Crystal Zuzek

Crystal Zuzek is an award-winning writer and editor with more than 20 years of experience. She’s skilled at taking complex health and wellness topics and breaking them down into easy-to-understand content. She started her freelance business in 2017, after working for the Texas Medical Association for a decade.
During her time at the Texas Medical Association, Zuzek worked on the editorial staff of Texas Medicine, a monthly magazine with a circulation made up of more than 50,000 physicians. She started out as a reporter, a position she held for seven years. During that time, she covered public health, business, and law, writing extensively about tort reform, the obesity epidemic, women’s health, medical liability, scope of practice, pill mills, Medicaid fraud, HIPAA, and telemedicine. In 2014, she got promoted to editor-in-chief of Texas Medicine. The experience allowed her to sharpen her research and interviewing skills while mastering the art of communicating with a medical professional audience.
Zuzek’s work as a freelance writer and editor focuses on health and wellness. Clients include Dell Inc., Austin Woman Magazine, Austin Home Magazine, Vitacost.com, Methodist Health System Dallas, Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, and Texas Hospital Association. Her work has been published in national publications, such as SELF and Reader’s Digest. She is the author of “Business Basics for Physicians,” a publication of the Texas Medical Association. She currently serves as the editor of Texas DO, a quarterly publication of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association.
Zuzek began her career as assistant editor of Family Tree Magazine, a special interest publication about genealogy. She then worked as a senior copy editor for a custom publishing company in Cincinnati, where she helped to create international guides to U.S. higher education. She made the move to Austin, Texas, in 2005, serving as assistant managing editor for the Austin Business Journal, overseeing the paper’s special reports section.
She’s a past vice president of freelance programming for Women Communicators of Austin and is a professional member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Zuzek holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree in the magazine sequence from the University of Missouri-Columbia.