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Joann Ellison Rodgers is Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs for Johns Hopkins Medicine. For 18 years, she was a reporter, then national science correspondent for the Hearst Newspapers, winning a Lasker Award for Medical Journalism. She is president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, former president of the National Association of Science Writers, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology at the Hopkins School of Public Health, a freelance writer and author of six books. Among these are The Academics' Guide to Media Relations (Foundation for American Communications, 1994) and Psychosurgery: Damaging the Brain to Save the Mind (Harper-Collins, 1992). Her latest Book, SEX: A Natural History, (Henry Holt, Times Books) was published in Jan. 2002.
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