American journalist and physician
James Hamblin (born James Richard Hamblin , October 5, 1982) is an American physician specializing in public health and preventive medicine. He is a former staff writer at The Atlantic , an author, and a lecturer in public health policy at Yale University .
Early life and education
Hamblin grew up in Munster , Indiana , and graduated from Munster High School .[ 1] He received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University where he was a member of the Lilting Banshees comedy troupe.[ 2] Hamblin later graduated from the School of Medicine at Indiana University, then did his internship in internal medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital .[ 3] He began a residency as a radiologist at the Medical Center at the University of California, Los Angeles . During his residency, Hamblin trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles .[ 4] He says he was regularly mistaken for a student due to looking younger than his age, and has often been compared to the sitcom teenage genius Doogie Howser .[ 5] [ 4] [ 6] He later completed a residency in general preventive medicine at Griffin Hospital which is affiliated with Yale University.
Career
In 2012, he chose to pursue a career in media and joined The Atlantic and became the editor for its health channel, which had been launched in 2011.[ 4] [ 1] In 2013, he created an online comedy video show about health and lifestyle topics on The Atlantic website called If Our Bodies Could Talk ,[ 7] for which he was a finalist for a Webby award for Best Web Personality/Host[ 4] [ 8] and was last produced in 2017.[ 9] [ 10] He has been named among the 140 people to follow on Twitter by Time , and BuzzFeed has called him "the most delightful MD ever" in response to his work with that show.[ 11] [ 4] He also authored If Our Bodies Could Talk , a nonfiction book about human health published by Doubleday .[ 12] [ 13] [ 14] His second book, Clean , was published by Riverhead.[ 15] The New York Times Book Review named it an editor's choice[ 16] and Vanity Fair named among the best books of 2020.[ 17]
Hamblin was a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine,[ 18] where he was also a senior editor for five years.[ 19] He has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert .[ 20] He has given talks at Harvard Medical School , the Wharton School of Business , South by Southwest , and TEDMED . In 2016, he served as moderator at the launch of the White House Precision Medicine Initiative where he interviewed President Barack Obama .[ 21] Hamblin is a past Yale University Poynter Fellow in journalism.[ 22] He is board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine.[ 23]
Personal life
In 2019, Hamblin married Sarah Freeman Yager, a managing editor of The Atlantic .[ 24] They reside in Brooklyn, New York.
Books
References
^ a b Bruce, Giles. "Munster native, doctor turned health writer, releases first book" . nwitimes.com . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ Jane Bianchi (2 June 2015). "A Picture of Health" . Wake Forest Magazine . Retrieved 25 July 2020 .
^ "James Hamblin" . Poynter Fellowship in Journalism . Yale University. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2020 .
^ a b c d e "The young doctor" . POLITICO Media . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "Separated at Birth: The Atlantic's James Hamblin and 'Doogie Howser, M.D.' " . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "Separated at Birth: The Atlantic's James Hamblin and 'Doogie Howser, M.D.' " . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "If Our Bodies Could Talk" . The Atlantic . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "If Our Bodies Could Talk - James Hamblin | The Webby Awards" . www.webbyawards.com . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "If Our Bodies Could Talk - The Atlantic" . www.theatlantic.com . Retrieved 2019-08-22 .
^ "If Our Bodies Could Talk - YouTube" . YouTube . Retrieved 2019-08-22 .
^ "Your Sad Desk Lunch Might Be Killing You" . BuzzFeed . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "If Our Bodies Could Talk, a FAQ for human bodies" . kottke.org . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "If Our Bodies Could Talk by James Hamblin | PenguinRandomHouse.com" . PenguinRandomhouse.com . Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "James Hamblin On Understanding Our Bodies, Our Health" . www.wbur.org . 5 January 2017. Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "Penguin Random House: Clean" . penguinrandomhouse.com . 2020-07-22. Retrieved 2020-07-22 .
^ "9 New Books We Recommend This Week" . The New York Times . 2020-08-06. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-08-07 .
^ "21 Best Books of 2020: The Books Getting Us Through This Wild Year (So Far)" . Vanity Fair . 23 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-24 .
^ "James Hamblin" . The Atlantic .
^ "Sarah Yager, James Hamblin" . The New York Times . 2019-07-07. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-08-22 .
^ Watch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Uninformed Correspondent: Bootsie Visits An Expert For Straight Talk About Coronavirus - Full show on CBS All Access , retrieved 2020-07-22
^ "Precision Medicine: Health Care Tailored to You" . whitehouse.gov . 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "Poynter Fellowship: James Hamblin" . Office of Public Affairs & Communications . 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2018-09-27 .
^ "American College of Preventive Medicine" .
^ "Sarah Yager, James Hamblin" . New York Times . 7 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2020 .
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