Work:
Self Employed, General contractor - editor
Education:
New York Medical College, PhD - Experimental Pathology
About Me:
Alicia is a freelance writer and editor with a Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology. Her dissertation work was on the role of SNPs in the human AT1R gene in hypertension. Her B.S. was in Biochemistry. Alicia has teaching experience at the graduate level and still offers her services to students, proofreading literature reviews and dissertations. She is currently the Helium site steward for the Medical Sciences subchannel and volunteers with the Helium Fact-check team.
Alicia has edited hundreds of scientific manuscripts for English usage prior to submission for publication. She is also a contributing writer and has been given editor's choice at Suite101, blogs at and been Editor's Pick at Open.Salon, and has her own health liaison website and blog, Maeflowers.
Alicia grew up in Indiana and attended graduate school in New York, but she now calls northern New Hampshire home. She enjoys crafts and photography, frequenting many online venues and galleries as she has more than 20 years experience with acrylic paints and has been a part of the online world for more than 12 years, when she setup her first website by hand coding HTML.