Roanne Weisman is an award-winning author specializing in science, medicine and health care. She is also a principal of Words That Work, a communications consulting company that serves medical, academic and corporate clients, including most of the teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School.

Roanne has co-authored several consumer health books with physicians, including two jointly published by Harvard Medical School and McGraw-Hill. Her feature stories have appeared in periodicals such as Body & Soul Magazine, Alternative Medicine Magazine, Country Living Magazine, and Prevention Magazine, as well as in Pulse, the magazine of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and in the Massachusetts General Hospital Magazine.

In addition to her books, Roanne’s portfolio includes websites, fundraising case statements, development and public relations brochures, newsletters, magazines, direct mail appeals, feature stories, research reports, annual reports, and white papers. Two of her publications have won gold medals from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

Roanne holds a Master of Social Work with Advanced Standing from Boston University and a Bachelor of Social Work, Magna cum Laude, from McGill University. She is a member of the Authors Guild and the National Association of Science Writers, and she is fluent in French.