Name Sayantani DasGupta | Role Author | |
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Fields Narrative medicine and Public health Institutions Sarah Lawrence College
Columbia University Books Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor Alma mater Brown University, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Institution Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University | ||
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Sayantani DasGupta (Bengali : সায়ন্তনী দাশগুপ্ত, born 1970) is an American physician and author of Indian heritage. She grew up in Ohio and New Jersey and completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University. She obtained her M.D and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
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Academia
Trained originally in pediatrics and public health, Sayantani now teaches in the Master's Program in Narrative medicine at Columbia University and the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a nationally recognized speaker on issues of gender, race, storytelling, and medical education, and has been featured on the cover of Ms., in O, The Oprah Magazine, in documentary films and other media outlets. She is an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.
Publications
Sayantani has been published widely in academic and literary outlets, and journals including JAMA, The Lancet, Ms., Literary Mama Magazine, and Hunger Mountain. She has written extensively with her activist mother, Shamita Das Dasgupta, on mother-daughter experiences. She is the co-author of a book on Bengali folktales, author of a memoir about her education at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and co-editor of an award winning collection of women's illness narratives. Her debut middle-grade novel, Kiranmala and the Kingdom of Serpents and its sequel will be published by Scholastic with publication to begin in early2018.