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Eric Alexander Vohr (born October 30, 1961) is a career journalist and science writer who is the author of numerous books on medicine and health. Eric Vohr worked first as a foreign war correspondent in Cambodia in the early 90s and then as a reporter and editor for a number of US newspapers, before taking a job as a medical writer for Johns Hopkins Medicine https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/. Since then, he was worked for many top US research institutions, including the Endocrine Society https://www.endocrine.org/ and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute https://www.pcori.org/. He is also a founding member of the Johns Hopkins Interprofessional Education Collaborative https://nursing.jhu.edu/excellence/interprofessional/. Vohr taught journalism and technical writing at Goucher College https://www.goucher.edu/, Stevenson University https://www.stevenson.edu/, Loyola University Maryland https://www.loyola.edu/ and Johns Hopkins University https://www.jhu.edu/. Eric Vohr is co-author (along with Dr. Peter Pronovost) of “Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Author’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out” published by Penguin Group USA. Pronovost is a patient safety leader and innovator who was recognized in 2008 as one of Time Magazine’s most influential people in the world and received a MacArthur Fellowship the same year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost. Vohr’s most current work is title “Cancer with Hope”. A book on cancer survival that chronicles C. Michael Armstrong’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Michael_Armstrong battle with leukemia and prostate cancer. The book is a collaborative project with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/kimmel_cancer_center/ and is scheduled for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press https://www.press.jhu.edu/ in April 2021. Armstrong was CEO or ATT https://www.att.com/ and Comcast (now xfinity https://www.xfinity.com/) and Chairman of the Board at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Vohr currently resides in Munich, Germany and is writing a textbook on patient safety for the Armstrong Institute of Patient Safety and Quality https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/armstrong_institute/ at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Vohr regularly writes for the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, Saturday Evening Post, Seattle Times, LA times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Week Magazine. He received his Masters in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University.