Published Works
For Psychology Today:
September 24, 2025: How Ranked Choice Voting Could Help Save US Democracy Psychology Today
September 23, 2025: A Governor’s Empathetic Response to Charlie Kirk’s Murder Psychology Today
May 5, 2025: How AI Could Rob Authoritarians of Their Power Psychology Today
April 7, 2025: The Special Ed Pioneer Who Still Haunts Psychology Psychology Today
March 12, 2025: Taxing Social Media Ads Might Help Us Get Our Attention Back Psychology Today
February 14, 2024: How You Can Hack Your Own Healthcare and Upgrade Your Life Psychology Today
November 8, 2023: How Shifting Perspectives Can Solve Homelessness in America Psychology Today
October 12, 2023: Tackling ALS Like a Presidential Campaign Psychology Today
September 15, 2023: How Taking the Long View Matters for Humanity’s Survival Psychology Today
September 14, 2023: How Social Media Creators Are Writing Our Future Psychology Today
August 10, 2023: Tackling ALS Like a Presidential Campaign (Part about the film / patient advocacy variant) Psychology Today
July 31, 2023: How Writing Helps Us Build a Life Psychology Today
July 20, 2023: New U.S. Agency Tasked With “Moonshot” Medical Advances Psychology Today
July 6, 2023: “We the Scientists”: A New Paradigm for Research Psychology Today
June 25, 2023: 7 Lessons From Writing My First Book Psychology Today
June 22, 2023: A FitBit for Illness: The Start of Human-Centered Healthcare Psychology Today
May 16, 2023: COVID Long Haulers Protest in DC: “Pandemics Are Chronic” Psychology Today
April 27, 2023: Covid Long Haulers Show Us How to Transform Healthcare Psychology Today
April 9, 2023: Solving the Pandemic After the Pandemic
Opinion & Essays:
April 11, 2023: Long Covid Revolution co-authored with Fiona Lowenstein for The Nation
February 2, 2023: Gaslighting Long Haulers. In-depth essay, Open Mind magazine. Republished in The Hindu in India.
November 16, 2022: Why Some Groups Hesitate on Vaccination. Web MD
September 15, 2022: Long Covid is keeping millions out of work – and worsening labor shortage in the US, The Guardian
August 29, 2022:Biden’s long Covid plan is a good start. But it needs to go further. STAT News
A few of my favorite CNN stories:
Long Covid is keeping millions out of work – and worsening labor shortage in the US, The Guardian (Sep 2022)
Here's how to design drug trials to defeat the next pandemic, CNN (July 2021)
Redefining Covid-19: Months after infection, patients report breathing difficulty, excessive fatigue, CNN (September 2020)
Chronic fatigue syndrome a possible long-term effect of Covid-19, experts say, CNN (August 2020)
I can’t shake Covid-19: Warnings from young survivors still suffering, CNN (July 2020)
After saving his life with a repurposed drug with a repurposed drug, a professor reviews every drug being tried against Covid-19. Here’s what he’s found, CNN (June 2020)
This breast cancer advocate says she discovered a Facebook flaw that put the health data of millions at risk, CNN (February 2020)
When Ted Koppel’s wife was given a few years left to live, the couple dedicated themselves to fighting COPD, CNN (November 2019)
This med student was given last rites before finding a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions. CNN (September 2019)
He pioneered technology that drove the Human Genome Project. How his greatest challenge is curing his own son. CNN (May 2019)
This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself. CNN, (July 2019; also the #1 read CNN story in 2019)