Roxanne Khamsi oversees science coverage as the Chief News Editor at the international biomedical journal Nature Medicine. She is also an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in publications such as The Economist, WIRED and The New York Times Magazine. Khamsi has received recognition for her writing, including the American Medical Writers Association's Walter C. Alvarez Award and a first-place award from the Association of Health Care Journalists. She earned her degree in Biology from Dartmouth College, with a concentration in Genetics. In addition to her work as a writer and editor, she has taught at Stony Brook University's Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. You can find her on Twitter at @rkhamsi.