About Me
I'm a former Pitt student and a current full-time Pitt employee working in writing, communications, and digital media since 2000.
Writing Samples
A Closer Look at the Laboratories of Drs. Sean Farris and Gregg Homanics, Nexus, Fall 2021, pp. 3-5.
Clinical Spotlight: Dr. Grace Lim and OB and Women’s Anesthesiology, Nexus, Fall 2021, pp. 6-8.
A Closer Look at the Laboratory of Dr. Bradley Taylor, Nexus, Summer 2021, pp. 14-17.
Clinical Spotlight: Dr. Charles Luke & AIPPS, Nexus, Summer 2021, pp. 18-20.
History of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC. Pittsburgh Journal of Anesthesiology, 2016, pp. 12-21.
From the Archives: The Forgotten Heroes of Freedom House, Department of Anesthesiology Newsletter, Spring 2011, pp. 7-8.
Combat Care, Paraplegia News, pp. 64-68, Vol. 64, No. 8, August 2010. paper copies available upon request
Improving the Lives of People with Disabilities, VAnguard, pp. 8-9, March/April 2010.
Coauthored Papers
Williams BA, Kentor ML, Heiner CM. The WAKE Score and Routine Perphenazine Use: Striving for "Zero Tolerance" of Post-Operative Nausea and Vomiting. Department of Anesthesiology Newsletter, Fall 2013.
Heiner CM, Hirsch S. Could Cannabis Lead the Way to Safer Painkillers? Department of Anesthesiology Newsletter, Summer 2012, p. 3.
Rice I, Hettinga F, Laferrier JZ, Sporner M, Heiner CM, Burkett B, Cooper RA. Biomechanics (Chapter 2), In: The Paralympic Athlete: Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science, Wiley and Blackwell, pp. 33-50, 2011.
Collinger JL, Grindle GG, Heiner CM, Impink BG, Karmarkar A, Sporner M, Pasquina PF, Cooper RA. Roadmap for Future Research, Chapter 28 in: Care of the Combat Amputee, Textbooks of Military Medicine. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, 2009.
Heiner CM, McClure L, Talmadge Z, Boninger ML. A Prototype Web Site for Clinical Education: Implementation of Guidelines for Preventing Upper Limb Pain in People with Spinal Cord Injury, Proceedings of the RESNA Conference, CD-ROM, June 23-27, 2009.
Heiner CM, Cooper RA, Pasquina PF. Rehab Road Map, Paraplegia News, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2008.
Heiner CM, Cooper RA State of the Science, Paraplegia News, March 2007.
Heiner CM, Cooper RA. A Boost for Quality of Life, Paraplegia News, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 51-56, April 2005.
Heiner CM, Stankovic PL. Decade of Excellence, Paraplegia News, pp. 47-54, December 2004.
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