Julio Ochoa
Julio Ochoa is editor of Health News Florida.
He comes to WUSF from The Tampa Tribune, where he began as a website producer for TBO.com and served in several editing roles, eventually becoming the newspaper’s deputy metro editor.
Julio was born and raised in St. Petersburg, and received a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and worked at a paper in Greeley, Colo., before returning to Florida as a reporter and as breaking news editor for the Naples Daily News.
Contact Julio at 813-974-8633, on Twitter at @julioochoa or email julioochoa@wusf.org.
-
Florida's largest medical marijuana licensee has settled a lawsuit with the state over how many dispensaries it can open. -
Proposed changes to some Medicare prescription drug plans are causing concern among patients with serious health conditions. -
Florida's prisons have a health care problem. The state's aging prison population and the high cost of treating inmates with debilitating diseases are... -
The University of South Florida Board of Trustees have selected Steven Currall as the next System president.
-
Former Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam H. Putnam has been named CEO of the conservation group Ducks Unlimited. -
Authorities in Fort Myers say they're trying to find out who knocked down a controversial bust of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. -
39 Florida hospitals will get less money from Medicare this year because their patients had high rates of infections or other complications. -
A health plan that provides care to low-income Hillsborough County residents is expanding to serve more people. -
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital will continue to get federal funding after regulators said Friday that the St. Petersburg hospital made required... -
Lawmakers are considering legislation this year that would provide more oversight of the state’s pediatric heart surgery centers.
