Stanford Internist To Speak About Health At Burlingame Library

PALO ALTO, CA — The widow of Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of the best-selling memoir "When Breath Becomes Air," will appear in Burlingame in September as part of the local library's Speaker Series.

Tickets to the event go on sale next week.

Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, an internist at the Stanford School of Medicine in Palo Alto and an advocate for culture change around end-of-life care, will discuss the book and its themes of loss, hope, coping, navigating the healthcare system and the power of literature.

Paul Kalanithi's book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and translated into more than 40 languages; Lucy Kalanithi wrote the epilogue.

She will be at the Burlingame Public Library, 480 Primrose Road, on Sept. 15 at 5 p.m., along with novelist and book critic Susanne Pari, as part of the series sponsored by the Burlingame Library Foundation.

Tickets are only available online at BurlingameLibraryFoundation.org. A limited number of VIP tickets at $95 will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 19, and general admission tickets at $35 will be offered at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 26.

The VIP tickets include admission to a private reception with Kalanithi and Pari at 5 p.m. and early access to seating. General admission tickets are for the event at 6 p.m.

Lucy Kalanithi is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine and the University of California-San Francisco's Internal Medicine Residency. "She has implemented novel delivery models of care across primary care, hospitals and health systems, including as a postdoctoral fellow in healthcare delivery innovation at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center," according to event organizers.

Pari is a novelist and author of "the Fortune Catcher," and whose essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco
Chronicle, NPR and Medium.

Founded in 1995, the Burlingame Library Foundation is a nonprofit that raises funds to augment the services provided by Burlingame's main library and Easton branch library. The Speaker Series, started in 2018, features innovators, experts and original voices in the arts, current affairs, science and technology, the organization said.