Jeannie Wurz
Jeannie Wurz is an American writer and editor who lives in the capital of Switzerland. A native of the Chicago area, she earned a degree in English/Writing from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983. Jeannie worked in the USA for a weekly news magazine, hospitals, publishing companies, and an advertising agency before moving to Bern in 1992. Since 1995 she has worked free-lance as a medical editor. In 2000 she was hired by the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at the Bern University Hospital, and from 2001 to 2010 she handled manuscripts submitted to the Critical Care & Trauma section of the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. Jeannie’s published writing ranges from an article on intercultural marriages for the Chicago Tribune to a distance learning module on Communication Skills for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine to profiles of radio host Garrison Keillor, TV newsmen Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, and Switzerland’s first female President. In November 2008 she was appointed Editor of COPE’s new newsletter, Ethical Editing.
I receive, or have received, payment for editorial services from the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at Bern University Hospital, the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, and clients at various European hospitals and universities.