About the Author

Margaret V. Clark has more than 30 years of experience as a medical writer, editor, and educator. Clark has specialized in writing for medical education, clinical practice guidelines, quality improvement initiatives, clinical research studies, and publication planning. She was a reviewer for the National Guidelines Clearinghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She has also written for Advance News Magazine, WebMD, and Reuters Health. Miss Clark was the Editorial Director for Medscape from WebMD for Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Emergency Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. She was the inaugural Pulmonary/Critical Care Editor of the peer-reviewed journal MedGenMed. Additionally, her textbook, Asthma: A Clinician’s Guide, has been translated into multiple languages and is used worldwide. Miss Clark was the Clinical Coordinator for Pulmonary Medicine and Respiratory Care at Boston Medical Center/Boston University Medical School and as the Special Studies Coordinator for the Georgia Medical Care Foundation, a Quality Improvement Organization for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She has served as an investigator for national and international trials and also written several other books and monographs. Miss Clark holds a Master of Science in International Health from Touro University. She is the 1996 recipient of the Bird Award given by the Bird Institute of Biomedical Technology for her extensive writing in Pulmonary Medicine and in 2010 she was awarded the D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP Humanitarian Award given by the Chest Foundation–American College of Chest Physicians for her volunteer work with inner-city children.