Sheri Fink

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Sheri Fink is an American physician, journalist, and a reporter on subjects covering health, medicine and science.

Education

A 1990 graduate of the University of Michigan, she received Ph.D. and M.D. from Stanford University in 1998 and 1999.[1]

Career

Dr Fink is a senior fellow with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a staff reporter at ProPublica in New York.[1]

Her articles have appeared in a number of high profiled publications such as the New York Times, Discover and Scientific American.

She has contributed to the public radio news magazine Public Radio International (PRI)’s The World covering a number of topics including the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and international aid in development, conflict and disaster settings.[2]

Awards

On April 12, 2010, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for an article published by ProPublica website. The winning article was about the deadly choices faced at one New Orleans hospital during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The article was published in the New York Times Magazine and on ProPublica.org.[3] The article also made her a finalist for the 2010 Michael Kelly Award. She also won a 2010 National Magazine Award for Reporting for the article.

Five Days at Memorial was shortlisted for 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction).[4][5]

Books

  • Fink, Sheri. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, First edition, New York : Crown Publishers, 2013. ISBN 9780307718969
  • Fink, Sheri. "War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival", First edition, New York: Public Affairs, 2013. ISBN 9781586482671

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dr. Sheri Fink from Harvard Humanitarian Institute's website (accessed April 13, 2010)"
  2. ↑ "Author - Sheri Fink in ProPublica.org (accessed April 13, 2010)"
  3. ↑ "Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting: Deadly Choices at Memorial in ProPublica.org (accessed April 13, 2010)"
  4. ↑ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved January 14, 2014. 
  5. ↑ Admin (January 14, 2014). "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved January 14, 2014. 


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