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.
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[...]
Bright and early on Saturday, April 4, I found myself driving to Thunderbird Mountain Park in Glendale, Ariz., to meet up with a group of[...]
Mayo Clinic's use of social media was highlighted this morning in a story on ABC's Good Morning America (see the story). The story's focus was[...]
I was told these words following a night in the ER where I received superior care/ treatment to determine if I was having and/or had[...]
Education has always been a part of my life. Beyond being a student at various times of my life, I have worked in the field[...]
This post was written by Melissa Murray, a Graduate Student in the Department of Neuroscience. Having formerly been an employee and now a graduate student[...]
The following letter was sent to Mayo Clinic leaders by two Mayo employees, Don and Sharon Gabrielson, about the care Don's mother received from Mayo[...]
On the Mayo Clinic Facebook page today, by a patient from Kansas City named Stephanie: I am a cancer patient at the Mayo clinic in[...]
We've highlighted the contributions of music to the healing environment at Mayo Clinic in some previous posts, but here's another video from last fall that[...]