Hui-wen Sato is a pediatric ICU nurse based in Los Angeles. She holds an MPH and MSN from UCLA, and is currently obtaining her Certification in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She has been published in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, the Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work, and The Healer’s Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief. Her 2017 TEDx talk, “How Grief Helped Me Become a Better Caregiver,” was promoted to the main TED webpage in 2020. She’s been featured in numerous podcasts and webinars including NPR TED Radio Hour, The Silent Why, Grief is a Sneaky B!tch, Happify, and Speaking Grief. Hui-wen and her husband have two daughters, two tortoises and one complicated dog. You can follow her work here.