Newsletter Editor

Biography

Jeannie Wurz is an American writer and editor who lives in the capital of Switzerland. A native of the Chicago area, she earned a degree in English/Writing from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983. Jeannie worked in the USA for a weekly news magazine, for hospitals, publishing companies, and an advertising agency before moving to Bern in 1992. Since 1995, she has worked free-lance as an editor of medical manuscripts. In 2000, Jeannie was hired by the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at the Bern University Hospital, and since 2001 she has handled manuscripts submitted to the Critical Care & Trauma section of the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. Some of her noteworthy publications are an article on intercultural marriages for the Chicago Tribune, a booklet on Wilms tumour for the Kidney Cancer Association, a distance learning module on Communication Skills for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and profiles of radio host Garrison Keillor, TV newsmen Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, and Switzerland’s first female President. In November 2008 she was appointed Editor of COPE’s new newsletter, Ethical Editing.

Competing interests statement

I receive, or have received, payment for editorial services from the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at Bern University Hospital, the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, and clients at various European hospitals and universities.

Posted by Jeannie Wurz, COPE Newsletter Editor on January 7^th 2009