Background

David Czuchlewski was born in 1976.

Education

In 1998 David Czuchlewski received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University. In 2003 he obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He received his Master of Education in the Health Professions degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Career

David Czuchlewski completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, followed by fellowships in hematopathology and molecular genetic pathology at the University of New Mexico. He currently directs the Hematopathology Division and serves as Medical Director of the Genetics and Cytometry Laboratories at TriCore.

He has served on education committees for the College of American Pathologists, the American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the Society for Hematopathology. Czuchlewski also co-directs the medical student Hematology course at the UNM School of Medicine.

He has worked as a reporter for Manhattan Spirit in the past, but now juggles his two passions, medicine, and writing. Czuchlewski wrote his first book, The Muse Asylum (2001), as his senior thesis at Princeton University. Joyce Carol Oates, his mentor, and thesis advisor had such confidence in his abilities that she passed the manuscript on to her agent, Elly Sidel. The work was turned down by a number of publishers before Putnam decided to publish it. In 2003 he wrote Empire of Light.

Achievements

• David Czuchlewski is best known as the author of The Muse Asylum and Empire of Light. His works received high praise from critics.

Works

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  • Empire of Light

    (Researching a powerful religious cult into which his ex-g...)

    2003
  • The Muse Asylum

    (From within the confines of a psychiatric ward, Andrew Wa...)

    2001

Connections

mentor:

Joyce Oates

David Czuchlewski studied English at Princeton University under Joyce Carol Oates.

References

• Contemporary Authors
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