Author Event | Theresa Brown, RN: Healing When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

When

Tuesday June 28, 2022: 6:30pm to 7:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

Description

This event will be livestreamed. Check this page at the event start time for the video.

Theresa Brown, RN, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shift, discusses her new book Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient, which tells a poignant and powerful story about having breast cancer in the United States. For this event, Theresa Brown will be in conversation with 

Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN, is a nurse and writer who lives in Pittsburgh. Her third book--Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient--will be available April 2022. It explores her diagnosis of and treatment for breast cancer in the context of her own nursing work. Her book, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives, was a New York Times Bestseller.

Christopher R. Friese is a practicing oncology nurse and the Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing, Health Management & Policy at the University of Michigan. He leads nationally-recognized investigations of the quality and safety of cancer care, and generates health policy strategies to protect patients and the health care workforce. He served as a health policy fellow in the United States Senate from 2016-2017. He has authored over 100 publications, including pieces in The New England Journal of Medicine. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, President Biden appointed him to a six-year term on the National Cancer Advisory Board.
 

This event is in partnership with Literati Bookstore. It includes a signing with books for sale.