MEDICAL AUTHOR

Author:

• Beat Your Risk Factors: A Woman's Guide to Reducing Her Risk for Cancer,Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes and Osteoporosis. Plume 1999.
  
  
• Migraine: 50 Essential Things To Do. Plume, 1998.

Co-Author:

• The Women's Heart Book: The Complete Guide to Keeping Your Heart Healthy. Revised Edition, Hyperion, 2001. Fredric J. Pashkow, M.D. and Charlotte Libov.
  
  
• 50 Essential Things To Do If The Doctor Says It's Heart
  Disease, Plume, 1995. Fredric J. Pashkow, M.D. and Charlotte Libov

Special Reports:

(Co-author) Women and Heart Disease: A Special Report from the Editors of Women's Health Advisor: The Center for Women's Healthcare, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Torstar Publications, 1999. Gabrielle Weiner, M.S. and Charlotte Libov.

Book Contributor:

• The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, "Women and Heart Disease", Houghton-Mifflin, 1999.
  
  
• For Women Only, by Gary Null and Barbara Seaman, Articles on heart disease and women and beating your risk factors, Seven Stories Press, 1999.

Book Excerpts:

• "Beat Your Risk Factors", Ladies Home Journal, 1999.
• "Migraine", Connecticut Magazine, 1998.
  
  

MEDICAL FREELANCE WRITER

Internet Medical Articles:

• Underwire (Microsoft's women's web site)
• Cancersource.com
• Health Publications Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
• Physicians Decisions, London, England

Print Medical Newsletter Articles:

• First Report, Belvoir Publications
• Weill Cornell Medical Center¹s Women's Health Advisor
• Newsletter, Belvoir Publications
• Heart Advisor, Belvoir Publications

Magazine Articles:

• Better Health Magazine
• Arthritis Today

Professional Articles:

"Myths and Realities About Women and Heart Disease", Cardiovascular Disease Management 1997.

TELEVISION

Television Program Originator, Consultant and Guest Expert:

"Women's Hearts at Risk", one-hour award-winning documentary nationally broadcast by PBS based on Libov / Pashkow book, "The Woman's Heart Book". Wrote the proposal, worked with the producer to create it, and served as a guest expert on the show.

Television Writer:

Report Card: Connecticut Schools, wrote script and did associated producing for series on Connecticut schools for Connecticut Public Television.

HEALTH ADVOCATE

Founder, National Women's Heart Health Day

RADIO

Radio Script Writer, CRN (Connecticut Radio Network)

PUBLIC RELATIONS

• Litchfield Hills Travel Council, Litchfield, CT
• Connecticut Public Television
• Beckwith Communications, Fairport, NY
• Connecticut Tourism, Harland, Tine and White, Hartford, Connecticut

EDITOR

• "Hands Across America", Pocket Books, 1986.
• Founding Editor, Women's Health Hot Line, Internet Newsletter, www.libov.com

FREELANCE WRITER

Freelance Contributor:
The New York Times

Magazine Articles:
Yankee Magazine, Connecticut Magazine, Connecticut's Finest Magazine

Newspaper Articles:
Litchfield County Times, Litchfield, CT, The Courant, Hartford CT

Restaurant Reviewer:
Calender (weekly) section, The Courant, Hartford, CT, 1986-92

NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST

• Bureau Chief, Springfield Daily News, Springfield, MA 1981-85.
• Reporter, Journal Inquirer, Manchester, CT, 1980-81.
• Reporter, Milford Citizen, Milford, CT, 1974-76
  
  

PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER

Speaking Clients include:

• IBM
• Duke University Medical School
• Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• American Heart Association
• DuPont Radiopharmaceuticals
• UnitedHealthcare
• and many others throughout the United States

Health Expert appearances include:

• PBS, Morning Edition, National Public Radio
• Today in New York
• Fox News in Washington, D.C.
• The Jim Bohannon Show
• CNN
• Sixty-Second Housecall
• and many others throughout the United States
  
  

AWARDS

• Emmy nomination (regional) , Women's Hearts At Risk, 1996
  
  
• Bronze Award, National Mature Media Award, Media TV Division, Women¹s Hearts At Risk, 1996
  
  
• Bronze Award, National Mature Media Award, Book Division, 50 Essential Things to Do When The Doctor Says It's Heart Disease, 1996.
  
  
• Will Solimene Award of Excellence, The Woman's Heart Book, The American Medical Writers Association, 1994.
  
  
• Combined Health Appeal¹s Seventh Annual Media Award 1994.
  
  
• American Heart Association Connecticut Affiliate's Outstanding
  Communications Volunteer Award, 1993.
  
  
• The Connecticut Society of Professional Journalist's, Third Place, In-depth Special Section, 1990.
  
  

ADVISORY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS

• Congressional District 6 Advisory Council, State of Connecticut Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.
  
  
• "The Difference in a Woman's Heart" Medical Advisory Board, sponsored by the American Heart Association and the American Medical Women's Association
  
  
• Heart Disease Advisory Board, "Women and Heart Disease: A Neglected Epidemic", The Older Women's League (OWL).
  
  

BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS

• International Authors and Writer's Who's Who 16th Edition
• Who's Who of American Women
  
  

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• American Medical Writers Association
• American Society of Journalists and Authors
• National Association of Science Writers
• National Writers Union

TEACHING

Journalism Lecturer, The University of Connecticut's School of Journalism, Storrs, CT, 1982-83

EDUCATION

• Master of Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore., 1979.
• Bachelor of Arts with Honors, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1973.