Tom Linden, M.D., is Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Medical Journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As
director of the medical
journalism program at UNC-CH, Dr. Linden teaches courses in medical
journalism for both undergraduate and graduate students and administers
one of the nation's first master's programs in medical journalism. To
read a Nieman Reports article by Dr. Linden about "Learning
To Be a Medical Journalist," click here.
Dr. Linden is medical co-anchor for Journal Watch Audio, distributed bimonthly by the Audio Digest Foundation for the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Linden also has guest hosted "The State of Things" for WUNC-FM, North Carolina Public Radio. Click here to listen to a recent hour-long program about HIV/AIDS in North Carolina.
Dr. Linden also has a special interest in medical cyberspace and is co-author of Dr. Tom Linden's Guide to Online Medicine (McGraw-Hill), one of the first consumer guides for medical resources on the Internet. Dr. Linden has served as a medical Internet consultant for several major online services.
He got his start in professional journalism as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times while an undergraduate student at Yale University. Following graduation from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Dr. Linden completed an internship and a residency in adult and child psychiatry at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kan. He began his television work in 1986 as medical reporter and eventually news anchor for KCPM, the NBC affiliate for Chico-Redding, Calif. After five years in Chico, Dr. Linden became the first health and science correspondent and a business news anchor for CNBC. He later served as reporter and talk show host for the Financial News Network; medical reporter for KRON-TV, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco; and medical editor for Fox 11 News in Los Angeles. From 1991 to 1993 Dr. Linden was co-anchor of Physicians' Journal Update, the flagship news program for the Lifetime Medical Television Network.
Dr. Linden is a past president of the National Association of Medical Communicators (formerly National Association of Physician Broadcasters) and has served on the faculty of the American Medical Association's Medical Communications and Health Reporting Conference for the last 17 years.