Yellowlees Douglas Ph.D.

About

Yellowlees Douglas, PhD, is a consultant on writing and organizations. She is also the author, with Maria B. Grant, MD, of The Biomedical Writer: What You Need to Succeed in Academic Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and The Reader's Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer (Cambridge University Press, 2015). You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @neurosciwrite and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yellowleesdouglas/ and find out details about The Biomedical Writer at www.thebiomedicalwriter.com and on www.facebook/biomedicalwriter.

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