HBNS Staff

	Lisa Esposito, (lesposito@cfah.org), Editor of the Health Behavior News Service, has a dual background as a health journalist and clinician. Before coming to the Health Behavior News Service, she worked at several media outlets, including Gannett Information Services and the Knight Ridder Tribune business wire. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she is a registered nurse who served as a research coordinator at the National Institutes of Health. She has written about HIV/AIDS, diabetes, obesity, nursing profession issues, rape forensics and emergency room care. She is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
	Brandon Moore, (bmoore@cfah.org), IT and Communications Manager, serves as CFAH's IT administrator, webmaster and graphic designer/desktop publisher. For HBNS, he designs and distributes the electronic and print publications and latest research news to the media and CFAH subscribers. He has a background in Web development and public affairs. Before coming to CFAH, he was webmaster/external relations at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. Prior to that, Brandon was an intern in the Offices of Organizational Development, Training, and Rail and Bus Training at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. He majored in psychology at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, NC.
	Becky Ham, Science Writer, has been a science writer since graduating with her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from New York University in 2000. Before coming to HBNS, she worked as a writer for the American Association for the Advancement of Health and the Optical Society of America. Her freelance publications include work for Health magazine, MSNBC.com, the American Public Health Association and Macmillian Publishers. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers.
	Christe Bruderlin-Nelson, Contributing Editor, is a senior-level writer, editor and consultant. In 1994, she earned an M.Sc. with Honors from Boise State University, where she focused on economics, biochemistry and public health. Her work appears in print publications including HealthLeaders, the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience and RAPS Focus. She authored a chapter in the leading pediatric neurosurgery textbook and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, the Association of Health Care Journalists and the American Medical Writers Association.

Regular Contributing Writers

Valerie DeBenedette is a medical writer whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, newsletters and on the Internet. She is the author of Caffeine, a book for young people, and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers.

Randy Dotinga is a freelance writer based in San Diego. He writes for the Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Wired News, Voice of San Diego and HealthDay News, among other publications.

Sylviane Duval is a Canadian writer who includes the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the federally funded Networks of Centres of Excellence program among her science-based clients. Sylviane is a member of the Editors' Association of Canada and Ottawa Independent Writers.

Glenda Fauntleroy is a freelance editor and writer with more than 17 years experience as an editor of national health publications, including award-winning consumer health magazines. She covers a wide range of health care-related topics, but specializes in women's health, health insurance and chronic illnesses. Glenda is based in Carmel, Ind.

Joan Hennessy is a freelance writer specializing in health, children and family policy. Her articles have appeared in the Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Sun, American Journalism Review, Virginia Business and Virginia Living.

Katherine Kahn has been a full-time medical writer and journalist since 2003, and also focuses on continuing medical education materials for health care providers and patient education. She has written for venues like WebMD and Alternative Medicine and writing fellowships and grants include awards from the Hedgebrook Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Star Lawrence is a long-time health and science writer, whose work has appeared on WebMD, UPI Science Desk and CBS "HealthWatch." Her health humor Web site, HealthSass, has been running for three years with more than 950 entries to date.

Patricia McAdams is an award-winning journalist with 18 years experience writing scientific and medical copy for a general audience. Her articles have been appeared in the AARP Bulletin, the Washington Post, Breast Cancer Network of Strength, the Alliance for Aging Research, and the National Academy of Sciences. Patricia is based in Kennett Square, Pa., near Philadelphia.

Amy Sutton, editor of Stroke Sourcebook (Omnigraphics), is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Amy, who lives and works in Lancaster County, PA, has contributed to a variety of consumer health, fitness, nutrition, and parenting publications and Web sites, such as Parenting, Muscle & Fitness Hers, and KidsHealth.org.

Bruce Sylvester began writing medical news for United Press International (UPI) and now writes for a variety of American and European-based print and electronic medical publications. He covers breaking news from major medical meetings around the world, from two home/office "bases," one near Atlanta, Ga., and the other near Vienna, Austria.

Kurt Ullman is a veteran medical writer with 25 years of experience. He has had more than 500 articles published in many different publications for both professionals and consumers.

Joan Vos MacDonald is the author of High Fit Home, a book about architecture and fitness, published by HarperCollins, plus five nonfiction books for young adults, including Tobacco and Nicotine Drug Dangers. She has written about health issues while on staff at the Journal News, a Gannett daily newspaper, and for Cosmetic Dermatology and SpineUniverse.com.