Marjorie Korn CV

profile

• Journalist and medical school instructor specializing in translating complicated topics related to medicine and treatments, access to care, and overall health topics from doctors, academics, and experts to a mass audience
  

• Writer experienced in digest and feature-length stories plus packages for stories covering science, medicine, current affairs, culture, profiles, and more
  

• Award-winning investigative journalist fluent in newspapers, magazines, and online, having been published in The Sunday Times (UK), The Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News, Time (forthcoming), Men’s Journal, GQ, and Outside

work experience

Freelancer, ghost writer, and book editor, 2017 to present

• Edited the New York Times-endorsed book “The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier With the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness” by Kelly Harding, M.D., an emergency room psychiatrist at Columbia University Medical Center, which combs through the literature relating to how our social lives and circumstances have a greater influence on our overall health than the doctor’s office

• Ghost writing a medicine and health book on behalf of a prominent OB-GYN in Los Angeles with expected publication in 2021

• One-on-one consultant with experts in the fields of politics, national security, and medicine to assist with op-ed writing, editing, and pitching

• Freelance writer for outlets including Time Magazine, Men’s Journal, HealthCentral.com, and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine

• Ghostwriter and consultant for The Institute for Political Innovation, and the CEO of Global Threat Solutions
  

Senior Editor, Men’s Journal, 2017 to 2020

• Responsible for all medical, nutrition, science, fitness, and health trends stories for the print magazine, and current contributor to MensJournal.com 

• Wrote the December 2019 cover story profiling Mark Wahlberg, as well as feature profiles and Q&As with scientists and notables

• Edited and penned stories including the far-reaching effects of the oral microbiome, the circadian rhythms that appear in systems across the body, psychiatry’s new-found interest in psychedelics, medical tourism, and the future of therapeutic THC 

• Worked closely with art department to create infographics, charticles, and visual representations to accompany stories
  

Faculty and writing instructor, Columbia University Medical Center, 2013 to Present

• Under the mentorship of Harry Lodge, M.D., I co-founded a writing program called Writers in Residency for the house staff at NewYork-Presbyterian to teach interns and residents how to translate their experiences into writing

• Following the success of Writers in Residency, I established The Faculty Writing Project, in which applicants to the program got a mini-journalism school education tailored to the needs of the CUMC faculty, from the medical school and the School of Public Health

• Worked one-on-one with the faculty to conceptualize, edit, and pitch their stories that related to research, current events, personal anecdotes, and more. 

• Established a partnership between Writers in Residency and the Associated Press, and participants published to places including Time.com, The Huffington Post, and Medium  

• Curriculum designer and instructor at Columbia Medical School in the Division of Narrative Medicine under the leadership of Rita Charon, M.D. 

• Presenter at Northeast Group on Educational Affairs Conference (NEGEA), part of the Association of American Medical Schools, in 2016 at Brown University
  

Researcher + Food & Nutrition Editor, SELF Magazine, 2011 to 2014

• Edited all front-of-book and middle-of book nutrition, plus health content

• Won 2014 min award for investigative journalism on cyberstalking
  

Reporter, The Sunday Times of London (DC Bureau), 2009 to 2010

• Wrote stories on women’s issues/veterans health care (PTSD), wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, American politics, and presidential race

• Worked for Bureau Chief Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, Farewell Kabul, and The Sewing Circles of Herat
  

Reporter, The Dallas Morning News (DC Bureau), 2009

• Political daily reporter covering Texas delegation in Congress and the White House 

• Wrote a Sunday 1A investigation into mismanagement at the Alamo plus seven follow-up pieces which led to leadership change at the historical site—and was awarded a statewide prize for investigative reporting
  

Reporter, The Associated Press (Cheyenne, WY Bureau), 2009

• Covered legislative session, including health care reform laws, children’s insurance, workers’ compensation, environment, and general interest

education

MA, Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 

BA, American University, Washington, DC 

Trained in AP Style, with familiarity in Microsoft Office, WordPress, PhotoShop, Slack, and InCopy