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Lisa Zwerling is an American physician (member of the
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), television writer and producer (member of the
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& the
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). She has worked on the medical drama series ''
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'' and '' ER'' and science fiction series ''
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''.


Biography

Zwerling began her television career as a technical advisor and writer for the medical drama ''
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''. The series was canceled before completing its first season. ''Presidio Med'' was created and executive produced by John Wells. Following the conclusion of ''Presidio Med'' Wells hired Zwerling as a
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for the tenth season of long running medical drama '' ER''. She made her writing debut for the series with the episode "NICU".NICU A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive care unit (ICU) specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. Neonatal refers to the first 28 days of life. Neonatal care, as kn ...
"> Zwerling returned for the eleventh season as an executive story editor. She wrote a further four episodes - "An Intern's Guide To The Galaxy", "Middleman", "Back in the World", and "Ruby Redux". "Back in the World" was co-written with executive producer and
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. "Ruby Redux" was co-written with executive producer
Lydia Woodward Lydia Woodward is an American television writer and producer. She has worked as both a writer and producer on the television series '' ER''. She signed a deal with the Warners in 2001. Positions held *''Pan Am'' (Co-Executive Producer, Writer) * ...
. For the twelfth season Zwerling became a producer, initially being credited as a co-producer. Zwerling co-wrote the season opener "Canon City" with Wells and co-executive producer
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. She co-wrote a further episode, "Quintessence of Dust", again with Zabel, and scripted a third episode "
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" on her own. She was promoted for the thirteenth season becoming a producer and contributing a further five episodes - " Graduation Day" (with executive producer
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), "Scoop and Run", "City of Mercy" (with Zabel), "Crisis of Conscience", and "Sea Change". She garnered more responsibility for the fourteenth season becoming a supervising producer and writing a further five episodes including the season finale. She collaborated with staff writer Karen Maser on " In A Different Light" - Zwerling's first episode collaborating with a junior writer. She also wrote "The Test", "Atonement", "Truth Will Out" (again with Maser), and season finale "The Chicago Way" with David Zabel. Zwerling is currently a co-executive producer and writer on the fifteenth and final season of ''ER''. She wrote the second episode of the season "Another Thursday at County." She also co-wrote "
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" (again with Zabel) which was the final episode of long-serving series star
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who plays
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. After the conclusion of '' ER'', she joined the crew of new
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science fiction series ''
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'' in 2009. Zwerling served as a co-executive producer and writer for the series. The show focuses on a team of
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agents following a global consciousness blackout that gives people a vision of their futures. The series was created by
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and
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both of whom also served as executive producers. Zwerling co-wrote five episodes for the first season. She co-wrote the episode "Black Swan" with Scott M. Gimple. She co-wrote the episode "The Gift" with
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. She co-wrote the episode "Blowback" with Barbara Nance. She co-wrote the episode "The Garden of Forking Paths" with Goyer. She co-wrote the seasons penultimate episode "Countdown" with Seth Hoffman.
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has handed a late pilot order to '' Weekend at Bellevue'', a medical drama from former ER writer-producer Lisa Zwerling and BermanBraun (
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). The project, centered on a psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of
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psychiatric unit, was originally set up at NBC and UMS earlier this season. After the network recently passed on the script, it was taken to Fox. ''Weekend at Bellevue'' is based on Dr. Julie Holland's memoir about her nine-year stint as the weekend physician in charge of the psychiatric emergency room at the oldest public hospital in the United States whose name has become synonymous with insanity. Zwerling, Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein are executive producing. In 2018, Zwerling and
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will showrun the TV series The Rook.


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NBC official site
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