Writing Portfolio
SCIENCE & MEDICAL WRITING
ACS Cancer Conference Highlights Quality Efforts, Current Complexities in Cancer Care (ACS Bulletin)
STOP THE BLEED Program Brings Bleeding Control Education to Wrigley Field (ACS Bulletin)
Surgeons Seek to Understand the Pandemic’s Long-Term Effects on Cancer Care (ACS Bulletin)
Certain Cancers Will Likely Rise Exponentially Due to COVID-19 Screening Delays (ACS Press Release)
4 Things to Know about Breast Density (ACS Press Release)
NEWS AND FEATURES
A Diversity of Voices — James Webb’s Prayer uses recordings of vocal worship to transcend boundaries (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
American Spirituality in Radio (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
Forced from Home: One Year Later (Northwestern Public Health Review)
Using Stories to Humanize the Refugee Crisis (Northwestern Public Health Review)
A Moment for the Women of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Medium)
Emmy Betz: Preventing Firearm Suicides (Public Health Post)
No Road Home: Three Doctors Reflect on Aleppo and the Future (Northwestern Public Health Review)
New Nurses’ Program Helps Rape Victims Receive Necessary Treatment (Chicago Tribune)
Emotions Stretched to Their Limit: More Than Household Incomes Are Pulled Thin These Days (Chicago Tribune)
South Suburban PADS holding fundraiser to help cope with spiking demand (Chicago Tribune)
Doctors Attack Breast Cancer With One-Day Treatment Option (Chicago Tribune)
Mt. Everest Mountain Climber Has Soared High Since Homewood Days (Chicago Tribune)
Help in Life-and-Death Matters (Chicago Tribune)
JAPAN
Run Pilgrim Run (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
Letters from Japan (a series I wrote for Gapers Block, an award-winning Chicago blog)
Filmmaker Regge Life Honors American Tsunami Victim (Japan Today)
A Rare Glimpse Inside Fukushima (Japan Today)
FUNDED GRANTS & JOURNAL ARTICLES
Innovations in Amputation Surgery and Prostheses (NIH 1R13HD088081-01) — Editor and co-writer with Dr. Todd Kuiken, MD, PhD
SIESTA (Sleep of Inpatients: Empower Staff to Act) for Acute Stroke Rehabilitation (NIH 5R01HD097786-02) — Editor, proofreader and co-writer with Drs. Arun Jayaraman, PT, PhD and Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP
Center for Smart use of Technology to Assess Real-world Outcomes (NIH 1P2CHD101899-01) — Editor, proofreader and co-writer (non-technical materials) with Drs. William Zev Rymer, Richard Lieber, and a team of scientists.
HANDS: A Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (NIDILRR) — Editor and co-writer with Drs. William Zev Rymer and Milap Sandhu
J-Talks: Strengthening Ties Through Dialogue (2019-2020 Sasakawa USA/USJETAA Grant) — Lead writer & editor
MULTIMEDIA
Rendezvous with History (Project for a multimedia class in the science writing master’s program at Johns Hopkins University)— I wrote and produced this audio piece, which tells the story of my sister’s quest to learn more about our grandfather, Nicholas “Bud” Neises, using genealogical research. Bud, a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division, was killed in action following a heroic jump on D-Day.
The Fast Fifty (Crain’s Chicago Business) — I researched the 50-fastest growing companies for Crain’s Chicago Business in 2010 and assisted with the production of this video.
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