segments covering world and national headlines as well as breaking news in the financial markets. After growing up on Philadelphia's Main Line, Dallas currently lives in Westchester County, NY with her family. Dallas is also an avid tennis player. When she is not researching and writing, you can often find her on the court. Dallas holds an M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from New York University and a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College. She is also a member of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) and The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ).

Kathleen Donnelly: Kathleen is a writer, editor, and Web producer who specializes in writing for consumers about health, medicine and issues in global health and development. A former daily newspaper reporter (San Jose Mercury News) and Web site editorial producer (WebMD), Kathleen has experience in both print and online journalism as well as in producing patient education pieces, online learning modules, and advocacy materials. In addition to EverydayHealth.com, her clients include MSNBC.com, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and PBS online.

Ed Edelson: Ed was science editor for the New York Daily News for 20 years. He has written more than 20 books on health and medical issues.

Linda Foster: Linda is a Maryland-based author with more than eight years of professional experience in research, writing, and editing. A doctoral candidate in developmental psychology, she has written articles on health, psychology, and parenting. She is a published author of two non-fiction books and was an expert ghostwriter for General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. She is a member of the Author’s Guild, American Medical Writers Association, the American Mathematical Society, and Media Bistro and a is a trained facilitator for a non-profit organization called "Awakening the Dreamer," dedicated to improving environmental awareness, health, social injustice, and spirituality.

Anne L. Fritz: Anne is a New York City-based freelance writer who specializes in health, beauty, and travel. She is the cofounder of www.TheJetSetGirls.com, a blog that gives advice on every aspect of a girls' getaway. Prior to becoming a full-time freelancer, Anne was on staff at Life & Style and Woman's Day.

Malinda Gibbons-Gwyn: Malinda is a freelance writer in San Diego who has worked with The Body Shop USA, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, RealAge, and Sharp Healthcare. She is also a licensed acupuncturist and Maya Abdominal Massage practitioner.

Maria Gifford: Maria is an independent health writer in Rochester, Minnesota. She has produced evidence-based consumer health content for Mayo Clinic, the American Diabetes Association, Rodale, Ladies' Home Journal, ABC-CLIO, Time Inc., and Harvard Health Publications.

Elizabeth Haines, RN: Elizabeth is a registered nurse and freelance writer who specializes in medical and health writing for consumers. She also has published extensively on fine art, antiques and collecting. Her work has appeared in Art & Antiques, AntiqueWeek, Military Officer, Absolute Write, Writing World, and many others. Elizabeth excels at developing and managing content for Web sites, blogs and social networking sites. She holds a bachelor of science in nursing degree and a B.A. in writing. She is the founder of Budget Banquets, which helps families learn how to eat nutritiously on a tight budget.

Courtney Hargrave: Courtney is a New York City-based freelance writer who specializes in celebrity, entertainment, health, and travel journalism. Her work has appeared in Fitness, Modern Bride, Us Weekly, and Working Mother. Prior to starting her freelance career, she was the Features Editor at Woman's Day. Courtney has a B.A. in English from New York University.

Ian Hodder: Ian is a freelance writer and editor in New York City. A journalism school graduate intrigued by popular culture and grammar, he has contributed to Cats & Kittens, Star, Everyday Health, and several publications in between.

Catherine Holecko: Catherine is a writer in the Midwest who specializes in health, fitness, pregnancy, and parenting. She is writes about family fitness for About.com and is a former magazine editor and Web producer. She also has written for WhatToExpect.com, Glamour, Modern Bride, Working Mother, and Scholastic.com. She is the mother of two young children.

Debra-Lynn B. Hook: Debra-Lynn is a syndicated family life columnist with McClatchy-Tribune News Service (formerly Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) and the author of a compendium of those columns, Bringing Up Mommy: The Tender Years. A journalism graduate of the Louisiana State University, she is a former reporter for Knight Ridder's The State in Columbia, S.C., and an occasional adjunct journalism teacher at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where she makes her home. A past South Carolina Medical Writer of the Year, today she writes for various online magazines and media outlets on issues related to health and women's issues, motherhood and family life.

Brian Hoyle: Brian is a full-time freelance science and medical writer and editor. He owns and operates Square Rainbow Ltd. Science Wordsmithing. Brian has written hundreds of articles ranging from scholarly manuscripts to articles in the popular press. In addition, he has edited more than 2,000 manuscripts. Prior to this, Brian earned his doctorate in microbiology, was an infectious disease researcher, and was chief microbiologist for the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

LaShieka P. Hunter: LaShieka is a Long Island-based writer for publications such as Essence, Honey, Heart & Soul, NMA Healthy Living, Real Health, and The Source.

Chris Iliades, MD: Dr. Iliades is a full-time freelance writer based in Cape Cod, Mass. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post and frequently online. He was the Boston correspondent for Infection Protection, an award winning online health blog.

