About

The first mate shouted, "The cannons be ready, Captain!"

The captain hollered back, "ARE!"

I believe a person's sense of humor says a lot about them.

What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?

Nothing. You can't cross a vector and a scaler.*

The nerdy jokes I treasure span the academic spectrum, much like my own interests.

My proclivity for editing arose from a lifelong love of reading and writing. I spent a significant portion of my formative years writing and editing simply because I enjoyed it. The progression from penning short stories in notebooks to running school literary magazines and volunteering to write and edit educational materials for non-profit organizations was as natural to me as breathing, and—just as with breathing—it never occurred to me to turn it into a career.

Besides, I also loved math and science and foreign languages. What was a girl to do?

Two kittens are on a slanted surface. Which one slides to the bottom first?

The kitten with the smallest mew.**

I dove straight into college after 10th grade. A liberal arts school was the obvious choice for me, given my breadth of academic interests, and I took all the prerequisite courses for medical school while obtaining a minor in linguistics on the side.

When I decided to pursue veterinary medicine, my motley crew of language- and writing-related pastimes had no intention of admitting defeat and going gently into that good night, relegated to leisure activities and safe topics of conversation during meals with non-veterinarians.

Instead, they banded together and led me here. Unlike the aforementioned mosquito and mountain climber, my miscellany of passions can, in fact, be crossed with each other, and the answer is academic editing.

*scaler → scalar

(A cross product is an operation that can only be applied to two vectors, not a vector and a scalar.)

**mew → mu (μ) = the coefficient of friction

(The lower the value of mu, the less friction there is.)

Veterinarian ● Writer ● Editor

I began my academic editing career working for a large company that provided publication support services to authors in a variety of fields. As veterinary education must covers a wide range of not only species but also specialties, my skill set lent itself well to manuscripts in both human and veterinary medicine; I possessed ample familiarity with fields ranging from microbiology, pharmacology, oncology, and pathology to the various organ system "-ologies" (e.g., cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology), radiology, anesthesiology, surgery, dentistry, and forensic science.

My work involved substantive editing, line editing, copyediting, proofreading, and journal-specific formatting for 100+ manuscripts, primarily original research and case reports, but with the occasional systematic review and meta-analysis, dissertation, and book chapter sprinkled in.

Education

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM), 2016

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University (North Grafton, MA)

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Biology, Minor in Linguistics, 2009

Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Associate of Arts (AA) in Liberal Arts, 2006

Simon's Rock College of Bard (Great Barrington, MA)

Selected Publications

Intarapanich NP, Touroo RM, Rozanski EA, Reisman RW, Intarapanich PP, McCobb EC. Characterization and comparison of injuries caused by spontaneous versus organized dogfighting. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 2017 Dec 15;251(12):1424-31. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.251.12.1424

Intarapanich NP, McCobb EC, Reisman RW, Rozanski EA, Intarapanich PP. Characterization and comparison of injuries caused by accidental and non‐accidental blunt force trauma in dogs and cats. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2016 Jul;61(4):993-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13074

Intarapanich N. Characterization and Comparison of Injuries Caused by Accidental and Non-accidental Blunt Force Trauma (Doctoral dissertation, Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine).

Nida Intarapanich, DVM

Veterinarian ● Writer ● Editor

Education

Selected Publications