F. Perry Wilson on Muck Rack

F. Perry Wilson

  • Director, Clinical and Translational Research Acc., Yale University School of Medicine and Columnist, Medscape
New Haven
As seen in: Medscape, Elemental, Medium, MSN, HuffPost, Nature, Vox, Arthritis Research & Therapy, Flipboard, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, Medscape Duestch and
Covers:  Health, medicine, statistics, epidemiology, clinical trials, methodology, bias, social media
Director, Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator @Yale. Columnist @medscape. How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't in bookstores now!
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What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Word, squarespace, medium, pubmed, google scholar, stata, graphpad prism, powerpoint

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Only write things you are excited to write. If it doesn't ring your bell, it's unlikely to ring anyone elses.

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Taking care of patients in the hospital.

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

That medical experts have the answers. It's amazing how widely interpretations of the exact same data can vary.
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