I'm one of the founding journalists at the USC Center for Health Reporting, a new program created to help improve health reporting in communities across California.  We work with newspapers and other outlets to report and write in-depth articles about health care.  We're based at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and are funded by the California HealthCare Foundation.

Before joining the Center, I spent 18 years at the Los Angeles Times and studied environmental science as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. I'm a native of Ithaca, N.Y., and have lived in California for two decades.