An Evening With Theodore H. Schwartz On Gray Matters: A Biography Of Brain Surgery – Nonfiction

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Brain surgery is a relatively new and mysterious profession, but in Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery, Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz, M.D., pulls back the surgical drapes on this lifesaving specialty. Warm, rigorous, and deeply insightful, the book shares what it’s like to hold the scalpel, wield the drill, and extract a tumor – when every second can mean life or death. Through case studies that bring to life the complexity and fragility of the brain, readers explore the injuries and surgeries of U.S. presidents, actors, world-class athletes, and others, and critical moments where surgeons made a crucial difference, in a book that’s as full of science and history as it is heart and humanity.  Moderated by Dr. Chris Ghaemmaghami, M.D., MHCM, executive vice president/chief physician executive and chief clinical officer at Miami’s Jackson Health System.
As a special welcome to this year’s Fair, Miami Book Fair is offering this Evenings With program free to all fairgoers. When securing your tickets for this session, kindly consider making a donation to MBF to support our work and your Miami literary community. Each Theodore H. Schwartz Evenings With ticket includes a free pass to the weekend Street Fair, where you’ll find literary events, live music, children’s activities, booksellers, local artisans, and gourmet delights!
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DR. THEODORE H. SCHWARTZ, M.D., is a professor of neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, one of the busiest and highest-ranked neurosurgery centers in the world. He has published more than 500 scientific articles and chapters on neurosurgery and has lectured around the world – from Bogotá, Colombia, to Vienna to Mumbai – on new, minimally invasive surgical techniques that he helped develop. His book, Gray Matters. A Biography of Brain Surgery (Dutton/Penguin-Random House), was selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2024.  His writing has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Psyche, The British Psychological Society, LitHub, and MedPage Today. Schwartz is currently the CEO of a med tech company, Illumination Diagnostics, Inc. He studied philosophy, literature, and medicine at Harvard.

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