PORTFOLIO and CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

The proprietor of Loon Lake Design is a professional published writer who has worked as a medical editor, science writer, engineer and entrepreneur. Most recently she worked as a full-time grant and manuscript editor at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for almost 5 years, leaving to start her own business in 2007. Loon Lake Design has expertise in medical and science writing, grant editing, and web content management, for clients in the scientific and medical community, business management and high-technology arenas.

Client Testimonials and Recent Projects are listed below, along with a listing of Publications - Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters/Books we edited for doctors/scientists over the past 2 years. Web sites designed by Loon Lake are shown below.

Client Testimonials ~ Recent Projects Completed ~ Web sites ~ Client Publications

Client Testimonials

...She is highly intelligent and extremely diligent. Jobs are done very quickly and thoroughly... once Robyn signs on to a project, everyone can relax in the knowledge that it will be completed efficiently and effectively. In addition, Robyn’s background in engineering, information systems and technical writing allows her to be very creative in the production process. On numerous occasions, a few insightful suggestions from her about constructive changes led to much improved final products. Robyn is always professional in every way. Her interpersonal skills are superb. I recommend her with no reservations whatsoever for any position.

Morris Levin, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Neurology)
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Dartmouth Medical School
Co-Director, Dartmouth Headache Center
Director, Dartmouth Neurology Residency Training Program

...I would not have the number of publications I have were it not for Robyn's efforts. ... She is able to effectively edit draft manuscripts to meet word count limitations while maintaining the intellectual content. ... I would simply not have the time to both write and guide manuscripts through the editing, submission, and publication process on my own.

John M. Gemery, MD, Assistant Professor
Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

...attention to detail, editing skills and scientific knowledge [have] helped my R01 grant proposals to achieve higher scores. ... I needed an experienced editor to help me organize my ideas and express my research aims to their best level of professionalism. In the competitive quest for federal grant funding, an editor gives a researcher a definite competitive edge.

Robert D. Harris, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology and OB/GYN
Dartmouth Medical School
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

...It is difficult to appreciate how much time goes into submission of these papers to journals like JNS. ... I am certain that much of this academic work would not have reached the journals without her support.

Alexander C. Mamourian, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology
University of Pennsylvania Health System, Department of Radiology

...Robyn has been an invaluable resource for me, enabling me to efficiently revise and complete three manuscripts that have been published or are currently in press. ...If she was not available to me as a resource, I am certain that I would not have been as academically productive.

Andrew R. Forauer, MD, FSIR, Associate Professor
Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

...She has functioned as an editorial assistant in a number of complex scientific manuscripts that I have co-authored. Robyn is a hard worker.... organized, efficient and trustworthy. She has an unusual ability to comprehend complicated scientific data and translate it into understandable concepts and language based on the target audience. Robyn is a great resource. Her participation allows a busy author to focus on the scientific and clinical aspects of the manuscript, rather than the mechanics of editing and submission, which reflects a huge time savings. ...I recommend her enthusiastically.

Steven Poplack, M.D., Associate Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

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Projects Completed

• Edited R01-research grants, NSF/NCI grants, foundation grants on topics from ultrasound nanotechnology to physics to cellular biology.
• Currently assigned to write peer reviewed articles as well as editing them. See Client Publications list just below.
• Edited and co-authored peer-reviewed journal articles (with physicians, scientists and engineers) submitted to, and accepted by, many peer-reviewed US and foreign journals.
• Production assistant for a book on Headache Medicine with the Headache Cooperative of New England, published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
• Editing Dartmouth student Fulbright applications
• Articles for Dartmouth Medicine, CenterView, Skylight, Here in Hanover, Tuck Today
• Web content (Silver article for Dartmouth Toxic Metals Site)
• Annual reports: DHMC Radiology Biennial Report. (shown below)
• Newsletter content and graphics; (DHMC, Thetford Academy)
• A video script on Knee Osteoarthritis
• Websites (samples below)

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Client publications in peer-reviewed journals/books

Below is a list of peer-reviewed journal articles written or edited for Drs. Joseph Rosen and Dartmouth Colleagues in 2008-2009, a book for which I coordinated images in 2007-2008, and articles and book chapters edited for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Radiology faculty in 2005-2007.

Article co-authored, 2008, for Dr. Joseph Rosen, Dr. C. Everett Koop and colleagues at Dartmouth:

Koop CE, Mosher R, Kun L, Geiling J, Grigg E, Long S, Macedonia C, Merrell R, Satava R, Rosen JM. Future delivery of health care: Cybercare. IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag. 2008 Nov-Dec;27(6):29-38.

Articles and chapter edited, 2008-2009 for Drs. Rosen and colleagues at Dartmouth, Thayer and the VA Hospital:

Burdette TB, Long SA, Ho O, Demas C, Bell JE, Rosen JM. Early delayed amputation: A paradigm shift in the limb salvage timeline for the patient with major upper extremity injury. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development. In Press, 2009

Rosen JM, Long SA, McGrath DM, Greer SE. Simulation in Plastic Surgery Training and Education: The Path Forward. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2009 Feb.;123(2):in press.

Jurmain JC, Blancero AJ, Geiling JA, Bennett A, Jones C, Berkley J, Vollenweider M, Minsky M, Bowersox JC, Rosen JM. HazBot: Development of a Telemanipulator Robot with Haptics for Emergency Response. Am J Disaster Medicine 2008 Mar.-Apr; 3(2):87-97.

