UW-Madison alum Kathleen Gallagher received a Pulitzer Prize Monday for a report on doctors' diagnosis of a young boy's previously unknown disease.
Gallagher and her team of four other journalists from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailed physicians' work in a series of videos, graphics, photos and stories.
Gallagher's report focused on doctors at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin who conducted tests and analyzed Volker's DNA to find a diagnosis.
The Pulitzer judges called the series a ""lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease.""
Four-year-old Nicholas Volker suffers from an unknown disease that caused deterioration of his digestive system.
Gallagher graduated in 1981 from the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism. She now works as a business reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covering investments and Wisconsin's life sciences.
