PULITZER WINNER PHYSICIAN IN ECONOMIC PANEL

New York, May 25: Pulitzer Prize-winning IndianAmerican physician Sid Mukherjee and compatriot higher education leader Satish Tripathi have been named by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo among members of a commission that will focus on plans to jumpstart the state’s economy hit by Covid-19 .

Cuomo on Sunday announced that the state’s Blue-Ribbon Commission, chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, will also focus on improving telehealth and broadband access using new, innovative technologies. Mukherjee is a hematologist and oncologist and an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for ‘The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer’. Tripathi is the President of University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He graduated from Banaras Hindu University.