Medscape hires Kincaid as associate managing editor

Ellie Kincaid

Journalist Ellie Kincaid has been hired by Medscape as an associate managing editor.

Medscape covers breaking medical news on drug and disease information.

Kincaid previously was an assistant editor for health care coverage at Forbes, where she wrote online news stories and enterprise features about the business of health care and biotech. She also updated the healthcare homepage, tweeted from the @forbeshealth account, and curated a semi-weekly email newsletter.

She interned on the health and science desk at The Wall Street Journal.

Kincaid holds degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and New York University.

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.