LOKERE, Jillian Lee

(née Meskell) 

jillian@lifesciencewriter.com

978-392-1952

617-966-1533 (cell)

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

Selected Writing Clients

• Alliance Medical Communications. Continuing Medical Education slide kits, need assessments and abstracts in inflammatory bowel disease and oncology.
• BabyZone.com (www.babyzone.com). Health articles for expectant parents.
• Clinical Advances in Gastroenterology and Hepatology (www.clinicaladvances.com). Continuing Medical Education monographs.
• 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.
• 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.
• HealthGate (www.healthgate.com). Patient education.
• 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.
• Radcliffe Quarterly (http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/news/quarterly/index.php). Feature stories.
• Rosen Publishing Group, New York, NY (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.
• The Loh Down on Science (http://lohdown.caltech.edu). Scripts for Southern California Public Radio show on humorous science topics.

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 Biology 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) 

• National Merit Scholar

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.