Hui-wen Sato, RN

Hui-wen Sato is a pediatric ICU nurse based in Los Angeles. She holds an MPH and MSN from UCLA, and completed 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. She is a regular contributor to AJN's blog, Off the Charts.

She has been a keynote speaker for various local and national nursing conferences. Her 2017 TEDx Talk was promoted to the main TED webpage in 2020, titled "How Grief Helped Me Become a Better Caregiver." She has been featured in podcasts with NPR TED Radio Hour, The Silent Why, Grief is a Sneaky B!tch, and The Apologies Podcast, as well as webinars for Happify and the Speaking Grief Initiative. She and her husband have two daughters, two tortoises and one complicated dog.