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Mary Ann Roser
Medical Writer, Austin American Statesman
Mary Ann Roser, medical writer at the Austin American-Statesman, has been a journalist for 30 years. At the Statesman she has covered medicine stories since July 2000, writing on a wide range of topics from the billing of kidney transplant donors nationally to Texas’ secret storage of newborn screening blood for research.
Mary Ann’s journalism includes the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Austin bureau. She covered George W. Bush’s first campaign for governor and also specialized in education, criminal justice and social services.
Before that, she was a regional correspondent in the former Knight-Ridder Washington bureau. She was the Lexington Herald-Leader’s education reporter in Kentucky from1983 to 1989. She also worked at the Owensboro (KY) Messenger-Inquirer and was editor of a weekly paper in northern Kentucky, where she got her start in journalism.
Roser has won many state and national journalism awards, including two Knight Science Fellowships to MIT and a three month fellowship to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control for medical writers in 2002. In 1990 that at the Lexington Herald-Leader she was a finalist for a Pulitzer in investigative reporting for the series, “Cheating Our Children.”