Wendy Kalen: Wendy is a freelance recipe developer whose work has appeared in many national magazines and websites including Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, Prevention, Good Housekeeping and Better Homes and Gardens among others.

Heidi Tyline King: Heidi is a Florida-based freelance writer who specializes in health and lifestyle articles, personality profiles, and corporate histories for Fortune 500 companies.

Clare Kittredge: Clare is a New Hampshire-based journalist who writes about health, science, and the environment. During more than 19 years as a regular Boston Globe correspondent, she covered French nuclear health issues and the 50th D-Day anniversary in France, and won first-place awards for investigative, community, and education reporting in New Hampshire. She has written for The Scientist and many other publications. Her article on growing up overseas is the lead story in the book Strangers at Home.

Jen Laskey: Jen is a writer, editor, and producer with more than 15 years of experience in developing content for the Web. She has worked for boutique software, design, and DVD firms, as well as big-name media companies, such as Ziff-Davis, Oxygen, and AOL/Time Warner. In 2003 she became one of Waterfront Media's first editors, and she subsequently launched Denise Austin's Fit Forever!, Dr. Laura Berman's Passion Prescription, and the South Beach Diet's online fitness program. She has worked on EverydayHealth.com in various capacities since its inception and she is a regular contributor to Everyday Health's sister site, Daily Glow. Jen also writes about food, wine, and travel for Fodor's Travel and other publications. She holds a B.A. in writing and visual arts from Bennington College and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts.

Katherine Lee: Katherine is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to launching her freelance career, she worked as the health and pregnancy editor at Working Mother and as a senior associate editor at Parenting magazine. She writes frequently about health, parenting, the environment, and women's issues, as well as a wide range of general-interest topics. Her work has appeared in Working Mother, Parenting, Woman's World, Pregnancy, BabyTalk, and other national magazines and Web sites.

Lexa W. Lee: Lexa, a naturopath, worked for 20 years as a family physician in British Columbia and Montana. She left practice for a postdoctoral fellowship in immunology at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, then studied forensic science and volunteered in a drug toxicology lab before Hurricane Katrina. In its aftermath, she volunteered at a free medical clinic in the city and worked briefly in a forensic DNA lab. Lexa has long experience teaching and lecturing about medical matters, as well as doing radio commentary; she has also reported on medical research and written articles for consumers, patients, and medical providers since 1989. Her work has appeared in print as well as on the Web for WebMD/Medscape, Doctor's Guide, National Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, Self magazine, Central Nervous System News, Natural Health Magazine, Great Falls Tribune, and others.

Colleen Leonard: Colleen is a freelancer writer based in Rye Brook, New York. Her work has appeared in numerous travel, health, and performing arts magazines, including Elite Traveler, Dance Spirit, American Cheerleader, and Weekly Reader.

Kate Lowenstein: Kate is senior staff writer at Time Out New York magazine, where she regularly contributes health and well-being stories to the Mind & Body section. Her work has appeared in Glamour, New York Arts Magazine, L Magazine and the newly published book, 1,000 Things to Do in New York.

Norra MacReady: Norra is a journalist and editor specializing in health and medical topics for both physicians and consumers. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including The Lancet, Medscape, the British Medical Journal, Neurology Now, Self, Glamour, Mademoiselle, and Conde Nast Traveler, among others. She has also served as Los Angeles bureau chief of the International Medical News Group, covering internal medicine, dermatology, family medicine, psychiatry, rheumatology, ob-gyn, neurology, and pediatrics.

Denise Mann: Denise Mann is a freelance health writer in New York. Her articles regularly appear in WebMD, Healthday.com, Beautyinthebag.com and other consumer health portals.Mann was awarded the 2004 and 2011 journalistic Achievement Award from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Recently, she was named the 2011 National Newsmaker of the Year by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. She has also been awarded the Arthritis Foundation's Northeast Region Prize for Online Journalism, the Excellence in Women's Health Research Journalism Award , the Gold Award for Best Service Journalism from the Magazine Association of the Southeast, a Bronze Award from The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors for a cover story she wrote in Plastic Surgery Practice magazine, and an honorable mention in the  International Osteoporosis Foundation Journalism Awards. She was part of the writing team awarded a 2008 Sigma Delta Chi award for her part in a WebMD series on autism. Her first foray into health reporting was with the Medical Tribune News Service where her articles appeared regularly in such newspapers as the Detroit Free Press, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Dallas Morning News, and the Los Angeles Daily News.Mann received a graduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and her undergraduate degree from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. She lives with her husband, David, their miniature schnauzer, Perri Winkle Blu, and their two sons, Teddy and Evan. An avid indoor cycler, Mann is always up for a Soul Cycle class. She also enjoys hiking. In her spare time, Mann is working on a fiction novel loosely based on her extended family.

