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| Born | James Richard Hamblin |
| Education | Wake Forest University (BS) Indiana University, Indianapolis (MD) Yale University (MPH) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, physician |
| Known for | Preventive medicine Bioethics |
| Style | Literary nonfiction |
James Richard Hamblin is an American physician specializing in public health and preventive medicine. He is a former staff writer at The Atlantic , an author, and a lecturer in public health policy at Yale University.
Hamblin grew up in Munster, Indiana, and graduated from Munster High School. [1] He received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University where he was a member of the Lilting Banshees comedy troupe. [2] Hamblin later graduated from the School of Medicine at Indiana University, then did his internship in internal medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital. [3] He began a residency as a radiologist at the Medical Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. During his residency, Hamblin trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. [4] He says he was regularly mistaken for a student due to looking younger than his age, and has often been compared to the sitcom teenage genius Doogie Howser. [5] [4] [6] He later completed a residency in general preventive medicine at Griffin Hospital which is affiliated with Yale University.
In 2012, he chose to pursue a career in media and joined The Atlantic and became the editor for its health channel, which had been launched in 2011. [4] [1] In 2013, he created an online comedy video show about health and lifestyle topics on The Atlantic website called If Our Bodies Could Talk, [7] for which he was a finalist for a Webby award for Best Web Personality/Host [4] [8] and was last produced in 2017. [9] [10] He has been named among the 140 people to follow on Twitter by Time, and BuzzFeed has called him "the most delightful MD ever" in response to his work with that show. [11] [4] He also authored If Our Bodies Could Talk, a nonfiction book about human health published by Doubleday. [12] [13] [14] His second book, Clean, was published by Riverhead. [15] The New York Times Book Review named it an editor's choice [16] and Vanity Fair named among the best books of 2020. [17]
Hamblin was a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine, [18] where he was also a senior editor for five years. [19] He has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert . [20] He has given talks at Harvard Medical School, the Wharton School of Business, South by Southwest, and TEDMED. In 2016, he served as moderator at the launch of the White House Precision Medicine Initiative where he interviewed President Barack Obama. [21] Hamblin is a past Yale University Poynter Fellow in journalism. [22] He is board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. [23]
In 2019, Hamblin married Sarah Freeman Yager, a managing editor of The Atlantic. [24] They reside in Brooklyn, New York.
Doogie Howser, M.D. is an American medical sitcom that ran for four seasons on ABC from September 19, 1989, to March 24, 1993, totaling 97 episodes. Created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, the show stars a young Neil Patrick Harris in the title role as a teenage physician who balances the challenge of practicing medicine with the everyday problems of teenage life.
Carl Zimmer is a popular science writer, blogger, columnist, and journalist who specializes in the topics of evolution, parasites, and heredity. The author of many books, he contributes science essays to publications such as The New York Times, Discover, and National Geographic. He is a fellow at Yale University's Morse College and adjunct professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University. Zimmer also gives frequent lectures and has appeared on many radio shows, including National Public Radio's Radiolab, Fresh Air, and This American Life.
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Erica Frank is a U.S.-born educational inventor, physician, medical and educational researcher, professor, politician, and public health advocate. Since 2006, she has been a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC); she is the Inventor/Founder of NextGenU.org, and the steward of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize commemorative medal awarded to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Canada.
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Atul Janardhan Butte or Atul J. Butte is an American biomedical informatician, pediatrician, and biotechnology entrepreneur. He is currently the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Since April 2015, Butte has serves as inaugural director of UCSF's Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.
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