Eric Vohr is a career journalist and science writer, who started his writing career working as a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia and a reporter and editor of numerous US newspapers. Since then he has worked as a writer for numerous medical and scientific institutions including: Johns Hopkins Medicine, The Association of Community Cancer Centers, The Endocrine Society, The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, and The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Vohr is co-author of "Cancer with Hope", published by Johns Hopkins Press and “Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Author’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out” published by Penguin Group USA. He is currently working on a textbook on patieEric Vohr is a career journalist and science writer, who started his writing career working as a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia and a reporter and editor of numerous US newspapers. Since then he has worked as a writer for numerous medical and scientific institutions including: Johns Hopkins Medicine, The Association of Community Cancer Centers, The Endocrine Society, The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, and The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Vohr is co-author of "Cancer with Hope", published by Johns Hopkins Press and “Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Author’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out” published by Penguin Group USA. He is currently working on a textbook on patient safety for the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine . Vohr’s work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, Saturday Evening Post, Seattle Times, LA times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Week Magazine. He received his Masters in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and has taught graduate and undergraduate journalism and technical writing classes at Goucher College, Stevenson University, Loyola University and Johns Hopkins University....more