Career Development: Freelancers' Corner
Directory of independent journalists
These AHCJ members are independent journalists who have agreed to be listed for potential employers. We encourage potential employers to contact these writers and editors using the contact information they have provided in their résumés. Employers should also consider placing an ad with AHCJ to reach an even wider group of expert health journalists.
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Alabama | |||
Alyson McNutt English | Huntsville | General health and wellness, workplace safety, home health and safety, children/family health and wellness, nutrition, holistic/alternative medicine, pregnancy, fertility, environmental toxins and health | |
David Parks | Birmingham | Consumer health, public health, medical research, insurance, health disparities, mental health, military/VA health and health business | |
Alaska | |||
Arizona | |||
Arkansas | |||
California | |||
Larry Beresford | Oakland | Hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care and related health care subjects. | |
Heather Boerner | San Francisco | Nutrition, alternative therapy/yoga, mental health, sexual health, LGBT health, chronic illnesses and health care policy | |
Mari Edlin | Sonoma | Managed care, pharmacy, disease management, health care business, health care reform | |
Roberta Friedman, Ph.D. | Santa Cruz | Expertise in neuroscience and pharmacology | |
Arline Kaplan | Huntington Beach | Psychiatry and behavioral health; consumer health; health care politics, policy and business; pharmaceuticals and medical devices; complementary and alternative medicine; women's health; health disparities and cultural literacy; aging; and death and dying | |
Yolanda (Linda) Reid Chassiakos, M.D. | Los Angeles | Features, technical reporting, general medicine, opinion, ethics | |
Noelle Robbins | San Francisco Bay Area | Individual, community, and environmental health issues. Social ventures. Activism. | |
Sue Russell | San Diego/Los Angeles | Health and fitness. Alternative/integrative health. Violence in women. Abuse of children. Mental and physical health issues affecting criminals and law enforcement personnel, including their impact on criminal justice issues, investigations, and forensic science. Celebrity health and business profiles. | |
Stephanie Stephens | Calif./New Zealand | Consumer health and wellness, mental health, aging, caregiving, neurology, physical therapy, human interest stories and profiles; articles for consumer and custom publications | |
Lisa Zamosky | Los Angeles | Health insurance, health care business and policy, consumer health, health literacy and biopharma | |
Colorado | |||
Connecticut | |||
Sheryl Kraft | Wilton | Women's health, breast cancer, fitness, baby boomer wellness | |
Delaware | |||
District of Columbia | |||
Beryl Lieff Benderly | Washington, D.C. | International & public health, consumer health, mental health, science & research policy, bioethics, genetics & genomics | |
Donya Currie | Washington, D.C. area | Health disparities, mental health, public health, health and aging, child health, health reform | |
Howard Gleckman | Washington, D.C. | Long-term care financing and delivery, elder care, health policy, Medicare, Medicaid, also fiscal policy | Bio | Web site |
Merrill Goozner | Washington, D.C. | Health policy; coverage of federal health-related regulatory agencies, especially FDA and CMS; technology development, especially pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; neglected and rare diseases | |
Stephenie Overman | Washington, D.C. area | Workplace health, safety and wellness | Bio | Web site | Clips |
Claudia Perry | Washington D.C. metro area | See Web site. | |
Tabitha M. Powledge | Washington, D.C. area | Infectious disease and microbiology; cancer; endocrinology and hormones (estrogens and testosterone, menopause, and menstruation); test-tube babies, IVF, prenatal diagnosis, and other embryo and fetal technology; bioethics; health policy; medical policy; basic biomedical research; diet and nutrition; the brain and neuroscience; human behavior, animal behavior, and psychology; genetics, genomics, and biotechnology; epigenetics; archeology and paleontology; evolution (including primate evolution and human evolution); and science policy. | |
Helena Gail Rubinstein, J.D., M.A., M.P.H. | Washington, D.C. area | Law & public health, neurological issues, nutrition & diabetes management/prevention, bioethics, biopharma, health care business & policy | |
