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Beryl Lieff Benderly received the 2000 June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism from the American Society of Journalists and Authors for an article on genetic testing published in InTouch magazine.
Judy Foreman, a staff writer for the Boston Globe
for 23 years, has left the paper to take academic appointments
at Harvard and Brandeis Universities. Foreman will be a fellow
in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, where she will work
with the Internet Health Coalition to put into practice a new
e-health code of ethics to help safeguard medical privacy on the
Internet. She will also be a visiting research associate in the
Women's Studies Program at Brandeis University, in Waltham, where
she plans to write a book on women's health and aging. After a
break over the summer, she will continue to write her ''Health
Sense'' column approximately once every two weeks.
Rick Borchelt will be headed back to DC this fall, working
for the Department of Energy's Office of Science to develop a
comprehensive communications plan for the department's basic research
portfolio. He'll be senior research associate for science communications
in the Office of Planning and Analysis, on loan from Vanderbilt
University. He's snagged a house in Bethesda within walking distance
of The Writers Center and plans on picking up there where he left
off teaching courses and workshops on writing about science, health,
and technology. Reach him at Office of Science, SC-5, US Department
of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave SW, WDC 20585; phone 202-586-9942.
Karen F. Schmidt joins the Center for Independent Journalism.
She can be reached at kfschmidt@ndt.ro.
Andrew Skolnick is the recipient of the John P. McGovern Medal presented by the American Medical Writers Association "to honor a preeminent contribution to medical communications." He will receive a $1500 honorarium and delivery an address at the AMWA annual conference in November. This award is not part of a competition, but is presented upon the nomination of the AMWA president with approval of the association's Board of Directors.
Phil Kibak has assumed the position of director of communications
and media relations with the Walther Cancer Institute in Indianapolis.
Previously he worked at ERdelman PR Healthcare in Chicago.
David Lindley leaves Science News after five years
for a new home in Madison, WI and the life of a full-time freelance.
Reach him at dlindley@nasw.org.
Elaine A. Richman takes on the duties of editor-in-chief
of BioScience and manager of the publications department.
She's interested in hearing from "smart, spunky, talented
freelancers" to propose articles in the non-medical, biological
sciences. Reach her at erichman@aibs.org.
Debbie Mierke of the American Association of Pharmaceutical
Scientists is now Debbie Werfel. Her new e-mail address is werfel@aaps.org.
After spending nearly a year reinventing the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute's quarterly magazine, Joe Alper is now the managing
editor of the online biotechnology magazine at DoubleTwist.com.
He is also freelancing again. Reach him at 720-890-1956 or ajoseph2@uswest.net.
Karen Watson has been promoted to executive producer of
Discovery Channel online programming at Discovery.
com.