Sheri Lee Fink | |
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Born | Sheri Lee Fink |
Education | University of Michigan (BS) Stanford University (PhD, MD) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, Author |
Employer | The New York Times |
Known for | Investigative journalism |
Notable work | Five Days at Memorial, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, 2010 |
Website | www |
Sheri Fink is an American journalist who writes about health, medicine and science.
She received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina".[1] She was also a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.[2] Team members named by The Times were Pam Belluck, Helene Cooper, Fink, Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Onishi, Kevin Sack, and Ben C. Solomon.[3]
As of April 2014, Fink is a staff reporter for The New York Times.[4]