Under the Banyan Tree

Leigh Grossman is a parent, grandparent, pediatrician, infectious disease specialist, global educator, and writer whose work explores memory, childhood, and the cultural landscapes that shape identity. She spent most of her childhood in India, an experience that continues to inform her reflections on place, diversity, family, and belonging. Dr. Grossman's history of international experience includes growing up in India, service time with the Peace Corps, and consultancies for the Pan American Health Organization, Project Hope and King Faisal Hospital in Saudi Arabia.She has edited and authored five books, Infection Control for the Pediatric Patient, Infection Control in the Daycare Center and Preschool, Infection Control for the Healthcare worker, The Medical Student's Guide to Successful Residency Matching, and The Parent's Survival Guide to Daycare Infections. She has published literary essays in the Harvard Public Health Journal, the Sun, and Pulse.She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and Mount Desert Island, Maine. Under the Banyan Tree is her first non-academic book.