Biography
Julie Bain (aka "Doctor Yaya") is not an M.D., but she has more than 25 years of experience in translating complex scientific and medical concepts into practical information and advice for a wide range of readers. She’s never happier than when she’s in an OR watching a new way to do surgery, or in a lab listening to a scientist explain a potentially life-saving medical breakthrough. Well, except maybe when she's sharing great food and wine with friends and loved ones!
The name "Doctor Yaya" caught on after she appeared at a corporate meeting dressed as a crazy character in hot pink scrubs and pink-embroidered lab coat wielding a stethoscope and spouting her (often humorous) take on the latest medical research. With some of her colleagues, the name stuck. (Her niece originally named her Yaya when she was a baby and couldn't say "Julie" so she'd just scream "Yayayayayayaya!" when she saw her.)
Julie's now features editor at Ladies' Home Journal. Before that, she was health director for Reader’s Digest. She’s been awarded fellowships to study medical research and data at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She won the 2007 Samter Journalism Award from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology for outstanding medical reporting. She is co-author of the 2008 Reader’s Digest book Sleep to Be Sexy, Smart, and Slim.
She has written about science, health, food, wine, travel, fashion, celebrity profiles and more for The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Popular Science, Web MD, Reader's Digest, Playboy, In Style, Wine Enthusiast, the Robb Report, Marie Claire, Real Simple and many other publications and websites. She's also made numerous appearances on national TV news shows. She lives in New York City.
