She writes for magazines such as SELF, Health and More, and is a contributing writer for the Annals of Emergency Medicine. She previously worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Herald and The Cincinnati Enquirer, and has reported from Southeast Asia, India, Africa and the Arctic. She has held fellowships with the Kaiser Family Foundation, University of Maryland, Harvard Medical School and the University of Michigan. She is the author of “Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service,” which was named a “Top Science Book” by Amazon. Her newest book, “Superbug,” will be published by Simon & Schuster in March 2010. She blogs at www.drugresistantstaph.blogspot.com.