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MedCity News hires Parmar as VP and editorial director

Arundhati Parmar

Arundhati Parmar has been hired as vice president and editorial director at MedCity News, an online news source covering the business of health care.

Parmar writes, “I consider myself lucky to be a part of the fourth estate, and even more so to be covering one of the most exciting industries of all: healthcare.

“And now given the opportunity to lead MedCity is both humbling and deeply gratifying. This opportunity also comes at a very pivotal time personally. I need modern medicine to work for my 42-year-old brother who is battling renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer).

“It seems only yesterday — although it was almost five years ago — that as a reporter for MedCity News, I was in the offices of Medtronic’s CEO, Omar Ishrak, who had assumed the top role to right a faltering ship. It was one of MedCity’s first big gets, and I was nervous as hell mainly because I was near full-term with my daughter. It wasn’t a help that my husband would joke that if something happened there would be headlines like ‘Medtronic CEO Rushes Pregnant Reporter to Hospital.’

“Nothing untoward happened, but the interview was a testament to the strength of the then nascent media organization that was shaking things up in the world of healthcare and business-to-business journalism. The largest medtech company in the world, then and now, had taken notice.

“And five years hence, MedCity News has gone from strength to strength. It garners a million page views per month on the backs of talented journalists who know their subject matter well and have a no-holds-barred approach.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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