Margaret Varnell Clark

Margaret Ann Cynthia Varnell Clark,(born in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a writer and editor. She holds licenses as a registered nurse, registered respiratory therapist, and neonatal pediatric specialist.[1][2] She has worked in print and television, both in the medical field and the general media.

Career

She was a columnist for Advance News Magazines beginning in 1990 until the news agencies reorganization in 2010. Concurrently, she wrote for several news agencies including Reuters Health. In 2004 she became the Editorial Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Medscape/WebMD, and the Pulmonary Medicine Editor of the peer review journal MedGenMed.She held these positions until 2009.[3][4] She has a strong clinical medicine background which includes working as the Clinical Coordinator for Respiratory Care, at Boston University/ Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts and as the Special Studies Coordinator for the Georgia Medical Care Foundation where she conducted the national pilot collaborative, Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease.[2] As a medical researcher, she continues to publish in the areas of health outcomes assessment and educational effectiveness.[5][6] She served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane University in her home town of New Orleans from 1997–2000 and the Director of the Swan Series for the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane from 1997 - 1999. She was also the President of the Southeast Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association from 2004–2005; and worked on several boards/committees for the American College of Chest Physicians. She often lectures in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Central America. In 2014 she completed a successful lecture series in Indonesia and Singapore, where one of her books is widely used as the standard of care for asthma.[2][7] Among the awards she has received are the Bird Award given at the American Association of Respiratory Care Annual Conference for her extensive writing in Pulmonary Medicine[2] and the 2010 D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP Humanitarian Award given by the Chest Foundation, American College of Chest Physicians.[1][8] Clark continues to work on television and web multimedia programs.[2][9]

Bibliography

Her books include:

She has also written 40 peer reviewed academic publications on William Shakespeare for the Shakespeare Bulletin from 1995–2001 and is cited in the in The Tragedy of King Richard III, published in 2001 and 2008 by Oxford University Press.[18][19][20][21]

Television

She started working as a writer for WYES-TV in her hometown of New Orleans in 1996. Her television work includes:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Congratulations to The CHEST Foundation's 2010 Award Winners | CHEST 2010". Chest 2010. 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Marquis Who's Who". Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  3. Varnell Clark, Margaret (2014). "CME Monograph: Managing Hyponatremia in the Hospitalized Patient" (PDF). CME University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  4. Varnell Clark, Margaret (2007). "Peer Review Article: Base Hospital 43: The Emory Unit". MedGenMed. 2007; 9(3): 10. 9 (3). p. 10. PMC 2100082.
  5. Deitelzweig, Steven et al. (2013). "Outcomes Assessment of Hyponatremia in a Regional Hospital Medicine Program". CME University. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  6. Greenberg, Barry et al. (2013). "Measuring Continuing Medical Education Outcomes: An Assessment of a Heart Failure Society of America Inc Annual Meeting Symposium" (PDF). Heart Failure Society of America and CME University. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  7. Varnell Clark, Margaret (2013). Buku Asma Panduan Penatalaksanaan Klinis Pengarang Margaret Varnell Clark. Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 0763778540. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  8. "The CHEST Foundation's Not One More Life Asthma Clinic". Chest 2010. 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  9. "We Need to Do a Better Job of Preparing for the Next Big Disaster". 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  10. Varnell Clark, Margaret (1998). Inspiration: Your Guide to Better Breathing. ISBN 0937776114.
  11. Varnell Clark, Margaret (2005). The Louisiana Irish. ISBN 0595433634. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  12. "Chef John Folse Guests and Goodies: Recommends Margaret Varnell's The Louisiana Irish". 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  13. Varnell Clark, Margaret (2009). Asthma: A Clinicians Guide. Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 0763778540. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  14. Varnell Clark, Margaret (2013). Самая большая электронная читалка рунета. Поиск книг и журналов. Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 0763778540. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  15. Varnell Clark, Margaret (2013). Asma Panduan Penatalaksanaan Klinis. Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 0763778540. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  16. Varnell Clark, Margaret (2013). Walking through Rome. ISBN 1475981333. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  17. "2013 Decatur Book Festival: Festival Appearances – Margaret Varnell Clark". 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  18. "The Shakespeare Bulletin". Multiple Peer review Articles:. ISSN 0748-2558.
  19. "Shakespeare on Film & Video: Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Library". Richard III. 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  20. "Shakespeare Quarterly, suppl. World Shakespeare Bibliography 200153.5 (2002): 665-679". Margaret Varnell, On the Move with the RSC: An Interview with Adrian Noble. 2002. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  21. Jouett, John (2008). "The Tragedy of King Richard III 2001 & 2008 edition, page 94, 109". ISBN 9780199535880.