Tony Leys

is a Des Moines, Iowa-based rural editor and correspondent for Kaiser Health News. Before joining KHN, he worked 33 years as a reporter and editor for The Des Moines Register, where he was the Register’s lead health care reporter for more than 20 years and served four terms as a board member for the Association of Health Care Journalists. He is an alum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.