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Big and Noteworthy

Research Updates: Making Progress on an Antibiotic Nightmare. A new case advances the science behind curing antibiotic-resistant lung infections with phages. Pittwire, July 8, 2021

Nearly a Year
. One year in, a look back at the Pitt people who sprang to action in the early days of the pandemic. Pittwire, March 9, 2021

Exploring the Rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr. Why does the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” still speak to us today? PhD student and composition instructor Lissette Escariz Ferrá helps her students understand. Pittwire, January 15, 2021

Expert Offers Tips for Teaching Online. Cynthia Golden, associate vice provost and executive director of Pitt’s Center for Teaching and Learning, has advice for faculty members as they shift their courses online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pittwire, March 16, 2020

Good Endings. Inaugural Q&A of a new section, Tough Questions, in Pitt Med. Discussion with renowned legal scholar Alan Meisel and palliative care and medical ethics leader Robert Arnold about end-of-life issues and death with dignity. Pitt Med magazine, Fall 2018

Super Science. Feature story on President Barack Obama's fist bump with a mind-controlled robot, aka his visit to the White House Frontiers Conference at Pitt. Pitt Magazine, Winter 2017

Paying Attention. ADHD is much more than just a little boy squirming in a chair. Pitt Med magazine, Fall 2016

Invisible Loss. How we talk about miscarriage. Pitt Med magazine, Fall 2016

Tough Talk. Difficult conversations in the ICU and beyond. Pitt Med magazine, Summer 2016

Personalized Medicine, 101. A clinician's crash course on future medicine. Pitt Med magazine, Summer 2016
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Doctors Worth Loving. Feature story on a unique four-year program that pairs med students with patients. Pitt Med magazine, Spring 2016

Clinical Practice Guideline: Otitis Media with Effusion (Update). Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, February 2016

Plain Language Summary: Otitis Media with Effusion. Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, February 2016

Empty Nests. Feature story on the biology behind infertility. Pitt Med magazine, Fall 2015

Tweet Talkin' Docs. How Pitt physicians and scientists are using Twitter. Pitt Med magazine, Fall 2015

Simran Sethi Says Eat What You Love: A Q&A. Acquired Taste Online. November 2015

What's the Best Way to Die? Given hypothetical, anything-goes permission to choose from a creepy, unlimited vending machine of endings, what would you select? Should you have the right to choose? Wilson Quarterly's "Transitions" issue, Fall 2015
  • Featured in the New York Times Now app, November 26, 2015
  • Featured in an "On the Shelf" reading roundup at The Paris Review

Pathological Futures. Feature story on precision medicine, pathology, and genomics. Pitt Med magazine, Spring 2015 [PDF]

Secondhand Stories in a Rusting Steel Town. A downtrodden town and a pawn shop turned secondhand store where the owner has to "buy the item, not the story." Wilson Quarterly's "American Fissures" issue, Spring 2015
  • Featured on Longform.org (and not at my behest!)
  • Appeared on Autostraddle's Best Longreads of 2015

Identity Triumphs: Physician, Know Thyself, And Others Too. Feature story on interprofessionalism at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Pitt's Schools of the Health Sciences. Pitt Med magazine, Winter 2015 [PDF]

"There's Always Something" Feature story on sickle cell disease. Pitt Med magazine, Summer 2014 [PDF]

Creating Nonfiction: Lessons From the Voice of the Genre. The editors of Creative Nonfiction have selected their favorite craft essays from the early issues of the groundbreaking literary journal. This ebook collection offers both inspiration and instruction for readers and writers of creative nonfiction. Edited by Lee Gutkind and Robyn Jodlowski, 2013

#Censored: Tracking Blocked Searches on China’s Homegrown Version of Twitter. Pacific Standard magazine, September 2013

You Might Have Missed ... Everything and More. Hot Metal Bridge, August 2010

Humor Pieces

How to Survive a Contentious National Debate: A 21st-Century Politician’s Guide. The Reject Pile, August 2015

Little Ditties

Matches Made in Pittsburgh infographic, Pitt Med magazine, Fall 2016

Live blogging from the White House Frontiers Conference, October 13, 2016
  • From the Exhibition Hall: Brain Trust
  • One in a Million: Pitt and the Precision Medicine Initiative
  • A Moment from the Personal Track
  • Pitt MD/PhD Student Alexis Chidi to Introduce President Obama

