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Helen Chickering PDF Print E-mail
Helen Chickering This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it is the medical reporter for NBC News Channel. Her daily medical reports are fed to more than 200 NBC affiliates around the country.

Chickering is a frequent guest lecturer in courses offered by the Medical Journalism Program. She has worked with medical journalism and electronic communication students in JOMC 195, 196 and 197. She helped in preproduction and script critiquing a series on sexually transmitted infections produced by students in Dr. Tom Linden's JOMC 197 ("Science Documentary Television") course.

Chickering's been on the medical beat since 1985 and has covered health news on both the local and national levels.

She is a past president of the National Association of Medical Communicators and is on the advisory board of the Medical Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She also has great respect for the medical profession - her husband is a resident physician in psychiatry!

 
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