Hedy Marks: Hedy is a freelance health writer and editor whose clients include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and CNN. At the CDC, she co-authored Developmental Disabilities News, created educational materials, and was lead author on a nutrition study submitted for publication. Hedy has worked in CNN's Medical News Department and was an assistant managing editor at WebMD. She earned her master of public health degree from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health.

Letisha Marrero: Letisha is a seasoned writer author and editor in a wide range of topics — pop culture, fashion, women's issues, parenting, lifestyle, health and politics. Her writings have appeared in such publications as Latina, OneWorld, King, Blaze, Honey, The Source, Vibe, Vibe Vixen, Tu Vida, Star and teenpeople.com. Ms. Marrero was one of the founding editors of Latingirl magazine in 1998, and recently served as as consulting executive editor for Latina magazine's redesign and relaunch in March 2008. From 2005 to 2007, she was senior editor of WhatToExpect.com, where she helped expand the pregnancy site to include parenting and preconception. While overseeing its vibrant online community, she was one of the architects of MyWTE, the mom-focused social-networking platform that launched in November 2007.

Janene Mascarella: Janene is a New York-based freelance writer who specializes in beauty, health, and lifestyle topics. She has articles or essays published or forthcoming in the Washington Post, Self, Glamour, Cooking Light, Women's Health, Woman's Day, BabyTalk, Parenting, Parents, Family Circle, American Baby, Arthritis Today, American Way, Salon City, NY Metro Parent, AOL.com, Kaboose.com, TheTyraShow.com, iVillage.com, and many others. She also writes regular columns for the teen magazine RELATE and the LongIslandExchange.com.

Krisha McCoy: Krisha is a Boston area freelance writer and editor who frequently covers health and medical topics. She writes for both print and online media, and has written for the Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter, EBSCO Publishing, and HealthDay News. She holds a master's degree in Nutrition Communication from Tufts University and completed her undergraduate degree in nutritional sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Krisha co-founded CooksAid.com, an electronic menu service that delivers weekly healthful recipes to subscribers.

Heidi McIndoo: Heidi is a registered dietitian and freelance nutrition writer. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Woman's Day, Family Circle, Fitness, and Today's Diet & Nutrition. In addition, she's a former national media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association and as such has been quoted in hundreds of interviews.

Alyson McNutt English: Alyson is an internationally published writer who specializes in health, home, business, tech and "green" topics. Her work has appeared in print publications like Self, AARP The Magazine, Parenting, Pregnancy, and Conceive, as well as high-profile online destinations like Bankrate.com, HGTV.com, Realtor.com, BobVila.com, FrontDoor.com, MSNBC.com, and BabyCenter.com. She has won awards for pieces as varied as an in-depth look at the shortage of adequate child care facilities in post-Katrina Baton Rouge to a humorous essay about putting her chubby baby daughter in a bunny costume.

Linda Melone: Linda is a freelance writer based in Orange County, Calif. She writes about health and fitness for national, custom, and online publications.

Eric Metcalf, MPH: Eric is an Indianapolis-based medical writer and editor and health educator. He has authored or contributed to dozens of books on health and fitness. He has also written for leading magazines and Web sites as well as custom publications and public radio, and developed a series of worksite wellness publications. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master's degree in public health.

Abigale Miller, MS: Abigale is a Toronto, Ontario-based medical writer with a master’s degree in biochemistry. Her work has been published in a variety of professional medical journals. Abigale has spearheaded numerous programs aimed at involving children in science, including being the curriculum coordinator for 15 weekly science clubs in Toronto serving underprivileged minority youth.

Gerri Miller: Gerri writes and reports from Los Angeles about celebrities, entertainment, and lifestyle for Glamour, More, CosmoGirl, iVillage.com, Estylo magazine, Satellite Direct, Southern California Senior Life, and Muscle & Fitness.

Robyn Moreno: Robyn is a lifestyle editor and spokesperson. She has written for Elle, Glamour, Woman's Day, InStyle, and Latina magazines, among others. Her third book, Practically Posh: The Smart Girls' Guide to the Glam Life, will be published in May 2008 by HarperCollins.

Laura Motta: Laura has worked in health publishing as an online, book, and magazine writer and editor, with stints at Boston magazine, the medical publisher HCPro, and Random House. She joined Waterfront Media in 2004 as the first full-time editorial staff member of Everyday Health. Laura holds a B.S. in journalism from Emerson College.

Jeff Muise: Jeff is a freelance writer based in Woodstock, N.Y., who specializes in health care subjects. Jeff has more than 20 years experience in health care communications and journalism, including Web content (RevolutionHealth.com, HealthTalk.com), print newsletters, trade journal articles, and blogs. Before moving into health care journalism, Jeff was a newspaper reporter, an editor at Backpacker magazine, and a columnist for Hudson Valley magazine. A local history buff, Jeff wrote Old Bob's Gift, a work of juvenile fiction that has been used to teach local history in area school districts.

