![](https://journalists.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Rick-Berke-e1661956252999-1.jpg?w=300&h=300&crop=1)
Rick Berke is the co-founder and executive editor of STAT. He moved to Boston in early 2015 as STAT’s Employee #1, charged with assembling a world-class staff to cover health, medicine, and the life sciences. Previously he was with The New York Times, where he had spent most of his career.