Jennifer Rainey Marquez has been hired by Parade as senior editor. Marquez is responsible for managing for all health and medical coverage.

Marquez comes to Parade from O: The Oprah Magazine, where she was senior health editor in charge of conceiving and editing all health coverage. Prior to that, she was senior health editor for Women’s Health and Woman’s Day. She began her career as an editorial assistant at Mademoiselle.   

“Jennifer comes to us with an impressive wealth of experience in the field, along with an innate interest in the health issues that are most relevant to our 70 million weekly readers, ” says editorial director Maggie Murphy.  “We’re thrilled to have her on board.”

Marquez is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists and a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia.