Chris Pelloski, MD

Christopher E. Pelloski earned his medical degree from the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago in 2001. He was accepted into the Radiation Oncology Residency Training Program and eventually joined the faculty at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, one of the top cancer centers in the world. He was later recruited to the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he oversaw a busy clinic for central nervous system and pediatric cancer patients, ran a basic science research laboratory, and served as the radiation oncology department's residency training program director. In 2014, however, he became Inmate#: 71491-061 at the Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton. Dr. Pelloski has received numerous literary awards for both of his memoirs, Trauma, Shame, and the Power of Love: The Fall and Rise of a Physician who Heals Himself (2015), and its sequel, A Tortuous Path: Atonement and Reinvention in a Broken System (2019). These works chronicle his humiliating public downfall, therapy and recovery from childhood traumas, journey through the U.S. Criminal Justice System, and the eventual restoration of his life. They also present eloquent and insightful observations of himself and the world around him in the process.

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Book 1: Trauma, Shame, and the Power of Love: The Fall and Rise of a Physician Who Heals Himself

Book 2: A Tortuous Path: Atonement and Reinvention in a Broken System