My extensive experience in both journalism and medical communications means I give my medical and health clients a rare and valuable combination. I understand medicine and health policy while also knowing how to translate complicated science into simple language that resonates with everyone.
About me:
• I make the complicated understandable and compelling. I understand how to research a subject, how to talk to scientists and how to distill the science into communications that the general public can understand — and be moved by.
• I have worked with scientists and scientific research in a wide range of medical areas — from Alzheimer's disease to autism to HIV, infectious disease and gene therapy. I have writing, editing and production experience in a range of communications formats.
• With my background in the media and experience in media relations and public relations, I also help clients strategize how to amplify their messages to traditional media and influential bloggers and web journalists.
• I exceed expectations. And my new clients become my regular clients, time after time.
What I produce:
• web content
• brochures
• annual reports
• case studies
• patient stories
• blog posts
• fact sheets
• news releases
• feature stories
• op-eds
• newsletters
• educational campaigns
• white papers
Areas of content expertise:
• neurology and neuroscience
• Alzheimer's disease
• multiple sclerosis
• Parkinson's disease
• stroke
• autism
• ADHD
• concussion and traumatic brain injury
• epilepsy
• psychiatry
• depression
• PTSD
• cancer
• medical imaging
• genetics and gene therapy
• vaccines
• infectious disease
• pain
• nutrition
• sports medicine
• sleep science
• HIV/AIDS
• bioethics
• orthopaedics
Awards and other stuff:
• was a member of newspaper reporting team (at the Louisville Courier-Journal) that won a Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting
• have won a number of other journalism and writing awards
• member of American Medical Writers Association
My portfolio
““Todd marries a reporter’s instincts with deft, organizational communications. The result is strong storytelling that is both compelling to read and reflective of an organization’s mission and messages. Todd asks the right questions and makes the writing and editing process a pleasurable collaboration.””