Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi was an American neurosurgeon and writer.
10 Facts About Paul Kalanithi
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Paul Kalanithi's book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness with stage IV metastatic lung cancer.
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Paul Kalanithi was born on April 1,1977, and lived in Westchester, New York.
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Paul Kalanithi was born to a Christian family hailing from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Paul Kalanithi attended Kingman High School, where he graduated as valedictorian.
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Paul Kalanithi attended Stanford University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature and a Bachelor of Arts in human biology in 2000.
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Paul Kalanithi was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society.
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At Yale, Paul Kalanithi met fellow medical student Lucy Goddard, who would become his wife.
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In May 2013, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with metastatic stage IV non-small-cell EGFR-positive lung cancer.
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Paul Kalanithi was married to Lucy, with whom he had a daughter in 2014, Elizabeth Acadia.