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Shelley Wood
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Biography
Shelley Wood is an award-winning medical journalist, the Managing Editor at TCTMD, and the Editorial Director at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York. Before that, she was the long-time editor at theheart.org, which merged with WebMD's Medscape Cardiology in 2013. She joined the theheart.org as a journalist in 2000 and became the site's Managing Editor in 2009. In 2012, Shelley was named News Director for the newly launched Medscape Deutschland and, in 2013, promoted to Senior Director, Global News a role that included oversight of Medscape France. On October 15, 2015, the Cardiovascular Research Foundation announced that Shelley had joined the organization as Editorial Director, overseeing the news team at TCTMD.com. During her tenure, theheart.org as well as the individual reporters on her team won a range of journalism awards, including the Online News Award for best specialty site journalism in 2010, "Silver" in the 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA), and "Gold" from the Association of Healthcare Publication Editors Awards in 2013. Her own investigative series, The Myxo Ring Mix-Up was awarded the National Institute for Heath Care Management's excellence in print journalism prize in 2009. Her first-person feature: Betty Crocker, Coke, and Cardiosmart as well as her three-part series: Drugs, Money, Glory: Is Cancer Beating Cardiovascular Disease? both won "Silver" in the 2011 and 2012 COPA awards, respectively. Originally from Vancouver, BC, Shelley did her undergraduate degree at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, before returning to Vancouver to complete her graduate degree in Journalism at the University of British Columbia, specializing in medical reporting. Outside of medical journalism, her columns, travel-writing, and fiction have been published in newspapers and periodicals across North America.
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