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Kate Kuhn Woodbury, M.D. Memorial Lecture

Kate Kuhn Woodbury, M.D. Memorial Lecture 2010
Date To Be Determined
5:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Lecture

Chawla Auditorium
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

2010 Beneficiary: Clinical Cancer Research

Looking Back . . .

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© Joanne Chan 		Thursday, May 14, 2009
Guest Speaker: Pauline W. Chen, M.D., F.A.C.S.
5:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Lecture

Chawla Auditorium
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

Over 100 guests listened to speaker Pauline W. Chen, surgeon, author of the New York Times bestseller Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality, and an online columnist for the New York Times, on May 14, 2009 in the Chawla Auditorium.

In addition to giving many guests an opportunity to revisit with Dr. Chen, an alum from Loomis Chaffee, guests listened as Dr. Chen spoke on “Our Best Selves – One Surgeon’s Reflections on Compassionate Care. Dr. Chen discussed the challenges for families and health care providers and how we might all define and find our best selves.

Proceeds from his lecture also benefited clinical cancer research, to honor the memory of Kate Kuhn Woodbury.


Picture from Lecture of Guest Speaker



2009 Guest Speaker: Pauline W.Chen

Pauline W. Chen graduated from Harvard University and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), and UCLA, where she was most recently faculty. While at Yale, she was the recipient of the Betsy Winters House Staff Teaching award and the George Longstreth Humanness Award for “most exemplifying empathy, kindness, and care in an age of advancing technology.” In 1999, she was named the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year.


Her first nationally published piece, “Dead Enough? The Paradox of Brain Death,” appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and was a finalist for a 2006 National Magazine Award. She was also the 2005 co-winner of the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2002 Kirkwood Prize for Fiction.

Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality (Alfred A. Knopf, January 2007) is her first book