Wyatt Myers: Wyatt is a magazine editor and freelance writer based in Des Moines, Iowa, who focuses on health, hobbies, and home improvement. Wyatt has contributed content to more than a dozen Rodale Health books, including The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies, Healing with Vitamins, and Cholesterol Cures. He's also written for Prevention, Men's Health, and Muscle & Fitness, among many other consumer magazines.

Rachel Nall: Rachel Nall began her writing career with the Associated Press in Brussels, Belgium. She is an honors graduate from the University of Tennessee with degrees in Journalism and Political Science and is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Tennessee. Nall’s articles have appeared in more than 100 health and wellness publications and physicians’ journals, including the University of Utah Clinical Neurosciences Center’s Gray Matters, Doctor of Dentistry and The Journal of Cardiovascular Care. In addition to her writing, Nall is a research assistant at the University of Tennessee with the Get Healthy Project, a federally funded grant providing outreach and wellness services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.

Elise Solé: Elise is a New York based writer who specializes in health, sex, and dating and whose work has appeared in Maxim, Health, Fitness, and Glamour. She has been on staff at Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, and Penthouse, and holds a B.S. in magazine journalism from Boston University. She lives in the East Village in New York City.

Michelle Lynn Olson: Michelle Lynn is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer who specializes in health, fitness, and diet. She has written features on a wide range of subjects, such as dance as exercise and managing GERD symptoms, for various health Web sites, including EverydayHealth.com, WeightWatchers.com, and MayoClinic.com. Michelle has also written several diet e-newsletters, worked on national health-related product campaigns, and scripted fitness DVDs.

Hugh O’Neill: Hugh worked in book publishing as a trade editor at Doubleday and Random House before starting his career as a writer. He is the author of three books about family life and a fourth about golf and has written for magazines ranging from GQ and Men’s Health to Glamour and More on subjects including health, medicine, sports and fitness, politics, fashion, money, marriage, and law. He has also written for many television shows, including The Cosby Show and has been a contributor to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.

Beth W. Orenstein: Beth W. Orenstein is a freelance writer for HealthDay, Radiology Today, Today's Dietitian, the National Psoriasis Foundation, insure.com and others. She is a freelance writer for Everyday Health.  Beth is a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University (1978), where she majored in English and was editor of the student newspaper for three years. Beth has written for newspapers and magazines since she was 16. Growing up outside the City of Brotherly Love, Beth is an avid Philadelphia sports fan (Phillies, Eagles, Sixers, Flyers) and roots for and watches her teams regardless of their records. She either bikes 15 to 25 miles or walks at least 5 miles religiously every day no matter the weather in Eastern Pennsylvania, the region she calls home .Living near rails-to-trails is a great asset in this area of her life. She managers her weight with exercise and by keeping an eye on calories consumed. Her one indulgence is buttermilk pancakes but only after biking a long distance. An avid reader, she listens to at least one book every two weeks. Beth also likes going to the movies, and her favorite is Barry Levinson's Diner.

Barbara Feder Ostrov: A 15-year veteran of major newspapers, Barbara is deputy editor of ReportingonHealth.org, which offers professional resources and social networking for journalists covering health issues. Barbara covered medicine for the San Jose Mercury News for eight years before beginning to freelance for clients including the Boston Globe. She is based in San Jose, Calif.

Linda Parent: Linda is a Montreal-based medical writer with experience in continuing medical education and patient health information. With more than 20 years of writing experience, she has extensive knowledge of the medical, scientific, legal, and marketing fields. Her current area of expertise is that of molecular biology. She earned her B.Sc. (Specialization) in biology at Concordia University in Montreal. In addition to articles, she is writing a book on child and teen depression, as well as serving clients in the pharmaceutical and medical fields.

Jane Parry: Jane is a medical and business journalist. Besides writing for HealthDay, she covers the Asian region for the news section of the British Medical Journal and contributes to the World Health Organization Bulletin and The Scientist. Jane has lived in Hong Kong since 1989.

Erica Patino: Erica is a freelance writer and journalist specializing in health and lifestyle beats. She was formerly a Senior Editor at Everyday Health. Erica also won a 2011 Media Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for a blog post on how aerobic exercise can help preserve hearing as we age. She lives in Monterey, California.

Amy Paturel: Amy's work frequently appears in such publications as Cooking Light, Health, Men's Health, Self, SHAPE, Better Homes and Gardens, and Marie Claire. Prior to devoting herself to writing, Amy researched and analyzed health behaviors for top government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services. She earned an M.S. in nutrition and an M.P.H. at Tufts University in Boston.

