Robert J. Roos, MA

Mr. Roos, editor of CIDRAP News, is a seasoned medical editor and writer who enjoys striving to sift the wheat from the chaff in medical news and to present complex information in accurate, understandable prose. After 10 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, he earned a master's degree in science journalism at the University of Minnesota. He worked for 14 years at McGraw-Hill Healthcare Publications, editing and writing material for The Physician and Sportsmedicine and other McGraw-Hill medical journals as well as health publications for lay readers. In 1999 he joined the dotcom company ican, Inc., a provider of information for infection control and infectious disease specialists, where he wrote breaking news and in-depth feature articles. He joined the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at its inception in September 2001.