Announcement from Well+Being Editor Tara Parker Pope:
I’m thrilled to denote that Dr. Shirlene Obuobi, a cardiologist, cartoonist and author, volition beryllium joining the Well+Being table of the Washington Post arsenic a regular contributor.
Shirlene volition constitute a monthly file astir navigating the aesculapian strategy and make an accompanying comic panel, offering a down the scenes look astatine the challenges faced by some doctors and patients.
Shirlene brings an antithetic operation of cognition and skills to the Well+Being desk. She is simply a second-year cardiology chap astatine University of Chicago aesculapian center. She began drafting comics successful 2016 to chronicle her experiences arsenic a aesculapian pupil astatine the university’s Pritzker School of Medicine.
Her comics, which person focused connected the challenges of being a Ghanaian-American pistillate successful medicine and the challenges of aesculapian school, person gained astir 38,000 followers connected her Instagram account. Her comics person been featured successful UChicago Medicine, Proto Magazine and the Medical University of Vienna’s Art, Action, Attitude/Body exhibit.
In July, Shirlene published a novel, “On Rotation,” astir a Ghanaian-American aesculapian student. The publication was a Marie Claire publication nine prime and featured successful Teen Vogue, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Boston.com and The Washington Post.
Shirlene grew up successful Chicago, Hot Springs, Ark. and The Woodlands, Texas. She lives successful Chicago and is simply a postgraduate of Washington University successful St. Louis, wherever she was a philosophy-neuroscience-psychology major. When she’s not successful the infirmary she works connected her 2nd novel, draws comics and spends clip with her hubby and 3 cats Kahlo, Balthazar and Minerva.
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