Ceci Connolly is a nationally known healthcare consultant, speaker, author and conference facilitator. She specializes in guiding corporations and foundations through the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and translating its implications for the $2.5 trillion healthcare industry. She is an expert on communications, leadership coaching, crisis management and the Washington regulatory process. 

Ceci is a board member for the non-profit Whitman Walker Health, and is the first non-physician to receive the Mayo Clinic's prestigious Plummer Society Award for promoting deeper understanding of science and medicine. Ceci has served as a judge in the International Health Promotion Awards Program (Rome) and the National Institute for Health Care Management journalism contest.

She enjoyed a successful 25-year career in journalism, covering five presidential campaigns, reporting on national politics, healthcare, Latin America and natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. As The Washington Post's chief health policy correspondent, she chronicled the long battle over President Obama's sweeping healthcare legislation. She is co-author of “LANDMARK: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All” and a contributing author to the upcoming book, "Antidote: Strategies for Containing America's Runaway Health Care Costs." She was also a major contributor to the book "Deadlock: The Inside Story of America's Closest Election."

In summer 2001, Ceci was named national health policy correspondent for the Post, producing articles on bioterrorism, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, skyrocketing medical bills, physician-assisted suicide, stem cells and the Terri Schiavo case. She also spent more than two years based in Mexico City, traveling extensively throughout Latin America and writing Campaign Conexion, a popular blog about Mexico's 2006 presidential race, on washingtonpost.com. She produced a multimedia project on HIV-AIDS along the U.S.-Mexico border, and wrote a magazine series for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examining the links between socioeconomic factors and health.