Florida | |||
Georgia | |||
Marie Powers | Atlanta | Business of health care, including orthopaedic surgery and neurology practice management; managed care and health care reimbursement; clinical guidelines; quality and performance improvement; nanotechnology | |
Hawaii | |||
Idaho | |||
Illinois | |||
Richard Hyer | Chicago | General medicine, including allergy/immunology, critical care, diabetes, hematology/oncology, influenza, ophthalmology, radiology, renal, and surgery. | |
Mary Chris Jaklevic | Chicago | Business of health care, public policy, quality measures, nutrition and obesity | |
Indiana | |||
Catherine Guthrie | Bloomington | Women’s health, breast cancer, nutrition, yoga/fitness, medical investigative reporting | |
Kurt Ullman, R.N., M.H.A. | Carmel | Diabetes, asthma, cardiology, rheumatology, oncology, psychiatry | |
Iowa | |||
Kansas | |||
Kentucky | |||
Louisiana | |||
Maine | |||
Maryland | |||
Pat McNees | Bethesda | Consumer health, clinical research, mental health and illness, grief and bereavement, health care policy, history of medicine | |
Massachusetts | |||
Phyllis M. Hanlon | Central Massachusetts | Human-interest stories, profiles and articles on medical/healthcare topics, religion, academics and business for magazines and newspapers; custom publications | |
Tinker Ready | Cambridge | Health policy, biomedical research, women’s health | |
Michigan | |||
Andrea King Collier | Lansing | Health care disparities, medical and health care for consumers, professional papers | |
Steve Raphael | Metropolitan Detroit | The business of health care, with an emphasis on provider financial performance; high tech, including all areas of life sciences, as well as engineering and automotive; signficant editing and supervisory experience. | |
Minnesota | |||
Harriet Hodgson, B.S., M.A. | Rochester | Children's health, caregiving, dementia, anticipatory grief, post-death grief | |
Maryn McKenna | Minneapolis | Public health, global health, infectious disease, epidemiology, medical narrative | |
Sarah Moran | Minneapolis | General health and wellness, prevention, nutrition, fitness, environmental health, pregnancy, alternative and complementary medicine and holistic health. | |
Kathlyn Stone | St. Paul | Neurology, medical physics, conference coverage, health and science policy | |
Mississippi | |||
Missouri | |||
Lola Butcher | Springfield | Health care business and policy; Medicare policy | |
Jeanne Erdmann | Wentzville | Erdmann writes features, news, and narrative. Her stories cover immunology, neuroscience, cancer, genetics, and technology. | |
David L. Fortney | Kirksville | Consumer health and wellness, safety, health care business, human interest stories and profiles, medical narrative, hospital and medical history, custom publications, international and public health, environmental issues, mental health | Bio |
Tammy Worth | Kansas City | Consumer health, business, policy, social determinants | |
Montana | |||
Nebraska | |||
Nevada | |||
New Hampshire | |||
New Jersey | |||
Christina Hernandez | Haddonfield | General health and wellness, autism, women’s health, communities of color and health, health disparities, mental health, sexual health, medical research, medical technology and innovation, diabetes, heart health, nutrition, natural remedies | |
Cornelia (Nikki) Kean | Montclair | Gastroenterology, oncology, psychiatry, surgery, pharmacy practice, pediatrics and aging issues | |
Gale Maleskey, M.S., R.D. | Bridgewater | Integrative/preventive medicine, nutrition, women's health, health coaching, aging, weight loss, medical consumerism, nutritional | Bio | Résumé | Web site |
Jennifer Maybin, M.A., E.L.S. | Branchburg | General health and wellness, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, pain management, nursing, menopause, dementia, geriatric health and aging, assisted living, Medicare | |
Rochelle Nataloni | Sewell | Ophthalmology: laser refractive surgery, glaucoma , macular degeneration; plastic surgery: aesthetic and reconstructive procedures; dermatology: skin care, skin disease, anti-aging and chronic wound treatment. Skilled feature and news writer and ghostwriter. | |
Pat Olsen | Tinton Falls | General health, addiction and recovery, sustainability, health issues in the workplace, profiles of medical professionals and patients, parenting | |
