I am pleased to announce that Chicago Health, Caregiving magazine and eight of its creative staff have won 8 prestigious journalistic awards and recognition for their work in 2021.
National awards from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) went to writers Katie Colt (“Second Time’s A Charm: For Orthopedic Surgery, Additional Opinions Can Revise the Treatment Course”) and Melanie Kalmar (Recovery Without Opioids: Orthopedic Specialists Look to Control Pain Without Dangerous Drugs”).
In the Illinois Women’s Press Association’s 2021 Mate E. Palmer Contest, first place awards went to writers Katie Scarlett Brandt for her feature story “Beyond Covid-19: mRNA vaccines get ready for their next act: fighting cancer”, and Ronit Rose (“Breast Cancer Breakthroughs: Better surgeries, less radiation, and new drugs are changing treatments and offering hope”). Art Director, Erin Sullivan won a 1st place award for her design of “Not Safe at Home: As Covid-19 stress continues, domestic violence escalates in Chicago”. Writers Kate Silver and Erin Chan Ding each won 2nd and 3rd place awards respectively from the IWPA. Erin Sullivan and Ronit Rose won national awards from the National Federation of Press Women for these same stories.
Finally, designer Andrea Fowler was a finalist with The Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor award for the category of “Best Design, Print”.
These awards follow recent honors from the Illinois Women’s Press Association (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), the Chicago Headline Club (2017, 2020), MORE awards from the AAOS (2019, 2020 as well as a 2016 award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors which awarded writer Kate Silver for her story “Needles in the Cornfields” an early story about the rise of heroin deaths and the failure of state-funded treatment programs in Illinois. Kate’s story was one of only a handful recognized by ASJA alongside stories from writers from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired and others.
Since 2016, eighteen Chicago Health and Caregiving writers, designers and photographers have won awards for journalistic excellence.
