Anthony Komaroff is the Steven P. Simcox/Patrick A. Clifford/James H. Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Health Publications. He was Director of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 15 years and is the Founding Editor of Journal Watch, a summary medical information newsletter for physicians published by the Massachusetts Medical Society/New England Journal of Medicine.

A practicing physician, Dr. Komaroff also teaches clinical medicine as well as clinical research methods. He has served as an advisory board member for the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of over 200 journal articles and book chapters and of one book. In recognition of his accomplishments, Dr. Komaroff has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kay Cahill Allison is editor of Harvard Health Publications’ Special Health Reports. Prior to joining Harvard, she created content for a variety of media including newspapers, television, books, radio, and electronic publishing. She is author of the American Medical Association’s Complete Guide to Women’s Health and lead writer for the Children’s Hospital Guide to Your Child’s Health and Development. Former consumer reporter  for the Hartford Courant, Connecticut’s largest newspaper, and senior medical editor for Walking Magazine, her writing has also appeared in Consumer Reports on Health, Business Week, the Boston Globe, and aired on National Public Radio, WGBH, Channel 2 in Boston.

Julie Corliss is an editor for Harvard Health Publications’ Special Health Reports. Prior to working at Harvard, she was a medical writer and editor at HealthNews, a consumer newsletter affiliated with The New England Journal of Medicine. She is co-author of Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep it Off.

She earned a BA in biology from Oberlin College and a master’s certificate in science communication from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Annmarie Dadoly has been an editor for Harvard Health Publications’ Special Health Reports for 10 years. Prior to working at Harvard, she was the editor of several employee and subscriber publications at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and the news editor of a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts. She has received six journalism awards, and has a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross.

Nancy Ferrari is a managing editor at Harvard Health Publications and a former editor of the Harvard Heart Letter. Prior to joining Harvard, Nancy was a writer and editor in the Clinical Publications Program at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.  She began her work there as a women’s health writer creating patient education materials and then became the manager of the program.  Nancy’s writing and editing experience includes work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She worked at the Journal of Science, Technology, and Human Values, and served as editor of a conference proceedings on energy and the environment.

Dr. Garnick is an internationally renowned expert in medical oncology and urologic cancer. A clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, he also maintains an active clinical practice at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has dedicated his career to the development of new therapies for the treatment of prostate cancer.

Dr. Garnick is the Editor in Chief of HarvardProstateKnowledge.org and Harvard Medical School’s Annual Report on Prostate Diseases, both of which emerged from his keen interest in explaining issues of medical importance to patients and their families to help them make appropriate treatment choices.

Christine Junge is an editor at Harvard Health Publications. Previously she worked in development writing at the Harvard School of Public Health and, before coming to Harvard, she wrote and edited for Community Newspaper Company. She has also freelanced for many local and national publications, including The Boston Globe.

She has a B.S. in communications from Boston University, an M.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature from Harvard University’s Extension School, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lesley University.

Ann MacDonald is editor of the Harvard Mental Health Letter. Prior to working at Harvard, she ran her own medical communications business. Previously, she served as eastern regional director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

She became interested in mental health after her brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the late 1980s. One of the reasons she enjoys working on the Harvard Mental Health Letter is that it enables her to write about psychiatric disorders in a comprehensive way that places new discoveries in context, and explores the nuances of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.

She earned a B.A. in politics and women’s studies at Brandeis University.

Michael Craig Miller, M.D. is Editor in Chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter. Published monthly, the Harvard Mental Health Letter is read widely by professionals and non-professionals alike. Dr. Miller’s writing on mental health topics has appeared in Newsweek, the Boston Globe and in syndicated articles that appear in newspapers nationwide. He has appeared as a commentator on the Today Show, The Martha Stewart Show, ABC News, CNN, and NPR and for media outlets in the Boston area. In practice for more than 30 years, Dr Miller is a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on the medical staff at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Suzanne Rose is the editor of Harvard Health Publications’ Annual Report on Prostate Disease and its predecessor, Perspectives on Prostate Disease. She also oversees the related Web site, www.HarvardProstateKnowledge.org. Prior to working at Harvard, Suzanne was the communications manager in the Development Office at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, writing articles on science and medicine and editing the hospital’s magazine. She earned a BA in English from Carleton College and an MS in journalism from Boston University.

Carolyn R. Schatz is the editor of the Harvard Women’s Health Watch, Harvard Health Publications. Prior to joining HHP, Carolyn developed and produced science and medical stories for NBC News in New York. She received two Television New and Documentary Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for stories on the brain that aired on NBC. She was a 1990-91 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Carolyn has a B.A. in English from Skidmore College, an M.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University School of Public Communication, and an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Julie Silver, M.D., is the Chief Editor of Books at Harvard Health Publications and is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is an award-winning writer who has written many books that focus on healing including After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger and What Helped Get Me Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope. Her work has been featured in hundreds of media outlets including The CBS Early Show, The Today Show, Parade, NPR, USA Today, The Boston Globe and Prevention Magazine. Dr. Silver is a health expert who blogs regularly on AOL. Dr. Silver is also the director of an annual 3-day Harvard course that is open to all healthcare providers and others, titled “Publishing Books, Memoirs and Other Creative Nonfiction”. To learn more about Dr. Silver’s work, visit her website at JulieSilverMD.com.

Harvey Simon, the founding editor of the Harvard Men’s Health Watch, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Health Sciences Technology Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Simon completed his post-graduate training at the National Institutes of Health and the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he has provided primary medical care to patients for over three decades. Dr. Simon was a founding member of the Harvard Cardiovascular Health Center. He also served on the Massachusetts Governor’s Committee on Physical Fitness and Sports and was elected to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians.

As author of more than 100 scientific articles and medical textbook chapters, including many on diet and exercise, he has been an active contributor to medical research. Dr. Simon is also committed to medical education, and he was honored to receive the London Prize for Excellence in Teaching from Harvard and MIT.

The author of many consumer health publications, Dr. Simon is dedicated to informing people about health and medicine. He has written scores of articles for newspapers and magazines ranging from The Boston Globe and The Washington Post to Scientific American and Newsweek. He has also authored six health books, including The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men’s Health, Staying Well, Conquering Heart Disease, and The No Sweat Exercise Plan. Dr. Simon has received many national awards for his consumer health writing.

P.J. Skerrett is Harvard Health’s managing editor for digital publishing. Before that, he was editor of the Harvard Heart Letter for ten years, as well as a senior editor for InteliHealth. Prior to joining HHP, Pat was senior editor for the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and senior news editor for HealthNews. He is co-author of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Guide to Healthy Eating, and two other books on health and science. He earned a BA in biology from Northwestern University and an MA in biology from Washington University.

Peter Wehrwein has been editor of the Harvard Health Letter since 1999. Before editing the Health Letter, he was editor of the Harvard Public Health Review and director of development communications at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to working at Harvard, Wehrwein was a reporter for newspapers in Albany, N.Y., Union City, N.J., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Big Lake, Minn. He has written for Newsweek, The Lancet, Managed Care, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Wehrwein was a journalism fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1993-94. He earned a B.A. in history from Yale University in 1980.