Coverage Chief, Health & Science, The Wall Street Journal

Stefanie Ilgenfritz is the Coverage Chief for Health & Science and editorial director of The Future of Everything at The Wall Street Journal. She leads a team of reporters and editors who cover the hospital, health-insurance, pharmaceutical and medical-device industries, as well as medicine, science and innovation. Over more than 30 years with Dow Jones, she has helped shape prize-winning journalism, including a series on fraud and abuse in Medicare that won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2015, a series on the dysfunction in drug prices that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in explanatory reporting in 2016, and a probe of the pandemic’s impact on nursing homes that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in national reporting in 2021.