very interesting pd research blog, medical journalist
 

http://www.journalofparkinsonsdiseas...mans_Blog.html

Jon Palfreman’s Blog


Jon Palfreman has joined the JPD editorial board as Social Media Editor. He will be responsible for selecting and posting news of interest to the PD research community on the JPD Facebook page, and will be sharing short opinion and review blog posts, which will also be collected here.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jon Palfreman, PhD, is KEZI Distinguished Professor of Broadcast Journalism at the University of Oregon, USA. Palfreman is an Emmy, Dupont and Peabody Award-winning journalist, and recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Writing. He is a three-time winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science science writing prize, three-time winner of the National Association of Science Writers "Science-in-Society" Journalism Award and a winner of the Writers Guild Award for best script. In the area of Parkinson's Disease research, Palfreman co-authored a book with neuroscientist Bill Langston (JPD co-Editor-in-Chief), The Case of the Frozen Addicts, and produced two NOVA documentaries chronicling the story of the MPTP cases, NOVA: The Case of the Frozen Addict, and NOVA: Brain Transplant. Palfreman is a 2006 Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University.