LOKERE, Jillian Lee

(née Meskell) 

jillian@lifesciencewriter.com

www.lifesciencewriter.com

978-392-1952

617-966-1533 (cell)

Objective:  Scientific and medical writing for professional and lay audiences.

Writing Clients

• Alliance Medical Communications. Continuing Medical Education slide kits, need assessments, and abstracts about inflammatory bowel disease, oncology, and rheumatoid arthritis.
• BabyZone.com (www.babyzone.com). Health articles for expectant parents.
• Clinical Advances in Gastroenterology and Hepatology (www.clinicaladvances.com). Continuing Medical Education monographs and meeting summaries.
• Clinical Advances in Hematology and Oncology (www.clinicaladvances.com). Continuing Medical Education monographs.
• Clinical Care Options for Hepatitis (www.clinicaloptions.com/hep). News stories and conference coverage for physicians.
• Curry Rockefeller Group (http://www.curryrockefellergroup.com). Publications planning, abstracts, journal articles, review articles, conference coverage, meeting summaries.
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet (www.docguide.com). Reviews of clinical journal articles for physicians.
• Harvard Focus (http://focus.hms.harvard.edu). News briefs.
• Haymarket Medical Education (www.haymarket.com). Continuing medical education monographs about oncology.
• HealthGate (www.healthgate.com). Patient education.
• Institute for Health Metrics (www.healthmetrics.org). Newsletter articles and white papers about quality of care, patient safety, physician credentialing, electronic medical records, and hospital-acquired infections.
• MIT Knowledge Updates. Educational and career-planning web materials for undergraduates interested in careers in bioengineering.
• Museum of Science, Boston, MA. Background information reports for the construction of new exhibits.
• Nature Education (http://www.nature.com/scitable). Position papers for science professionals, web content for students.
• Nature Network Boston (http://network.nature.com/hubs/boston/). News briefs about Boston-area scientific research.
• N-of-One (http://www.n-of-one.com). Patient education materials, news for a lay audience in oncology.
• Radcliffe Quarterly (http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/news/quarterly/index.php). Feature stories and news briefs.
• Rosen Publishing Group(www.rosenpublishing.com). Anthology of cell biology for AP biology high school students.
• Schizophrenia Research Forum (www.schizophreniaforum.org). News stories and conference coverage for scientists and physicians.
• Sui Generis Health (http://www.suighealth.com). Journal articles, continuing medical education materials.
• The Loh Down on Science (http://lohdown.caltech.edu). Scripts for a Southern California Public Radio show that presents scientific research in a humorous way.

Education

Present:

American Medical Writers Association Core Certificate Program

Medical writing/editing specialty

9/2000-6/2004:

Harvard University

Biological and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program

Master's in Biomedical Science, June 2004

9/1996-1/2000:

Stanford University

B.S. in Biological Sciences

Awarded with honors

Non-major coursework in writing taken.

Awards, Fellowships and Memberships

· Member, National Association of Science Writers

· Member, American Medical Writers Association

· Harvey Graduate Fellowship, Mustard Seed Foundation (9/2003-9/2006)

· Phi Beta Kappa (6/2000)

· Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Award and Grant for Excellence in Undergraduate Research (6/1998-9/1999) 

Research Experience

· Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School (6/2001-6/2004)  Genetics and cancer biology.

· Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School (1/2001-6/2001)  Tendon development.

· Department of Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School (9/2000-12/2000) Herpes Simplex Virus.

· Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University (9/1997-4/2000)  Genetics and cancer biology.

· Department of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University (6/1997-9/1997)  Nervous system development.