I have more than 20 years of experience in health and science writing. In 2014, I received the top medical journalism award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. I began my career in newspapers, and was the longtime medical reporter for the Dallas Morning News. In 2006, I left the world of daily journalism to write mostly for magazines. I specialize in matters of health and science, but have also written about gun-toting liberals for D Magazine, and was the writer-reporter of the “Thugs” episode for the NPR series This American Life. I grew up in the piney woods of East Texas, but now live outside Dallas.

RECENTLY AWARDED:
• 2014 – The American Society of Journalists and Authors annual awards:
   Winner, Reporting on a Significant Topic:  Who Killed Chris Kyle? (Men’s Health)
• 2013 – The American Society of Journalists and Authors annual awards:
Winner, Reporting on a Significant Topic:  The Dirty Truth about Hospitals (Men’s Health)
• Winner of the 2012 June Roth Award for Medical Journalism
• Medical Writer at the Dallas Morning News, 1992-2006
• Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow, 2005-2006

• Frequent contributor to the New York Times, Science News, Men’s Health and Cure. Other credits include This American Life (National Public Radio), Self, Reader’s Digest, Marie Claire, Women’s Health, Newsweek, Prevention, D Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Parenting, and O, the Oprah Magazine.

• Professional Associations
-  National Association of Science Writers
-  American Society of Journalists and Authors
-  Association of Health Care Journalists

Contact me at laura@laurabeil.com or find me on twitter @ljbeil.