Ivan Oransky is executive editor of Reuters Health. Previously, he was managing editor, online, of Scientific American; deputy editor of The Scientist, Magazine of the Life Sciences; editor-in-chief of Praxis Post, an online magazine of medicine and culture; and editor-in-chief of the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association. He has written for publications including the Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Fitness, The Lancet, The New Republic, Salon, Slate, and others. He serves on the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists and teaches medical journalism in NYU’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting program. He is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at NYU Medical School, where he received his MD. He completed his internship at Yale University and has a B.A. from Harvard.