Bret Stetka

Bret Stetka is an Editorial Director at Medscape.com--the professional division of WebMD.com. He is a non-practicing physician, and a freelance health and science journalist for a variety of print and online publications. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. In 2006, he completed a research and science writing post-doctoral year at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where he worked in a biological psychiatry laboratory and authored a number of...See more

Bret Stetka is an Editorial Director at Medscape.com--the professional division of WebMD.com. He is a non-practicing physician, and a freelance health and science journalist for a variety of print and online publications. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. In 2006, he completed a research and science writing post-doctoral year at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where he worked in a biological psychiatry laboratory and authored a number of scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He is now a regular contributor to NPR as well as Scientific American Magazine , where he writes about neuroscience, psychiatry, and evolution. His work has also appeared in WIRED and Men's Journal , as well as Slate , Popular Mechanics , and The Atlantic . See less