Amanda Gardner is a freelance health reporter whose stories have appeared in Health.com, CNN.com, WebMD, HealthDay, Self, the New York Daily News, Teachers & Writers Magazine, the Foreign Service Journal, AmeriQuests (Vanderbilt University) and others. In 2009, she was selected to be the writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is also a community artist and recipient or partner in five National Endowment for the Arts grants.