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Lisa Catanese, ELS
Experience

Experienced writer and editor specializing in health and medical writing for consumer and professional audiences. Excellent project manager with strong organizational skills and great attention to detail. Experienced in managing teams of writers, medical reviewers, designers, programmers and photographers. Earned certification as Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS).

SELECT CURRENT AND PAST FREELANCE CLIENTS:

  • Advanced Practice Strategies (CME), Boston, MA
  • American Well (telehealth), Boston, MA
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Community CancerCare, Manchester and Enfield, CT
  • Connecticut Hospital Association, Wallingford, CT
  • Dianon Systems Inc. (pathology services), Stratford, CT
  • Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Manchester, CT
  • Esoterix Inc. Laboratory Services, Austin, TX
  • GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Wellesley, MA
  • Health + Commerce, Santa Rosa, CA
  • Integrative Medicine Communications, Newton, MA
  • Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
  • Lahey Health, Burlington, MA
  • Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Meda Pharmaceuticals, Somerset, NJ
  • Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
  • Medical Communications Network, Baltimore, MD
  • Mosby Consumer Health, Boston, MA
  • Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA
  • Pleio, Inc., New York, NY
  • Red Bridge Strategy Inc., Cambridge, MA
  • Relevate Health Group, Cincinnati, OH
  • Roche U.S. Pharmaceuticals, Nutley, NJ
  • Sanofi-Aventis, Paris, France
  • Sharecare Inc., Atlanta, GA
  • SILVR (digital healthcare marketing), San Diego and Ventura, CA
  • United Healthcare, Hartford, CT
  • University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
  • University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Des Moines, IA
  • VantagePoint Healthcare Advisors, Hamden, CT
  • Wellframe, Boston, MA
  • Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT


PAST EXPERIENCE:

Communications Manager, Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN), Manchester, Connecticut, a health system comprised of two acute-care hospitals, a nursing home, two wellness centers, and other partners. Responsible for internal and external communications, including:

  • Writer/editor of a 36-page award-winning health-care magazine for consumers, published every four months, circulation 153,000. Involved creating each issue from beginning to end, including deciding topics for articles, conducting interviews/research, writing the articles, planning/supervising photo sessions, using desktop publishing to create final magazine.
  • Quarterly newsletter on women’s health
  • Twice-monthly newsletter for employees
  • Quarterly newsletter for physicians
  • Physician practice brochures
  • Quarterly low-literacy newsletter published in English and Spanish
  • Annual reports
  • Health education brochures
  • Press releases
  • Created and maintained the health network's website
  • Served as back-up media spokesman


Communications Manager, Rockville General Hospital, Vernon, Connecticut. Responsible for internal and external communications. Began consumer health magazine. Published monthly employee newsletter, monthly community news bulletin, women’s wellness newsletter, health education brochures, press releases. Planned and organized health education programs.

Reporter for The Hartford Courant, Connecticut’s largest daily newspaper with 225,000 circulation.

Reporter for The Litchfield County Times, a weekly newspaper in New Milford, Connecticut, serving 26 towns.