Diane Mapes
(She/Her)
As seen in:
NBC News,
Columns Magazine,
TODAY,
Medical Xpress,
Fred Hutch News Service,
BUST Magazine,
POZ,
Philadelphia Tribune,
Seattle Met,
Laboratory Equipment Magazine
and
Covers:
public health | cancer research | pop health | humor | cancer experience
Everything was going great until this whole breast cancer thing.
Catch me over at the blue 🦋 @doublewhammied
Awards
Northwest Science Writers Association (NSWA)
2021 - Best of NW Science Writing Award
For Fred Hutch News story "Patients navigate cancer during COVID-19 pandemic."
MarCom Award issued by Association of Marketing & Communications Professionals
2016 - GOLD award for writing
For Fred Hutch News first-person reported essay “Your cancer sex Rx”
MarCom Award issued by Association of Marketing & Communications Professionals
2016 - PLATINUM award for writing
For Fred Hutch News first-person reported essay “The sexual aftermath of cancer treatment”
MarCom Award issued by Association of Marketing & Communications Professionals
2016 - PLATINUM award for writing
For Fred Hutch News first-person reported essay “Your body, after cancer”
Council for Advancement and Support of Education's Circle of Excellence Awards
2014 - GOLD award for best article of the year
For first-person reported essay, “Reconstructing Hope” published in UW alumni magazine Columns.
American Urological Association
2010 - Excellence in Urology Health Reporting
For msnbc.com health story "Bedwetting blues: Millions of adults suffer, too.”