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Healthcare Transparency & Patient Safety Kentucky 42nd in the Nation For Healthcare Oct 17, 2019 Eastside Branch Public Library, Lexington, KY |
Laura Ungar
Laura
Ungar is the St. Louis‐based Midwest Editor/Correspondent for Kaiser Health News. She has been a
journalist for nearly three decades, including for The (Louisville) Courier
Journal, USA TODAY, the Hartford Courant
in Connecticut and The News Journal in Delaware. She's covered health for
more than half her career, writting
about issues from cancer disparities to lead in water to the largest HIV
outbreak in rural America. She's won more
than 50 national, regional and local journalism awards from organizations
such as Investigative Reporters and
Editors, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Society of
Environmental Journalists and National
Headliners. She teaches a class at the University of Missouri, editing
stories by students from the United States
and India that run in the St. Louis Post‐Dispatch and in various Indian
media.