Kotulak is a Chicago Tribune science writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1994 for breakthrough reporting on early brain development. A past president of the National Association of Science Writers, Kotulak has won numerous national writing awards from groups that include the American Psychiatric Association, American Chemical Society, American Aging Association, American Medical Association, American Heart Association, and the National Mental Health Association. In 1995, Kotulak received the American Diabetes Association's C. Everett Koop Medal for Health Promoti...