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Vivian Lam
Contributing writer
Vivian Lam is a contributing writer for PolitiFact based in San Francisco. They currently serve as the assistant health and biomedicine editor at The Conversation US, and previously worked as a clinical researcher in thoracic and geriatric oncology and dermatology at UCSF. They completed their undergraduate degree in Human Biology and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.