Dr. Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, will speak on healthcare crises at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.
Five Days at Memorial is the culmination of six years of reporting by Fink, who details what happened in the days following Hurricane Katrina by taking the reader into a hospital fighting for its life.
Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2013 by the New York Times, Five Days at Memorial also won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ridenhour Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Fink’s reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award.
Fink’s first book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival focuses on medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
She received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and was a former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones.
Sponsored by the W. Harold Row Lecture Series, the program is free and open to the public.
Bridgewater College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Founded in 1880, it was the state’s first private, coeducational college. Today, Bridgewater College is home to more than 1,800 undergraduate students.
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