RicardoErnestoNuilaMD

Summary

• Ricardo Nuila is a writer whose essays and short stories illuminate the health disparities and policy challenges inherent within the healthcare system.
  
  As a teaching attending and hospitalist at Ben Taub Hospital, he utilizes his personal experience with patients as a foundation for his journalistic and creative works. He is the founder and director of the Program in Narrative Medicine in Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy.
  
  Ricardo has received multiple nationally-recognized awards for his literary works, including selection into Best American Short Stories, The New England Review’s inaugural Emerging Writer’s Award, and the Dobie Paisano Fellowship awarded by the Texas Institute of Letters. He has also earned fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Logan Nonfiction Program for his written works. He received one of the highest honors when he was invited by The New York Times to write an Op-Ed during the national debate on Obamacare repeal—the opinion piece was the lead story in the Sunday Review, the week before the Senate vote on repeal.
  
  His articles otherwise have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic online, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New England Journal of Medicine. He is currently writing a book on health disparities in Texas to be published by Scribner in 2021.