Position:
Health and Science Correspondent at National Public Radio
Work:
National Public Radio
since Jun 2000
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Health and Science Correspondent
The Boston Globe
Jun 1969 - Jun 2000
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Medical writer
Education:
Columbia University in the City of New York 1968 - 1969
Master of Science, Journalism
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1964 - 1968
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English
Harvard School of Public Health Journalism Fellow 1990-91
Stanford University National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1978-79
Interests:
Medical care (good, bad, ugly), infectious diseases, global public health, history of medicine & health care, ways of making HC more humane. Then there's music (making, listening); biking, hiking, kayaking, canoeing, skiing, snowshoeing; photography; cooking w/ wife & friends; communing with my English cocker; gardening and pruning the forest. Architecture. Oh, and reading, electically.