Highlights

• Award-winning journalist and author on the topics of health, pharmaceuticals, and pet health

• Author of “Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures”

• Volunteer board member of the Gastric Cancer Foundation

Experience

Arlene Weintraub is a freelance writer with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist covering health, science, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. She was most recently an associate director and a health writer for APCO Worldwide, where she provided writing and communications consulting to hospitals, biopharmaceutical companies, scientific equipment makers, and health nonprofits.

Weintraub’s work as a freelance journalist was published in Forbes.com, the New York Times, US News & World Report, CURE, FierceMarkets, and other media outlets. She was previously a senior health writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, where she wrote hundreds of articles about the science and business of health.

Her book “Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures” (ECW Press, 2015) brings to life the world of comparative oncology and the many ways dogs are helping in the war on cancer. Her first book, “Selling the Fountain of Youth” (Basic Books, 2010), is an exposé of the antiaging industry. She has won awards from the New York Press Club, the Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, and the American Society of Business Publication Editors.

Education

Weintraub earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University.