I am an award-wining writer focused primarily on health and medicine, and skilled at communicating complex information to both consumers and health care providers. I have written news articles, feature articles, newsletters, and online courses, and recently co-authored The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vaccinations. Other topics I have covered include pediatrics, nutrition, emergency medicine, and medical identity theft.

I studied writing and literature in both college and graduate school, and I have worked as a writer or editor for most of my professional career. I have been writing about health and medical topics since 1999, and freelancing since 2003.

As a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, I also periodically write about local topics, such as Bay Area hiking spots and the Slow Food Nation conference in San Francisco.