PHR Board of Directors
Holly G. Atkinson, MD
Dr. Holly Atkinson is chief of medical affairs and on-air medical correspondent for HealthiNation, the leading provider of consumer health videos across the Internet
and on video-on-demand cable TV. Further, Dr. Atkinson is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine and Co-Director of the Advancing Idealism in Medicine Program at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She is also an author and popular professional speaker, engaging and entertaining audiences across America on a range of health topics.
Previously, Dr. Atkinson was a founder as well as President and CEO of Reuters Health Information, Inc. Within three years of taking the helm, she led the company to profitability and international recognition. Prior to joining Reuters, she was at Lifetime Medical Television for 10 years as Senior Vice President of Programming. She has extensive experience as a medical correspondent, including assignments with NBC's Today show and CBS News (Walter Cronkite's Universe Show and The CBS Morning News), Lifetime Medical Television, and the PBS health show BodyWatch. She is author of the best-selling book Women and Fatigue.
Dr. Atkinson was the founding editor-in-chief of HealthNews, a consumer health newsletter published for 12 years by the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine. She then moved on to Everydayhealth.com, where she was founding medical editor-in-chief and the regular health columnist. Her popular weekly lifestyle column, "Notes from Dr. Holly" was a standing feature on the home page. She's also worked with New Woman magazine, Dr. Weill.com and iVillage.com.
Dr. Atkinson devotes considerable time to non-profit organizations and charities. She is Immediate Past President of Physicians for Human Rights. She also served on the board of directors of Legal Momentum, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization devoted to advancing equality for women, for over 12 years.
Dr. Atkinson has a MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and a MS degree in journalism 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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