Joseph Cantlupe

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Phone: 301-***-**** Mobile: 202-***-****

Profile

Outstanding writer, editor: an award-winning journalist with wide-ranging and vast experience. Contributed to New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, online daily magazine Biopharma Dive, Common Ground Magazine. Editor, HealthDataBuzz blog. Also editing and writing for federal contractors, USP, Sekon Industries and Manhattan Strategy Group, consultant Ritz Communications, Athena Health Insight and Byrn Mawr Communications. Also contributed to Voice of San Diego, an online news outlet, and Frontline medical news.

Previously, a fulltime writer for FDAnews, and a science writer at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC, writing press releases and reports about clinical discoveries, to wide, diverse and specialist audiences. Before that, a senior editor for HealthLeaders Media Magazine, and the San Diego-Union-Tribune. A member of a Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper team, author of a non-fiction book, and writer whose work has been cited in other books and publications.

Employment History

Freelance writer –January 2016 -current)

Writer/Editor for Biopharma Dive, an online publication on the biotech industry, coverage of clinical trials, mergers, innovations, service lines, disease states, and economic impacts. Contributed 62 stories within two months, daily deadline coverage.

FDAnews, coverage of Food and Drug Administration issues.

New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst – contributed in-depth article on healthcare innovations.

Voice of San Diego – wrote in-depth piece on homeless funding.

Frontline Medical News – coverage of medical issues

Ritz Communications – editing, writing blogs, ghost writing CEO pieces on healthcare, editing

Byrn Mawr Communications – writing for optometry magazines

Athena Health Insight – writing blog on hospital care

Common Ground Magazine, writer and coverage of housing, condo issues, relationships, trends

Sekon Industries – editing in-depth proposals for U.S. agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services

Editor, proofreader, US Pharmacopeia, which makes reference standards for the U.S. and the world with a mission of improving global health

Manhattan Strategy Group, Washington DC, federal contractor, editing and writing proposal documents and reports.

Chief Editor, writer, HealthDataBuzz blog on data-related health stories.

Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC (2013 to 2015)

Public Relations and Marketing – Science Writer

Developing and pitching stories, writing research-oriented blogs: conducted internal research, contributed to annual report, Children’s Research Institute articles, and numerous press releases on major hospital clinical and research matters, including personalized medicine, oncology, cardiology, genetics, rare diseases, neurology and other topics. Among the press releases was working with a Children’s National physician who alerted the FDA about improper antibiotic sales in suburban Washington DC neighborhoods, prompting widespread coverage.

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Senior Editor, HealthLeaders Media, Danvers, Mass. (2009 to 2013)

Authored magazine articles each month, Intelligence Reports, special Breakthrough Reports, and daily stories. Articles focused on service lines, physician alignment, patient quality, cardiology, oncology, care coordination, mental health, behavioral issues and end of life care.

It also included FDA coverage, including the approval process,

Wrote regular Physicians Column each week (Column selection here)

Coordinated, managed programming for live Webcast events on various health issues, and co-hosted nationwide events, produced multi-media reports, such as HealthLeaders Media Breakthroughs.

Medical/Regulatory Writer, Thomson Reuters (2009)

Extensive coverage of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Contributing to AdComm Bulletins. Detailed reports on FDA and drug issues: medical, pharmacological, clinical and marketing. Deadline coverage following FDA advisory committee meetings and events.

Writer/Editor, JBS International, Inc. (2008)

Edited and wrote reports emergency planning to domestic violence. Edited newsletters. Worked on substance abuse issues. Collaborated on contract proposals for national children, welfare and substance abuse agencies in U.S. government. Wrote articles and edited stories for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Made presentations to the National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth. Produced podcasts.

National Correspondent, Copley News Service (1999 – 2007)

Wrote wide-ranging stories about the State Department, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Defense including investigative pieces, including: off-beat, human interest, military, drug related, medical, environmental, immigration, and political topics. Developed stories, conducted investigative interviews, and obtained documentation. http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040926/news_mz1n26pills.html

A SELECTION OF AWARDS

2014 Recipient of Philip S. Weintraub Media Award for anesthesiology article from the American Society of Anesthesiologists

2014 Silver Award, American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors, Grounding the Frequent Flyers

2013 Award from American Society of Business Publication Editors, also 2012 gold medal for Service Linecoverage.

2012 Award for Columns from American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors

2012 American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors, Silver Award

2011 American Society of Business Press Editors

2006 A member of team in which Pulitzer Prize awarded to Copley News Service and The San Diego Union-Tribune

EDUCATION

Seton Hall University, South Hall, NJ

Bachelor of Arts in Communications and English

BOOKS

Co-author, Badge of Betrayal. Avon Books, 1991.

Contributions or cited work:

Physician Alignment in Era of Change

The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy Duke Cunningham

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

COMPETENCIES

Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel

Moderator Webcasts

Developer/Layout Blog

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