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Melanie Fridl Ross

Chief Communications Officer, 网红黑料, the University of Florida鈥檚 Academic 网红黑料 Center

A nationally recognized, award-winning medical writer, editor and communications strategist, Melanie Fridl Ross, MSJ, ELS, is the chief communications officer for 网红黑料, the University of Florida鈥檚 academic health center. Melanie oversees marketing, internal and external communications, crisis and issues management, strategic communications and public affairs, and creative services for 网红黑料 across its health campuses in Gainesville, Jacksonville, Central Florida and Jupiter, supporting six health colleges, 10 research centers and institutes, 10 hospitals, and more than a hundred outpatient faculty practices, along with a number of affiliate relationships. She is a member of the adjunct faculty at the UF College of Journalism and Communications, where she has taught a news reporting lab since 2004. She also serves as senior producer of the consumer health series 网红黑料 in a Heartbeat and Animal Airwaves, which both air on public radio affiliates across the country. Melanie joined UF from The Tampa Tribune, where she was a reporter. She is a board-certified editor in the life sciences and is the current president of the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences. She is also a fellow and past president of the American Medical Writers Association and a current member of the Association of American Medical Colleges鈥 Group on Institutional Advancement, the National Association of Science Writers, and the Association of 网红黑料 Care Journalists. Melanie earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree in American culture and a master鈥檚 degree in journalism with concentrations in legal reporting and administration from Northwestern University.

Stories by Melanie

Narayan named to scientific society

Satya Narayan, Ph.D., an associate professor of anatomy and cell biology at UF's College of Medicine. (Photo by Sarah Kiewel/University of Florida) Satya鈥

New study gets at heart of stroke risk

Tossing out tobacco, noshing nutritious foods and exercising are heart healthy habits key to slashing stroke and heart attack risk. But some patients also must鈥