Senior associate editor Patricia Hannon helps edit Stanford Medicine magazine as well as the Stanford Medicine News Center; she is also a manager of special projects. She is a San Jose State University graduate in journalism and anthropology, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who joined Stanford Medicine in 2017 from The (San Jose) Mercury News and Bay Area News Group. She is an expert in digital publishing, newsroom operations and managing crisis communications, having navigated a Bay Area-wide team of breaking news editors, reporters and photographers through the organizational shift into a digital-first publishing model. In her more than 20-year tenure in newsrooms in the Bay Area and South Carolina, she managed teams covering a variety of topics including government, law enforcement, education, religion, health and natural disasters. A San Jose native and fifth-generation Californian, she enjoys live music, especially when her two musician sons are performing; hiking in the spectacular Bay Area parks; traveling with or to visit friends and family; and supporting the San Francisco Giants, win or lose.