Paul Kalanithi

Paul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an American neurosurgeon and writer. His book "When Breath Becomes Air" is a memoir about his life and illness, battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016.[1]

Kalanithi was born to Cardiologist Paul Kalanithi and his wife, Sue, on April 1, 1977 and lived in Westchester, New York. Kalanithi had two brothers.[2] The family moved to Kingman, Arizona when Kalanithi was 10, where he later graduated as the valedictorian of Kingman High School.[2]

He attended Stanford University and graduated with a bachelor of arts and an master's degree in English literature as well as a bachelor of science in human biology. After Stanford, he earned a master’s in the history and philosophy of science and medicine from the University of Cambridge. He went on to the Yale School of Medicine. He graduated from Yale Medicine in 2007 cum laude, winning the Lewis H. Nahum Prize for his research on Tourette’s syndrome.[3]

In May 2013, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic lung cancer.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Maslin, Janet. "Review: In ‘When Breath Becomes Air,’ Dr. Paul Kalanithi Confronts an Early Death". New York Times. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 Steele, Kim. "Obituary: Paul Kalanithi". Daily Miner. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Reisz, Matthew. "Paul Kalanithi, 1977-2015". Times Higher education. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Kalanithi, Paul. "My Last Day as a Surgeon". New Yorker. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Kalanithi, Paul. "Before I Go". Stanford Medicine Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Altered parvalbumin-positive neuron distribution in basal ganglia of individuals with Tourette syndrome". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
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