For immediate release: June 8, 2007
Contact: Emily Wofford Cobb
Public Relations Manager
775-784-6006
ecobb@medicine.nevada.edu
Anne McMillin joins School of Medicine communications department
Fallon Star Press reporter returns to public relations field
RENO, Nev.—Anne McMillin joins the University of Nevada School of Medicine as a public relations specialist in the Department of Health Science Communications. In this capacity, McMillin will be responsible for media relations, internal communications and community relations.
McMillin brings a wealth of experience in both journalism and public relations to the School of Medicine. Prior to joining the School of Medicine, she served as the sole staff reporter for the “Fallon Star Press” in Fallon, Nevada, a weekly start-up newspaper backed by the Reno Gazette-Journal and Gannett Newspapers, Inc. While at the “Fallon Star Press,” she garnered several Nevada Press Association awards for her features and business writing and was named the 2005 “Journalist of Merit” for all weekly newspapers in the state.
Previous to her position at the “Fallon Star Press,” McMillin worked as a features reporter and community liaison representative for the “Tullahoma News & Guardian” in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Before transitioning to a career in journalism, McMillin acted as Public Affairs Specialist for the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullahoma where she worked in environmental issues and special projects.
Before moving to Tennessee in 2001, she served as the Public Affairs Officer at Naval Air Station Fallon. In this capacity, McMillin was responsible for all community relations, internal and external communications and media relations for northern Nevada’s major military activity. She was intimately involved with the Navy’s public information efforts during a childhood leukemia cluster in Fallon and has vast experience in crisis communications, media relations and community relations stemming from that position.
McMillin also has additional experience in U.S. Navy public affairs based upon her time serving as the Assistant Public Affairs Officer at Naval Air Station Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. In that capacity, she was responsible for environmental community relations issues, media relations and assisted with several visits to the base by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. She also has additional experience working in the defense industry.
McMillin is a native of San Bernardino, California and graduated from the University of California at Davis with a bachelor of art degree and double majors in international relations and French. During college she spent her junior year abroad, studying in Bordeaux, France.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been meeting statewide healthcare, educational, and clinical needs since 1969. The School of Medicine encompasses 16 clinical medical education departments, including Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as ten nationally-recognized departments within basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. As the largest multi-specialty healthcare focus within the state, the School of Medicine employs more than 185 doctors who both teach and practice medicine throughout Nevada. The school’s statewide faculty physician practice group has a combined 25 different medical specialties with seven physician practice offices located in the Reno-Sparks area and five physician offices located in Las Vegas.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine utilizes a best-practice approach to medicine and is committed to addressing the health needs of Nevada now and in the future. For more information, please visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.
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