Tabitha M. Powledge, MS: Tabitha is an award-winning science and medical journalist who has written for a broad range of popular and professional publications. They include Popular Science, Health, Scientific American, Salon.com, Archaeology, and the Washington Post, as well as scientific journals such as The Lancet, Current Biology, PLOS Biology, and Nature Medicine. She is also the author of Your Brain: How You Got It and How It Works and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microbiology, co-authored with microbiologist Jeffrey Byrd. Powledge spent several years at the Hastings Center specializing in policy and bioethical issues related to genetics. She was also senior editor of the journal now known as Nature Biotechnology and founding editor of The Scientist. Powledge holds an M.S. in genetics; her general-audience booklet "Genetic Basics," written under contract for the National Institutes of Health, has won two awards from the Society for Technical Communication.

Dana Rasso: Dana is a writer and editor who lives in New York; her background is in education and communications. She holds a B.F.A. from Savannah College of Art and Design and is currently an M.A. candidate in New York University's Graphic Communications Management and Technology program.

Adrienne Rayski: Adrienne is a freelance writer for several special-interest magazines and has worked on the production of women's lifestyle channels at AOL as well as at E! Entertainment Television. She graduated from CUNY Baruch, where she served as the editor in chief of the award-winning student newspaper The Ticker.

Cynthia Ramnarace: Cynthia writes about health, parenting, and lifestyles topics for both print and online outlets. She is based in Rockaway Beach, N.Y.

Barbara Robb: Barbara is a freelance writer based in New York who specializes in health and medical topics. She worked in publishing for many years as an editor, writer and editorial director at a law book publisher, where she specialized in medical reference material for the legal profession. She has a master's degree in health advocacy from Sarah Lawrence College.

Eleanor Roberts, PhD: Eleanor has experience as an educational medical writer, predominantly in the fields of psychiatry and neuroscience. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., investigating simian immunodeficiency virus in the brain of rhesus macaques, a model for similar actions by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). She earned her doctorate in the neuropathology of HIV and a master’s degree in neuroscience from the Institute of Psychiatry in her hometown of London. She is based in San Diego.

Gina Roberts-Grey: Gina is a writer in Baldwinsville, N.Y., who specializes in health issues and profiling celebrities whose lives have been touched by illness. Her work has appeared in AARP The Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Glamour, Parents, Self, and numerous other national and regional publications.

Diana Rodriguez: Diana is a full-time freelance writer with experience writing health-related news and feature stories. She has written extensively for HealthDay, and her work has appeared on a number of Web sites, including MSN and Yahoo! She lives in Louisville, Ky. and holds a B.A. in journalism and French from Miami University.

Jean Rothman: Jean has worked as a full-time freelance medical editor and writer for more than 20 years, covering all manner of health conditions, procedures, and technologies. She enjoys the challenge of taking complex medical topics and translating them into language that can be easily understood by patients and the general public. Her work includes newsletters, magazine articles, patient education materials, marketing collateral, and books, and can be found in print and online. Jean also writes and edits material for physicians. Before becoming a freelancer, Jean held staff positions at some of the nation’s top hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic and Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Barbara Sadick: Barbara Sadick is a freelance health writer based in New York City.  Her writing is primarily geared to a consumer audience, though she does have an academic background in the health field.  That background includes an MS in Health and Behavior Studies from Columbia University and an MA in Health Advocacy from Sarah Lawrence College.  Health writing is Barbara’s second career.  For twenty-five years, she was in the photojournalism business.  Fifteen of those years were spent owning and running a small, highly regarded photo agency representing a small group of especially talented photographers.  During that time, the agency won numerous awards for the work initiated by the agency and its photographers for magazines, newspapers, books, and advertising agencies all over the world. In 2003, Barbara embarked on an education in health during which she spent five years learning about the history of health care, the reading of academic studies, statistics, current issues in health care, health policy, health literacy, health ethics, oral history, program evaluation, health promotion and disease prevention, and humanistic medicine. At Columbia, Barbara spent four semesters working on and studying issues of overweight and obesity.  She designed a social marketing campaign targeting obese and overweight girls in Harlem, New York City, a theory-based intervention program.  She also wrote a grant proposal for funding of that program. During her schooling, Barbara did an internship at NYU School of Medicine where she sat in on the non-academic courses required for medical students.  She also worked on research for a film on health, and attended a program for health writers in Taos, New Mexico. Barbara is a member of The Society of Healthcare Journalists and regularly attends local educational initiatives and the association’s annual seminar.  She has also served as a judge of medical student writing for The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Award of Excellence in humanistic medicine. In addition to Everyday Health, Barbara’s current clients include The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and other well-known print and online publications.

