Nancy has been a health news reporter and editor at Reuters for more than a decade, covering important medical research advances. She is the author of our twice-a-week Reuters Health Rounds newsletter. Previously, she managed a Reuters team that delivered 140 news stories each week to professional medical audiences.

Earlier in her career, Nancy was a managing editor at Scientific American Medicine. She has been a freelance editor for researchers at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, New York University Medical Center, Stevens Institute of Technology, Rabin Medical Center, the New York State Department of Health, Maimonides Medical Center, Hokkaido University, Westchester Medical Center, the Cleveland Clinic, and other institutions.

Nancy is co-author (with Patricia A. Sheiner, MD) of "Data presentation: how to write and submit abstracts and papers," in Surgical Research (Wilmore DW, Souba WW, Eds. Academic Press, San Diego, 2001). She has given many talks to medical students, residents, and junior medical faculty on the material in this chapter.