Pauline W. Chen (born 1964), is a
Taiwanese-American
Taiwanese Americans ( Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人; pinyin: ''Táiwān yì měiguó rén''; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ''Tâi-Bí-jîn'') are Americans of Taiwanese ancestry, including American-born descendants of migrants from the Republic of China (Taiwan) ...
surgeon, author, and ''
New York Times
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'' columnist. She is known for her 2007 book ''
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality'' as well as her online column "Doctor and Patient". She is also the recipient of numerous awards including the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year Award in 1999 and the George Longstreth Humanness Award at Yale for most exemplifying empathy, kindness, and care in an age of advancing technology.
Early life and career
Chen's parents are immigrants from Taiwan.
Chen graduated from
The Loomis Chaffee School
The Loomis Chaffee School (; LC or Loomis) is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, including postgraduate students, located in Windsor, Connecticut, seven miles north of Hart ...
, then attended
Harvard University
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and the
Feinberg School of Medicine
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, formerly Northwestern Medical School from 1906 to 2002, is the medical school of Northwestern University and is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in ...
at
Northwestern University
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. She completed her general surgical training at
Yale University
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, the
National Cancer Institute
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, and
UCLA
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. She was appointed faculty at UCLA, specializing in liver and kidney transplants and the treatment of cancer.
References
External links
Doctor and Patient- Pauline Chen's column
Final Exam- excerpt from Pauline Chen's book
- Chinese American Medical Association
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1964 births
Living people
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
American people of Taiwanese descent
21st-century American surgeons
American women columnists
American women journalists of Asian descent
American women non-fiction writers
American women physicians
American women writers of Chinese descent
Feinberg School of Medicine alumni
Harvard University alumni
Loomis Chaffee School alumni
The New York Times columnists
American women surgeons
Northwestern University alumni