Curriculum vitae
EDUCATION
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., December 2006
Degrees:
A.B.J. in Newspapers from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
B.S. in Chemistry from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
eHealth/Health Care Reporter
POLITICO Pro
April 2014 to June 2018
Washington Correspondent
MedPage Today
July 2012 to current
Editor
FDAnews
February 2011 to July 2012
Freelance Writer
May 2010 to Present
Contributing Editor
Chemical & Engineering News
May 2010 to December 2010
Health Reporter
Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News
January 2007 to April 2010
Editor in Chief/Staff writer
The Red & Black
April 2004 to December 2006
AWARDS
HONORS
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., December 2006
Degrees:
A.B.J. in Newspapers from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
B.S. in Chemistry from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
eHealth/Health Care Reporter
POLITICO Pro
April 2014 to June 2018
- Helped launch POLITICO Pro’s eHealth vertical turning it into the must-read source for health IT and telemedicine news.
- Named “best new addition to healthcare media landscape” by Forbes
- Promoted in late 2017 to work on the Pro Health Care team, the best collection of health policy journalists in the country.
- Coverage of Trump administration health official helped prompt congressional inquiry over his drug pricing work.
- Tracked every twist and turn in legislation relevant to health technology and scoured hundreds of pages of HHS regulations for news relevant to the industry.
- Followed efforts to craft legislation that would expand Medicare's payments for telemedicine.
- Tracked state-level efforts to relax standards around how and when doctors can treat patients via telecommunications.
- Routinely broke stories, including Capitol Hill’s oversight of and legislation around electronic health records, 21st Century Cures and MACRA, the 2015 overhaul of the way Medicare pays physicians.
- Regularly spoke at conferences and moderated panels to share my insight on what’s happening in Washington with health policy.
Washington Correspondent
MedPage Today
July 2012 to current
- Serve as the lone Washington reporter for the health-news website serving physicians.
- Play watchdog to health news coming from Congress, federal agencies, and national policy groups.
- Follow implementation of the Affordable Care Act and other health reform measures including payment and delivery reforms.
- Write analytical stories on Medicare, Medicaid, and other health coverage issues.
- Attended the 2012 Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention as part of MedPage's election coverage.
Editor
FDAnews
February 2011 to July 2012
- Cover regulatory policy and rule-making process of various agencies including the FDA and report its impact to the pharmaceutical industry for the newsletter company.
- Promoted in February 2012 to manage the company’s top-grossing newsletter, the weekly Washington Drug Letter.
- Oversee and write the biweekly newsletter that covers the generic-drug industry, Generic Line.
- Lead congressional coverage of FDA- and pharmaceutical-related legislation and hearings.
- Serve as lead reporter of congressional reauthorization of the omnibus FDA user fee bill as it progressed from FDA-industry negotiations through congressional passage.
- Followed numerous Supreme Court rulings, arguments and pending cases.
- Top industry blog Pharmalot picked up my March 2011 story on new FDA Office of Regulatory Affairs Director’s comment’s on outlook for the office under new leadership.
- Attend various industry conferences and trade group meetings to provide front-line coverage.
Freelance Writer
May 2010 to Present
- Work has appeared in Chemistry World, Running Times, Washington Run Report, Biotechniques.com, ESPN HS, Metro Weekly, Health Behavior News Service, SmartBrief and UGA Research.
- Covered the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in Washington, D.C., for its internal publications.
Contributing Editor
Chemical & Engineering News
May 2010 to December 2010
- Wrote about ground-breaking science for the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society and its 160,000 members.
- Filled in for an editor on maternity leave and covered NASA, theNational Science Foundation, general science-policy issues, science education and funding.
- Followed the debate and passage of the reauthorization of the America Competes Act, which sought to double the research budgets of certain federal science agencies in 10 years.
- Assigned to cover news of the first cell controlled by a synthetically-made genome.
Health Reporter
Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News
January 2007 to April 2010
- Exposed a hidden plan to sale the 443-bed Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System by one of its two co-owners.
- Used financial records to uncover the $37 million annual financial disparity of Amarillo’s two large, acute-care hospitals.
- Reported from within the Amarillo Public Health Department while it searched to find the source of a summer-long community salmonella outbreak in 2008.
- Revealed a state investigation into antitrust practices at a local hospital.
- Exposed internal and regional investigations from the Department of Veterans Affairs into the quality of care of its Amarillo nursing home.
- Filled in a higher education and cops reporter for the paper while editors hired replacements
- Broke story on rural county nearly bankrupting itself to finance a capital murder case in 2009 where it receive the death penalty sentence it was seeking.
- Caused policy change at the Potter County Sheriff’s Office by cracking story on man who was arrested on charges of intoxicated manslaughter the day after bailing out of jail for DWI.
Editor in Chief/Staff writer
The Red & Black
April 2004 to December 2006
- Served as editor in chief from August 2006 to December 2006 and oversaw a staff of nearly 70 reporters and copy editors and another dozen section editors.
- As staff writer, covered the school’s nationally-ranked football team during its 2005 conference championship and Sugar Bowl season.
- The five-day-a-week student newspaper was rated the fifth best college newspaper in the country by The Princeton Review in 2007 and the sixth best in 2006.
- Association of Health Care Journalists 2014 Reporting Fellowship on Health Care Performance
AWARDS
- 2014 Award for Excellence in Health Journalism from the American Osteopathic Association 2012
- Specialty Information Publishers of America: Third place for Rising Star of the Year Award
- First place for Sports Feature Story in the Under 4,000-Circulation Weekly Division
- Second place for Reporting In Depth in the Under 4,000-Circulation Weekly Division
- Third place for investigative reporting in the Division 1 category
- Second place for Star Breaking News Report of the Year in the Class AAA category
HONORS
- National Press Foundation: Co-hosted a 2014 webinar by the National Press Foundation on electronic health records.
- Invited panelist at the Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference in 2015, speaking about using Medicaid data in reporting