Paul Kalanithi, MD, has passed away at the age of 37 years, according to a NBC Bay Area report.
Dr. Kalanthi, a neurosurgeon, died from lung cancer. He earned his medical degree at New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine, where he won the Lewis H. Nahum Prize for outstanding research. He completed his residency training in neurological surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. His reflections on facing terminal illness were published in The New York Times and The Paris Review Daily.
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