LLUs Center for Christian Bioethics to Host Pulitzer Prize Winner Sheri Fink M

Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, a Pulitzer Prize winner and medical journalist, will speak at Loma Linda University Health on her 2013 bestselling Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm Ravaged Hospital, which recounts the ethical choices made in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The event will take place Saturday, Dec. 5, from 3-5 p.m. at the Damazo Amphitheater, Loma Linda University, Centennial Complex. Fink is a correspondent at the New York Times, where her and her colleagues' stories on the West Africa Ebola crisis were recognized with the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the George Polk Award for health reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award. Her story "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," co‐published by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, received a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and a National Magazine Award for reporting. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Fink’s first book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs), is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Five Days at Memorial was the winner several national awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award.