User:JuneKinoshita

June Kinoshita is the Executive Director of the FSH Society, a charitable foundation focused on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. The FSH Society provides education and support to patients and families and plays an instrumental role in driving and funding research on this genetic disorder.

June is co-founder with her husband Tod Machover of Hanoa Productions, a consulting firm that specializes in editorial content production, project management, social media marketing and strategic consulting in biomedicine and media arts.

June was the co-founder and Executive Editor of the Alzheimer Research Forum (“Alzforum”), where she built and managed a multidisciplinary team of editors, writers, knowledge engineers, software developers, database designers and data curators. During her tenure, June raised $6 million in grant funding and worked closely with leaders from academia, industry and federal agencies to position Alzforum as the pre-eminent, game-changing website for the biomedical community.

While at Alzforum, June also assisted a private foundation in developing initiatives that resulted in major philanthropic investments in neurodegenerative disease research. As an Advisory Council member for the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science & Technology, and as a Board member for the American Health Assistance Foundation, she has taken an active role in strategic planning for these organizations. June has been invited to speak to such groups as the Army of Women, Faster Cures, Innolyst, Prize4Life, Cure Huntington’s Disease Initiative and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease.

As an entrepreneur, June co-founded and served as Chief Marketing Officer of SociaLife, a start-up in healthcare social networks. She was Chief Strategy Officer for fanatic.fm, a web-based music platform. Previously, she co-founded N-of-One, Inc., an innovative personalized oncology company. She actively blogs for Socialife and Opera of the Future and runs social media strategy over Facebook and Twitter.

In addition to her work with the BrightFocus Foundation (formerly American Health Assistance Foundation) and Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Science & Technology, she serves on the scientific advisory board for the Center for Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies in Santa Barbara and the board of the Memory Bridge Foundation. She was co-principal investigator with the Massachusetts General Hospital center for interdisciplinary informatics on SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) and has served on the scientific advisory boards of the Telemakus Biomarkers Project and Schizophrenia Research Forum.

As a journalist, June has published hundreds of articles for such national publications as the New York Times Magazine, Allure, American Health, New York Times Book Review, Technology Review, Longevity and Newsweek. She was also Science Consultant on the nationally televised series on women in science, "Discovering Women," produced by WGBH in Boston, and was Program Developer and Science Editor for "The Secret Life of the Brain," a five-part film on neuroscience, co-produced by David Grubin Productions and WNET in New York City (2002), and for “The Forgetting,” a nationally broadcast PBS film on Alzheimer’s Disease (2004).

June served on the editorial board of Scientific American magazine, where she specialized in the neurosciences and physics. As a consulting editor to the journal Science, she produced several landmark special issues on science and biotechnology in Japan, China and the Asian "Tigers."

June graduated from Harvard College in 1980, where she concentrated in physics. She is the recipient of the M.I.T. Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, an award of excellence by the American Medical Writer’s Association, and Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory’s science writing fellowship. She received the 2006 American Aging Association’s Excellence in Journalism award. Her work has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, NPR and Oprah. June is the author of an acclaimed guidebook, Gateway to Japan (Kodansha International, 1990, 1993, 1998), described by Vogue writer Jeffrey Steingarten as “the best single guide to any country I've ever visited.” Her expertise in Japanese culture landed her a role as a consultant for the feature film, Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Douglas.