Gina Shaw has been a freelance writer for WebMD for more than 20 years. She specializes in health and medicine, celebrity profiles, family business, and corporate history. In addition to WebMD, she has written for a wide range of publications including Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, Neurology Today, Brain & Life, Specialty Pharmacy Continuum, Pharmacy Practice News, Emergency Medicine News, and General Surgery News, and clients such as Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She’s also the author of Having Children After Cancer: How to Make Informed Choices Before and After Treatment and Build the Family of Your Dreams, published in 2011 by Ten Speed Press/Random House.
Shaw has a bachelor’s degree in English from Georgetown University and a master’s in nonfiction writing from The Johns Hopkins University. She’s a former senior writer for the Association of American Medical Colleges and director of programs for the National Aquarium in Washington, DC. She’s a recipient of an Association of Women in Communications Clarion Award and a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award.
She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, three children, two dogs, three cats, and a partridge in a pear tree. She enjoys traveling, theatre, and—much to her own surprise--skiing, which she took up at the age of 46 at the encouragement of her double-black-diamond family.