Kara’s page

...as part of my job:

Press releases for U-M Health System (I don’t write as many as I used to now that I’m the PR director):

Visit our newsroom and type my last name in the search box to see releases I’ve written in the past.

For older stuff, do a full-text search of the archive.

Other work for UMHS:

Virtual Tour of new Cardiovascular Center (Opened June 2007) and building fact sheets

Live on-camera interviews of the Cardiovascular Center’s architects and Cardiovascular Center directors during the building’s grand opening

Information about the Health System’s innovative approach to malpractice

Information about the Health System’s innovative approach to “drug reps” and samples

Web site of Taubman Medical Research Institute and audio podcast of the institute’s donor and first five scientists

First issue, Colleagues in Care newsletter for referring physicians
(I wrote all articles except the Clinical Care Update & Web Resources item)

Name:

Kara Gavin

(formerly Villamil)

Where i live:

Plymouth, Michigan

....but I grew up in Essex Junction, VT

HOW TO CONTACT ME:

kegavin@umich.edu

Occupation:

As of March 2012, I’m a Lead Public Relations Representative at the U-M Health System, responsible for publicizing the clinical neurosciences, Medical School topics, much basic research and various other areas of the Health System.

From October 2008 til March 2012, I was the Public Relations Director for the University of MIchigan Health System, overseeing media relations, internal communications, video and crisis communications.

From June 1999 to September 2008 I was a Lead Public Relations Representative at the University of Michigan Health System

and occasional freelance writer

From 1993 to June 1999, I was a science writer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY

Education:

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Class of 1992

B.A. with high honors - Science writing and Biology (minor in Brit Lit)

Columbia University

Graduate School of Journalism

Class of 1993

M.S. - Journalism
(science writing concentration)

For fun: