The basics—
 

• Currently a senior editor and leader of a team of writing fellows at the medical network Doximity 

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• Passionate about healthcare, human sexuality, and poetry

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• Over a decade of collective professional experience as an editor, writer, researcher, and strategist

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• Author or co-author of several scientific journal publications, hundreds of blog and newsletter posts, and over a dozen reported articles (check out a recent piece here, and subscribe to my newsletter here!)​

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• Editor of thousands of personal essays, dozens of short-form video scripts, a PhD dissertation, a graphic memoir, and numerous poetry manuscripts and graduate school applications

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• Based in Brooklyn, New York but open to short-term editing, writing, and sensitivity reading gigs from anywhere

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• Email: joy.westerman [at] gmail.com