Danielle Ofri M.D., Ph.D.

Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and an internist at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country. She is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Her newest book, Medicine in Translation: Journeys with my Patients--is about the experience of immigrants and Americans in the U.S. health care system.

She is the author of two collections of essays about life in medicine: Incidental Findings: Lessons from my Patients in the Art of Medicine and Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue. She also edited the anthology The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review.

Danielle Ofri's writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and on National Public Radio. She is the recipient of the Missouri Review Editor's Prize for her essay Merced, which was selected by Stephen Jay Gould for Best American Essays 2002. Her essay Common Ground was selected by Oliver Sacks for Best American Science Writing 2003. A third essay, Living Will, was selected by Susan Orlean for Best American Essays 2005. She is the recipient of the 2005 John P. McGovern Award, given annually by the American Medical Writers Association for "preeminent contributions to medical communication." Danielle Ofri was Associate Chief Editor of The Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine, which was awarded Best Medical Textbook of 2001 by the American Medical Writers Association.

Danielle Ofri is currently working on a set of essays about medicine, while several unfinished novels in various states of disrepair gather prime New-York-City dust under her bed. Ofri lives with her husband, three children, cello, and black-lab mutt in a singularly intimate Manhattan-sized apartment.

For book club information or to book Dr. Ofri as a speaker, please see www.danielleofri.com