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Friday, April 8 • 1:40pm - 3:50pm
Freelance PitchFest

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Editors from some of the top magazines, newspapers and websites are coming to Cleveland to meet you! Bring your best ideas to the AHCJ Freelance PitchFest. This session has been created to give you an opportunity to sit down and discuss your ideas one-on-one with editors from selected publications. The sign-up period opens at 10 a.m. on March 14.
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Jeanne Erdmann

Jeanne Erdmann is an award-winning health and science writer based in Wentzville, Mo. Her work has appeared in Discover, Women’s Health, Aeon, Slate, The Washington Post, Nature, Nature Medicine and other publications. She is co-founder of The Open Notebook, a craft-focused website... Read More →

Speakers
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Elizabeth “Betsy” Agnvall

Elizabeth “Betsy” Agnvall is a features editor, health, at AARP Media. In addition to writing a regular brain health blog, she writes and edits for AARP.org, the AARP Bulletin and AARP The Magazine – the country’s largest circulation publications. She previously worked as... Read More →
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Aurora Aguilar

Aurora Aguilar assigns and edits news stories for Modern Healthcare magazine and its online newsletters. She previously worked at Chicago Public Media, the NPR affiliate in Chicago, where she served as news director after stints as a senior project editor for Front & Center and senior... Read More →
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Jessica Bylander

Jessica Bylander is a senior editor at Health Affairs and editor of the journal’s Narrative Matters section. She also contributes reported pieces to the journal. Prior to joining Health Affairs, she was a reporter covering the medical technology industry for “The Gray Sheet... Read More →
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Lynya Floyd

Lynya Floyd, health director at Family Circle magazine, is a wellness expert, fitness enthusiast and award-winning journalist who appears regularly on nationally syndicated television. At Family Circle, she oversees health-related content for moms of tweens and teens and their children... Read More →
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Denise Fulton

Denise Fulton is executive editor for Frontline Medical News, which publishes news websites and tabloids for physicians in more than 20 specialties. She is in charge of assigning staff reporters and freelancers to medical meetings around the world as well as feature and spot assignments... Read More →
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Lena Huang

Lena Huang currently serves as the editorial director for Genome, the first consumer magazine focused on personalized medicine and genomics. Previously, she was editorial director for CURE, an award-winning magazine for cancer patients with the largest circulation in its market. Prior... Read More →
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Tod Jones

Tod Jones is Managing Editor of the U.S. Costco Connection. The Costco Connection is a general interest magazine published monthly in the U.S., and mailed each month to 8.6 million Costco members.
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Nancy Lapid

Nancy Lapid is editor in charge of Reuters Health, the consumer and professional medical news division of Thomson Reuters. Before joining Thomson Reuters full time in 2010, Lapid worked for the company as a freelance medical reporter. She also spent decades helping medical researchers... Read More →
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Brendan Maher

Brendan Maher is a features editor with the news team at Nature and is based in New York and New Jersey. He handles long-form narrative and analytical stories primarily pertaining to basic bioscience, biomedical research, public health, ecology, evolution, drug development and science... Read More →
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Apoorva Mandavilli

Apoorva Mandavilli is founding editor and editor-in-chief of Spectrum. She created Spectrum (formerly part of SFARI.org) as an authoritative news source for scientists interested in autism. She is an adjunct professor in New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting... Read More →
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Colleen Paretty

Colleen Paretty, editorial director of WebMD, edits and manages the print, digital, and tablet editions of award-winning WebMD Magazine, WebMD Diabetes and WebMD Campus magazines, and directs magazine-related content initiatives on WebMD.com. A consumer health journalist for most... Read More →
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Peggy Peck

Peggy Peck is the vice president and editor-in-chief of MedPage Today. She is responsible for the daily development and distribution of breaking medical news, industry trend pieces and feature stories to more than 670,000 practicing physicians. She has been an integral part of MedPage... Read More →
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Denise Schipani

Denise Schipani is an AHJC member and freelance editor and writer who has written for many consumer print and online publications, such as Runner’s World, Better Homes & Gardens, womansday.com and others, as well as a number of custom published magazines and websites for hospital... Read More →
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Lacy Schley

Lacy Schley is an assistant editor at Discover. She graduated from Randolph-Macon College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and then earned a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University, with a focus on science reporting and magazine writing/editing. Prior... Read More →
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Peter Wehrwein

Peter Wehrwein is editor of Managed Care, and was previously editor of the Harvard Health Letter and the Harvard Public Health Review. His early career was in newspapers. He began covering health when the beat opened up at the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union.

Friday April 8, 2016 1:40pm - 3:50pm EDT
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