Contemporary OB/GYN named Jesse H. Neal award winner

Contemporary OB/GYN was named a Jesse H. Neal Award winner on March 18, 2014 by American Business Media during its 60th Annual Neal Awards ceremony in New York City.

The Neal Award is best described as a Pulitzer Prize for business-to-business journalism. Winning entries were selected for exhibiting journalistic enterprise, service to the field, and editorial craftsmanship. The judging panel selected 44 Neal Award winners out of 173 finalists from an original 612 entries.

Contemporary OB/GYN won for Best Commentaries for editorials by Editor in Chief Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM, who is the Dean of the College of Medicine and Vice President for Health Sciences at Ohio State University.

The three winning columns include:

“Autism and the obstetrician”
in the June 2013 issue:

“Should pregnant women receive iodine supplementation?”
in the February 2013 issue:

“Spontaneous preterm birth: Preconceptional nutrition matters,”
in the August 2013 issue:

Contemporary OB/GYN’s sister publication Medical Economics won for Best Instructional Content. The winning entry, titled “Cracking the Code” and written by Senior Editor Jeffrey Bendix, documented coding challenges for physicians. The story was originally published in the May 25, 2013 issue of Medical Economics:

For more information, please read the full press release.