Michael DePeau-Wilson

Enterprise Reporter @medpagetoday | Focused on #AIinHealthcare | Fmr editor/podcast host @anesthesianews | @newmarkjschool alum

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

Launch week! 🎉

I just kicked off Press Ready Science, a newsletter about what it really takes for researchers, clinicians, and academics to talk to journalists like pros.

https://t.co/hTv7BTjFGJ

#SciComm #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter #PressReadyScience

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

Every Monday, I’ll share short, practical tips from my decade as a health & science journalist to help you shine in your next interview.

Because media attention should be a feature of research and academic work, not an afterthought.

New post’s up 👇
[https://t.co/pM0GdO5Cny]

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

How can a newsletter get you press ready?

It's a fair question.

Press Ready Science won’t replace your PR team — but it will help you make interviews less stressful and media attention a little less overwhelming. #SciComm #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter

So, here's the deal:

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

Each week, I’ll share quick (5 min or less) tips to help experts sound as smart in the news as they are in the lab.

Follow along 👇

https://t.co/PhGUyLTti9

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

Launch week! 🎉

I just kicked off Press Ready Science, a newsletter about what it really takes for researchers, clinicians, and academics to talk to journalists like pros.

https://t.co/hTv7BTjFGJ

#SciComm #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter #PressReadyScience

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

“Being press ready” sounds simple — but after a decade in health journalism, I’ve seen how hard it is to turn deep expertise into quotable, memorable soundbites.

It’s not about dumbing things down. It’s about connecting.

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

First post’s up if you want to take a look 👇

https://t.co/4BRdGXZMp2

#SciComm #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter #PressReadyScience

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

It's been a minute since I’ve been active here 👋

I’ve been busy on the other side of the notebook — still reporting, editing, and generally racing around the world of health journalism.

#SciComm #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

Lately I’ve been thinking about how stressful it can be for researchers and clinicians to talk to reporters (and how it doesn’t have to be).

So I started something new: Press Ready Science, a newsletter for experts who want to sound as smart in the news as they are in the lab.

[rachael robertson @rachrobertson__]

I don’t get to write profiles often, but I love when I do — especially when their work is as interesting and important as @KekoaMDPhD’s. My latest for @medpagetoday 👇🏻

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

https://t.co/ReoleZn2Gr Read this if you want to know how a short-sighted, profit-based decision (hospital selling out anesthesia services to private equity) can absolutely tank hospital culture, quality of life, and patient care. This is happening everywhere.

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

Ohio Hospital Pauses Cardiac Surgery Program in Wake of Criticism
https://t.co/2D0CdWHM7W

[Cheryl Clark @CherClarHealth]

We tried to create a map to help people appeal health coverage denials. What a mess! Mind-boggling complexity! @propublica https://t.co/zKQCIJChZv

[MedPage Today @medpagetoday]

"It opens up a whole lot of doors for ways to automate some of the more menial tasks and the documentation tasks that clinicians don't love to do." -- Ashwin Nayak, MD, on his study finding that #ChatGPT can write good clinical notes.
@MedReporterMike
https://t.co/9zIwE91zZI

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

But a closer look reveals a more complex story, according to @chimoose:

A tighter snapshot showed physician Twitter use increased every day over the past 4 days, and July 13 saw more physician tweets than the day Threads launched.
#MedTwitter #threadsvstwitter

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

Comparing June 14-July 13 periods this year and in 2022, the number of physicians posting on Twitter decreased by 13% (73,371 vs 63,957) and the number of physician posts decreased by 21% (3,420,696 vs 2,718,280), according data shared by @HealthQuant

https://t.co/DAjLnkmHNT

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

"If you're looking to do a thumbnail sketch, I think you could actually say that a bunch of the doctors that were actively spending their time on Twitter a year ago have been spending it on Threads this year," @chimoose

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

"What should infuriate people is that this is all public-sponsored research, right? So we're paying twice for it as taxpayers -- once when we invest in the research, because NIH grants are all funded by taxpayer dollars, and then we pay for it again when we buy it off the shelf."

[rachael robertson @rachrobertson__]

I wrote about how #PatientsNotPatents (@johngreen/@sportswithjohn, @PIH, @MSF, @StopTB, & many more!) successfully pushed @JNJNews to allow generics of their TB drug bedaquiline. Read more in @medpagetoday 👇
https://t.co/ktyeOKptnj

[Digital Health Awards @DHealthAwards]

SILVER | Medpage Today @medpagetoday | MedPage Today TikTok (Digital Health — Social Media: TikTok) #DHA2023

[Michael DePeau-Wilson @MedReporterMike]

"Our findings suggest that ADHD medication should be the preferred choice for individuals with BPD with ADHD symptoms and suicidal behavior." --Johannes Lieslehto, MD, PhD

#MedTwitter #psychtwitter #ADHD

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