Jeff Nelligan
Senior Director for Strategic Communications
office: 443-287-2283
e-mail: JNelligan@jhmi.edu
Jeff Nelligan is the Senior Director of Strategic Communications at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he heads up the institution’s overall communication strategy and positioning.
Nelligan was formerly the Director of Media Affairs for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the world's largest health care payer with an annual budget of $676 billion, providing health care to 91 million Americans. At CMS, he served as the agency spokesman for Medicare and Medicaid financing, provider reimbursement, coverage decisions, and pharmaceutical and medical device policy. Previously, he worked more than a decade in the Legislative Branch, serving as press secretary to Congressman Bill Thomas on the House Ways and Means Committee; managing director of public affairs for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO); and, director of communications for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee under Chairman Bud Shuster. In addition to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Nelligan has worked in two other Cabinet agencies and is a graduate of Williams College and Georgetown University Law Center.
If you are with a news organization or production company, and need assistance with an inquiry, story, or interview request, please contact the Director of Media Relations & Public Affairs, or a member of the MR&PA staff listed below.
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > Gary Stephenson Gary Stephenson An award-winning former medical and science journalist, Gary M. Stephenson, M.S., joined Hopkins in 1996 as Senior Associate Director for Media Relations after serving in a similar position at the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP). Prior to his position at UMCP, Stephenson was Washington editor for Diagnostic Imaging Magazine. He is also an associate faculty member at The College of Notre Dame, in Baltimore, Md., where he teaches graduate courses in public relations management and communications. Stephenson's news beats at Hopkins include corporate communications, "the business of medicine" and the areas of healthcare policy, labor relations, hospital emergency and disaster preparedness and response, nursing, radiology, outcomes research, clinical practice guidelines, and biotechnology and technology licensing.
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > Christen Brownlee Christen Brownlee Christen L. Brownlee, a science writer and editor by training, joined the media relations staff at Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Division of Media Relations and Public Affairs in August 2007. Beats Covered
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Natasha Bolotina Natalia Bolotina, Ph.D., has joined the media relations team within Johns Hopkins Marketing and Communications division as the primary media representative for Johns Hopkins International, the global arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > Stephanie Desmon Stephanie Desmon Stephanie Desmon, an award-winning medical journalist, has joined Johns Hopkins Medicine as a senior media relations representative and public information officer.
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > Kim Hoppe Kim Hoppe Kim Hoppe is the Associate Director of Communications and Public Affairs for the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Prior to joining Hopkins, in June 2004, Kim was the media relations manager for an international franchising company headquartered near Washington D.C. Before that, she spent nearly 10 years as a senior newsroom producer, medical news producer, and newscast producer at the Baltimore CBS and ABC television affiliates. During that time, Kim received an Emmy award nomination for television production. A graduate of the University of Connecticut, Kim earned her bachelor of arts in journalism. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America.
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > Audrey Huang Audrey Huang Audrey M. Huang, M.A., Ph.D., is the Director of Basic Science Research Communications. A science writer and molecular geneticist by training, she joined the media relations staff at Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2006. Most recently, Huang was a science writer and communications officer at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, part of the Berman Bioethics Institute at Hopkins, located in Washington, DC. As a freelance editor and writer, Huang has written for the National Institutes of Health, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the Ontario Genomics Institute. She holds a master’s degree in science writing from Johns Hopkins University where she currently teaches a graduate course in grant writing. She has extensive research experience in developmental biology, molecular and cell biology and genetics, having studied the molecular mechanisms involved in muscle cell development at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and mammalian embryonic development at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Huang studied chromosome structure in fruitflies and yeast during her postdoctoral training at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology. She holds a Ph.D. in genetics and a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > John Lazarou John Lazarou John M. Lazarou, a former journalist and public radio talk show host joined the media relations staff at Hopkins in January 2002. Lazarou came to Hopkins after two years at a local public relations agency, where he practiced media relations. His areas of responsibility include dentistry, dermatology, event communications, ophthalmology, plastic surgery, Weight Management Center and women’s health – GYN/OB/reproductive endocrinology. Prior to relocating to Maryland, Lazarou was the media relations representative for Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey. Before entering public relations, he worked as a newspaper reporter and feature writer in New Hampshire as well as a journalist and a talk show host for public radio stations in the New York and New Jersey area. He received his bachelor of arts in communications from Temple University and holds a master of arts in liberal studies from Fordham University.
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > David March David March Prior to joining the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, March was a media relations consultant for Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada. March received his bachelor of sciences degree in biology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and holds a master of health administration degree from the University of Ottawa. Beats Covered
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > Katerina Pesheva Ekaterina Pesheva
office: 410-516-4996 As a senior media relations representative, Ekaterina is responsible for reporting on faculty research and assisting media in developing stories about basic science and clinical research. Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Ekaterina worked at the University of Missouri-Columbia as a research assistant and a health writer for a federal project designed to improve media coverage of arthritis and rheumatologic diseases. Prior to that, she worked as a medical and general-assignment reporter for two newspapers in St. Louis. She is a recipient of the Missouri Press Association Award for News Reporting. Ekaterina has a master’s degree in Journalism and Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and a bachelor’s from Truman State University. Beats Covered
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| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > Beth Simpkins Beth Simpkins |
| Home > News and Information Services > Media Relations Staff > Elizabeth Tracey Elizabeth Tracey Elizabeth Tracey, MS, brings more than 15 years of broadcast and print medical journalism experience to the position of Director of the Johns Hopkins HealthNewsfeed radio service, a daily one-minute objective medical news program broadcast throughout the United States and internationally via Voice of America. This free service highlights medical information of interest to the general public. More information about Health Newsfeed or JHM Podcasts. |
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Maryalice Yakutchik
Maryalice Yakutchik is a writer specializing in basic science research for Johns Hopkins Medicine. Before joining the media relations staff in June 2008, she was an international correspondent producing live Web expeditions for the Discovery Channel, a writer and producer of Web documentaries for Fusionspark Media, and an instructor of journalism at Loyola College in Maryland. She also regularly contributed freelance work to a range of media, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Smithsonian magazine and National Public Radio. Her latest book, Womens Lacrosse: A Guide for Advanced Players and Coaches was published in April 2008 by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Also see - Audrey Huang 410-614-5105 e-mail: audrey@jhmi.edu |


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