Sabelman EE, Chang W, Nguyen S, Rosen JM. Peripheral Nerve Repair and Regeneration: Historical Perspective. In: Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, 2d ed., Gary E. Wnek and Gary L. Bowlin, Eds. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2008. [Note: On this publication my role was mainly to track down permissions for re-publication of images, rather than editing]

Book - served as production coordinator for images in 2007-2008:

HCNE Comprehensive Review of Headache Medicine. Morris Levin, MD, HCNE editor. Craig Panner, OUP Editor. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 2008.

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2005-2007 publications edited for DHMC Radiology Faculty

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

The following articles were all edited by the proprietor of Loon Lake Design in 2005-2007. The corresponding authors (our clients) are listed in bold font and the listing is alphabetical according to these authors' names.

Cheung YY, Doyley M, Miller TB, Kennedy F, Lynch F Jr., Wrobel JS, Paulsen K, Weaver J. Magnetic resonance elastography of the plantar fat pads: preliminary study in diabetic patients and asymptomatic volunteers. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2006; 30(2):321-326.

Weaver JB, Doyley MM, Cheung Y, et al. Imaging the shear modulus of the heel fat pads. Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 2005; 20(3):312-319.

Forauer AR, Kent E, Cwikiel W, Esper P, Redman B. Selective Palliative Transcatheter Embolization of Bony Metastases from Renal Cell Carcinoma. Acta Oncologica, in press, 2007

Forauer AR. Pericardial tamponade in patients with central venous catheters. Journal of Infusion Nursing, in press, 2007

Forauer AR, Theoharis CG, Daskia NL. Jugular vein catheter placement: histologic features and development of catheter-related (fibrin) sheaths in a swine model. Radiology 2006; 240(2):427-434.

Gemery JM, Nangia AJ, Mamourian AC, Reid SK. Digital three-dimensional modeling of the male pelvis and bicycle seats: impact of rider position and seat design on potential penile hypoxia and erectile dysfunction. British Journal of Urology BJU Int. 2007 Jan; 99(1):135-140.

Ullman JU, Gemery JM, O’Flaherty JO, Silas AM, Forauer A, Hoffer E. Management of hyperthermia during hepatic radiofrequency ablation. [In final revision, JVIR, 2007]

Gemery JM. Why I won’t be getting off the interventional radiology tour [letter]. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2006 Feb;186(2):584.

Popov V, Popov D, Kacar I, Harris RD. The feasibility of real-time transmission of sonographic images from a remote location over low-bandwidth Internet links: a pilot study. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007 Mar; 188(3):W219-22.

Harris RD, Couto C, Karpovsky C, Porter MM, Ouhilal S. The chorionic bump: a first-trimester pregnancy sonographic finding associated with a guarded prognosis. J Ultrasound Med. 2006; 25(6):757-763.

Khan R, Mamourian AC, Radwan T. Utility of multislice CT and reformatted images: illustrative case of migratory intraventricular clot exacerbating obstructive hydrocephalus. Journal of Neurosurgery, in press for 2008 publication.

Mamourian AC, Pluta D, Eskey C, Merlis A. Optimizing CT to reduce artifacts from titanium aneurysm clips:an in vitro study. In press, JNS, 2007

Mamourian AC, Erkmen K, Pluta DJ. Non-helical acquisition CTA after aneurysm clipping: in vitro testing shows diminished artifact. In press, AJNR, 2007

Mamourian AC, Mahadevan N, Reddy N, Marra SP, Weaver J. A metal-polymer hybrid cerebral aneurysm clip prototype: in vitro testing for closing force, slippage, and CT artifact. In press, JNS, 2007.

Pokriefke G, Mamourian AC, Marshall E, Harbaugh R. CFD of Two Prototype Cerebral Aneurysms: Can Flow Characteristics Predict the Risk of Rupture? [In revision for IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, 2007].

Mamourian AC. The journal formerly known as the American Journal of Neuroradiology [letter]. In press, AJNR, 2007.

Mamourian AC, et al (7 co authors). When postoperative patients with aneurysm clips present for MR imaging, the imaging center must determine the safety of each clip in their scanner, including the manufacturer as well as the type of clip. [Letter] JNS, in press, 2007.

Poplack SP, Tosteson TD, Kogel CA, Nagy H. Digital breast tomosynthesis: initial experience in 98 women with abnormal digital screening mammography. AJR AM J Roentgenol. 2007 Sep; 189(3):616-623.

Poplack SP, Tosteson TD, Wells WA, Pogue BW, Meaney PM, Hartov A, Kogel CA, Knowlton-Soho S, Gibson JJ, Paulsen KD. Electromagnetic breast imaging: pilot results in women with abnormal mammography. Radiology, May 2007.

Silas AM, Pearce LF, Lestina LS, et al. Percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy versus percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: a comparison of indications, complications and outcomes in 370 patients. Eur J Radiol. 2005;56(1):84-90.

Book Chapters and Books

Eskey CJ. Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty. In Schmidek and Sweet's Operative Neurosurgical Techniques: Indications, Methods, and Results, 5th ed, Schmidek, HH and Roberts DW, eds., Elsevier, 2006.

Eskey CJ. Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty. In: Schmidek and Sweet's Operative Neurosurgical Techniques: Indications, Methods, and Results, 5th ed., Schmidek, H.H., ed., 2006.

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Web sites Completed

Below is a selection of Web sites that Loon Lake Design designed for local businesses and nonprofits. We show the sites below to give clients an idea of our web, graphic and technical design skills.

Headache Cooperative of N.E.	Pro Optical (original site, now archived)
First Congregational Church	Nesting Instinct

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