Allison Ryan: Allison is a writer living in upstate New York. Her articles, reviews, and stories have appeared in Elle, Harvard Review, Carve, and Weight Watchers magazine. She was the recipient of the 2002 Raymond Carver Short Story Award, holds a B.A. in literature and writing from Bennington College, and was a Robert Bingham Scholar at Columbia University, where she earned an M.F.A. in fiction writing.

Jan Sheehan: Jan is a Denver-based freelance writer and editor specializing in health, fitness, nutrition, and wellness. She has written feature articles for dozens of national magazines, including Parents, American Baby, Family Circle, Fitness, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Ladies' Home Journal, and Men's Health. Additionally, she writes a monthly Q&A health column for Parents, where she is a contributing editor.

Jennifer L. Shoemaker, PhD: Jennifer is a medical writer and editor with a doctoral degree in pharmacology/toxicology who was a post-doctoral fellow at Emory University in Atlanta. With extensive experience in gastroenterology, neurodegenerative diseases, and diabetes, among other areas, she has written and edited numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. In addition, Jennifer has also given many presentations and lectures based on her published research papers at universities, professional symposiums, and other scientific meetings.

Jessie Sholl: Jessie's essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Other Voices, Fiction, Lit, and the forthcoming anthology Be Thrifty. Her current project, Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding, will be published by Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books in 2011. Jessie has been awarded residencies to The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow and Ragdale, and she holds an MFA from The New School University, where she teaches creative writing. She lives in New York City.

Megan Southwick: Megan is a full-time writer and editor with more than five years of experience developing content for the Web and for print publication. She has contributed to WhiteApricot.com, PoshCravings.com, and ePregnancy.com among others. She is currently based in Richmond, VA.

Paul Sterman: Paul is a freelance writer living in Orange, California. He has been a journalist for 15 years and is the co-author of Best of the Bruins, a non-fiction sports book being published by Sports Publishing LLC.

Kristen Stewart: Kristen Stewart is an award-winning freelance writer who specializes in health, lifestyle and parenting topics.  Her articles—on everything from convergence insufficiency, a vision disorder often misdiagnosed as ADHD in children, to flowers genetically engineered for brighter colors and stronger scents–have been published in a variety of print and online publications such as Parenting, Parents and AARP: The Magazine.

She spent two years as a monthly health columnist for Taste of the Bay Magazine and her work has appeared on websites such as SheKnows.com and NurseTV.com as well as on The Lohdown on Science, a Caltech radio show aired on more than 100 stations throughout the U.S. and in over 175 countries worldwide.

Additionally, Kristen has written patient education materials for clients such as Bayer HealthCare and Novartis Pharmaceuticals and created content for Disney/Buena Vista Home Entertainment.  She has also provided advocacy support including articles, letters and website content for the Allergy Advocacy Association.

Editing is another area of expertise and Kristen has worked on a wide range of projects including user manuals, physician clinical guides and treatment protocols for aesthetic and medical laser systems, NIH grant proposals for the continuation of a Ph.D. training program and annual reports for a professor of sleep research.  She also served as managing editor of a website devoted to the rapid publication of sleep research manuscripts.

Before beginning her freelance career, she worked as a senior editor at UCLA’s Brain Research Institute after graduating from UCLA with a degree in English.

Kristen tries to embrace the healthy lifestyle she writes about and is always on the lookout for new good-for-you recipes to try.  She can often be found at the gym spinning and swimming and even tried her first mini triathlon a few years ago.

To learn more, visit her website at www.kristenestewart.com.

Diane Stresing: Diane is a freelance writer and editor who enjoys writing about medical treatments and preventing illness. She covers subjects from bugs to business and travel to technology for a variety of online and print publications. She is the author of the hiking guide 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of Cleveland, a regular book reviewer for the Plain Dealer newspaper, and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. When she’s not at her desk, Diane can be found on the bike paths, hiking trails, and soccer fields of Northeast Ohio.

Susan Sullivan: Susan is a freelance writer in Marietta, Ga., with more than 30 years of medical and technical writing experience. She has held writing positions at the University of Kentucky as well a major transportation provider for pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. She also volunteers at a local hospice where she works with terminally ill patients and their families. Susan earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in public administration with a concentration in health care administration from the University of Kentucky.

Marie Suszynski: Marie is a Pennsylvania-based freelance writer who has contributed to more than a dozen books by Prevention and other publishers. She has been working as a journalist for more than 10 years, including covering the health insurance industry for an online newswire. She holds a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism.

