Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland.com

Gretchen Cuda-Kroen has been writing stories about science, technology, medicine, health and the environmental since 2003 when she left behind a career in medical research and became a full-time member of the press. Two decades later she is a seasoned reporter and storyteller whose voice has been read and heard around the globe. Gretchen is currently a health and medical reporter for The Plain Dealer newspaper and its companion website Cleveland.com. She has also served as the senior editor for two digital medical publications: Endocrinology Network and Practical Cardiology. In her radio career, Gretchen worked as a producer of the Cleveland Public Radio morning talk show The Sound of Ideas, and later served as the NPR/PBS affiliate station’s science and medical reporter, where she wrote and produced original stories for radio and television, and served as an occasional fill-in host. She has also previously worked as an assistant producer for a radio program called Science Today, a science writing instructor at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and a full-time neurophysiology research associate at the University of California San Francisco and the pharmaceutical research start-up, Renovis Inc. Her work has appeared in a variety of national publications including Wired News, Nature Medicine, the science section of the New York Times, and she was regular contributor of health and medical stories to National Public Radio, PRI’s Marketplace, Scientific American’s 60-Second Science podcast, and the podcast of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University, and a master’s degree in broadcast and investigative journalism from Columbia University in New York and has won multiple journalism awards and completed numerous science, medical and environmental writing fellowships. Gretchen loves adventures in nature, the outdoors, books, interesting people, and a strong cup of tea. She speaks 3 languages fluently including German and Portuguese and her native English. She lives in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio where she manages her two children and a menagerie of pets. You can reach out to Gretchen electronically at [email protected] or call her the old-fashioned way at 216-339-5132.