Shelley Wood is Managing Editor of TCTMD and the Editorial Director at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, in New York City. Based now in Kelowna, Canada, she did her undergraduate degree at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and her graduate degree in journalism at the University of British Columbia, specializing in medical reporting. Before joining CRF in 2015, Shelley was Managing Editor at theheart.org and Senior Director, Global News for Medscape. Her work has won the National Institute for Heath Care Management's excellence in print journalism prize, the Online News Award for best specialty site journalism, two prizes from the Canadian Online Publishing Awards and Gold from the Association of Healthcare Publication Editors Awards. Alongside her career as a medical journalist and editor, Shelley is also the bestselling novelist of The Quintland Sisters. Her second novel, The Leap Year Gene, publishes in August 2024.