Mikel Theobald: Mikel is a freelance writer based in Indianapolis. Throughout her career she has created content covering a range of topics including early childhood education, home and family, Olympic sports, nutrition, fitness and health. Her work has appeared in various consumer and professional publications as well as around the web on sites such as AOL, Huffington Post and others. She joined HealthDay as a consumer health writer in 2011.After a stint on the East Coast, Mikel returned to the Midwest to raise her family. As a homeschooling parent she taught her daughters to explore the world around them -- to ask questions and dig deeper until they were satisfied that they understood the information they were processing. By applying that same approach to her writing she helps readers to sort through the complexities of important topics so that they walk away with a better understanding of information that is relevant to them. Mikel believes in the power of information and lives by the philosophy that if you want to know more about something you need to ask questions -- find experts, scour the web, have conversations with people who know about the topics you are exploring. She does this for herself and for her readers. Her favorite aspect of health writing is connecting readers with the information that helps them to be advocates for their own health and well-being. She also thoroughly enjoys speaking with experts and getting to know individuals who openly share their stories with the intention of helping others.When she isn’t spending time with her family or meeting a writing deadline, you can often find Mikel volunteering for child advocacy organizations. She is passionate about finding ways to keep all children safe from harm.

Dennis Thompson: Dennis is a career journalist with more than 20 years' experience, writing for newspapers in Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Delaware, and Oregon. He also has served as a freelance reporter for HealthDay for nearly a decade. Dennis holds a B.A. in communication studies from Virginia Tech and a master of arts in mass communication from the University of Florida.

Gayle Turim: Gayle has been writing for consumers about health and medical topics for more than two decades. She was an editor of the first national magazine for people with arthritis. Her work has appeared in periodicals including The New York Times, Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, Bon Appetit, and Americana, and in books, including The Healing Power of Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs. Her online credits include FamilyCircle.com and WholeHealthMD.com. She has a particular interest in medical history and has also written extensively about antiques and collectibles.

Madeline Vann, MPH: Madeline Vann, MPH, is a Williamsburg, VA., based health and medical freelance writer. She has been working in the field of health and medical writing and journalism for over 15 years. Reach out to her via her website www.fleetpen.com or follow her blog at www.fleetpen.com/.  She received her undergraduate degrees from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and her Master’s in Public Health with an emphasis on health communication and social marketing from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA. During her graduate training she worked on a statewide assessment of oral health needs among third graders in public schools in Louisiana. Prior to freelancing, she had been working in communications with the Louisiana Office of Public Health and with Tulane University Health Science Center in New Orleans. In addition to writing for a news reading audience, Vann is also interested in health literacy and has experience writing about health and medical issues at any reading level. Her areas of interest include diet, fitness, chronic diseases, infectious diseases, oral health, biotechnology, global health concern, health law, the Affordable Care Act, health economics, cancer, positive psychology, aging well, caregiving, end-of-life issues, and the intersection between environmental health and individual health. She is a writer for HealthDay and works as a freelance health and medical writer for a number of private clients, newspapers, magazines, and websites. While Vann works primarily in health and medical writing, she is also travel writing (particularly traveling with small children) and outdoors writing, which has challenged her with tours of canyons in the South, fishing and beachgoing with her children, and geocaching. She is currently participating in the Virginia Master Naturalist training program, which is expanding her knowledge of the environment and ecology of Virginia. She writes and speaks Spanish. Vann regularly practices yoga, loves to cook, and can’t decide between a Mediterranean style diet and an Asian-fusion approach.

Michelle Vellucci: Michelle is a freelance writer and editor in New York City. She writes about health, education, arts, and entertainment for a variety of print and online publications.

Nancy Volkers: Nancy is a writer and editor who specializes in medicine and health. Nancy has written hundreds of articles for a variety of online and print publications. She has edited everything from textbooks on animal behavior to reports about Medicare. She lives in Vermont.

Marijke Vroomen-Durning, RN: Marijke (pronounced muh-RYE-keh) is a Canadian freelance health writer based in Montreal. She works on various projects for both professional and general public audiences. She has had articles published for several years in a row in the American Association of Family Physicians' Essential Guide to Health, is third author of a nursing textbook due out in January 2009, and has recently helped write the Emergency First Responders' Manual for the American Red Cross. Marijke also publishes four health-related blogs and is a frequent contributor to popular medical Web sites and professional journals. Her personal blog, Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer was recently awarded third place as Best Canadian Health Blog. Marijke is also a registered nurse with more than 25 years of experience and is the creator of Seniors Support .

Jonathon Weber: Jonathon is a Wisconsin-based medical writer who frequently writes about health issues. He is a contributing editor and writes about medical and genetic topics at Bright Hub, Inc. and writes about genetic conditions and maintains a pathology database at Kromosoft. He holds a B.S. in biology.

Carol Weeg: Carolhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/carolweeg is a writer in the New York City area who specializes in health and medicine as well as in-house communication for pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical marketing. She has written articles for NYTimes.com, Life Extension magazine, Health Monitor Network and WholeHealthMD.com. She’s also written for the National Science Foundation, Centers for Disease Control, and several offices of the National Institutes of Health.

