Sheri Fink

Early life and education

Fink was born in Detroit. In 1990, Fink graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in psychology. Fink received a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1998 and an M.D. in 1999 from Stanford University.{{cite web

Fink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo{{cite news | last = Neeper| first = Shawnee| title = Suture or Shoot| magazine = Stanford Medicine | location = Stanford | date = 30 May 2010 | url = http://med.stanford.edu/community/models-mentors/sheri_fink.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806054630/http://med.stanford.edu/community/models-mentors/sheri_fink.html|archive-date=2010-08-06| accessdate = 21 February 2014 }} instead of attending her medical school graduation.

Career

After graduating from college, Fink became involved in humanitarian aid work in disaster and war zones with the International Medical Corps, including Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia, Macedonia and Mozambique. She also developed a career in journalism. Fink is a senior fellow with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, a senior Future Tense fellow at New America Foundation, and formerly, a staff reporter at ProPublica in New York. Her articles have appeared in 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. In 2007, she taught a course at Tulane University on "public health issues in crisis situations".{{Citation | author-link =Gerald Marzorati

In August 2009 Fink published The Deadly Choices at Memorial, an investigative piece, in the New York Times Magazine. The article, which distilled over two years of reporting, described the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in 2005.

Awards

In March 2010 The Deadly Choices at Memorial was awarded second place in the "Large Magazine" category of the Association of Health Care Journalists's (AHCJ) Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. The following month Fink was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the article.

The article also won a 2010 National Magazine Award for Reporting, and the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma given by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She was a finalist for the 2010 Michael Kelly Award.

Fink's 2013 book Five Days at Memorial, which expanded on her 2009 article, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2013), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2013), the Ridenhour Book Prize (2014), and PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award (2015).

Books

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

References

References

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4. (November 2012). "ProPublica — ProPublica".
5. Sheri Fink. (August 25, 2009). "The Deadly Choices at Memorial". New York Times Magazine.
6. "Contest Entries". [[Association of Health Care Journalists]].
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8. Fink, Sheri. (12 April 2010). "Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting: Deadly Choices at Memorial". ProPublica.
9. Andrew Van Dam. "Fink wins Dart award for Memorial story". Association of Health Care Journalists.
10. "Past Finalists - The Michael Kelly Award".
11. (January 14, 2014). "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle.
12. (March 13, 2014). "National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle.
13. (April 11, 2014). "2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners Announced".
14. (April 2, 2014). "The Ridenhour Book Prize". Ridenhour.org.
15. Carolyn Kellogg. (May 13, 2015). "PEN announces award-winners and shortlists". [[LA Times]].
16. (11 May 2015). "2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". pen.org.