Biography

Sandee LaMotte is the community director for WebMD, responsible for more than 100 message boards, two dozen chat rooms, and a robust calendar of live events with acclaimed medical experts and authors. She also manages more than 35 health professionals, doctors, and nurses contracted to answer the public's questions. She manages a staff of eight full-time and four part-time employees, all with extensive community backgrounds.

LaMotte came to WebMD from CNN.com, where she helped create the site's community in 1995. She fashioned a unique mix of 75 volunteers and part-time staff that kept the 350+ message boards and 20-hour-a-day chat room editorially updated and journalistically focused. Within two months of launching, CNN.com became the premier news community on the web.

LaMotte is also a CNN "original," having helped start the company in 1980, and moving, over the next 15 years, from editor to producer to senior producer of the network's long-form documentary unit, Special Reports (later CNN Presents and CNN-Time). She won more than 50 awards during her television career, including an Emmy for CNN Presents: Our Planetary Police and a Columbia Dupont Silver Baton for Iran: In the Name of God.