A “recovering” journalist herself, Ekaterina works with reporters, producers and editors seeking to tell stories about biomedical science and discovery in all their richness, complexity and fascination. Ekaterina joined HMS in 2016, after nearly a decade at Johns Hopkins, where she handled science communications and media relations for 20-plus pediatric specialties along with adult cardiology and cardiac surgery, general surgery and transplantation, orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine. Most recently, Ekaterina was a senior communications strategist and science communications adviser for Lurie Children’s Hospital at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. She has a master’s degree in journalism with focus on health communication from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Truman State University. Ekaterina worked as a columnist and medical reporter for the Suburban Journals and West End Word newspapers in St. Louis. She is a recipient of the 2003 Missouri Press Association Award for News Reporting. She studied linguistics and philology in her native country, Bulgaria, before coming to the United States. Ekaterina can be reached at Ekaterina_Pesheva@hms.harvard.edu.