Jen Uscher Email & Phone Number

• Develops, plans, writes, and edits content for Breastcancer.org, the leading patient-focused online resource for breast cancer information, news, and support.• Creates educational content, news, feature, and investigative articles covering surgery, breast reconstruction, treatment side effects, screening and testing, health insurance issues, mental health, body image, survivorship, doctor-patient communication, risk factors and risk reduction, and clinical trials. • Grows traffic leveraging SEO strategies.• Builds longstanding collaborative relationships with top physicians, scientists, policy experts, patient advocates, and partner organizations.• Collaborates with internal editorial, design, marketing, social media, podcasting, virtual community, and research teams.• Assists with live webinars by helping to choose topics, find expert panelists, edit scripts and slides, and answer viewer questions in the live chat. • Contributes to long-term content planning and strategy. • Wrote six in-depth special reports on topics such as breast implant illness, the financial burdens of breast cancer, and COVID-19’s impact on breast cancer care. Two of these were honored with Digital Health Awards: “Beyond Treatment: Expecting More from Your Follow Up Care” (Bronze, Spring 2024) and “Increasing Racial Diversity in Breast Cancer Clinical Trials” (Silver, Spring 2022).

• Wrote, researched, and edited feature articles, brochures, e-newsletters, funding proposals, and letters to donors.• Translated groundbreaking research on astrophysics, alternative energy, agriculture, cancer, neuroscience, quantum computing, nanoscience, and more for nonscientist readers. • Covered events featuring visiting scientists.

• Bylines with WebMD.com, Women’s Health, Shape, Arthritis Today, Proto, Cleveland Clinic, Epilepsy Advocate, Parkinson’s Now, Popular Science, ScientificAmerican.com, Consumer Reports ShopSmart, AARP The Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Real Simple, All You, Organic Style, ForbesLife Executive Woman, Audubon, Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife, On Earth, BBC Wildlife, and Smithsonian Zoogoer. • Created marketing and communications materials for medical and scientific institutions, including the American College of Physicians, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Psychological Association, the Dana Foundation, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York Medical College, and VCU School of Medicine. • Wrote museum exhibit text for the Connecticut Science Center (2008) and for the Better Homes and Gardens & Green Works Living Green tour of home and garden shows (2008). • Conducted research for the Science Channel documentary "Exploring Time" (2005-2006)

• Wrote and researched blog posts for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Culture of Health" blog.

• Wrote for several publications of Aligning Forces for Quality, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded effort to improve the quality of health care and reduce health disparities in 16 communities. Attended and wrote about meetings of grant recipients.• Contributed to "Urgent Matters," an e-newsletter about emergency medicine.

• Wrote feature articles on psychology, parenting, pregnancy, nutrition, dermatology, addiction, cancer, oral health, and many other topics

• Developed, wrote, edited, and managed web content for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.• Partnered with dozens of departments to create web sites and social media campaigns highlighting basic science, clinical, and education initiatives. • Rewrote and reorganized content to drive SEO.• Coordinated the placement of faculty essays on external blogs, such as the Health Affairs Blog.• Wrote copy for a sponsored InMail campaign for a new graduate program.• Helped to coordinate live webcasts.• Contributed to the Mount Sinai Health System’s print publications, including the Dean’s Quarterly, Inside Mount Sinai, Graduate Education: Accelerating Science, Advancing Medicine, and the Community Service Plan (2009-2013).

Yonkers, New York, United States

• As a regular contributor to Consumer Reports ShopSmart, wrote feature articles about consumer advocacy issues and making smart shopping choices. Covered the safety of the ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, how to assess the sustainability of products and green marketing claims, how to decode food labels, and more. •Stories were featured in the New York Times, on the Today show, and in other media.

• Produced web features for A&E Television Network sites including AandE.com, Biography.com, Mysteries.com, and HistoryChannel.com. • Researched, wrote, and edited web content and oversaw the work of designers, programmers, and writers.

• Assisted in all aspects of production for the web site of the PBS science series NOVA, including content research, writing, budgeting, acquiring rights, and tracking ratings (1997-1998).• Served as a researcher for the series NOVA scienceNOW (2005).

Mfa, Nonfiction Writing

B.S., Mass Communication