Shelley Wood
Editorial Director @Cardiovascular Research Foundation
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Editorial Director @Cardiovascular Research Foundation
New York, NY, US
As Editorial Director, I am responsible for the overall editorial vision of TCTMD, further establishing TCTMD as the leading global resource in interventional cardiovascular medicine while expanding news coverage to include general cardiology, health policy, regulatory, medical innovation, digital health, industry and advocacy news, and analysis. My role is to oversee the TCTMD editorial team in creating original, thought-provoking, and clinically-relevant reportage as well as overseeing other editorial content within the CRF Center for Education, including video and other multimedia formats. As Editorial Director, I am also in charge of strictly safeguarding the editorial independence of the TCTMD news team, insuring the factual accuracy and integrity of the publication.
EDUCATION
University of Cape Town
BA
The University of British Columbia
MJ
McGill University
BA
ABOUT SHELLEY WOOD
Shelley Wood is an award-winning medical journalist and a bestselling novelist. Editor-in-Chief for the news team at TCTMD.com and Editorial Director at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, she hosts the Heart Sounds podcast and the On Record cardio current affairs program. Her debut novel (2019), The Quintland Sisters, debuted as a #1 bestseller in Canada. The Leap Year Gene, her second novel, also made the bestseller list its first week in print: it was published by HarperCollins Canada and Union Square (US) in August 2024. Before joining TCTMD, Shelley 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 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. During her tenure, theheart.org won 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, and her graduate degree in Journalism at the University of British Columbia, specializing in medical reporting. Outside of medical journalism, her fiction and nonfiction have been published in newspapers and periodicals across North America. Her creative work is represented by Transatlantic Literary Agency. Find more at
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