 He served as a communications intern at the National Cancer Institute, worked as a freelance medical writer, was a regular contributor to "American Health", and was a West Coast news correspondent for the "Journal of the American Medical Association".In 1983 he became founding editor of "LC Magazine", a trade publication for scientists.At the University of Oregon he edited the award-winning "Oregon Quarterly" magazine for a decade, and then served a number of years as the UO's Director of Communications and Marketing, and director of the University of Oregon Press.