Jamie Zimmerman, a medical doctor and reporter with ABC News' medical unit, has drowned while on vacation in Hawaii, according to The Associated Press. She was 31.
Zimmerman apparently lost her footing while trying to cross the Lumahai River on Kauai's north shore and was swept out to sea, ABC News President James Goldston said in a memo to staff Thursday.
"Jamie touched so many of us across ABC News," Goldston said. "We will miss her."
She died Monday, according to a note written by Zimmerman's mother, Jordan, on the doctor's Facebook page.
"My little girl was always trying to do too much," she wrote. "She wanted to write books and already had a literary agent. She just couldn't stop taking on more. It's as if she knew her time was limited and she was trying to fit it all in!"
Zimmerman researched stories for ABC's medical unit and also offered meditation sessions for ABC News staff in New York, Goldston said. She traveled in Haiti and the Amazon rain forest, and made a documentary film on Congolese refugee camps.
In addition to her work with ABC, Zimmerman also contributed to the Huffington Post, Yahoo News and PBS. According to a biography on her website, she performed on TV shows such as "7th Heaven" and "Boston Public" as a teenager.
Her last Facebook post updated her profile with a smiling picture taken with Kauai's north shore in the background.
Zimmerman apparently lost her footing while trying to cross the Lumahai River on Kauai's north shore and was swept out to sea, ABC News President James Goldston said in a memo to staff Thursday.
"Jamie touched so many of us across ABC News," Goldston said. "We will miss her."
She died Monday, according to a note written by Zimmerman's mother, Jordan, on the doctor's Facebook page.
"My little girl was always trying to do too much," she wrote. "She wanted to write books and already had a literary agent. She just couldn't stop taking on more. It's as if she knew her time was limited and she was trying to fit it all in!"
Zimmerman researched stories for ABC's medical unit and also offered meditation sessions for ABC News staff in New York, Goldston said. She traveled in Haiti and the Amazon rain forest, and made a documentary film on Congolese refugee camps.
In addition to her work with ABC, Zimmerman also contributed to the Huffington Post, Yahoo News and PBS. According to a biography on her website, she performed on TV shows such as "7th Heaven" and "Boston Public" as a teenager.
Her last Facebook post updated her profile with a smiling picture taken with Kauai's north shore in the background.
Jamie Zimmerman, a medical doctor and reporter with ABC News' medical unit, has drowned while on vacation in Hawaii, according to The Associated Press. She was 31.
Zimmerman apparently lost her footing while trying to cross the Lumahai River on Kauai's north shore and was swept out to sea, ABC News President James Goldston said in a memo to staff Thursday.
"Jamie touched so many of us across ABC News," Goldston said. "We will miss her."
She died Monday, according to a note written by Zimmerman's mother, Jordan, on the doctor's Facebook page.
"My little girl was always trying to do too much," she wrote. "She wanted to write books and already had a literary agent. She just couldn't stop taking on more. It's as if she knew her time was limited and she was trying to fit it all in!"
Zimmerman researched stories for ABC's medical unit and also offered meditation sessions for ABC News staff in New York, Goldston said. She traveled in Haiti and the Amazon rain forest, and made a documentary film on Congolese refugee camps.
In addition to her work with ABC, Zimmerman also contributed to the Huffington Post, Yahoo News and PBS. According to a biography on her website, she performed on TV shows such as "7th Heaven" and "Boston Public" as a teenager.
Her last Facebook post updated her profile with a smiling picture taken with Kauai's north shore in the background.
Zimmerman apparently lost her footing while trying to cross the Lumahai River on Kauai's north shore and was swept out to sea, ABC News President James Goldston said in a memo to staff Thursday.
"Jamie touched so many of us across ABC News," Goldston said. "We will miss her."
She died Monday, according to a note written by Zimmerman's mother, Jordan, on the doctor's Facebook page.
"My little girl was always trying to do too much," she wrote. "She wanted to write books and already had a literary agent. She just couldn't stop taking on more. It's as if she knew her time was limited and she was trying to fit it all in!"
Zimmerman researched stories for ABC's medical unit and also offered meditation sessions for ABC News staff in New York, Goldston said. She traveled in Haiti and the Amazon rain forest, and made a documentary film on Congolese refugee camps.
In addition to her work with ABC, Zimmerman also contributed to the Huffington Post, Yahoo News and PBS. According to a biography on her website, she performed on TV shows such as "7th Heaven" and "Boston Public" as a teenager.
Her last Facebook post updated her profile with a smiling picture taken with Kauai's north shore in the background.
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