Author Talk with Ed Park
The Council of Korean Americans and Harvard University Korea Instiute (KI) are pleased to cohost the March 4, 2024 Author Talk with Ed Park. The event will be held in person at Harvard University and also live-streamed via Zoom.
Ed Park is the author of the novels Personal Days and Same Bed Different Dreams. He is a founding editor of The Believer, and has worked in newspapers, book publishing, and academia. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo, he lives in Manhattan with his family.
Chaired by CKA Board Member Kee B. Park, MD, MPH, Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Policy and Advocacy, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change.
He has published extensively about topics such as the political economy of global surgery, innovative financing for surgical system strengthening, neurosurgical capacity building in LMICs and geopolitical factors influencing health in North Korea. He co-chairs the Women’s Health and Empowerment Network and serves on the board of the Council of Korean Americans. He is a member of the National Committee on North Korea.
Dr. Park is a diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He received his neurosurgery training at Temple University in Philadelphia, medical degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and a Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
*No registration is required for in-person attendance. To receive the Zoom link, please register below.
Doors open at 5:00 pm ET. The Harvard Bookstore will have signed copies available for purchase on the day of the event:
Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel – $31.88 (plus tax)
Personal Days: A Novel – $18.06 (plus tax)