Mary Otto Explained

Mary Otto is an American medical journalist who is the topic leader on oral health for the Association of Health Care Journalists.^[1] She is also the author of the book Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America, published in 2017 by the New Press.^[2] She previously worked at the Washington Post for eight years, where she reported on health care and poverty.^[3] She first began reporting on oral health in 2007 while working at the Post.^[4] She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow from 2009 to 2010, and she received the Gies Award from the American Dental Education Association in 2010.^{[5] [6]} In 2019, she received the Art of Healing Award from the Cambridge Health Alliance.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mary Otto . Association of Health Care Journalists . en-US . 2019-12-16.
2. News: The Tooth Divide: Beauty, Class and the Story of Dentistry . Jaffe . Sarah . 2017-03-23 . The New York Times . 2019-12-16 . en-US . 0362-4331.
3. Web site: Washington Post Journalist and Author Mary Otto to speak at Normandale on April 26 . 2018-04-06 . Normandale Community College . en . 2019-12-16.
4. News: The Class Politics of Teeth . Otto . Mary . Spring 2018 . Dissent . 2019-12-16.
5. Web site: Mary Otto . Association of Health Care Journalists . en-US . 2019-12-16.
6. Web site: Mary Otto . Farquhar Honors College . en . 2019-12-16.
7. News: Cambridge Health Alliance raises $545K at annual dinner . 2019-07-11 . Wicked Local Cambridge . 2019-12-16 . en.