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THE MEDICAL INFORMATION CENTER EDITORS
 Shirley Linde
PhD is a well-known author whose books have been translated
into many languages around the world. She has written for major
magazines, including Readers Digest, Ladies Home Journal, Good
Housekeeping and Family Circle. Her books have had such publishers as
Crown, Bantam, Harper & Row, John Wiley & Sons, NAL, and Simon &
Schuster, and include such best-sellers as No More Sleepless Nights,
Dr.
Atkins' Superenergy Diet, and The Charleston Program.
Linde has written in many areas, but is especially known for her medical
writing. She contributed much to the knowledge and understanding of the
public about science, and in her medical writing was a pioneer in the
concept of self-help and the power of patients, introduced in her
popular book The Whole Health Catalogue.
Linde has been a significant influence within both the journalism and
the medical professions in her years as a writer, having been on the
executive boards of the National Association of Science Writers and the
American Medical Writers Association and an originator of seminars to
improve communication between scientists and writers, such as the
National Science Foundation's "When Scientists Meet the Press". She was director of public relations at Northwestern
University Medical and Dental Schools in Chicago, and has served as
public relations consultant to hospitals, universities, medical
associations, government agencies and corporations.
She has received outstanding service awards in communications, and is
listed in Who's Who in America, World Who's Who of Woman, Who's Who
of Contemporary Authors, and Foremost Women of the 20th Century.
Linde is also known for her travel writing, is author of several cruise
books, and is editor and owner of SmallShipCruises.com, a website with
information on small ships around the world.
Alvaro Marin MD
[Oct. 6, 1951-Nov. 17, 2010]
Alvaro Marin MD grew
up in Colombia
and practiced medicine there in general practice and in
anesthesiology. He also practiced medicine, taught and did research
in
England,
Spain,
and
Uruguay, and for
many years went with the Pacific Air Patrol, an airborne medical
unit, on missions into some of the most inaccessible places in the
world – to little towns of the Pacific and Caribbean coast, to
Indian villages in the Colombian mountains, and to remote areas of
the Amazon from the heart of the jungle to its furthest borders with
Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. Due to the civil war in
Colombia and deaths threats against him
and his family, he and his family left Colombia. He was
living in St.
Petersburg,
Florida,
where he worked on MedicalInformationCenter.org and
CruiseRecipes.net and helped produce an app walking tour of St.
Petersburg downtown galleries and museums. He was also writing his
memoirs of his medical life in Colombia. We loved him and will miss
him greatly.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Shirley Linde
Medical Information Center
Suite 601
100 Beach Dr NE St Petersburg FL 33701
Email Shirley Linde:
shirllinde@aol.com
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