Rosanne Spector is the director of editorial strategy in the Office of Communications and the editor of Stanford Medicine magazine. Originally, she wanted to be a biologist, and she earned a master’s degree in plant pathology from the University of California, Berkeley. But her love of reading, writing and asking lots of questions led her to a career in science writing and editing. After several years covering science as a newspaper reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area, she came to Stanford Medicine as a science writer and began editing Stanford Medicine in 1997. Her editing has contributed to numerous awards for Stanford Medicine from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Association of American Medical Colleges. Her love of reading, especially children’s books, continues.