Professional Experience
Looking for a medical writer to flesh out a thin manuscript? Put to rights a disheveled draft? Or maybe you need someone to unify the style of a contributor work. Whatever your aim might be, I'll work with you to achieve it.
I have a knack for presenting complex medical concepts in terms any patient, student, or apprehensive parent can understand. With content expert Amy DeVore, I'm a co-author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office (Elsevier, 2010). I also share writing credit with the editors of the forthcoming first-edition textbook Advanced Medical Life Support, to be published in February by Elsevier in partnership with the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT).
Whether you need original content or an overhaul of existing material, I want to make you and your company look brilliant. When can we start?
Expertise
Copy Editor 17 YearsEditor 17 YearsWriter 12 Years
Specialty
Business (general) 12 YearsHealth 17 YearsMedicine 17 Years
Industries
Book Publishing Trade/B2B 17 YearsBook Publishing Consumer 17 YearsOnline/new media 12 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
- Elsevier/Mosby (10+)
- Elsevier/Saunders (10+)
- MC Strategies (10+)
- Healthline.com (6-10)
- McGraw-Hill Higher Education (1-2)
- Midwest Flyer magazine (1-2)
- Fast Company magazine (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
- Lighthouse International (10+)
- Morningstar Mutual Fund Rating Service (10+)
- Joshua Lyon, Hyperion author (1-2)
- Dallas-Ft. Worth Int. Airport (1-2)
Other Work History
Nicholson & Stillwell Publishing Associates
2005-Present - Medical Writer and Principal Managing Partner
St. Louis, MO
Thomson Publishing Group
2004-2005 - Acquisitions Editor
Albany, NY
Blackwell Publishing, Professional Division
2003-2004 - Acquisitions Editor
Ames, IA
Elsevier Periodicals, Global Medicine
2002-2003 - Managing Editor
St. Louis, MO
McGraw-Hill Higher Education
1995-2002 - Sr. Developmental Editor, Health Education Specialist
St. Louis, MO
Mosby Publishing
1993-1995 - Production Editor
St. Louis, MO
Technical Skills
Expert knowledge of medical terminology.
Computer Skills
Familiar with all aspects of web-based publishing and comfortable with most social-networking technologies. Advanced user of Word 2007, Publisher, PowerPoint, QuickBooks, QuickBase, and WordPress. Some knowledge of Excel.
Equipment
Fully equipped home office with high-speed internet connection, scanner, fax, and high-volume copier and printer.
Medical Writing
(Mosby/JEMS: Advanced Medical Life Support 12/31/2009)
I will share writing credit with the editors of Advanced Medical Life Support (first edition), to be published this fall by Mosby/JEMS (Elsevier) in partnership with the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT). The attached chapter introductions are my original work.
(Nursing Fundamentals textbook 5/1/2010)
Introduction to a chapter on oxygenation. For readers who are unfamiliar with a subject, fewer words don't always spell greater clarity, and the original passage is perhaps a bit too concise. I expanded the section to ease the reader into the topic.
(The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office/Elsevier 10/1/2009)
This sidebar is about Patients Like Me, an online patient community. It appears in The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office, published by Elsevier in 2010, a book I co-authored with content expert Amy DeVore, CMA (AAMA), CPC.
(Lighthouse International 7/11/2026)
One of a series of about 30 articles I wrote on eye diseases and conditions.
(Healthline.com 7/1/2011)
Consumer information on digestive system structure, function, diseases, and health promotion.
Aviation Writing
(Midwest Flyer/Forthcoming 7/11/2026)
This article is slated to be published in the next issue of Midwest Flyer magazine, probably with a different title TBD by the editor.
(Dallas-Ft. Worth Int. Airport 7/11/2026)
Intro to a 50-pp. handbook that covers irregular operations (IROPS) planning for events such as the 2011 Superbowl.
(Fast Company 7/11/2026)
Published with a different title in the Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009 issue of the magazine.
Business and Financial Markets
(Billie-Ann Plastics 7/11/2026)
This company's most obvious advantage is that it's a family business. Using the owner's voice, I wrote this warm, nostalgic letter to tell customers the story.
(QSR [Quick-Service Restaurants] Magazine 7/11/2026)
Article about the maverick entrepreneurs who launched the U.S. fast food industry.
(Pinnacle Consulting 7/11/2026)
The young entrepreneurs who own this consulting company wanted edgy copy that would differentiate them from stodgy competitors like Booz Allen Hamilton and Accenture.
(Morningstar Mutual Fund Rating Service 7/11/2026)
This file contains excerpts from several pieces I wrote in 2008, based on data provided by the company's economists. Ibbotson serves Morningstar's institutional clients, such as banks and brokerage houses.
(The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office/Elsevier 7/11/2026)
This passage precedes a brief glossary of computer terms. It appears in The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office, published by Elsevier in 2010, a book I co-authored with content expert Amy DeVore, CMA (AAMA), CPC.
Food and Restaurants
(The Riverfront Times 7/11/2026)
Excepts from restaurant reviews I wrote for the local New Times alternative weekly newspaper.
(QSR [Quick-Service Restaurants] Magazine 7/11/2026)
A piece about the new diet police.