Assorted summer findings: Presidential praise for Pitt, PRIDE in the med school curriculum, and a quasi reunion for Code Black. Pitt Med magazine, Summer 2016 [PDF]

An interview with Derek Angus on randomized clinical trials and big data and For Real! Moles. Pitt Med magazine, Spring 2016

Getting Smart About Being Dense. Even well-educated doctors have a hard time guiding patients in breast imaging decisions. Radiologist Wendie Berg wants her colleagues and patients to be better informed. Pitt Med magazine, Winter 2016 

For Real! Life on Mars. Could we really live on the red planet? Explaining the answer to tweens. Pitt Med magazine, Winter 2016

Stewardship is Local: 20-Some Foundation-Building Moments from the 20th Century. How Pittsburgh foundations have shaped Pitt medical school. Pitt Med magazine, Summer 2015

Assorted summer findings: Vice Premier Yandong Liu visits the U, bedside stories with Perri Klass, making sense of zettabytes. Pitt Med magazine, 2015 [PDF]

Assorted spring findings: Interview with Paul O'Neill, former Secretary of the Treasury; on new treatment and imaging for drug-resistant TB; Winter Academy turns 10; and a physician-scientist training program roundup. Pitt Med magazine, 2015 [PDF]

Assorted winter findings: Concussion films in Pittsburgh, re:solve Crisis Network, predicting rejection, Charles Bluestone class note. Pitt Med magazine, 2015 [PDF]

"Inaugural Deanship" and "Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation." Reprinted in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 2014 Annual Report [PDF]

Obituary, Emmanuel Farber. Pitt Med magazine, Fall 2014

Assorted fall 2014 findings. Pitt Med magazine [PDF]

Assorted summer 2014 findings. Pitt Med magazine [PDF]

Room with a View, of the Littlest Ones. Pitt Med magazine, Summer 2014 

Interviews and Podcasts

The Relationship Between Text and Image: An interview with Kristen Radtke. Creative Nonfiction, Issue #48, Spring 2013 

Resurrecting Our Printed Past: An interview with Stephen Knezovich. Creative Nonfiction, Issue #47, Winter 2013

Santa Skeptics, A WhippleWerff Christmas. Hosted by Amy Whipple and AV Club’s Emily VanDerWerff December 2, 2012

What about all the time before that?: An interview with Maria Meindl. At the End of Life blog, October 2012

Moments of Magic: An interview with Camille Serisier. Creative Nonfiction, Issue #46, Fall 2012

Solving a Problem: An interview with Kathy Rooney. Creative Nonfiction, Issue #45, Summer 2012

Giving form to chaos: An interview with David Wallace. Creative Nonfiction, Issue #44, Spring 2012

Healthy, honest, and healing: An interview with Joe Primo. At the End of Life blog, May 2012

Getting through the day: An interview with Carol Cooley. At the End of Life blog, May 2012

Fears, joys and struggles: An interview with Anne Jacobson. At the End of Life blog, May 2012

Let’s help the living: An interview with Eleanor Vincent. At the End of Life blog, May 2012

We carry them with us: An interview with Eve Joseph. At the End of Life blog, April 2012

We're not all that normal: An interview with Michael Lotenero. Creative Nonfiction, Issue #43, Fall/Winter 2011

Pow! Scribble!: An interview with Rigel Stuhmiller. Creative Nonfiction, Issue #41, Spring 2011

People are strangest: An interview with Michelle Leveille. Creative Nonfiction, Issue #40, Winter 2011

Reading Guides

The Longform Guide to Cubicle Culture. Slate.com, May 2014

Forever in Debt: The Longform Guide to Being Broke. Slate.com, December 2013

Sea Monkeys, Sex Toys, and Gatorade: The Longform Guide to Modern Inventions. Slate.com, July 2013

What a Sight: The Longform Guide to Vision (or Lack Thereof). Slate.com, June 2013

The Longform Guide to Elephants. Slate.com, May 2013

The Longform Guide to Motherhood. Slate.com, March 2013

The Longform Guide to Dying. Slate.com, February 2013

The Longform Guide to Plastic Surgery. Slate.com, January 2013

The Longform Guide to Pittsburgh. Slate.com, October 2012

The Longform Guide to Christian Rock. Slate.com, September 2012
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