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KERRY B. KEMP
1725 17th Street, NW #314
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: (202) 667-1540
E-mail: kbkemp@earthlink.net

SENIOR WRITER/EDITOR AND CONSULTANT (1996-PRESENT)
Kerry Kemp is a writer and independent editorial consultant, who manages the writing, editing, and production of publications and Web sites for clients in the public and private sectors.

  • Primary areas of expertise: Health care policy, information technology, environmental policy, national politics, international affairs.
  • Clients: Altarum Institute, AARP Public Policy Institute, Innovation and Information Technology Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, National Governors Association, National Institutes of Health, Office of the Surgeon General, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and World Bank.
  • Recent projects:
    • Writing the summary of The National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) ‘04 Conference convened by the HHS Secretary in Washington, D.C., in July 2004, and preparing summaries of the meetings of the Electronic Health Record Workgroup of American Health Information Community (2005-present)
    • Editing report briefs for the nonprofit, nonpartisan Information Technology and Innovation Foundation  (2006-present)
    • Writing summaries of the quarterly meetings of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children (January 2005-present) 
    • Writing the summary of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Building a Foundation for Effective Health Care: Knowing What Works, for the IOM Committee on Reviewing Evidence to Identify Highly Effective Clinical Services (2007)
    • Editing "Leading the Way: State Health Reform Initiatives," for the Health Division of the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (2007)
    • Writing and editing "Cancer in Developing Countries" for the 2nd edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, a joint project of the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
    • Consulting on the Access to Benefits Coalition Web site, intended to help Medicare beneficiaries sort out their prescription drug benefits [www.accesstobenefits.org]

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Managing Editor, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), U.S. Congress (1993-95). 

  • Advised the OTA director, assistant directors, program managers, and project managers on strategies to improve the quality of OTA reports to Congress and related publications, including congressional testimony, report briefs, press releases, and journal articles. 
  • Managed the writing, editing, and production of about 50 multiauthor reports to Congress on national policy issues involving science and technology-health care issues such as the prevention and treatment of AIDS; environmental issues such global warming and biodiversity; national security issues such as curbing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and so forth.
  • Wrote or edited eight-page report summaries and press releases for OTA reports. 
  • Coordinated report production and release strategies with the OTA director, assistant directors, congressional affairs office, publishing office, and program and project staff. 

Senior Analyst, Health and Life Sciences Division, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress (1986-93). 

  • Major contributor to several highly regarded studies on topics related to the economic impacts of health care reform proposals, Indian health care, adolescent health, the safety, efficacy, and cost of specific medical technologies, AIDS, and health information for consumers. 
  • Wrote and edited articles for OTA's column in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

Division Editor, Health and Life Sciences Division, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress (1982-85). 

  • Substantively edited several highly regarded reports on commercial applications of biotechnology, the safety and efficacy of specific medical technologies, treatment for alcoholism, children's mental health, the regulation of medical devices, and AIDS/HIV. 

Freelance Writer/Editor, Washington, DC (1977-82). 

  • Wrote and edited newsletters, brochures, press releases, speeches, fund-raising letters and proposals, how-to books, and magazine articles.  Supervised and coordinated the efforts of word-processing specialists, typesetters, graphic artists, proofreaders, and printers to produce camera-ready copy. 

EDUCATION

  • Middlebury College, B.A., Political science/economics
  • Dickinson College/Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy; Junior Year Abroad
  • Centro Intercultural de Documentacion, Cuernavaca, Mexico