Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
Barbara Boughton is an award-winning medical and health journalist and editor. Her articles on health and medicine have appeared in national publications such as Consumer Reports, Alternative Medicine magazine, and Better Homes and Gardens. A specialist in reporting about cancer, she has been a regular contributor to the journal Lancet Oncology and the health clinician website Medscape.com, and has been a contributing writer and editor for several magazines for cancer survivors, including MAMM, In Touch, and Women and Cancer magazines. Dr. Michael Stefanek, PhD, began his career with The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, then served at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, as Chief of the Basic Biobehavioral Research Branch for almost a decade. Most recently, he was Vice President, Behavioral Research, and Director, Behavioral Research Center with the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia.
Barbara Boughton is an award-winning medical and health journalist and editor. A recipient of the Barbara Jordan Communications Award, her articles on health and medicine have appeared in national publications such as Consumer Reports, Alternative Medicine magazine and Better Homes and Gardens. As a specialist in reporting about cancer, she has been a regular contributor to the medical journals Lancet Oncology and Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and has been a contributing writer and editor for several magazines for cancer survivors, including MAMM, In Touch and Cure Today magazines. Her articles on cancer risk and cancer risk assessment have appeared in In Touch and Cure.
Ms. Boughton has been a contributor to the best-selling book Dr. Koop’s Self-Care Advisor and the book Smart Choices in Alternative Medicine.
She is currently a medical editor for Epocrates, a leading e-technology company that provides medical content for healthcare clinicians, downloadable onto PDAs and mobile devices. She is secretary of the northern California American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), and holds a certificate in medical writing and editing from AMWA. She is also an active member of the National Writers Union and the National Association of Science Writers.
Michael Stefanek, PhD, is the former Vice President of Behavioral Research and Director of the Behavioral Research Center of the American Cancer Society. He also spent almost a decade as Chief of the Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch with the National Cancer Institute. He started his career with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, where his research focused on psychosocial and behavioral oncology, and he has published extensively on issues related to women at high risk of developing breast cancer. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and has presented nationally and internationally in areas related to behavioral oncology.