Professor Julie Ann Sosa, MD (Academic Endocrine Surgeon and Researcher, United States of America)

Professor Julie Ann Sosa was born in Montreal, Canada. She immigrated to the United States (US) when she was small and completed school in upstate New York. She completed college at Princeton University and then pursued a Masters in Human Sciences on a scholarship at Worcester College, University of Oxford. In her early years, Professor Sosa tested out being a journalist (serving as Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Princetonian) or an economist. She even authored an award-winning labor economics book, Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences (Princeton University Press) together with the President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. However, she ultimately decided to be a doctor and moved to Baltimore, where she spent 12 years as a medical student, Halsted resident in general surgery, and fellow at Johns Hopkins. Professor Sosa carried out health services research as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and returned to Oxford as a specialist registrar at the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals before joining the faculty at Yale University. Professor Sosa is presently the Leon Goldman, MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and is a Professor of Medicine and affiliated faculty for the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies...