Sheri Fink
Sheri Fink | |
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| Alma mater | University of Michigan (B.S.) Stanford University (Ph.D.) (M.D.) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Sheri Fink is an American journalist, reporting on subjects covering health, medicine and science. She is the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer 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]
Education
In 1990, Fink graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in psychology.[2] Fink received a Doctorate in Neuroscience in 1998 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1999 from Stanford University.[3]
Fink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo instead of attending her medical school graduation. [4]
Career
After graduating medical school, Fink became involved in humanitarian aid work in numerous disaster and conflict zones, and also developed a career in journalism.[4] Fink is a senior fellow with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a staff reporter at ProPublica in New York.[3] Her articles have appeared in a number of publications such as the New York Times, Discover and Scientific American.
Fink 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.[5]
Awards
On April 12, 2010, Fink 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.[6] 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).[7][8]
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
- ^ "The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
- ^ Fink, Sheri (29 Oct 2013). "NYT OPED BY SHERI L. FINK, '90, BS". LSA PSYCHOLOGY, The. Ann Arbor. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Dr. Sheri Fink from Harvard Humanitarian Institute's website (accessed April 13, 2010)"
- ^ a b Neeper, Shawnee (30 May 2010). "Suture or Shoot". Stanford Medicine. Stanford. Retrieved 21 February 2014. Cite error: The named reference "SUTURE OR SHOOT" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Author - Sheri Fink in ProPublica.org (accessed April 13, 2010)"
- ^ Fink, Sheri. "Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting: Deadly Choices at Memorial". propublica.org. ProPublica. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ Admin (January 14, 2014). "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved January 14, 2014.