Laura Landro Biography

Ms. Landro works as an assistant managing editor for The Wall Street Journal and frequently writes about health care. "The Informed Patient," her column, appears on alternate Tuesdays. Ms. Landro began her career as a reporter in the Journal's New York bureau, covering the entertainment, cable, and publication industries, and was promoted to media and marketing editor in May 1991. She was appointed to her present role in November 2001. Ms. Landro has received the Gerald Loeb award for deadline reporting, as well as the New York Women in Communications, Incorporated Matrix Award in the newspaper category, for her contributions to journalism. Her life storey "Dose of Prevention: Six Prescriptions to Ease Rationing in US Health Care" was 1 of 7 Wall Street Journal articles honoured with the 2004 National Academy for Health Care Management Research as well as Educational Foundation award for excellence in health-care reporting and writing on health-care financing and delivery, as well as the effects of health policy. In 2004, the series was a top contender for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Survivor: Taking Charge of Your Fight Against Cancer, a record of her battle with leukaemia and bone marrow transfusion, was authored by Simon & Schuster in October 1998. Ms. Landro received the Italian American Cancer Foundation's live achievement award in 1998, and the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation's Colonel Joseph File Award in 2005 for her support of the organisation, which provides college scholarships to the children of United States Marines as well as Navy Corpsmen. Ms. Landro worked as a reporter with McGraw-Hill World News in London, where she worked as a full-time correspondent and editor for the McGraw-Hill Energy Newsletter Group before becoming a staff editor at BusinessWeek magazine. Ms. Landro graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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