Humanities Faculty Featured in AMWA Journal
Dr. Gastel has a B.A. degree from Yale and M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Johns Hopkins. After medical school, she did an American Association for the Advancement of Science mass media fellowship at Newsweek . She then worked in communication and administration at the National Institutes of Health. She also has taught science writing at MIT, and technical communication at Beijing Medical University (now Peking University Health Science Center), and she has been assistant dean for teaching at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Dr. Gastel is the author of three books: Presenting Science to the Public (Philadelphia: ISI Press, 1983), Teaching Science: A Guide for College and Professional School Instructors (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1991), and Health Writer's Handbook (2 nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2005). In addition, she has written many articles and chapters on writing, teaching and medical topics. Current projects include coauthoring the next edition of Robert Day's How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper .
Since 1996, Dr. Gastel has directed the U.S. aspect of a program, funded by the China Medical Board of New York, to teach biomedical writing and editing in Asia. The program is designed to facilitate publication of Asian research in English-language international journals. It includes online lessons in scientific writing and editing and internships at U.S. and Canadian editorial offices.
Dr. Gastel is editor of Science Editor , the periodical of the Council of Science Editors. She also is active in the American Medical Writers Association. She has received distinguished service awards from these two organizations, and she is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
