Elizabeth Hofheinz is an award-winning writer who has interviewed approximately 1,000 orthopedic surgeons over the last 15 years. The first writer engaged by Orthopedics This Week, Hofheinz has been honored with the Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence Award from The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on two occasions. A Program Coordinator for the Tulane University Orthopaedics Department, Hofheinz is also a freelance editor and writer who collaborates with physicians and Ph.Ds. in order to prepare manuscripts for publication in professional journals. Her clients are from the U.S., China, Japan, Turkey, and beyond. She has worked with the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), The Rheumatologist, ENT Today, corporations, public relations firms, the team physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as physicians at Harvard and the Veterans Administration. Hofheinz holds two master’s degrees: one in public health—useful in the statistical arena—and another in counseling psychology—useful in all arenas.

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