To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to Holly Atkinson, MD. With over 20 years of experience in medical information and business, Dr. Holly Atkinson is editor-in-chief of the consumer newsletter HealthNews, launched 12 years ago by the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine.
She is also Associate Professor of Public Health (courtesy), Department of Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. In addition, she is an associate in KSR Associates, a privately held consulting firm that excels in corporate development, capital information, and M&A intermediation.
Dr. Atkinson brings a unique blend of experience and skill to her work; she has business acumen, media savvy, editorial proficiency, and medical expertise. With degrees in both medicine and journalism, and broad international business experience, she has worked in print, broadcast television and web-based technologies for both the medical professional and consumer audiences.
Previously, Dr. Atkinson was President of iVillageHealth.com, the health channel of the popular women’s website “iVillage.com,” where she led a redesign of the site. Before iVillage, Dr. Atkinson was a founder as well as President and CEO of Reuters Health Information, Inc. Within 3 years of taking the helm, she had led the news company to profitability and international recognition. Prior to joining Reuters, Atkinson was at Lifetime Medical Television for 10 years where she oversaw, as Senior Vice President of Programming, the continuing medical education programming that aired on the network.
Dr. Atkinson was a member of the original team who launched JournalWatch, a monthly summary of important medical research findings developed for the practicing physician by Massachusetts Medical Society. The first issue was launched over 19 years ago, and today, JournalWatch has grown into several subspecialty newsletters widely distributed throughout the United States and abroad. After writing for JournalWatch for seven years, the Massachusetts Medical Society asked Dr. Atkinson to help launch a consumer health newsletter, HealthNews.
Dr. Atkinson is an award-winning medical journalist and a gifted and noted public speaker. She has engaged national audiences on a wide range of medical topics for over 20 years. She has extensive experience as a medical correspondent, including assignments with NBC’s “Today” show, “The CBS Morning News,” Lifetime Medical Television, and the PBS health show, “BodyWatch.” The author of the bestselling book Women and Fatigue, she has been a columnist for New Woman magazine, and a resident physician on “Dr.Weil.com” and “iVillageHealth.com,” both leading Internet sites.
Devoting considerable time to a number of non-profit organizations and charities, Dr. Atkinson is President of Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its effort to eradicate landmines. In 1995, she conducted a medical mission to Bosnia where she documented the health effects of landmines on civilians. She is also First Vice President of Legal Momentum, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization devoted to advancing equality for women
Dr. Atkinson has an MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and a MS degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colgate University with a BS in Biology. She is currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Telling it like it is, Dr. Atkinson sends her audiences home with the ability to be more intelligent about exercising their healthcare options. Audiences find her highly informative, humorous, and inspirational.
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