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Andrew A. Skolnick is an American science and medical journalist and photographer best known for his investigative reporting on health care issues, alternative medicine, and paranormal claims. ==Education and career== In 1972, Skolnick participated in a two-year professional photography certificate program at the Paier College of Art, then received a B.A. from Charter Oak State College in 1978 and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1981. At Yale University, Skolnick was a scientific photographer in the biology department from 1975 to 1977, and a visiting lecturer teaching scientific photography from 1976 to 1977. His journalism experience began as a science writer for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation from 1981 to 1985, after which he served as the life sciences editor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign News Bureau from 1985 to 1987, the associate science news editor at the American Medical Association (AMA) from 1987 until 1989, and an associate news editor at the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' (''JAMA''). From 2004 to 2006, Skolnick served as the executive director of the Center for Inquiry's Commission on Scientific Medicine and Mental Health.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(CSI Author)Andrew Skolnick )〕 In 1996, he was invited to China for a semester to teach western journalism at Shanghai International Studies University, where he also served as language adviser and script editor for Shanghai Television International Broadcasting Service. In 1998, the Carter Center Mental Health Program awarded Skolnick with an inaugural Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism to investigate the treatment of jail and prison inmates with mental illness,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rosalynn Carter Fellowship )〕 an investigation which led to the publication of two news reports in ''JAMA'' and to a special series in the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' titled "Death, Neglect and the Bottom Line".〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 Skolnick's reporting has received awards from health, media, and humanitarian organizations, including World Hunger Year, the National Association of Community Health Centers, the Carter Center Mental Health Program, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Skolnick, Bell and Allen also received Amnesty International USA's "Spotlight on Media Award" and, in 1999, were listed by Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy as finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.〔 〕 The following year, the American Medical Writers Association awarded Skolnick the 2000 John P. McGovern Medal for Preeminence in Medical Communication.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amwa.org/mcgovern )〕 For the ''Skeptical Inquirer'' series "Testing the Girl with the X-Ray Eyes" authors Ray Hyman, Joe Nickell, and Skolnick were co-recipients of CSI's 2005 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking.〔 Skolnick's award was for the article "Natasha Demkina: The Girl with the Normal Eyes". Since his retirement from journalism in 2006 Skolnick has focused on photography of dogs, and provides photography and web site design for dog clubs and breeders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aaskolnick.com/new/webdesign.htm )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew A. Skolnick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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