Contributing Writers

Beth Longware Duff
»Contributing Writer

Ms. Duff is a professional editor and writer with over 20 years experience in broadcast, print and electronic media. Her health and medical writing credits include nationally distributed videos for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and extensive online contributions to cosmetic plastic surgery, vascular disease and fertility websites. She is the recipient of numerous writing and journalism awards, including an American Cancer Society Media Award, a New England Press Association Award for Health Reporting, and an American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journalistic Achievement Award. Her degree is from the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in upstate New York.

Lesley Ranft
»Contributing Writer

Ms. Ranft is the founder of Lesley & Associates, a consulting public relations and freelance writing firm with a special focus in the plastic surgery and dentistry fields. Her responsibilities at Ceatus Media Group included the development of the editorial advisory boards and reviewers as well as editorial and content development consultation. Ms. Ranft has served as a chairperson, State of California, for the National Business Advisory Council. She has authored and ghost-written hundreds of articles in medicine and dentistry for both consumers and the trade. She has also developed public relations strategies for physician and corporate clients that resulted in appearances in local and national outlets such as The Learning Channel, ABC News, NBC News and select Copley Newspapers in the United States.

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