Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
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Katrina S. Firlik, M.D.

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Katrina Firlik grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated from Shaker Heights High School. She then attended Cornell University where she majored in cultural anthropology. She returned back home to Cleveland for medical school at Case Western Reserve University.

Katrina was the first woman admitted to the neurosurgery residency program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the largest -- and one of the most prestigious -- neurosurgery programs in the country. She is now a neurosurgeon in private practice in Greenwich, Connecticut. She lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with her husband Andrew, a neurosurgeon turned venture capitalist, and their daughter, Annika. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe is her first book.

 


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Katrina S. Firlik
author of
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
June 2007
paperback / 288 pages
ISBN-13: 9780812973402
ISBN-10: 0812973402

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