Alice Park is a senior reporter at TIME and currently serves as the department head for the magazine’s science coverage. Since 1993, she has also reported on the breaking frontiers of health and medicine in articles covering issues such as AIDS, anxiety and Alzheimer’s. Park’s work has been recognized with awards of excellence from the National Arthritis Foundation as well as the National Headache Foundation. Additionally, Park has received two CASE media fellowships—the first in 2000 to Harvard Medical School, where she designed a program focused on the latest understanding of AIDS, and the second in 2003 to UCLA’s Medical School, where she researched the growing number of clinical applications of genomic research. Park has also hosted and served on numerous panels exploring the role of the media in reporting medical news. She received a master’s in science journalism from Boston University.