Carolyn Abraham

Whether it’s stem cell research, advances in genetics, cloning, medical marijuana, bioterrorism or SARS, award-winning journalist Carolyn Abraham has covered all of the hottest medical issues in the news media today.

As the medical reporter for the Globe and Mail, she also first broke the story of how Albert Einstein’s brain came to Canada (a story that served as the basis for her 2001 book, Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein’s Brain – nominated for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Literary Non-Fiction and the winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association National Book Award).

Abraham has twice received a national award from the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association for investigative journalism and is a three-time winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association Science in Society Award for her medical reporting.

Abraham has also worked on documentaries related to both the business of genetics and Einstein’s brain. She began her career at The Ottawa Citizen and Southam News.