Terra Ziporyn

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Terra Ziporyn (born 1958) is an American science writer, novelist, playwright, and public health advocate whose books include The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health, Alternative Medicine for Dummies, and Nameless Diseases. She has written on a wide range of health and medical issues for both medical professionals and the general public in publications including The Harvard Health Letter , [1] [2] JAMA , [3] [4] Consumer Reports , [5] CNN , [6] Education Week , [7] Weight Watchers Magazine , [8] Business Week , [9] [10] The Missouri Review , [11] and The Huffington Post. [12] As Terra Ziporyn Snider, her married name, she co-founded and became executive director of Start School Later, a public-health non-profit organization. She lives in Severna Park, Maryland with her husband J.H. Snider. She is the sister of Brook Ziporyn and Evan Ziporyn.

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Education and career

Ziporyn graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1976. She received a BA in both history and biology ( summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa) from Yale University, where she was the arts editor of the Yale Daily News. She earned an MA and PhD in the history of science and medicine as a Searle Fellow at the University of Chicago, where she conducted research in biopsychology in the laboratory of Martha McClintock. [13] Ziporyn's dissertation, supervised by Lester S. King and published as Disease in the Popular American Press, focused on relationship between science and society. [14] Ziporyn studied fiction and screenwriting at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Old Chatham Writers Conference, and Columbia College, and playwriting with Ted Tally at Yale University and Theatre Building Chicago's New Tuners Workshop.

In 1984 Ziporyn became an associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) and in 1985 began freelancing for publications including The Harvard Health Letter , [1] [2] JAMA , [3] [4] Consumer Reports , [5] CNN , [6] Education Week , [7] Weight Watchers Magazine , [8] Business Week , [9] [10] The Missouri Review , [11] and The Huffington Post. [12] She was awarded a AAAS Mass Media Science Fellowship in 1979. She later received science writing fellowships from the American Chemical Society (1992) and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (1997). In 2011 Ziporyn co-founded and became executive director of Start School Later, a 501(c)(3) organization comprising health professionals, sleep scientists, educators, parents, students, and other concerned citizens dedicated to raising awareness about adolescent sleep and helping communities ensure safe, healthy, and equitable school hours where students have an opportunity to get healthy sleep. [15] Her writing about translating sleep research into school policy has been published in Sleep Science (Oxford University Press) Sleep, Health, and Society (Oxford University Press), and Sleep Health, [16] [17] the peer-reviewed journal of the National Sleep Foundation. She received the 2022 Public Service Award from the Sleep Research Society.

Selected works

Non-fiction books

Fiction and plays

References

  1. 1 2 Ziporyn, Terra (December 1996). "Shaking Up Conventional Wisdom on Salt". Harvard Health Letter: 6–7.
  2. 1 2 Ziporyn, Terra (February 1992). "True Blue". Harvard Health Letter: 1–3.
  3. 1 2 Ziporyn, Terra (February 9, 1990). "What the Nazis Called 'Medical Research' Haunts the Scientific Community to This Day" . JAMA. 263 (6): 791. doi:10.1001/jama.1990.03440060021005. PMID   2296137. Archived from the original on February 2, 2022. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
  4. 1 2 Ziporyn, Terra (1985). "Historians strive to improve perspective, practice of medicine". JAMA. 254 (19): 2713–5, 2719–20. doi:10.1001/jama.1985.03360190017002. PMID   4057474.
  5. 1 2 Ziporyn, Terra (March 1987). "Stalking a good night's sleep: relief for insomnia often takes more than counting pills or sheept". Consumer Reports: 136–138.
  6. 1 2 "Let Kids Sleep Later". CNN . 28 August 2014. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  7. 1 2 Snider, Terra Ziporyn (15 May 2012). "Push Back High School Start Times". Education Week. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  8. 1 2 Ziporyn, Terra (January–February 1997). "Rules of a Smart Patient". Weight Watchers Magazine: 48–51.
  9. 1 2 "The case against chest x-rays". Business Week: 700–701. September 24, 1979.
  10. 1 2 "An arthritis drug for menstrual pain". Business Week. August 1979.
  11. 1 2 Ziporyn, Terra (Fall 1988). "Medical science in the popular American press: beginnings". Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  12. 1 2 "Terra Ziporyn, PhD". Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  13. ↑ Ziporyn, Terra; McClintock, Martha K. (1991). "Passing as an indicator of social dominance among female wild and domestic Norway rats". Animal Behaviour. 118 (1/2): 26–41. JSTOR   4534952. Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  14. ↑ Burnham, John C. (17 November 1989). "Disease in the Popular American Press" . JAMA. 262 (19): 2754. doi:10.1001/jama.1989.03430190138052. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  15. ↑ "Start School Later". Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  16. ↑ Ziporyn, Terra; et al. (2022). "Adolescent sleep health and school start times: Setting the research agenda for California and beyond. A Research Summit Summary" . Sleep Health. 8 (1): 11–22. doi:10.1016/j.sleh.2021.10.008. PMID   34991996. S2CID   245720259.
  17. 1 2 Ziporyn, Terra; et al. (2017). "Self-report surveys of student health and well-being: A review of use in the context of school start times". Sleep Health. 3 (6): 498–507. doi:10.1016/j.sleh.2017.09.002. PMID   29157646. S2CID   25056109.
  18. ↑ "A CD Guide to Women's Health". July 1997. Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  19. ↑ "Book Review: Consumer Manifesto: Power to the Buyer". Los Angeles Times. February 12, 1992. Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  20. ↑ "Embedded Finance: The Next Big Disruption?". 4 March 2021. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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