Science writer Nina Bai joined Stanford Medicine's Office of Communications in 2022. She covers addiction, anesthesiology and pain medicine, cardiology, chemical and systems biology, epidemiology and population health, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, physiology, primary care, psychiatry and behavioral health, radiology, and structural biology. She has worked in science communications for a variety of research institutions, including the University of California, San Francisco; Burke Neurological Institute; Stevens Institute of Technology; Rockefeller University; the Simons Foundation; and Princeton University. Her writing has been published in Scientific American, Discover and Lucky Peach. She earned a master’s in science writing from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University. In her free time, Nina enjoys gazing at the sky and staring into trees, looking for birds.