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Dr. Gayle Galletta is Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan. As a first generation college graduate, Gayle is self-taught in financial literacy. She is a do-it-yourself investor who subscribes to the philosophy of the White Coat Investor, whose motto is to “help doctors stop doing dumb stuff with their money.” Gayle has lectured locally on financial literacy and nationally on how to afford a sabbatical. In 2012, Gayle took a two-year leave of absence to live and work in Norway, and was instrumental in getting emergency medicine approved as a primary specialty by the Norwegian Minister of Health in 2017. By living below one’s means, paying yourself first, investing in broad market mutual funds, and insuring against catastrophe, Dr. Galletta will show you how to save for a comfortable retirement, and provide you with resources to further your journey in financial literacy.

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Jennifer English is the Director of Financial Aid at the UMass Chan Medical School.  As a 25-year veteran of the Financial Aid world she appreciates the variety of backgrounds and experiences that each of our students brings to the Medical School.  She spent her undergraduate years at Mount Holyoke College and at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland studying literature and history but found her passion when she was first hired to answer phones at the Worcester State University Financial Aid Office.  In the intervening years she occupied several positions within the WSU Financial Aid Office, including serving as Interim Director, prior to joining the team at UMass Chan Financial Aid Office in the Fall of 2022.  Jennifer enjoys hiking and reading historical fiction and debating the merits of different budgeting apps.

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She is the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Her writing and book have been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, JAMA, the Atlantic, NPR, India Today, the Asian Age, the Oncology Times, and, forthcoming, the New Yorker.

In 2019, the Guardian made a mini-documentary of her work in palliative medicine which has been viewed nearly 3 million times. She has been interviewed on the PBS Cristian Amanpour show, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, ZDogg MD’s show, and numerous podcasts. In 2018, she was awarded the Etz Chaim Tree of Life Award from the USC School of Medicine, awarded annually to a member of the faculty who, in the eyes of the campus community, models and provides humanistic and compassionate care. She has taught medical memoir and literary nonfiction to medical students and residents, and has delivered talks about palliative medicine, the centrality of narrative and storytelling in medicine, and physician well-being in forums around the world.

Sunita is available for speaking engagements and her speaking agent is Alysyn Reinhardt of the Penguin/Random House Speakers’ Bureau. She can be reached at areinhardt@penguinrandomhouse.com

ABOUT THE BOOK

Interweaving evocative stories of Puri’s family and the patients she cares for, That Good Night is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well, arming readers with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us.