Lucy Kalanithi

Lucy Kalanithi is a clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and an advocate for culture change around health care value. Kalanithi has implemented novel health care delivery models in primary care, hospitals, and health systems and has served on leadership boards for TEDMED, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, and the American College of Physicians. She has appeared on stage at TEDMED; on NPR, PBS Newshour, and Yahoo News with Katie Couric; and in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Kalanithi is the widow of Paul Kalanithi, author of the memoir When Breath Becomes Air, for which she wrote the Epilogue. She is an honoree of Mass General Cancer Center’s “the one hundred.”