Lucy Kalanithi, MD, FACP is the widow of Dr. Paul Kalanithi, neurosurgeon and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air, a meditation on mortality and meaning that spent 22 weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 2016. A Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Kalanithi completed her medical degree at Yale, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society, her residency at the University of California-San Francisco, and a postdoctoral fellowship training in healthcare delivery innovation at Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center. Dr. Kalanithi has special interests in healthcare value, meaning in medicine, and end-of-life care. She wrote the epilogue to When Breath Becomes Air, has spoken at TEDMED, and appeared in The New York

Dr. Kalanithi’s lecture “When Breath Becomes Air – A Conversation with Lucy Kalanithi” are the reflections on her experience as a spouse of a neurosurgeon who succumbed to lung cancer and hold some insights for us all, members and spouses alike.