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Joel Streed (@JoelStreed)

Joel is manager of the team that creates content for the Mayo Clinic News Network. He is a former broadcast journalist and news director. Joel has been with Mayo Clinic since 2001, first as a contract employee and then officially joining the staff in 2006. In 2012 Joel accompanied a research team to Mt. Everest and reported on their studies of high-altitude athletes.

Chris Norton wins Courage in Sports Award!

The below excerpts come from a USA Today article: Chris Norton, a sophomore football player at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) who suffered a catrostrophic injury[...]

By Joel Streed • November 16, 2011
Heart attack — not shark attack — almost brings surfer down

New imaging technology helps determine cause, treatment for heart symptoms Many surfers fear sharks. But not Mike Politowicz, 45, a seasoned surfer with 30 years[...]

By Joel Streed • November 15, 2011
Mental Health Action Plans Unveiled

After a decade of research and interviewing more than 6,000 U.S. families and children, Mayo Clinic researchers— in partnership with numerous national mental health advocacy[...]

By Joel Streed • November 14, 2011
Stem cell study helps clarify the best time for therapy to aid heart attack survivors

A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells obtained from bone marrow delivered two to three weeks after a person[...]

By Joel Streed • November 14, 2011
Football Spinal Cord Injury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeZZIzLRxGs It wasn’t supposed to happen. A freak accident during a college football game leaves a player paralyzed. Doctors gave him a 3-percent chance of[...]

By Joel Streed • November 12, 2011
Healing A WWII Veteran’s 66-Year-Old Injury

Mayo Clinic began because of a military connection and our commitment to servicemen and women has never faltered. As we celebrate Veteran’s Day this year,[...]

By Joel Streed • November 11, 2011
Rare treatment for rare disease: Triple transplant

On June 14, 2011, after a 107-day wait in the hospital at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Kirk Watson, 44, received the news he’d been[...]

By Joel Streed • November 10, 2011
An Amazing Gift of Life – Via Gestational Surrogacy

My story began almost 4 years ago with the birth of my husband's and my first son, Aidan, born September 2007.  Mayo Clinic became involved[...]

By Joel Streed • November 9, 2011
Mackenzie’s vision: Coordinated care, rapid treatment restore child’s eyesight

When Mackenzie Chicos, an active 8-year-old from Owatonna, Minn., woke up for school one morning seeing spots in her left eye, her family didn’t suspect[...]

By Joel Streed • November 8, 2011
Heart Valve Replacement Surgery

I went to Mayo Clinic for heart valve replacement surgery on October 13th, was released on the 18th, and can only say excellent things about[...]

By Joel Streed • November 7, 2011
Epilepsy, Brain Surgery and then, Seizure-Free

We scurried like mice across the street under the cover of darkness, hugging the side of the St. Mary building when we reached it to[...]

By Joel Streed • November 2, 2011
Heart repair doesn’t slow baseball player for long

Austin Adamson, 19, was a day away from having heart surgery that would require a median sternotomy – “cracking open” the sternum (breastbone) to reach[...]

By Joel Streed • November 1, 2011
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