Anne Wells: Anne is the founder and owner of Wells Publishing. Her expertise goes beyond journalism and writing, editing and publishing to marketing and communications. She has worked with such businesses as The Center for Contemporary Arts, Everest Biomedical Instruments Company, Haystack Toys, and others. Prior to working in communications, Wells was a freelance journalist as well as a writer and editor with Time Warner’s The Parenting Group in San Francisco and New York. Wells attended the graduate school of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and received her B.A. from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

Regina Boyle Wheeler: Regina is a journalist who specializes in health, parenting, and lifestyle content. She launched her freelance career in 2008 and began writing for HealthDay in 2009. In addition to Everyday Health, her work appears on several websites including AOL, MedicineNet, The Huffington Post and HealthDay Living. Regina began her journalism career at CNN and CNN Headline News where she started as an entry-level camera and teleprompter operator but quickly was promoted to writer and later producer. During her 15 years at the network, she produced live news programming and worked on countless breaking news events. These included the uprising at Tiananmen Square, China, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the OJ Simpson trial, and the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Regina was part of the Emmy-award winning team that covered the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. She is a proud graduate of Indiana University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism and political science. She's also a member of the Kappa Delta sorority. Regina was born in New Jersey but now  lives outside of Atlanta with her husband and two sons.  She enjoys cooking,  shopping, gardening and cheering on her boys during football and basketball games. Traveling is another passion. Her ideal vacation would be taking in the sites and flavors of Italy with her family by her side.  Regina's healthy habits include walking every morning, using sunscreen religiously, and seeing the doctor regularly.  The family’s yellow labrador retriever puppy keeps the whole family very active as well. Regina enjoys a good steak or burger once in a while, but tries to stick to a healthy low-fat, low-salt diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables.  Balancing work and a growing busy family is challenging, but Regina relieves stress by reading, listening to music, and doing yoga.

Melanie Winderlich: Melanie is a Web writer and freelance editor who frequently covers health, entertainment, and lifestyle topics. She has written and edited for HowStuffWorks, Georgia Institute of Technology, AZ Big Media and Turner Entertainment Networks. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Arizona. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and golden retriever.

Lynn Yoffee: Lynn is an Atlanta-based health and medical science journalist with 20 years of diversified experience in both consumer and business-to-business publishing. She writes about a wide range of subjects in healthcare, medical research and the business that drives the development of drugs and medical technologies. She writes for Medical Device Daily, Plastic Surgery News, and has contributed to a variety of Web sites and publications ranging from HealthyWomen.org to Technology Transfer Tactics.

Ingrid Strauch: Ingrid is an editor and writer in Brooklyn, New York. She was formerly the editor of Diabetes Self-Management and Arthritis Self-Management magazines.

Kathleen Doheny: Kathleen is a Los Angeles-based independent journalist, specializing in health, behavior and fitness topics. She covers both breaking news and features. Currently she contributes to a variety of health-related websites. Previously, she wrote a personal health column, travel health column and automotive health and safety column for the Los Angeles Times. Other credits include contributing to and editing health content for national magazines. She graduated with a B.S. in journalism education because her mother thought nice girls weren't newspaper reporters, and that teaching was secure. She then promptly went to work as an editor and reporter for a rural Indiana weekly. She has also worked as a general assignment reporter for a semi-weekly in downstate Illinois and as a medical editor for a continuing medical education publisher. She taught magazine feature writing at UCLA Extension for seven years. Among her writing awards are the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence for contributing to a series of articles on autism research and the Public Education Award for Excellence in Plastic Surgery Journalism from the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, for a piece on cleft palate advances. Among favorite assignments was a feature story, published in the Los Angeles Times, tracking the members of a cardiac bypass team--from pre-op to patient recovery, including watching the operation itself. Rewards include getting letters and emails from readers saying the information in a story helped them live a healthier life or helped them convince a loved one to seek medical help. Convinced by research about the value of exercise, for health, longevity and stress reduction, she jogs and hikes regularly and grudgingly fits in boring weight workouts. She continues to hope that one of these scientists will find a way to help joggers get faster with age so her next 10K or half-marathon time will be something to brag about.

Sherri Copanzzi
Sherri is a freelance writer specializing in the beauty and lifestyle industry. She founded DistrictStyleDaily.com, a blog that delivers an insider's perspective on beauty, men's grooming, fashion, and the latest happenings in DC, NYC, and beyond.

Tammy Worth

Tammy is a freelance writer based in Kansas City, Missouri, who has been covering healthcare for more than a decade. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Health.com, WebMD.com, The Economist, Bloomberg News, Men's Health, and the Kansas City Business Journal. Prior to beginning a freelance career, she was a newspaper reporter and editor. She has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a master's degree in journalism from Northeastern University in Boston.

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