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Andrew Holtz, MPH

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Portland, OR 97229-6806
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The Medical Science of House, M.D.

It's a book about a TV show.
It's a book about medicine.
It's a book that separates fiction from fact.
It's a book that answers questions
about how doctors do their jobs...
and what we want from the health care system.

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I started reporting for CNN in 1980 when the network was only 6 weeks old. I stayed for 17 years, including a decade as Medical Correspondent.
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Information that is accurate and presented in the proper context is the first necessary ingredient of knowledge. As a Board Member and former President of the Association of Health Care Journalists I am working to help colleagues do a better job covering our beat, so that individuals and nations can develop their knowledge of health and health care.

My focus on tobacco issues developed during my tenure as a 1998-99 fellow in the Kaiser Media Fellowships in Health program. I embarked on graduate studies in public health while developing a critical analysis of anti-tobacco education campaigns. You can read and hear some of my tobacco-related work, including a discussion of tobacco control on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

I was a regular contributor to the weekly series "HealthWeek." (It ran from 1997 to 2002 on 90% of the PBS stations in the US.) For instance, a report on body piercing.
Go to an index of other HealthWeek scripts.

Taking the Pulse
This series aired in June 2001.

Taking the Pulse delves into important health topics that most programs leave untouched. It's not an advice program helping publicize the latest drugs or surgeries. Taking the Pulse explores the fundamental issues that help determine why we are healthy... or not. What are the political and economic forces that determine who gets health insurance, and what kind of insurance they get? What can be done about the social stigma and myths that contribute to the staggering toll of suicide on our youth?

I have written and produced episodes of "Medical Detectives" for The Learning Channel. The series portrays mysteries (both criminal and epidemiological) that are solved by scientific investigations by real-life "Quincys."
"With Every Breath" and "Deadly Formula" repeat occasionally. Check the "Medical Detectives" schedule.

I've written reports aimed at patients for the Sapient Health Network website, which is now part of WebMD. Starting with a piece on the CA-125 tumormarker test, ranging through the genetics of Breast Cancer, impotence treatments for Prostate Cancer patients, and new research discoveries.

Marketplace Radio has given me the opportunity to try my hand at writing commentaries.
Since I'm a strong believer in big openings; my first piece was built on a Volcano. And while Free Marketeers advocate selling health insurance just like any other consumer item; picture, if you will, whatbuying a car would be like, if it were sold like healthcare coverage!

I am available for speaking engagements on a variety of topics involving health and media coverage. I have moderated panels for the Oregon Health Forum, Oregon Public Health Assn. and other groups. (I do not accept fees or honoraria from groups or organizations I report on.)

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i.e. my resume and my bio.

You can send e-mail to me at: holtzreport@juno.com

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