Trudy Lieberman
Director, Health and Medicine Reporting Program
Trudy Lieberman is the former director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union, a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and a contributor to The Nation. She began her career as a consumer writer at the Detroit Free Press.
Lieberman has authored five books including Slanting the Story: the Forces That Shape the News (2000) and Consumer Reports Guide to Health Services for Seniors (2000), named one of the year's best consumer health books by Library Journal.
She has taught media ethics in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University, and was a Beamer-Schneider SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on media ethics and the ethics of healthcare delivery.
She was also the Ottaway Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz, teaching a course on the media and the marketplace. She has won numerous honors, including two National Magazine Awards, ten National Press Club Awards, five Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Awards, the SPJ’s Award for Online Public Service, the Jack Newfield Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting from the Friends and Relatives of Institutionalized Aged, and a Fulbright Scholarship to study health care in Japan.
She holds a B.S. from the University of Nebraska and a certificate in business and economics journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 1976-1977. She is president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
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Ivan Oransky, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health and Medicine Reporting Program
Ivan Oransky is managing editor, online, at Scientific American. Previously, he was deputy editor of The Scientist, Magazine of the Life Sciences, editor-in-chief of Praxis Post, an online magazine of medicine and culture, and editor-in-chief of the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association.
Under his leadership, the editorial team of The Scientist earned the 2006 and 2007 Gold Eddie Awards for science magazines from FOLIO and finalist (top 10) status in the 2007 American Society of Business Publication Editors' Magazine of the Year contest (80,000 and under division). In its first year of publication, Praxis Post was a finalist for the 2001 Online News Association Award for General Excellence.
He has written for numerous publications including the Boston Globe, The Lancet, The New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal Online. He serves on the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists and as a member of the advisory board of the University of Southern California/Annenberg California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. He also teaches medical journalism in NYU’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting program. He is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at NYU Medical School, where he received his MD. He completed his internship at Yale University and has a BA from Harvard.
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