Marijke Vroomen Durning

Marijke became an award-winning health writer and journalist after working for several years as an RN. During her career as a nurse, Marijke learned about the lack of health awareness, knowledge, and literacy that was driving many of her patients to the hospital with often preventable illnesses.

Marijke has written on a variety of health topics for various clients, such as Costco Connection, HealthyWomen.org, Medscape, WebMD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, BrainWise, Physiologist Magazine, Oncology Live, and many more. She enjoys the many opportunities to interview subject matter experts in order to learn more about her assigned topics and to accurately review research study findings.

When asked about how writing and nursing go together, Marijke explains that when working as a nurse, you hope to have a few minutes to do patient or bedside teaching. But when you write an article, you educate thousands of people. And that is so very satisfying.