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)
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.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. He discusses his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (November 16, 2010; Scribner).