Julie Corliss

Julie Corliss is an American medical writer with more than sixteen years of experience in consumer health issues.

She helped Dr. George L. Blackburn write Break Through Your Set Point a weight loss book published by HarperCollins.

[1] After receiving a BA in biology at Oberlin College, she worked for several years as a research assistant for Dr. William E. Connor, an internationally known expert on the health benefits of fish oil.

[citation needed] She obtained a master's certificate in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz, then worked as a writer and public affairs specialist at the National Cancer Institute, the US Department of Agriculture and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

For eight years, she was a staff medical writer for HealthNews, a consumer health publication affiliated with the New England Journal of Medicine.