Visiting Artists
Sheri Fink
At Stanford: April 2012
Hosted at Stanford by: Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program
Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is the keynote presenter at the annual Medicine and the Muse Symposium.
About Sheri Fink
Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is the keynote speaker at the 2012 Medicine and the Muse: An Arts, Humanities, and Medicine Symposium at the Stanford School of Medicine. Fink has reported on health, medicine and science in the U.S. and from every continent except Antarctica. She was a frequent contributor to the public radio newsmagazine PRI’s “The World,” covering the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and international aid in development, conflict and disaster settings. Her articles have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Discover and Scientific American.
Fink's book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), won the American Medical Writer's Association special book award and was a finalist for the Overseas Press Club and PEN Martha Albrand awards. Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford, and worked with humanitarian aid organizations in more than a half dozen emergencies in the U.S. and overseas. She has taught at Harvard, Tulane and the New School. Most recently Fink was the recipient of a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health from the Kaiser Family Foundation and she is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Her story "The Deadly Choices at Memorial" was a winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting.
