Lit Crawl San Francisco

Louise Aronson is a geriatrician, writer, educator, and the author of the PEN/Bingham finalist, A History of the Present Illness. Her essays and stories can be found in literary journals, newspapers, and medical journals, including the New York Times, Narrative Magazine, and the New... Read More →

Krishna Chaganti has been on the rheumatology faculty at UCSF since 2008. She is humbled and amazed by the patients she gets to take care of everyday. She also loves spending time reading bedtime stories with her kids and playing family charades.

Jessica Les is a family medicine doctor and writer in Santa Rosa who gave breast cancer a run for its money at age 28 and 33. Every day she is in awe of the expansiveness of the human story. She's interested in how we as physicians get glimpses at 15-20 minute intervals while caring... Read More →

Academic AppointmentsProfessor - Med Center Line, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain MedicineAdministrative AppointmentsStaff Anesthesiologist, VA Palo Alto HCS (1989 - Present)Faculty, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (2003 - Present)Co-Director, Biomedical Ethics & Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration (2003 - Present)Director, Medicine and the Muse Program: Medical Human... Read More →

David Watts, voted one of Americas Top Physicians, is also an award winning poet/writer, an NPR Commentator, a celebrated television producer, a classically trained musician, and a teacher.