Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center website — May 15, 2013 Fourth-year medical student Tracy Cassagnol almost chose a career in journalism, but an undergraduate trip to report on farm workers in the Bahamas sparked a change of heart. “I…
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Mumps and Whooping Cough: Researchers Seek New Cures for Old Foes
Wake Forest School of Medicine website—January 2013 Over the past decade, the United States has seen outbreaks of mumps and whooping cough, despite childhood immunization programs in place since the 1960s. Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM) researchers are…
Seed Money Launches Successful Arthritis Research Program
Wake Forest School of Medicine website—December 2012 Research funding from the National Institutes of Health and from foundations is extremely competitive. Only about one in 10 grant applications advances beyond the initial peer review process to be considered for…
Wake Forest School of Medicine Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative – 2011 Annual Report
I helped conceptualize the format and wrote the text for this annual report. Click on image to download PDF
Knowledge is Power
Biomedical informatics offers powerful new tools Wake Forest Baptist Health — Insight magazine, October – December 2011 Smartphones and tablets, using applications like Facebook, Twitter and Google, are rapidly changing daily life by keeping people connected and informed wherever they…
HPV Vaccine Study Shows Why Few Women Getting Shots
Drugs.com–September 11, 2009 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Sales of Merck’s HPV vaccine, Gardasil, declined by a third this year, and three years after the FDA approved the drug an estimated three out of four women remain unvaccinated —…
Animated Biotechnology
ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals – August 25, 2009 This fall, seniors at Atkins Academic and Technology High School in Winston-Salem, NC, will learn about biotechnology and produce animated educational videos about the science through a joint project with local…