Lisa Zwerling is an American physician (member of theAmerican Medical Association), television writer and producer (member of theWriters Guild of America & theProducers Guild of America). She has worked on the medical drama seriesPresidio Med andER and science fiction seriesFlashForward.

Zwerling began her television career as a technical advisor and writer for the medical dramaPresidio Med. The series was canceled before completing its first season.Presidio Med was created and executive produced byJohn Wells. Following the conclusion ofPresidio Med Wells hired Zwerling as astory editor for thetenth season of long running medical dramaER. She made her writing debut for the series with the episode "NICU".^[1]

Zwerling returned for theeleventh season as an executive story editor. She wrote a further four episodes - "An Intern's Guide To The Galaxy",^[2] "Middleman",^[3] "Back in the World",^[4] and "Ruby Redux".^[5] "Back in the World" was co-written with executive producer andshow runnerDavid Zabel. "Ruby Redux" was co-written with executive producerLydia Woodward.

For thetwelfth 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 producerJoe Sachs.^[6] She co-wrote a further episode, "Quintessence of Dust", again with Zabel,^[7] and scripted a third episode "Lost in America" on her own.^[8]

She was promoted for thethirteenth season becoming a producer and contributing a further five episodes - "Graduation Day"^[9] (with executive producerJanine Sherman Barrois), "Scoop and Run",^[10] "City of Mercy"^[11] (with Zabel), "Crisis of Conscience",^[12] and "Sea Change".^[13]

She garnered more responsibility for thefourteenth season becoming a supervising producer and writing a further five episodes including the season finale. She collaborated with staff writerKaren Maser on "In A Different Light"^[14] - Zwerling's first episode collaborating with a junior writer. She also wrote "The Test",^[15] "Atonement",^[16] "Truth Will Out" (again with Maser),^[17] and season finale "The Chicago Way" with David Zabel.^[18]

Zwerling is currently a co-executive producer and writer on thefifteenth and final season ofER. She wrote the second episode of the season "Another Thursday at County."^[19] She also co-wrote "The Book of Abby" (again with Zabel) which was the final episode of long-serving series starMaura Tierney who playsAbby Lockhart.^[20]

After the conclusion ofER, she joined the crew of newABC science fiction seriesFlashForward in 2009. Zwerling served as a co-executive producer and writer for the series. The show focuses on a team ofFBI agents following a global consciousness blackout that gives people a vision of their futures. The series was created byBrannon Braga andDavid S. Goyer both of whom also served as executive producers. Zwerling co-wrote five episodes for the first season. She co-wrote the episode "Black Swan" withScott M. Gimple.^[21] She co-wrote the episode "The Gift" withIan Goldberg.^[22] She co-wrote the episode "Blowback" withBarbara Nance.^[23] She co-wrote the episode "The Garden of Forking Paths" with Goyer.^[24]She co-wrote the seasons penultimate episode "Countdown" with Seth Hoffman.^[25]

Fox has handed a late pilot order toWeekend at Bellevue, a medical drama from former ER writer-producer Lisa Zwerling and BermanBraun (Lloyd Braun/Gail Berman). The project, centered on a psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift ofBellevue Hospital 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 onJulie 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 andGene Stein are executive producing.^{[citation needed]} In 2018, Zwerling andKaryn Usher will showrun the TV seriesThe Rook.^[26]

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