With more than two decades of experience in journalism, Stark Media has deep expertise in freelance writing and custom publications. Lisa Stark excels as a storyteller by blending the human side of medicine with complex, scientific concepts.

Here are a few examples of publications Lisa has contributed to, led and created.

VEGAS SEVEN TOP DOCTORS

In the Spring of 2017, Lisa served as a healthcare writer for the Vegas Seven Top Doctors Issue, writing numerous feature articles. Three are shown below.

Dr. Alan Ikeda – Pediatric Oncology

by Lisa Stark

Dr. Alan Ikeda is the interim medical director at the Children’s Specialty Center of Nevada and the Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada. Ikeda is board-certified in pediatric oncology with special expertise in managing the complexities and needs of bone marrow transplant patients. His research interests include stem-cell transplants as well as cell and gene therapies.

Ikeda received his M.D. and completed his residency in pediatrics at John A. Burns School of Medicine. He did his fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and was assistant director of the blood and marrow transplant program at Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. Here are the highlights of his recent interview with Lisa Stark. Read more 

Dr. Tim Tollestrup – Nerve Surgeon 

by Lisa Stark

Chronic pain. Just looking at those two words in print evokes a visceral reaction. Chronic pain is evil and unrelenting. It can take a vibrant, healthy person and render them helpless. It can be a lonely life of isolation and desperation.

Take the story of Tom Stoeser. An uber-active guy who exudes athleticism and vigor, Tom injured himself running in 1992. For 25 years, he has been searching for a solution to his chronic pain. Read more

Dr. Geoffrey Hsieh

by Lisa Stark

Dr. Geoffrey Hsieh is the director of the division of urogynecology and female pelvic-floor disorders at the Women’s Cancer Center of Nevada. Board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, urogynecology/female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, Dr. Hsieh performs minimally invasive pelvic organ prolapse repair and pelvic surgery for women who deal with incontinence and other common problems. His training includes the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, and fellowship training in urogynecology at the LAC/USC Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. Here are the highlights of his recent interview with Lisa Stark. Read More 

VEGAS MD

Lisa Stark served as special editor for the Vegas MD annual healthcare issue of David Las Vegas Magazine. Lisa conceptualized the general theme and framework of the issue, cultivated and assigned stories to healthcare writers and wrote three feature length articles featured below.

Bright New World by Lisa Stark

“I used to see black, but now I see light” is how Shems Yakkar describes the world around her. Her once-darkened view is now alive with color, shape and detail. Thanks to a revolutionary new technology to treat the most severe form of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, legally blind people like Yakkar can see again. It sounds like a miracle promise, but improved vision is a reality for the spritely 76-year-old. Read More

Miracle Baby by Lisa Stark

They aren’t Jewish, but Destiny and David Canseco named their son Ezekiel – Hebrew for “God strengthens.”

Never has a name been so fitting. To his mom and dad, and others too, Ezekiel is an angel on Earth. It’s the only plausible explanation for why he’s still here, in defiance of medical science. And when you look at him laughing and smiling, he looks like any other cherubic 11-month-old. He’s not.

“I have never seen reported or witnessed myself a baby who survived with this type of malformation,” says Dr. Van Reid Bohman of Desert Perinatal Associates. “In my 30 years I have treated six cases like this, all of them were fatal.” Read More

Seek and Destroy by Lisa Stark

On the very day and at the very time I’m to speak with patients and doctors at Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, my mother’s in the same building getting a biopsy. That’s cancer today: It touches virtually everyone, chasing us down with relentless pursuit.

And with this already on my mind, my interview with a renowned cancer researcher begins with these bold and, frankly, downright depressing proclamations.

“We will never cure cancer completely,” says Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang. “And we will always have chemotherapy.” Read More 

Breakthrough Magazine 

As Founding Editor of “Breakthrough Magazine,” Nevada Cancer Institute’s signature communications piece, Lisa transformed a simple 4-page brochure into an award-winning 40-page magazine, which was named Best External Magazine by National Non-Profit Awards. The twice-yearly publication’s distribution reached 150,000 to cancer centers nationwide.