Sheri Fink

Dr. Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for her investigative reporting on health care and humanitarian crises. Her acclaimed book "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital" chronicles the life-and-death decisions made by medical staff at a New Orleans hospital following Hurricane Katrina. The work became a New York Times bestseller and earned numerous honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. Fink's first book, "War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival," documented medical professionals working under siege during the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

A physician and former relief worker in disaster zones, Fink combines medical expertise with investigative journalism to explore ethical dilemmas in crisis situations. Her groundbreaking ProPublica and New York Times Magazine article "The Deadly Choices at Memorial" won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and a National Magazine Award. As a correspondent for The New York Times, Fink contributed to Ebola crisis coverage that earned the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Her work has been recognized with multiple prestigious awards, including the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award and the George Polk Award for health reporting. Fink holds both an M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.