Julie Corliss is a medical writer with more than sixteen years of experience in consumer health issues. Her work has been published in Newsweek

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

, HealthNews, and Harvard Health Publications. Recently she helped Dr. George L. Blackburn

George L. Blackburn

George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD serves as the S. Daniel Abraham Associate Professor of Nutrition and Associate Director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School...

 write Break Through Your Set Point a weight loss book published by HarperCollins

HarperCollins

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Biography

After receiving a BA in biology at Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

, she worked for several years as a research assistant for Dr. William E. Connor, an internationally known expert on the health benefits of fish oil. She obtained a master's certificate in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...

, then worked as a writer and public affairs specialist at the National Cancer Institute

National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health , which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S...

, the US Department of Agriculture, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

For eight years, she was a staff medical writer for HealthNews, a consumer health publication affiliated with the New England Journal of Medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It describes itself as the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.-History:...

. Since 1993, she has done freelance medical writing for a variety of publications, including Newsweek, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, CURE (Cancer Updates, Research, and Education), and Harvard Women's Health Watch.

She currently works as a senior medical editor for Harvard Health Publications.

Her father is scientist Jack Corliss

Jack Corliss

John B. Corliss is a scientist who has worked in the fields of geology, oceanography, and the origins of life.Corliss is a University of California, San Diego Alumnus, receiving his PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the 1960s. As part of his doctoral work under Jerry van Andel, he...

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Newsweek

• Brain Check, cover story on Mind-Body Medicine (co-authored with Herbert Benson, MD, and Geoffrey Cowley), 9/04

Harvard Health Publications

• Weight Less, Live Longer: Strategies for successful weigh loss (2006)
• Hands: Strategies for strong, pain-free hands (2005)
• Celiac disease: When the body goes against the grains (7/06)
• Nitroglycerin: A blast from the past remains a trusted standby (7/05)

Health News

• Food Irradiation: A Recipe for Safer Food? (6/04)
• "Vegging Out" for Better Health? (11/03)
• Low-Carb Diet Lowdown (7/03)
• Space for Women: Perspectives on Careers in Science (Booklet) (1995)