Auteur: Cathy Breitenbucher

Cathy Breitenbucher is a Milwaukee-based writer who has focused on medicine, health and fitness topics for the past 15 years. Her interest in medicine traces back to dinner table conversations with her parents, a nurse and a laboratory technician. A native Iowan and graduate of the University of Iowa”s School of Journalism, Cathy enjoyed a thirteen-year career as a full-time newspaper sportswriter, highlighted by covering the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988. Since 1992, she has worked as a freelance writer for publications that included People magazine, USA Today, The Washington Post and several Milwaukee-area magazines and newspapers. This is her third book. An avid long-distance runner and cancer survivor, Cathy lives in the Milwaukee area with her husband and daughter.