Writing Samples

FREELANCE

Bmore: “Women Taking the Lead - Encore Path’s Kris Appel,” Feb. 2, 2010; “Following the Green Path in Healthcare,” Sept. 29,2009; “Juxtopia: Looking toward the biotech future,” Aug. 25, 2009

Corridor Inc.: “Sustainable policies and incentives spell growth for local green energy companies,” October 2009; “Business incubators provide assistance for startups,” September 2009

“What’s the Violence-Depression connection?” Johns Hopkins Nursing magazine, Summer 2009

Cooking Light, July 2009, Enlightened traveler: item on Maryland’s Assateague Island

Gelf Magazine: “When Masters Met Johnson,” May 16, 2009; “The Voice of Baltimore,” May 8, 2009

“Wounded not broken: Walter Reed Army Medical Center staff care for wounded soldiers with pride and dedication”; pg. 1, pg. 2, pg. 3, pg. 4;  Defense Standard, Summer 2008

“Internet’s embrace: With more buyers beginning their new home search online, builders and developers shift e-marketing efforts into high gear.” Big Builder magazine, May 1, 2006

“The scent of a woman”; pg. 1, pg. 2; University of Chicago magazine, Investigations section, December 2004

PHYSICIANS PRACTICE

Cover story: “The Future of Healthcare,” April 2010

Cover story: “Revealing the New American Doctor,” October 2009

“Are you sharing too much online?” February 2010

“Managing referral relationships: Referral relationships are vital to a thriving practice. A few small gestures can keep you and your patients happy.” September 2009

Practice Notes: The Physicians Practice Blog; frequent contributor

Baltimore Examiner

“Down by the River;” Garbage and nutrients are choking the life out of Maryland’s rivers feeding into the Chesapeake Bay; April 22, 2008

“What’s in the water? Researchers, regulators eyeing pharmaceuticals in the water”; Aug. 22, 2008

“A Nobel cause: HIV pioneer Robert Gallo takes the high road and stays focused on the job at hand”; Oct. 12, 2008

“Artificial speech devise gives cancer survivor new hope”; Dec. 25, 2008

“Doctor unraveling mystery of celiac disease”; Jan. 16, 2009

“What, me worry? The invincible feeling of youth and the popularity of tanning have resulted in a startling rise of melanoma cases”; July 24, 2008

“Officials consider nonnative oysters for the Chesapeake Bay”; Oct. 15, 2008

MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

“Black belt residents could face costlier phone service”; The Tuscaloosa News, July 5, 2005; picked up by state AP wire and also ran in The Birmingham News, Gadsden Times

“For better, worse, and far apart: For some career-minded Chicagoans, commuter marriage seems to be working out just fine”; The Chicago Journal, Dec. 30, 2004

FEDERAL COMPUTER WEEK

"CDC's new sense of purpose: Bioterrorism concerns put a behind-the-scenes agency on the front lines"; July 7, 2003

"IT planning evolves - again"; Feb. 8, 2004