Joan Swirsky
Joan Swirsky has been a longtime health-and-science and feature writer for The New York Times Long Island section and the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards. She was a science writer for The Women's Record, writing over 175 articles on the issue of breast cancer on Long Island, publicly acknowledged as driving two redesigns of the New York State Study on breast cancer and as the first journalist in America to put the breast cancer-environment relationship "on the map" of public consciousness.
Joan is a clinical nurse specialist (R.N., M.S., CS, CE) and certified psychotherapist. She was awarded a Nurse of Distinction Award by the New York State Legislature in 1991, and she was co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of REVOLUTION - The Journal of Nurse Empowerment. The magazine, a national quarterly, received First Prize for Editorial Excellence from the prestigious national media Folio Awards in 1994. In addition, for 15 years, she was the editor of The Caucus Current, a monthly magazine on Jewish political issues. She currently writes political commentary for several Internet news journals. Click here for her articles
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The Editors American Minute Presidential Watch 2008 Christopher AdamoAlex AlexievColonel Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)Walter AndersonRoger AronoffJed BabbinSlater BakhtavarJeff BearorDavid F. BedeyTrip BellardAndrew G. BostomJeff BreinholtPeter BrookesJonathan BurackJames Jay Carafano, Ph.D.Sandra CarneyAlan CarubaDr. Phyllis CheslerGordon CuculluIan M. CuthbertsonMichael CutlerKay DayKatharine DeBrechtJessica deGraffenreidJohn DendahlJ.R. DieckmannLee EllisRiki EllisonJeff EmanuelSteven EmersonJack EngelhardDouglas FarahLaina Farhat-HolzmanPeter M. FeamanWilliam J. FedererJames JF Forest Ph.D.Brigitte GabrielGabriel Garnica, Esq.,Newt GingrichCaroline GlickShawn GoodwinNicholas GuarigliaWendy HaigJoel HimelfarbPaul HollrahChristopher HoltonJohn W. HowardAmil ImaniJeffrey ImmM. Zuhdi JasserDavid J. JonssonCliff KincaidRuth KingEd KochEvan KohlmannSusan KonigJim Kouri, CPPRaymond S. KraftRita KramerDr. Harvey KushnerSusan MacAllenImaad MalikMichelle MalkinSSG Brian McCarthyKT McFarlandScott McKayTom McLaughlinPamela MeisterJoan Harrold MessnerGeoff MetcalfCharles MitchellRick MoranAdrian MorganDick MorrisJoel MowbrayTom Ordeman, Jr.Bob ParksJ. Peter Pham, Ph.D.Dr. Walid PharesPatrick PooleJason RantzMolly RapoportFrank SalvatoTashbih SayyedDeborah Schurman-Kauflin, Ph.D.Stephen SchwartzAndy SelepakBen ShapiroLuke C. SheahanW. Thomas Smith Jr.Cinnamon StillwellJonathan StrongDr. Paul SullivanJoan SwirskyCarol TaberMark R. TaylorRenee E. TaylorArthur Waldron, Ph.DGeorge Weissinger, Ph.D.Tim WilsonSher Zieve