Jillian Lokere

 

Science and Medical Writer

 

 


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LOKERE, Jillian Lee

(née Meskell)

                                                                            

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.
  • 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 Network Boston (http://network.nature.com/hubs/boston/). News briefs about Boston-area scientific research.
  • 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.
  • 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. 

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