Laura Kolbe

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 12:24 p.m.

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Laura Kolbe is a writer as well as a physician and assistant professor of internal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She studied English and American literature at Harvard and at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, before studying medicine at the University of Virginia and completing her medical residency at Brigham and Women\\u2019s Hospital in Boston.

This spring, her clinical work and views on patient care during COVID-19 were highlighted in The New Yorker and The New York TImes and she co-created Weill Cornell Medical Center\\u2019s COVID Palliative Care and Hospice Unit, and its COVID Recovery Unit, both among the first of their kind in the United States. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, and The Yale Review.

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