Abraham Verghese

Underwritten by OcuSight Eye Care Center
March 22, 2012

Abraham Verghese, MD, is a practicing doctor and the author of the enormously popular and internationally bestselling novel, Cutting for Stone, which has been a runaway smash hit. He is Senior Associate Chair and Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases and infectious diseases, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine. His first book, My Own Country, about AIDS in rural Tennessee, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1994 and was made into a movie by Mira Nair. His second book, The Tennis Partner, was a New York Times notable book and a national bestseller. He has published extensively in the medical literature, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

photo by:Joanne Chan

Back to the current season