Sauerwein wins national writing award
Story of WashU Medicine student earned recognition from the Association of American Medical Colleges
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Kristina Sauerwein, a senior sciences writer in Marketing & Communications at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a bronze Robert G. Fenley Writing Award for general staff writing from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Sauerwein’s coverage of WashU Medicine MD/PhD student Sid Sivakumar earned her the peer-reviewed recognition from fellow AAMC authors. Sauerwein’s story explored the convergence of Sivakumar’s passion for constructing crossword puzzles and his study of life’s remaining neurological mysteries.
The honor is Sauerwein’s fifth Robert G. Fenley Writing Award, having also received bronze in 2024 and 2022, gold in 2020 and silver in 2019. She is an author and former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team of journalists that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for breaking news. She also covered the 2014 Ferguson unrest for TIME magazine. Sauerwein joined WashU Medicine in August 2015 and currently supports communications for Admissions & Student Affairs, Medical Education and the Department of Medicine.
