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Katie Couric Interviews Pulitizer-Prize Winner and Physician Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University; Cancer Physician, CU/NY Presbyterian Hospital; Author, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer in conversation with Katie Couric, Special Correspondent, ABC News; Host, ABC's Katie (September 2012)
Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee
David Agus on "The End of Illness."
David Agus is a professor of medicine and engineering at the USC Keck School of Medicine and heads USC’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He discusses his book The End of Illness (Free Press).About the book...
Cancer, Health
2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners at the Aspen Institute
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today. Among them are two authors who spoke at the Aspen Institute this past year: Siddhartha Mukherjee and Kay Ryan. Dr.
Cancer, Kay Ryan, Nonfiction, poetry, Pulitzer Prize, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Looking into the history and treatment of cancer
Cancer Physician and Author Siddhartha Mukherjee spoke at the Institute recently about his book The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. In the book, he chronicles the history of cancer, chemotherapy and oncologists. Here, he talks about the first patient to undergo chemotherapy and how his story served as an inspiration for his new book.
Cancer
CGI 2010: Cancer, the Developing World’s ‘Time Bomb’
Of all the pressing issues confronting the developing world, cancer gets comparatively short shrift.
Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, Cancer, CGI, Clinton Global Initiative, Developing World, Felicia Knaul, Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Partners In Health, Paul Farmer, Princess Dina Mired, VaccineNewsDaily