Jacob M. Appel
| Jacob M. Appel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 21, 1973 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation |
Author Psychiatrist Bioethicist |
| Alma mater |
Brown University (BA) Columbia University (MA, MPhil, MD) New York University (MFA) Harvard University (JD) Union University, New York (MS) City University of New York, Queens (MFA) Mount Sinai Medical Center (MPH) |
| Period | 1997–present |
| Genre | short story, essay, drama, novel |
Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012.
Appel was born in the Bronx and raised in Scarsdale, New York, and Branford, Connecticut. His family is Jewish. He completed his BA at Brown University with double majors in English and American literature and in history (1995). He has seven master's degrees from Brown (MA in European history, 1996),Columbia University (MA in American history, 1998, and MPhil, 2000),New York University (MFA in creative writing with a focus in fiction, 2000),Albany Medical College, constituent of the Union University of New York (MS in bioethics, 2012), and then completed his MFA in playwriting from Queens College of the City University of New York (2013) and MPH from the medical school of Mount Sinai Hospital (2014) Furthermore, he has a JD from Harvard Law School (2003) and an MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (2009). He completed his residency at Mount Sinai in New York City and is a practicing psychiatrist there; he is also licensed to practice law in New York and Rhode Island. He is working on his PhD thesis from Columbia on the history of American medicine and psychiatry (as of May 2012).
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