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I'm proud to have worked on the Clinton national health care reform team. The present-day outcry over health care could never have occurred without those efforts in 1993-94.
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/10/00 John can tackle complex medical topics and deliver a story that conveys the needed information clearly and accurately, whether it's relating the latest technical discoveries to physicians or carefully explaining a disease process to general readers. And he generally keeps an upbeat attitude, even when the concepts get a little bit too esoteric. I like that in a writer. Jeff Lindholm, Editor Helix and Health Talk University of Virginia Health System |
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been writing on healthcare reform and medical news issues since 1993, most
recently for University of Virginia Health System publications.
Medical news must tell a clear story to a lay audience, often people who aren't acquainted with your subject or its
implications. So jargon needs explanation; accuracy is critical. 
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for UVa's Helix November 1999 In the world of molecular genetics and cell biology, deep complexities and unknowns abound. It’s the kind of world where the search for understanding forces you into heavy doses of techno-jargon or past that into metaphor. C. David Allis, Ph.D., has competence in both areas. He came to UVa one year and a half ago to join an outstanding group of colleagues in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. Since his appointment as Byrd Professor of Biochemistry, the Allis Lab has been the scene of some very exciting discoveries. Scientists have made much progress in deciphering the genetic code but still know little about many fundamental cellular and genetic mechanisms. Understanding the processes of DNA transcription, replication, recombination, repair and chromosome segregation all depend on unlocking the structural complexity of the DNA-chromatin package. How this package works to perform genetic functions is what interests Allis. "DNA is not just strands," he says. "It is a highly constrained, higher-order structure in chromatin where it is tightly wound up in an amalgam with histones and other proteins. DNA is also everywhere and in everybody—present in organisms like us and even in yeast. And it’s all in this package called chromatin." |