John Fairhall, Editor In Chief, was a reporter and editor at the Baltimore Sun for 27 years. As an assistant managing editor, he oversaw health and science coverage as well as projects.

 

 

 

Peggy Girshman, Executive Editor, is a former managing editor of National Public Radio, an Executive Editor at Congressional Quarterly and also worked as a producer for Dateline NBC and several PBS series. She has won two Peabody Awards for health policy coverage.

 

 

 

 

 

KHN SENIOR CORRESPONDENTS

Julie Appleby reports on the implementation of the health care overhaul law, the interplay of health care treatments and costs, trends in health insurance, and policy issues affecting hospitals and other medical providers. Her KHN stories have appeared in USA Today, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer and MSNBC, among others. Before joining KHN in March 2009, Appleby spent 10 years on the health care industry and policy beat for USA Today. She also worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, the Financial Times in London and the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, Calif. She serves on the board of the Association of Health Care Journalists and her education includes a Master of Public Health degree.

  

Mary Agnes Carey has covered health reform and federal health policy for more than 15 years as an editor at CQ HealthBeat, as Capitol Hill Bureau Chief for Congressional Quarterly and at Dow Jones Newswires. A frequent radio and television commentator, recently featured on the Nightly Business Report, the PBS NewsHour and on NPR affiliates nationwide, Mary Agnes has a thorough understanding of both the policy and politics of health reform. She worked for newspapers in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

 

 

Phil Galewitz covers Medicaid, Medicare, long‐term care, hospitals and various state health issues. He has covered the health beat for nearly two decades. He is a board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists and Health News Florida, a nonprofit news service. In 2004‐05, he was a Kaiser Media Fellow and wrote about community solutions to the uninsured. Before coming to KHN, he was at The Palm Beach Post and was a national health industry writer for the Associated Press and The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. He has a BA in health planning and administration and a master's in public administration with an emphasis in health policy.

Jay Hancock joined Kaiser Health News in 2012 from The Baltimore Sun, where he wrote a column on business and finance. Previously he covered the State Department and the economics beat for The Sun and health care for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and the Daily Press of Newport News. He has a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University.

 

 

Jordan Rau reports about the affordability, efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system with a focus on hospitals and other providers. His KHN stories have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Politico, and on npr.org and msnbc.com, among others. He came to KHN when it was started in 2009 from the Los Angeles Times, where he covered California government and health care politics in Sacramento. He previously reported for Newsday in New York and the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire.

 

ROBIN TONER DISTINGUISHED FELLOW

Marilyn Werber Serafini has been a reporter in Washington since 1985, and was the health care and welfare correspondent for National Journal magazine from 1995 to 2010. She has written extensively about Medicare, Medicaid, the uninsured, health care reform, bioterrorism and pandemic flu, and has won awards for articles on these subjects. Serafini covered the health reform debate during the Clinton Administration and the recent debate that led to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Serafini created and moderated National Journal’s Health Care Expert Blog, and was a senior reporter for CongressDaily (now National Journal Daily) from 1991-1995.

 

REPORTERS

Jenny Gold covers the health care industry, overhaul and disparities for radio and print. Her stories for KHN have aired on NPR and been printed in USA Today, the Washington Post, McClatchy and MSNBC. She was previously a Kroc Fellow at NPR, where she covered health and business, and a broadcast associate at the CBS Evening News. She is a graduate of Brown University.

 

 

WEB REPORTERS

Sarah Barr is a web reporter for Kaiser Health News.  Before joining KHN, Sarah wrote for legal and business publisher BNA, where she covered the health reform debate, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program.  Sarah is at work on a master's degree in nonfiction writing at Johns Hopkins University and graduated with a B.A. in English from St. Mary's College of Maryland.

 

Shefali Kulkarni is a web reporter for Kaiser Health News. Prior to joining KHN, Shefali wrote for The Daily Beast, The Village Voice and Willamette Week. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Journalism School where she concentrated in Digital Media. Shefali is a long-time member of the South Asian Journalists Association.

 

 

 

Jessica Marcy reports on health care overhaul and work force issues. Her KHN stories and photos have appeared on NPR, The Washington Post, MSNBC and McClatchy. She previously worked as a reporter at The Roanoke Times in Virginia and Latinamerica Press/Noticias Aliadas in Peru. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, where she worked on a variety of health and water sanitation projects. She has a BA in Latin American Studies from Barnard College and a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University.

 

Christian Torres is a web reporter for Kaiser Health News. Before joining KHN, Christian wrote for The Washington Post and Nature Medicine, where he covered scientific research, health, medicine and related policy. A graduate of Stanford University, Christian majored in Human Biology, with a concentration in neuroscience and mental health. He was also editor in chief of The Stanford Daily.

 

 

EDITORIAL STAFF

Kristen Carriker, Associate Editor, is KHN’s outreach coordinator and helps with marketing, partnerships and tracking website traffic. She also acts as a web producer. She is based in the Menlo Park office.

Carol Eisenberg, Senior Editor, has spent 30 years as a reporter and editor. She began writing about health policy in the 1990s for Newsday, where she was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. Before coming to KHN, she was social policy editor at Congressional Quarterly, overseeing coverage of the passage of the health care law. She graduated from Cornell University and studied health policy during a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard.

 

 

Karl Eisenhower, Senior Web Editor, first covered health care policy in 1991, when he was American Health Line’s first managing editor. Karl has helped launch several politics and policy Web sites, including PoliticsUSA, PoliticsNow, the Freedom Channel and nationaljournal.com. More recently, Karl was assistant managing editor for newsroom operations at washingtonpost.com, and new media strategy editor at National Journal.

 

 

Stephanie Stapleton, Editor, oversees the news aggregation for KHN writing and editing the two morning emails – First Edition and the Daily Report. In addition, she supervises the web reporters and coordinates and edits KHN’s columns and stories as needed. She was an editor and a reporter at American Medical News newspaper and online site.

 

 

Lexie Verdon, Senior Editor, came to KHN after 32 years at The Washington Post. Her assignments there included 10 years as deputy editor of the paper’s award‐winning Health section and an assignment editor in the Metro news section and she supervised the Continuous News Desk, which was responsible for getting staff breaking news stories to The Post’s website. She is a native of Montana.

 

 

Andrew Villegas, Associate Editor, coordinates story web production, produces graphics and photo illustrations and helps edit the Daily Report for KHN. He also acts as KHN’s social media editor. Andrew covered politics in northern Colorado before coming to Washington in 2009. He is a graduate of School of Journalism at the University of Colorado.

 

 

Diane Webber, Project Editor, has 20 years’ experience covering health care, education and politics. She helped launch Politico Pro’s new health care news service. She is the author of five books for teens on science and health topics published by Scholastic and is a graduate of Barnard College.

 

 

 

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

A'ngela Thomas is the administrative and financial hub for KHN, providing project and contract administration support. She manages the budget, prepares financial reports, coordinates meetings and helps update the website. She previously served as the administrative coordinator KFF’s South African Program on HIV AIDS.

 

 

 

CARTOON CONSULTANT

Mitch Berger