Jennifer Clopton is an Emmy-award winning journalist who has been writing medical journalism for more than a decade. Her career started in television news, and she has more than 12 years of experience as a television reporter at the local and national levels. She earned a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. She lives in the Washington, DC, area with her husband and two children.