New Mexico | |||
Bryant Furlow | Albuquerque | Health care policy and legislation, cancer research, public health and epidemiology, international health issues, investigative journalism | |
New York | |||
Katherine Eban | Brooklyn | Investigative, Homeland security/bio-terror, Public health, Drug safety, Pharmaceutical supply chain: counterfeiting, diversion, parallel trade | |
June M. Lay, M.S. | New York City | Health/medical topics, medical research, fitness/exercise, nutrition, weight management, women’s health | |
Irene S. Levine, Ph.D. | Chappaqua | Mental health, mental illness, relationships, aging, women, travel health | |
Jordan Alexandra Lite | New York City | Consumer health (news and features), public health medicine and policy including HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and reproductive health, mental health, alternative medicine, environmental health, bioethics, opinion. | |
Carol Milano | Brooklyn | Careers in health and science; occupational health; practice management; complementary/alternative medicine; environmental health | |
Laura Newman | New York City | Newsletters, feature stories, profiles, oncology, evidence based medicine, urology, imaging, clinical outcomes research, practice guidelines, Medicare, public policy | Bio | Résumé | Web site | Clips |
Paul Raeburn | New York City | Families, psychology, psychiatry, science, genomics, medicine, health policy. | |
Irene Wielawski | Pound Ridge | Health care policy and financing, barriers to medical care among the poor and uninsured, health system reform, medical science | |
North Carolina | |||
John Suddath | Raleigh | Eldercare, long-term care | |
North Dakota | |||
Ohio | |||
Eileen Beal | Cleveland/Northeast Ohio | Geriatrics/aging issues; eldercare; long-term care issues (including financing); chronic disease management; consumer health/wellness; integrataive/holistic medicine; medical education (all levels), healthcare technology; the “business” of healthcare, the “business” of eldercare; doctor/patient relationships. | |
Oklahoma | |||
Oregon | |||
Andrew Holtz, M.P.H. | Portland | Public health, social determinants, medical research, health literacy | |
Pennsylvania | |||
Eric T. Rosenthal | Wynnewood | Issues and controversies in oncology; social history of cancer; appropriate and effective communication of medical information to the public; medicine and the media; medical consumerism | |
Rhode Island | |||
South Carolina | |||
South Dakota | |||
Tennessee | |||
Salynn Boyles | Nashville | All health/medical topics; have written extensively about cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, alternative treatments, weight loss, and nutrition | |
Texas | |||
Laura Beil | Dallas | Consumer health, medicine, science, health policy, narrative | |
Charlotte Huff | Dallas/Fort Worth | Medicine, science, psychology, business of health, health insurance, doctor-patient interactions | |
Utah | |||
Vermont | |||
Virginia | |||
Washington | |||
| Megan Clark | Seattle | Health/Medical topics: consumer health, biomedical research, bioengineering and clinical research. | Bio | Résumé | Clips |
Sally James | Seattle | Genetics and cancer, biotechnology, neuroscience of learning, consumer health, vaccines | |
Heather Larson | Tacoma | Consumer health, children’s health, weight management and alternative therapy/yoga | |
Diane Mapes | Seattle | General health, cosmetic trends, behavior / mental health issues, unusual body phenomenon, and health-related product reviews | |
Harris Meyer | Yakima | Health politics, policy and business; health insurance; comparative effectiveness research; hospital and physician organizations; patient-centered medical homes; physician-assisted dying; Medicaid and long-term care | |
Carol Smith | Seattle | Medical research, biotechnology, mental health, veteran's health affairs, consumer health, occupational health, neurology, aging, environmental health, genomics, public health, science literacy | Bio | Résumé | Web site | Clips |
West Virginia | |||
Wisconsin | |||
Wyoming | |||
International | |||
Stephanie Stephens | Calif./New Zealand | Consumer health and wellness, mental health, aging, caregiving, neurology, physical therapy, human interest stories and profiles; articles for consumer and custom publications | |
Rebecca L. Weber | South Africa | Features, nutrition, wellness, public health, international health, and veterinary health. | |