Constance Young
Medical, Health and Lifestyle Writer

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MEDICAL WRITING

For over 35 years,writing about medicine and health for a wide range of clients.  Strong commitment to truth, accuracy, clear reporting about complex issues, and meeting deadlines.

Partial Client List

Contents: Magazines, Books, Newsletters, Other Companies, TV Scripts, Staff Positions, Professional Affiliations, Awards -- and Contact Constance.

Magazines

Dermatology Times
Emergency Medicine -- (Link to sample article)
Family Practice (Canada)
Female Patient (Ob/Gyn and patient editions) 
Home Healthcare Today
Medical Post
Modern Medicine
Modern Health for Women 
Oncology News International
Ocular Surgery News
Orthopedics Today
Pharmacy Times
Register Herald
Taconic Papers Health Supplements -- (Link to sample article)

  Start-ups

        Impact (for Burroughs Wellcome)

Books

Chapters on "Neuropathic Pain" and "Sports Injury" for Your Pain is Real by noted neurologist; chapters for a book on Men's Health for noted TV medical correspondent; and for a book on menopause

Wrote books on heart disease and hypertension for book packagers

Ghostwriter of four books on health for well-known nutritionist

Author of two books on Massage for Bantam Books that were translated into several languages

Special project, advertising & public relations companies

Academy of Professional Services
Health Education Technologies
Impact Communications
Jarcom Inc.
Laverta Associates
Phase V

TV scripts

Wrote syndicated "60-Minute Hour" for Dr. Bob Lanier
Researched TV series "Cardiology Video News" for Hoechst
Certified Public Access TV Producer 
      (Programs: Series "Dialogues on Health"; Michel's Vegetarian Cooking)

CD-ROMs

Wrote scripts for Spectral Resources, Woodstock, NY

Staff Positions (full-time)

Editorial Director, Inter Medical Communications, custom projects division of Medical Tribune, Inc. (1992-1994)
Publications Manager, Health Education Technologies (1989-1992)
Associate Editor, Laboratory Management  magazine (Nature Publishing) (1987-1989)
Director, National Research Information Center (1985-1987).  Set up database of alcohol and drug abuse research using animals.  Completed book Alcoholic Rats  which I co-authored with Murry Cohen, MD, and wrote articles on alcohol research based on these findings
Coordinator, Medical Research Modernization Committee (1983-1985)
Senior Science Writer, J. Walter Thompson, advtg. (Deltakos div.) (1979-1980)
Senior Writer, Parke-Davis Co. (div. Warner-Lambert Co.) (1978-1979)
Audiovisual Expert/Editor, Roosevelt Hospital, NY Dept. of Psychiatry (1976-77)
Writer, William Douglas McAdams Co. (1967-71)
Medical Information Specialist, Ciba GeigyCo. (was Geigy Pharmaceutical Co.) (1965-67)
Research Technician, Columbia Presbyterian Med. Ctr., Inst. of Ophthalmology (1960-62)

Professional Affiliations and Memberships

(past) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) member, Brooklyn VA Hospital
Editorial Freelancers Association
National Association of Science Writers
National Writers Union

Awards

Winner of four CAPA awards for excellence in cable TV production

Education 

Columbia University, BS; Syracuse University

To contact Constance Young conncat@taconic.net

30 Myrtle Avenue, Pine Plains, New York 12567 USA
518-398-6339

Constance Young is a medical, health and lifestyle writer, editor and ghostwriter specializing in writing and ghostwriting as well as substantive editing of books, articles, essays, newsletters and monographs on health, medicine, animals, lifestyles and the environment.  Contact us for a single (or multiple) book, article, essay, newsletter or monograph - we can help.