Mary Chris Jaklevic
Mary Chris Jaklevic, a Chicago-based impartial well being care journalist with almost 30 years of expertise, has joined AHCJ as its new affected person security core subject chief.
The previous AHCJ board member will construct upon the strong affected person security content material produced by Kerry Dooley Younger, who served within the function from Could 2021-October 2022.
Jaklevic, who grew up in Detroit and moved to Chicago in 1994, has lined well being care finance, scientific care and medical analysis for each professional and client audiences. She says her consciousness of affected person questions of safety expanded when she labored at healthnewsreview.org, the place she and her group found that a couple of third of reports tales didn’t adequately deal with the harms of medical interventions comparable to medication and gadgets. That’s when she determined to focus extra of her reporting on this necessary subject.
Jaklevic’s tales have been revealed within the Chicago Tribune, the NPR Photographs weblog, NBC, The New York Instances, JAMA Medical Information, Medscape Medical Information and Undark. She was a journalism professor at Northwestern College from 2004-2007 and an AHCJ board member from 2005-2009.
She says she seems ahead to studying extra about — and serving to members higher perceive —how the rise of data expertise, digital care, distant monitoring and workforce shortages have an effect on affected person security.
“Because the affected person security subject chief, I need to encourage journalists to think about affected person security in a extra complete and nuanced trend and assist them to enliven their protection with affected person tales,” Jaklevic mentioned.
