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Died 9 March 2015, Palo Alto, California, United States Spouse Lucy Goddard Kalanithi (m. 2006–2015) Parents Sujatha Kalanithi, A. Paul Kalanithi Siblings Jeevan Kalanithi, Suman Kalanithi Similar Abraham Verghese, Atul Gawande, Lucy Goddard Kalanithi, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Henry Marsh | ||
Paul kalanithi a neurosurgeon s memoirs
Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016. It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks.
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- Paul kalanithi a neurosurgeon s memoirs
- When breath becomes air by paul kalanithi trailer
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
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Early life and education
Paul Kalanithi was born on April 1, 1977 and lived in Westchester, New York. He was born to a Catholic family hailing from the sate of Tamil Nadu, India. Kalanithi had two brothers, Jeevan and Suman; Jeevan is a computer/robotics engineer and Suman is a vascular surgeon. The family moved from Bronxville, New York to Kingman, Arizona when Kalanithi was 10. Kalanithi attended Kingman High School, where he graduated as valedictorian.
Kalanithi attended Stanford University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English Literature and a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology in 2000. After Stanford, he attended the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Although he initially considered pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature, Kalanithi then attended the Yale School of Medicine, where he graduated in 2007 cum laude, winning the Dr. Louis H. Nahum Prize for his research on Tourette’s syndrome. He was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society.
At Yale, Kalanithi met Lucy Goddard, who would become his future wife.
Career
After graduating from medical school, Kalanithi returned to Stanford to complete his residency training in neurosurgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine.
In May 2013, Kalanithi was diagnosed with metastatic stage IV non-small-cell EGFR-positive lung cancer. Paul died, aged 37, in March, 2015.
Personal life
Kalanithi was married to Lucy (née Goddard), with whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth Acadia ("Cady"). Lucy is an internist at Stanford University School of Medicine's Clinical Excellence Research Center and wrote the epilogue to When Breath Becomes Air.
Although Kalanithi was raised in a devout Christian family, he turned away from the faith in his teens and twenties in favour of science. However, he retained "the central values of Christianity — sacrifice, redemption, forgiveness" and returned to the faith later in his life.