Veterinarian, Research Consultant, and Science Writer and Editor
Leslie Bienen
Since graduating from veterinary school, Leslie Bienen has worked as a research consultant, a medical writer, a wildlife veterinarian, and a science and ecology writer. She is also a published fiction writer.
One of Leslie Bienen's primary research areas is conservation medicine and zoonotic (from animals to humans) disease transmission. Conservation medicine strives to understand the ways in which human health, changes to the environment, and the health of nonhuman species, interact. Substantial scientific research shows that the well-being of all species is interconnected, and that environmental perturbations have significant effects on human health as well as on the health of other species.
Ms. Bienen divides her time among medical research, scientific journalism, scientific paper writing and editing, and grant and report writing and editing. For details about recent research projects, as well as about her journalism and writing, please see the About page.
Leslie Bienen received a B.A. from Princeton in 1987, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991, and a D.V.M. from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2001. She is currently based in Portland, Oregon.
