Mayo Clinic Medical Edge Syndication

Mayo Clinic Medical Edge is a collection of professionally produced television, radio and print packages covering medical advances and compelling general health topics. Consider supplementing your health coverage by adding Mayo Clinic to the line-up.

The Medical Edge difference:

• Real patients are at the center of Medical Edge stories.
• A team of Mayo Clinic physicians and surgeons rigorously reviews pieces for medical validity and newsworthiness.
• An award-winning group of journalists produces and distributes the programming.

Medical Edge Television

Mayo Clinic produces and distributes Medical Edge Television from Mayo Clinic — a weekly medical news insert for television newscasts. Our professionally produced segments feature people-focused stories covering medical advances and compelling general health information.

Under the oversight of Mayo Clinic physicians, all stories undergo rigorous evaluation for medical validity and newsworthiness.

Mayo Clinic Medical Edge Radio

Daily Syndicated Radio News Package
Medical Edge Radio from Mayo Clinic — a daily 60-second health segment — features general health and people-focused stories covering medical breakthroughs and compelling health information.

Each professionally-produced segment is developed by our team of health and medical specialists, which includes award-winning medical journalist Vivien Williams. Audiences have described her as "credible," "knowledgeable" and "appealing."

Mayo Clinic Medical Edge Newspaper Column

Medical Edge Newspaper Column from Mayo Clinic is a twice weekly question-and-answer column that offers the wisdom and guidance of Mayo Clinic's team of highly specialized physicians, surgeons and researchers. The column covers a range of health issues and the latest in medical thinking from experts in the fields of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, family medicine, neurology, pediatrics, surgery, transplantation, women's health and others. Readers can submit questions to the column from this Web site or by email: medicaledge@mayo.edu.

For rates and availability, contact a Tribune Media Services representative at 800-245-6536 (toll-free) or email tmssales@tribune.com. Outside the United States, call
+1-213-237-7987 or email tmsi@tribune.com.

Medical Edge Teams

Mayo Clinic Physicians and Surgeons
J.D. Bartleson, M.D.
Claude Deschamps, M.D.
Michael Hogan, M.D.
Thomas Shives, M.D.

Journalists
Lee Aase, Manager
Dana Sparks, Affiliate Relations
David Coleman, Medical Edge TV
Sherri Lowrey-Schrandt, Medical Edge Print
Shelly Plutowski, Mayo Clinic Medical Edge
Joel Streed, Medical Edge Radio
Vivien Williams, Medical Edge TV and Radio