Alison Bass

[1][2] Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Harvard University's Nieman Reports, The Miami Herald, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post and Technology Review, among other publications.

Before coming to West Virginia, Bass taught at Brandeis University and Mount Holyoke College.

Her first book, Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, won the NASW Science in Society Award in 2009.

[3] Side Effects tells the true story of two women who exposed the deception behind the making of a bestselling drug and in doing so, examines financial ties and conflicts of interest among pharmaceutical companies, mental health advocacy groups, doctors, medical journals and the health care industry.

[7] In 2007, she won an Alicia Patterson Fellowship[8] to write Side Effects, which was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 2008.