CNN digital writer Sandee LaMotte has been covering health and wellness for over 30 years, developing reporting expertise on such topics as sleep, brain health, longevity, the Mediterranean diet, and the health impacts of ultra processed foods, artificial sweeteners, nano plastics, microplastics and toxins in food from synthetic chemicals.

Sandee is a CNN original, part of a small, scrapy team of journalists that believed in Ted Turner’s vision of 24-hour news. Starting as a video editor and producer, over the next 20+ years Sandee and her teams won a duPont Columbia Silver Baton for “Iran: In the Name of God, Emmy awards for “Our Planetary Police,” “The People Bomb” and “Going on an Airplane;” a CINE Golden Eagle for “A Question of Ethics;” several Cable ACE and New York Film Festival awards, and a host of other national and international awards for investigative and long-form documentary videos. When Sandee went to work at WebMD, she fell in love with health journalism and has never looked back.

Since coming home to CNN a decade ago, Sandee has been honored to work with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on a three-part investigative series, “Justice for Rehma,” about spurious legal attacks on the medical diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome, which won a Deadline Club award; the failure of the FDA to protect consumers from food additives and take action on ultra processed foods; how baby food manufacturers knowingly sold baby food with toxic heavy metals; the ways minority youth are targeted by soda manufacturers; the search for a solution to the superbug crisis and more.