Mary Gillis

Mary Gillis is a multimedia journalist with over a decade of expertise reporting on beats of well being, drugs, and life-style throughout print, broadcast, digital, and audio platforms. Her work has been featured in a variety of native, nationwide, and worldwide shops, together with Reuters, Fox News, NBC’s TODAY Digital, and Health.com, amongst others.

Most just lately, Gillis served because the well being reporter and medical contributor at WISH-TV, News 8 in Indianapolis, and labored alongside Dr. Jerome Adams, former U.S. Surgeon General beneath the earlier Trump administration, to ship well timed and correct well being data to the general public. She additionally made common appearances on the station’s life-style and leisure packages

Gillis has earned quite a few accolades all through her profession. She obtained scholarships from the Fred Rogers Institute, the place she developed a youngsters’s app acknowledged by USA Today as one of many prime 5 in its class. As a part of a staff at Reuters, she was acknowledged by HealthNewsAssessment.org with a No. 1 rating for excellence in well being and medical journalism geared toward basic audiences.

She holds a doctoral diploma and two grasp’s levels in physiology from Columbia University, in addition to a grasp’s in journalism from Columbia Journalism School.

Gillis is worked up to affix the WTVC Channel 9 staff because the Lifestyle Reporter and appears ahead to serving the viewers and broader Chattanooga group with partaking, informative, and provoking storytelling.