Kelli Miller Stacy, ELS, is an accomplished writer, editor, and TV producer with nearly 20 years of experience reporting on consumer health, science, and medicine. She is a board-certified editor of the life sciences. Her knack for finding the story behind the science and transforming abstracts into understandable and interesting consumer copy has led her to prestigious assignments in areas ranging from print to TV and multimedia. Kelli has authored articles for WebMD, The Scientist, ASRT Scanner, Arthritis Today, Popular Science, Scientific American online, UCLA Healthy Years, and the Cleveland Clinic Arthritis Advisor. She is the former editorial director and managing editor for A.D.A.M., Inc., a leading provider of interactive consumer health information. She continues to edit and update the company's award-winning Health Illustrated Encyclopedia on a freelance basis. Kelli is co-author of a book on the endocrine system, and has served as executive editor of Mt. Sinai's Focus on Healthy Aging and as managing editor for NewsRX. She is a member of the American Medical Writers Association and National Association of Science Writers. In 2006 Kelli received the Eric W. Martin award by the American Medical Writers Association for her article, "Therapeutic MAbs: Saving Lives and Making Billions," which was published in The Scientist.  In 2008 and 2009, she served as a judge for the award committee. Kelli is also a former recipient of the National Press Foundation's mini-fellowship on cancer reporting. Her interest in science and medicine stems from her experiences as a pharmacy technician and pre-pharmacy major in college. She comes from a family of inspiration: Her father and two brothers are scientists involved in physics and chemistry, and her mother is a medical technologist. She honed her science writing skills while working as a TV producer for the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a position she held for nearly five years. In 1998, Kelli assisted NewsProNet in creating the Discoveries & Breakthroughs Inside Science TV news service (the nationally syndicated successor to AIP's video news service), and served as executive producer until November 2003. Kelli's career began at WTVR-TV in Virginia, where she quickly worked her way up the ranks from an unpaid intern to assignment editor and on-air reporter while still a junior in college. In the early 1990s she headed to Washington, DC to become a TV producer for the 24-hour cable news station, Newschannel 8. In 1998, she headed south to join The Weather Channel as an online news producer, and eventually founded NEWScience, Inc. Kelli is married and lives in suburban Atlanta with her husband and son. Copyright 2010, NEWScience, Inc.