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Award winner, Society of Professional Journalists - Northern California
Occupational therapist (OTR/L)
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer
Member, American Occupational Therapy Association
Kristen Gerencher, MSOT, is an award-winning writer who's reported on healthcare, medicine, and insurance for various national outlets. Before contributing to GoodRx, she was a healthcare and personal finance reporter for MarketWatch. She also is a licensed occupational therapist who has worked in skilled nursing facilities. She has a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and a master’s of science in occupational therapy from San Jose State University. She completed her clinical fieldwork at San Mateo Medical Center and a pediatric outpatient clinic.
Kristen has been a contributing writer for Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal, and HSAStore.com. Her love of writing and healthcare has led her on reporting trips far and wide, including to Canada for a look at comparative health systems, a cutting-edge surgery suite in a California teaching hospital, and a volunteer ambulance crew in the rural Midwest. She is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Kristen has a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and a master’s of science in occupational therapy from San Jose State University.
