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.
As an 8-year-old girl from Michigan was headed into surgery for a heart transplant, she asked Mike Ackerman -- a pediatric cardiology fellow at Mayo[...]
December 7, 1941 was labeled by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a "Day of Infamy" after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. For my wife, Anne, and[...]
National Nurses Week is May 6 through May 12. 2009. The purpose of National Nurses Week is to raise awareness about the nursing profession and to[...]
This submission came via email from P.J. Stietz, a Mayo Clinic employee: My husband and I just recently marked the sixth anniversary of the accident[...]
Greetings from Lab Medicine. My name is Jolene Summer Bolster and I am one of two placement coordinators for the Department of Laboratory Medicine and[...]
At first glance, you might think a Coding Specialist was an expert at announcing the codes heard frequently in the clinic and hospital corridors. "Code[...]
When Jayson Werth was struck on the wrist by a pitch during the first spring training game of 2005 as a member of the Los[...]
Doorman and Ambassador Patients often comment on the quality of Mayo Clinic employees. You typically hear statements about how the people who work here are friendly[...]
When I think about my family’s history with the Mayo Clinic, I immediately think of the kitchen ceiling in my childhood home, where a pale[...]
One of our committed allied health staff members in Arizona recently submitted a quote to the site Diversity Subcommittee for our Best Quote contest that[...]
Nearly 100,000 men, women and children in the U.S. are on the national organ transplant waiting list awaiting a life saving transplant. About 100 new[...]
Have you ever wondered what happens to your blood after it's collected from the vein in your arm? I thought I'd enlighten everyone by giving some[...]