credentials ::
Professional Certification and Certificates
- Certified Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS), Board of Editors in the Life Sciences, 2000
- American Medical Writers Association Core Curriculum Certificates: Freelance (1997); Pharmaceutical (1997); Writing and Editing (1996)
Education
- Statistics for Biomedical Scientists (graduate-level course), Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, NIH, fall semester, 2000, and spring semester, 2001
- Intramural Research Training Award postdoctoral fellow, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, 1990-92
- PhD (cell biology, cum laude) 1990, Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland
- MS (basic health science) 1977, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- BS (biology, cum laude) 1971, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Organizational Leadership
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American Medical Writers Association
- President, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, 1998-1999
- Originator and coordinator, Mid-Atlantic Chapter's e-mail service, since 1998
- Coordinator, Core Curriculum Workshops, 1996 and 1997
Memberships
- American Medical Writers Association, since 1994
- Council of Biology Editors, since 1986
- Editorial Freelancers Association, 1979-82 and since 1994
Selected Research Articles
Altus MS, Wood CM, Stewart DA, Roskams AJI, Friedman V, Henderson T, Owens GA, Danner DB, Jupe ER, Dell-Orco RT, McClung JK. Regions of evolutionary conservation between rat and human prohibitin genes. Gene 1995;158(2):291-294.
Altus MS, Nagamine, Y. Stability of urokinase-type plasminogen activator mRNA studied in cell-free decay reactions. Journal of Biological Chemistry 1991;266(31):21190-21196.
Altus MS, Pearson D, Horiuchi A, Nagamine Y. Inhibition of protein synthesis in LLC-PK1 cells increases calcitonin induced plasminogen-activator gene transcription and mRNA stability. Biochemical Journal 1987;242(2):387-392.
Altus MS, Bernstein SE, Russell ES, Carsten AL, Upton AC. Defect extrinsic to stem cells in spleens of steel anemic mice. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 1971;138(3):985-988.
Letters to the Editor, Media Review, and Meeting Report
Altus MS. Culture of science and order of authorship [letter]. Science Editor 2001;24:17.
Altus MS. Eat your vegetables—and check your references! Maryland Medical Journal 1996;45:568-569.
Altus MS. eMedicine.com—excellent content but difficult to use [media review]. AMWA Journal 2000(4);15:32.
Altus MS. The journal's role in educating readers [meeting report]. Science Editor 2002;25:10.
Altus MS. The medical model revisited: a question of citation. American Journal of Psychiatry 1979;136:734-735.
Altus MS. Medical writing: preventing "slipped disk(ette) syndrome". Maryland Medical Journal 1996;45:855.
Altus MS. NAD and chronic schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry 1974;131:1043-1044.