Sunita Puri is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Southern California. She is the physician lead for Palliative Medicine at the USC-Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center, where she serves as attending physician on the Palliative Medicine & Supportive Care Services. She completed her undergraduate studies at Yale University, and received a Rhodes Scholarship to study History of Medicine at Oxford University. She then went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. She was a finalist for the highly competitive 2015 PEN Center’s Emerging Voices Fellowship and was accepted to the 2016 Aspen Words Literary Conference to study memoir with Darin Strauss. She has published essays in The New York Times, Slate, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and JAMA-Internal Medicine. She lives in Los Angeles. |
