Dr. Holly Atkinson has worked in print, broadcast television and online media for both medical professional and consumer audiences. Dr. Atkinson is the chief medical officer and senior health correspondent for HealthiNation. She is also an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Medicine and Co-director of the Advancing Idealism in Medicine Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor of public health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. In addition, she is past president and a member of the board of directors of Physicians for Human Rights, a human rights organization that shared in the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
Before joining the HealthiNation team, Dr. Atkinson was the founding chief medical editor of www.everydayhealth.com, one of the most prominent health sites on the Internet. Prior to that post, she was the Chairwoman of iVillage Health Initiatives and resident physician on iVillage.com. She was also a founder as well as President and CEO of Reuters Health Information, Inc. Prior to joining Reuters, Dr. Atkinson was at Lifetime Medical Television for 10 years where she served as Senior Vice President of Programming, overseeing all of the continuing medical education programs aired on the network.
Dr. Atkinson was also the founding editor of the consumer newsletter HealthNews for the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine, and served as its editor-in-chief for more than 12 years. Dr. Atkinson has also been a columnist for New Woman magazine and a resident physician on DrWeil.com and iVillagehealth.com.
Dr. Atkinson has an MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colgate University with a BS in biology. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
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