Staff Profile : Ivan Oransky

Staff Profile Ivan Oransky Deputy Editor School/Degree Harvard University, A.B. in Biology; New York University, M.D. When you joined The Scientist Jun

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Ivan Oransky
Ivan Oransky
Deputy Editor

School/Degree
Harvard University, A.B. in Biology; New York University, M.D.
When you joined
The Scientist
June 2002
Job Description
Provide oversight and direction for the magazine and its website; top-edit all stories; come up with new editorial products and innovations
Job related interests/achievements
Finalist, Online News Association Awards, General Excellence, 2001, while editor in chief at Praxis Post; Adjunct Professor, New York University Science and Environmental Reporting Program; Advisory Board Member, University of Southern California Heath Journalism Fellowships; have written for publication including The Lancet, The Boston Globe, and The New Republic; frequent speaker on health, science and the media; member, board of directors, Association of Health Care Journalists; member, National Association of Science Writers; member, Association for Bioethics and Humanities
Favorite book
"The Plague" by Albert Camus
Favorite website
Romenesko at Poynter.org
Favorite gadget
The New York City subway
What do you do when you're not at work
Run for the hills....the Berkshires, that is. Or the Delaware River Valley. Season tickets to the New York Yankees also occupy a fair amount of my time, as does a subscription to the New York Philharmonic and events at the New York Public Library.
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