Theresa Brown, Nurse and best selling Author

Theresa Brown, RN is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Shift and Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient. She has been a contributor to the New York Times, CNN.com, the American Journal of Nursing, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has been a guest on MSNBC Live and NPR’s Fresh Air. Her first book was Critical Care, and during what she calls her past life, she received a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. She lectures nationally and internationally on issues related to nursing, health care, and end of life.