Congratulations to Rebecca Anderson
Winner of the 2009 Frances Larson Award for Excellence in Writing
The winning article for 2009 was:"Shell Shock: An Old Injury with New Weapons", originally published in Molecular Interventions, vol.8, no.5, pp. 204-218, October 2008. It can be accessed as the full-text HTML version and also as a downloadable PDF.
(Used with permission of the journal).
The annual Frances Larson
Memorial Award given by the Pacific Southwest chapter is intended to recognize medical writing of the quality represented by Ms. Larson's work. A long-time member of AMWA, Ms. Larson held many positions in the Pacific Southwest chapter, including president. She served as managing editor of Hospital Topics magazine and as medical editor of Audio-Digest.