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Sheri Fink is an American journalist who writes about health, medicine and science. She received 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". She was also a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. Team members named by The Times were Pam Belluck, Helene Cooper, Fink, Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Onishi, Kevin Sack, and Ben C. Solomon. As of April 2014, Fink is a staff reporter for The New York Times. 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. Fink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo 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". She was a 2007–2008 Kaiser Media Fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation. 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. ISBN 9780307718969 Fink, Sheri. War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival, First edition, New York: Public Affairs, 2003. ISBN 9781586482671 References External links Official website Pulitzer Prize-winning articles on Ebola, at New York Times Appearances on C-SPAN journalist's Twitter. Discover the Sheri Fink popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sheri Fink books.
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The Little Rose
Sheri Fink & Mary Erikson WashamThe Little Rose is a timeless, heartwarming story about embracing who you really are. Finely detailed, irresistible illustrations bring to life this endearing story of the Little R...
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Exploring the Garden with the Little Rose
Sheri Fink & Mary Erikson WashamExploring the Garden with the Little Rose is based on the #1 bestselling book, The Little Rose, and takes children on an educational adventure! Your little one will have fun learni...
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The Little Firefly
Sheri Fink & Mary Erikson WashamThe Little Firefly is an enchanting tale about a lateblooming firefly who can't wait to be all grown up. When all the other fireflies are glowing except for the Little Firefly, she...
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The Little Seahorse
Sheri FinkThe bashful Little Seahorse discovers a mysterious object during his adventures and has to learn to speak up for himself and ask for help in order to bring his mother this amazing ...
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Cake in Bed
Sheri FinkThirtysomething divorcee Julie has everything going for her. An exciting career. Friends who adore her. Everything but the thing she desires most: everlasting, romantic love. After...
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The Little Gnome
Sheri Fink & Mary Erikson WashamSet in a Victorian garden, The Little Gnome is a heartwarming tale about an adorable garden gnome experiencing the wonder of the four seasons for the first time. When summer ...