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Work Experience
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San Francisco Bureau Chief
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Rockville, Maryland
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International Medical News Group
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2001 - Present
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- Reported on a wide variety of medical meetings for an audience of specialty physicians, meeting frequent daily deadlines and managing multiple simultaneous projects, including news articles, feature stories, columns, and editorials.
- Provided leadership in company's transition from print journalism to multimedia, new media, and Web 2.0-based offerings, including blogs, podcasts, and video.
- Anchored, narrated, and edited audio and video news segments, including live interviews with prominent physicians and researchers.
- Engaged readers using social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Gained more than 950 Twitter followers using a number of strategies, including live-tweeting medical meetings.
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Senior Science Writer
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Pasadena, California
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California Institute of Technology
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1985 - 1992
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- Served as spokesman for Caltech on matters ranging from gifts and grants to earthquakes and scientific advances.
- Contributed to strategic decision-making on all aspects of the Institute's internal and external public relations.
- Developed crisis communications plans, anticipating public and media responses following disasters or animal rights activities.
- Performed all functions of a public information officer, including writing press releases, organizing press conferences, maintaining extensive contacts with local and national media, and answering inquiries from the press and the public on a wide variety of issues.
- Helped supervise a full-time assistant and a number of part-time, temporary, and work-study employees.
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Freelance Science and Medical Writer and Editor
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1980 - Present
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- Wrote feature articles, news stories, and reviews for The Los Angeles Times, Discover, Nature, The Scientist, Men's Fitness, Technology Review and other magazines and newspapers.
- Provided public-relations consultation services for hospitals, schools, non-profit organizations, and small high-technology companies with clients including the Bienvenidos Children's Center, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and the University of Redlands.
- Interviewed more than 1,000 scientists, physicians and researchers.
- Developed numerous contacts nationwide in the news media and the scientific community.
- Edited, indexed, and wrote highly technical scientific material and also material intended for the lay public.
- Familiar with many word processing programs and computer systems.
- Experienced in using photo-editing, video-editing, and sound-editing software.
- Highly accomplished at conducting online research.
- Served as webmaster and listserv moderator for the National Association of Science Writers.
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Applications Training Specialist
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Fullerton, California
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Beckman Instruments
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1980 - 1984
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- Wrote and edited instructional materials and designed and taught classes on scientific and medical instrumentation.
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