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laurel braitman
Laurel Braitman PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and
anthropologist of science. She is the first Writer-in-Residence and the
Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Medicine & the Muse Program
at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she is helping medical
students and physicians communicate more meaningfully--for themselves
and their patients. She holds a PhD in Science, Technology and Society from
MIT, is a Senior TED Fellow and a 2019 National Geographic Explorer. Her
last book, Animal Madness, was a NYT bestseller and has been translated
into eight languages. Her next book House of the Heart, (forthcoming,
Simon & Schuster) is about growing up, mortality and how we might live
with the perspective of a terminal disease without the dire prognosis. Her
work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, Good Morning America and Al
Jazeera. Her stories have appeared in The Guardian, on Radiolab, in The
Wall Street Journal, Wired, National Geographic and other publications.
She is a Contributing Writer and frequently performs live for Pop Up
Magazine, and has taught interdisciplinary courses at Harvard, MIT, Stanford
School of Medicine and Smith College and she loves collaborating with
musicians, physicians, scientists engineers and artists-- helping them learn to
communicate better with the audiences that matter most.
Laurel splits her time between the remote Alaskan wilderness and Berkeley,
California with her partner and a few million wild salmon.
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