Sunita Puri

Sunita Puri is an associate professor of medicine at UC Irvine, where she is the director of the palliative-medicine consultation service. A Rhodes scholar and a graduate of Yale University, she is the author of the memoir That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour. She is a 2025 Bogliasco Foundation fellow, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and Tricycle, among other publications. In 2019, The Guardian made a mini-documentary about her work with patients.