MedCity News works with more than two dozen content providers with a background in health care. Meet some of the team below.
Management: MedCity News
Chris Seper and Mary Vanac co-founded MedCity News after nearly nine years apiece at The Plain Dealer.
Chris Seper
is a serial innovator whose idea for MedCity News came after spending years trying to innovate within the newspaper industry. While serving as The Plain Dealer's awarding-winning technology reporter, he became the first member of the staff to blog. Later he became the paper's first online medical editor, responsible for creating destination sections for consumer health and health-care business and advising the paper's online editor on topics including social media.
Mary Vanac
is an authoritative health-care journalist with an entrepreneurial mind. Her 19-year award-winning career has been spent covering Ohio's business communities — first for The Akron Beacon Journal and later The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. At The Plain Dealer, she became one of the state's most trusted names in medical industry reporting. She has a master's of business administration in entrepreneurship from Baldwin-Wallace College, a master's in journalism from Kent State University and a bachelor's in English from John Carroll University.
Amanda Todorovich
is the vice president of business development and marketing at MedCity News, and directly oversees MedCity Custom. She most recently was vice president of corporate communications at National City, now a part of PNC. She previously served three years as a senior media relations strategist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, primarily managing media relations for Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital. Amanda also spent time as the communications supervisor at American Greetings, and she started her career on the agency side working for Innis Maggiore Group in Canton, Ohio.
Contributors: MedCity Custom
Eileen Beal
is a health-care researcher and writer who specializes in geriatric articles and educational materials that are information-dense and reader-friendly. She has written for Crain's Cleveland Business, Aging Today, Arthritis Today, Kaiser-Permanente, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, St. Vincent Charity Hospital and Case Western Reserve University's medical and nursing schools, among many others.
Don Fernandez
is a former consumer technology reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who also serves as a media specialist handling topics including technology and health at Georgia Tech University.
Krystin Jarrell
has covered topics including health care finance for the MedCity News Service. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Eastern Michigan University, where she wrote for the student/faculty newspaper.
Betsy O'Connell
spent more than 18 years as an editor at The Plain Dealer managing travel, health, food sections at the paper, overseeing online and printed content and directing a diverse staff of editors, writers, artists and other multimedia employees.
Raquel Santiago
is a professional writer and communications strategist with more than 16 years of experience as a journalist and public relations manager. She served for more than six years as a communications professional at Cleveland Clinic, and before that nine years as a health care journalist for Crain's Cleveland Business.
