Staff Profile
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
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