Danielle Ofri

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, DLitt (Hon), is the author of two collections of essays about life in medicine: Incidental Findings and Singular Intimacies (www.danielleofri.com). Ofri is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital/NYU School of Medicine. She is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review (www.BLReview.org). Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and on National Public Radio. Ofri lives in New York with her husband, three children, and exuberant black lab mutt in a singularly intimate Manhattan-sized apartment. She is currently writing a novel.