Deb Bruce, PhD

An experienced Medical Writer and Health Communications Expert, Atlanta-based writer and author Deb Bruce, PhD, has written more health trade books than any US writer this past decade. Selected as Alumnus of the Year at the University of South Florida, Dr. Bruce has a PhD in Health Communications and is a member of the American Medical Writers Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Her current projects include:

• Writer, consultant, and developer of eContent for Sharecare.com and Discovery Communications
• Medical writer and health blogger at AOLhealth.com
• Consultant and Medical Editor for IntegraMed at Attainfertility.com
• Co-Author, The Sleep Doctor's Natural Sleep Solutions for Women with Dr. Michael Breus
• Co-Author, Making a Baby, Random House, Second Edition released in 2010

As an Editorial Consultant, Dr. Bruce has written extensively for WebMD.com, Oprah.com, AOLHealth.com, and Life Extension, and also for Reader's Digest Medical Breakthroughs, on groundbreaking medical treatments for women.

As a Book Author, Dr. Bruce's innovative and highly persuasive book proposals have won her major contracts with renowned New York publishers such as Time Warner, Penguin, Harper Collins, Rodale, Dell, Bantam, Ballantine, Macmillan USA, Simon & Schuster, Dutton, Avon, Henry Holt, Random House, Berkley, W. W. Norton, John Wiley, and Kensington. Dr. Bruce has also published more than 2,700 feature articles in mass market magazines such as Woman's Day, Prevention, Parenting, Baby Talk, Reader's Digest, and Success. As a regular contributor for MightyWords.com (eMatter) with her own collection page, Debra Fulghum Bruce Health Collections, her MightyWords ebooks were their best-selling items. Most recently, she completed extensive writing projects for Parenting.com (Time Warner), as well as a series of four Q&A childcare titles with Little/Brown in NY.

Features and excerpts from her many health trade books have recently appeared in popular mass-market magazines such as Esquire, Forbes, GQ, Prevention, Walking, Cooking Light, Redbook, Martha Stewart's Living, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, McCall's, U.S. News and World Report, Redbook, Glamour, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Shape's Cook, Woman's Day, Elan, USA Today, and Woman's World Weekly.

Dr. Bruce has also done numerous radio and TV talk shows and interviews, including call-in shows. She and her many coauthors have appeared on CNN News, CNN Medical Moments, ABC News, CBS News, CBS Early Show, NBC News, and the Today Show, as well as radio and television talk shows. Her book I'd Kill for a Cookie was chosen by USA TODAY as one of the Top 10 Health Books; The Daily Six was given Best Book Award by USA BOOK NEWS.