Christine Gorman
Christine Gorman is the health and medicine editor for Scientific American. She received a bachelor's degree in biology from Rice University and a master's in science writing from Johns Hopkins University. After a brief stint working for the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., she took a job with Time Magazine, where she wrote about science, health, business and sometimes politics for more than two decades. Her cover stories, which addressed such topics as AIDS, anxiety, cancer, diabetes and sleep disorders, consistently ranked among the magazine's top sellers each year. In 2008 she received a Nieman Fellowship to study global health at Harvard University, followed by a three-month reporting trip to investigate the nursing crisis in Malawi.