Sylva Portoian-Shuhaiber, MD

Sylva Portoian-Shuhaiber MD, MS.c, MFPHM, FRCP.CH (UK) was born in Mesopotamia in 1945 to parents who suffered from the Armenian Genocide. She is a pediatrician trained in England, who has had articles published in several well-known medical journals. Sylva has presented her medical publications at international medical conferences. She started rhyming at age seven and discontinued after specializing in medicine. She recently started writing poems again; she has released 20 collections in three languages of poetry in less than a 12-year period. In the spring of 2009, she won The Carnegie Poetry Prize.