This week, meet Mesa Refuge Change Maker Sunita Puri, MD.

Sunita Puri deals with life and death on a daily basis, so she has played a critical role during the COVID pandemic. She is a frequent speaker, and her book, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, arms readers with information to transform the way we communicate with our doctors about what matters most at the end of life. She is the medical director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California.

From Sunita:

“Mesa Refuge provided me and many other writers with the material and spiritual support needed to write, think, and share our ideas with the wider world. I was at three writing residencies to complete my book, but the Mesa Refuge changed my life in particular ways; the land underneath and around it inspired me in ways nothing and nobody else could. Without the gift of time, space, and support I found at the Mesa Refuge, I would have written a lesser book.”

See a presentation that Sunita made at last year’s Endwell conference, below, and also view a conversation with Sunita co-presented by the Mesa Refuge in 2019.

Speaking From The Heart | Sunita Puri, MD, on the importance of language in medicine at Endwell conference 2020

Please help us support change makers like Sunita by donating to our Spring 2021 fundraising campaign.