FREELANCE ACTIVITIES

Editorial and publicity consultant for clients including American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Kaiser Permanente. Editor of white papers on medical and information technologies. Public relations consultant in international business. Writer for Internet companies specializing in medical information and business education. Correspondent for US Information Agency and Physicians Radio Network. Scriptwriter for medical and educational filmstrips. Writer-producer affiliated with commercial radio and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Consultant in health care multimedia. Book manuscript editor.

STAFF EMPLOYMENT

Writer-Publicist, City of Hope National Medical Center. Lecturer in communication arts/journalism, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Speechwriter and health science publicist, University of Southern California. Reporter, Gannett and Ridder newspapers (California and New York state).

PERSONALITIES INTERVIEWED OR REPORTED ON

Edward Albee; Maya Angelou; Carlos Baker (biographer of Ernest Hemingway); Jean-Michel Cousteau; Buckminster Fuller; Dr. Robert Gale (Chernobyl physician); Dr. Wassily Leontief (Nobel laureate in economics); Nelson Mandela; Marshall McLuhan; Anais Nin; Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh); Colin Powell; Jeane Kirkpatrick and Andrew Young (US ambassadors to United Nations).

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in periodicals including Los Angeles Times, Law Officer (click to see sample article), Emergency Medical Services, The Russian, Contemporary Dialysis & Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation, Ocular Surgery News, The Progressive, Radiology Today. Topics include counterterrorism, medical research, patient counseling, health care politics and finance, cinema, literature, international economics.

EDUCATION

Received Ford journalism scholarship and University of Pennsylvania communications fellowship. BA in Philosophy and English, Dartmouth College. MA in Communications, Pennsylvania. Cinema studies, University of Southern California.

AFFILIATIONS AND RECOGNITION

• Member of American Medical Writers Association and National Association of Science Writers.
• Former Vice President for Continuing Education, Ivy League Association of Southern California; initiated, organized, and hosted series of symposia and lectures by Ivy League professors and other noted experts; received association’s Distinguished Service award.
• Listed in International Authors and Writers Who's Who, International Who's Who in Medicine, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, and Who's Who in the World.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Multimedia, educational media, journalism, medical communications, broadcasting and film, public relations.