Before joining STAT, he wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Boston Globe, where he worked on the Spotlight Team in 2014 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A Vermont native, he now lives outside Cleveland — in one of the nation's most competitive hospital markets — and has a wife and two young children. When he's not with them, he's in his cornfield, cultivating some of the sweetest bi-color in the Midwest.