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| Born | Carol Wiley Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, anesthesiologist |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts, Degree in Medicine |
| Alma mater | Duke University, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Genre | Fiction, medical drama |
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Carol Cassella is an American novelist and practicing anesthesiologist. Born in Dallas, Texas; she lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington with her husband and two sets of twins.
Carol Cassella was born Carol Elise Wiley in Dallas, Texas. She is the youngest of three daughters to Katherine and Ray Wiley, and graduated from Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas in 1975.
Cassella has a degree in English literature from Duke University, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She received her medical degree in 1986 and completed her internship at Baylor-St. Lukes Affiliated Hospitals in Houston, Texas before moving to Seattle where she completed her residency in internal medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center. In 1992 she returned to Virginia Mason for training in anesthesiology. She is board certified in both internal medicine and anesthesiology.
She married Stephen Rowan Cassella in 1991 and now lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington. They are the parents of fraternal twins born in 1995, and identical twins born in 1996.
Cassella worked for Prentice Hall Publishing Company in New York City before deciding to attend medical school.
She is a practicing anesthesiologist in the Seattle area and also a published novelist. She was the founder of Mind to Mind, the literary section in Anesthesiology, the Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiology, [1] and served as associate editor of the section from 2009 to 2016. She has been a Wall Street Journal Expert Panelist on Healthcare. [2] She is also a founding member of Seattle7Writers, a non-profit supporting literacy and reading in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to writing fiction, she wrote medically centered articles for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation profiling their grant recipients working in low resource countries around the world. She published her first novel Oxygen in 2008.
After completing her internal medicine residency at Virginia Mason Medical Center, Cassella practiced primary care at Pacific Medical Center, SeaMar Community Clinic and Pike Market Community Clinic[ permanent dead link ], with a special interest in cross-cultural medicine. In 1992 she began her residency in anesthesiology at Virginia Mason Medical Center and now works as a staff anesthesiologist in the Seattle area. She serves on the health care advisory committee for BOSIA, [3] the Bainbridge Ometepe Sister Islands Association. BOSIA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on people-to-people exchange between residents of Bainbridge Island in Washington State and Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua. She enjoys working as a volunteer for charitable medical trips working in low resource countries, including rural Costa Rica, Thailand, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Bhutan and Cuba.
Though she studied literature and wrote some fiction throughout her life, Cassella did not begin a serious writing career until she was in her forties. In 2001 she enrolled in creative writing classes and began writing her first novel, Oxygen, which was published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster. The novel was a national bestseller, nominated for the Washington State Book Award, and an Indie Next Pick in 2008. [4] Her second novel, Healer, was also an Indie Next Pick in 2011. [5] Her third novel, Gemini, was an Indie Next selection for March 2014, [6] as well as a Library Reads selection, [7] and won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's BuzzBooks contest. [8] Her books have been highlighted as top choices by Library Journal, Booklist, Harpers Bazaar , People Magazine , Poets & Writers, Womans Day, and USA Today.[ citation needed ] All of her novels draw from her personal experience as a physician, her role as a mother, and her interest in medical ethics and the complexities of contemporary healthcare. Prior to focusing on fiction, she wrote informational articles for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 1999 to 2001.[ citation needed ]
Cassella is a founding member of Seattle 7 Writers, [9] an organization founded in Seattle with the mission to support literacy organizations in the community and to create connections between writers, readers, booksellers, and librarians.
Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located in Puget Sound. The population was 24,825 at the 2020 census, making Bainbridge Island the second largest city in Kitsap County.
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