EXPERIENCE

Communications Manager and Editor
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y. – April 2006 to present

Newsletters
• Manages a full-time staff writer, freelance writers, and designers.
• Project manages, assigns, writes and edits profiles, news, and feature stories for Inside Mount Sinai, The Mount Sinai Medical Center’s newsletter, a four-color, weekly publication circulated to 14,000 employees; contributed to the publication’s redesign.
• Project manages HouseCall, Mount Sinai’s bilingual (English and Spanish) community newsletter, a four-color publication directly mailed to 43,000 households in East and Central Harlem.
• Project manages Dean’s Quarterly, an eight-page newsletter highlighting Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s faculty and research. Dean’s Quarterly is distributed to deans and other academic leaders at institutions throughout the United States.
• Assigns photography and manages design and production for newsletters.

Books
• Contributed research and content for the 2007 Dean’s Report, an 88-page publication distributed nationwide to deans, academic administrators, and key opinion leaders.
• Contributed research and content to the 2008 Strategic Plan Accelerating Science, Advancing Medicine, a 150-page publication distributed nationwide to deans, academic administrators, and key opinion leaders. The book was the first in a series.
• Contributed content and managed the art manuscript for the 2009 publication Accelerating Science, Advancing Medicine — Medical Education, a 48-page book that was distributed nationwide to deans, academic administrators, and key opinion leaders.

Other Projects
• Contributed content to Mount Sinai’s National Health and Science Summit advertorial in the The New Yorker, published in the November 10, 2008 issue.
• Writes and edits press releases and translates clinical and basic science research for both internal and external audiences.
• Writes and edits speeches for executive leadership.
• Collaborates with individual faculty members to help promote their research.
• Manages and produces institutional announcement cards.

Staff Writer, MedPage Today, Little Falls, N.J. – March 2005 to Feb. 2006
• Wrote medical news and features, which included posttests for continuing medical education credits for physicians, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.
• Read and reported on articles from professional medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of American Medical Association, and the British Medical Journal.
• Brainstormed and wrote features specifically for strategic partners at CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and WSJ.com.

Freelance Journalist, Washington, D.C. and Edgewater, N.J. – Oct. 2000 to Feb.2005
• Specialized in stories on women's health, medical science, women's legislative issues and health policy, including coverage of major research findings and on-site coverage of conferences.
• Wrote travel and general interest feature articles to major publications.
• Clients included United Press International, New Physician magazine, Self, More, People, Elle, Health, Women's Enews, The Boston Globe and The (Portland) Oregonian.

Stringer, Newsweek, Seattle, Wash. – April 1999 to Jan. 2000
• Contributed coverage interviews and research for national news magazine.
• Coverage areas included the 1999 World Trade Organization conference in Seattle, court hearings for alleged terrorist Ahmed Russam, and Starbucks Corp.'s international efforts.

News Writer, OnHealth.com (later WebMD), Seattle, Wash. – May 1998 to Sept. 2000
• Wrote daily news briefs and in-depth reports on health and medical research topics.
• Provided on-site coverage of national health conferences.

Newswoman, The Associated Press, Albany, N.Y. – March 1997 to Dec. 1997
• Wrote, edited and tracked state and national news in a nine-month temporary position.
• Wrote spot news and enterprise features and transmitted state and national stories for print and broadcast.

Staff Writer, Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H. – Aug. 1996 to Feb. 1997
• Reported and wrote education and general assignment stories.