From 2005 to 2012 I wrote about healthcare. I created and edited content for books, newsletters, and podcasts. My focus was regulation and compliance, and I began writing about the hospital lab, an area of healthcare not often given the respect it deserves. 

But I respected it, and over a decade I spun out content from overlapping disciplines such as pathology, infection prevention, emergency management, and nursing—as many as fifteen years before world events would touch upon these topics in new and drastic ways.

I did scores of projects. Representative titles included things like

 Applying Microbiology to Infection Control Best Practices: Managing MRSA and Other Emerging Diseases

Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety from which I spun out Laboratory Infection Control: Essential Procedures for Compliance and Pandemic Lock-Down Drill Prep.

...a full decade before the first wave of the pandemic.

As my work broadened, my networks did also, and I branched out from such publishers as Massachusetts-based EBSCO to national trade associations, such as the Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Later in my career I would apply my experience to highlight the challenges of healthcare beyond the walls of the hospitals, eg my feature writing for the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (as shown on the Features page of my portfolio).