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Sheri Fink

Sheri Finkis an American journalist who writes about health, medicine and science.

Sheri Lee Fink
Fink, 2016
Born
Sheri Lee Fink

Detroit,Michigan,U.S.
EducationUniversity of Michigan(BS)
Stanford University(PhD,MD)
Occupation(s)Journalist,Author
EmployerThe New York Times
Known forInvestigative journalism
Notable workFive Days at Memorial,War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting,2010
Websitewww.sherifink.netEdit this at Wikidata

She received the 2010Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting"for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina".[1]She was also a member ofThe New York Timesreporting team that received the 2015Pulitzer Prize for International Reportingfor coverage of the 2014Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.[2] Team members named by The Times werePam Belluck,Helene Cooper,Fink, Adam Nossiter,Norimitsu Onishi,Kevin Sack,and Ben C. Solomon.[3]

As of April 2014, Fink is a staff reporter forThe New York Times.[4]

Early life and education

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Fink was born inDetroit.In 1990, Fink graduated from theUniversity of Michiganwith a degree in psychology.[5]Fink received a Ph.D. inNeurosciencein 1998 and an M.D. in 1999 fromStanford University.[6]

Fink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo[7]instead of attending her medical school graduation.

Career

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After graduating from college, Fink became involved in humanitarian aid work in disaster and war zones with theInternational Medical Corps,includingKosovo,Iraq,Bosnia,MacedoniaandMozambique.[7]She also developed a career in journalism.[7]Fink is a senior fellow with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, a senior Future Tense fellow atNew America Foundation,and formerly, a staff reporter atProPublicain New York.[6]Her articles have appeared in publications such as theNew York Times,DiscoverandScientific American.

Fink has contributed to the public radio news magazinePublic Radio International (PRI)'sThe Worldcovering a number of topics including the globalHIV/AIDSpandemicand internationalaid in development,conflict and disaster settings.[8]In 2007, she taught a course atTulane Universityon "public health issues in crisis situations".[9]She was a 2007–2008 Kaiser Media Fellow with theKaiser Family Foundation.[6]

In August 2009 Fink publishedThe Deadly Choices at Memorial,an investigative piece, in theNew York Times Magazine.[10]The article, which distilled over two years of reporting, described the aftermath ofHurricane KatrinaatMemorial Medical CenterinNew Orleansin 2005.[11]

Awards

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Sheri Fink in 2016 at theEdmond J. SafraCenter for Ethics at Harvard University

In March 2010The Deadly Choices at Memorialwas awarded second place in the "Large Magazine" category of theAssociation of Health Care Journalists's (AHCJ) Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism.[12]The following month Fink was awarded aPulitzer Prize for Investigative Reportingfor the article.[13]

The article also won a 2010National Magazine Award for Reporting,and the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma given by theDart Center for Journalism and Traumaat theColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[14]She was a finalist for the 2010Michael KellyAward.[15]

Fink's 2013 bookFive Days at Memorial,which expanded on her 2009 article, won theNational Book Critics Circle Awardfor Nonfiction (2013),[16][17]theLos Angeles Times Book Prizefor Current Interest (2013),[18]theRidenhour Book Prize(2014),[19]andPEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award(2015).[20][21]

Books

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  • Fink, Sheri.Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital,First edition, New York: Crown Publishers, 2013.ISBN9780307718969
  • Fink, Sheri.War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival,First edition, New York: Public Affairs, 2003.ISBN9781586482671

References

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  1. ^"The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting".The Pulitzer Prizes.2010.RetrievedFebruary 21,2014.
  2. ^"2015 Pulitzer Prizes".www.pulitzer.org.
  3. ^Times, The New York (20 April 2015)."2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music"– via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^Sullivan, Margaret (January 11, 2014)."The Times, From the Top: Looking Ahead".New York Times.RetrievedFebruary 22,2014.
  5. ^Fink, Sheri (29 Oct 2013)."NYT Op-Ed by Sheri L. Fink, '90 BS Psychology, on the Lessons of Storms Katrina and Sandy".Ann Arbor: LSA University of Michigan Department of Psychology.Retrieved22 February2014.
  6. ^abc"Sheri Fink, MD, PhD".Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.Harvard University.2013.RetrievedFebruary 22,2014.
  7. ^abcNeeper, Shawnee (30 May 2010)."Suture or Shoot".Stanford Medicine.Stanford. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-08-06.Retrieved21 February2014.
  8. ^"ProPublica — ProPublica".ProPublica.November 2012.
  9. ^Marzorati, Gerald(August 27, 2009),"Editor's Letter",New York Times,retrievedFebruary 22,2014
  10. ^Sheri Fink (August 25, 2009)."The Deadly Choices at Memorial".New York Times Magazine.RetrievedFebruary 22,2014.
  11. ^"Contest Entries".Association of Health Care Journalists.RetrievedFebruary 22,2014.
  12. ^"2009 winners named in health journalism awards".Association of Health Care Journalists. March 21, 2010.RetrievedFebruary 22,2014.
  13. ^Fink, Sheri (12 April 2010)."Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting: Deadly Choices at Memorial".propublica.org.ProPublica.Retrieved22 February2014.
  14. ^Andrew Van Dam."Fink wins Dart award for Memorial story".Association of Health Care Journalists.RetrievedFebruary 22,2014.
  15. ^"Past Finalists - The Michael Kelly Award".Retrieved23 February2014.
  16. ^"Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013".National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon January 15, 2014.RetrievedJanuary 14,2014.
  17. ^"National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2013".National Book Critics Circle. March 13, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon March 14, 2014.RetrievedMarch 13,2014.
  18. ^"2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners Announced".Los Angeles Times.April 11, 2014.RetrievedApril 13,2014.
  19. ^"The Ridenhour Book Prize".Ridenhour.org. April 2, 2014.RetrievedApril 2,2014.
  20. ^Carolyn Kellogg (May 13, 2015)."PEN announces award-winners and shortlists".LA Times.RetrievedMay 14,2015.
  21. ^"2015 PEN Literary Award Winners".pen.org.11 May 2015.RetrievedMay 14,2015.
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