Pam Bel­luck is a New York Times staff writer, cur­rent­ly cov­er­ing health and sci­ence, whose sub­jects have ranged from cat­tle rustling to Alzheimer’s, from Colom­bia to South Korea. An award-win­ning jour­nal­ist, Bel­luck has also won a Knight fel­low­ship, a Ful­bright, was fea­tured in Best Amer­i­can Sci­ence Writ­ing and Best Amer­i­can Sports Writ­ing and pro­filed in Cur­rent Biog­ra­phy. A jazz flutist/​composer, Bel­luck also com­bines musi­cal per­for­mance with con­ver­sa­tions about books and journalism.