Sally Burbank

Sally Willard Burbank started life on a dairy farm 10 miles from the Canadian border in Derby, Vermont. After graduating from Texas Christian University and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, she and her husband, Nathan, moved to Nashville, Tennessee so he could pursue his musical career. (He is a classical organist who also performs with a Beatles tribute band called The WannaBeatles.)

Sally has practiced internal medicine for 38 years, and through this experience wrote Patients I Will Never Forget and More Patients I Will Never Forget based on the hilarious and inspiring lives of her patients. She also penned 3 contemporary Christian romance novels: Can You Lose the Unibrow?, More Than a Hunch, and Hearts Heal in Haiti.

She is the proud mother of Steven, an engineer in Denver, and Eliza, a veterinarian from Chicago. Her 98-year-old mother with Alzheimer's Disease has lived with her for over 6 years. Based on this experience and caring for dozens of other dementia patients over the years, Sally wrote The Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver's Handbook: What to Remember When They Forget to assist those caring for loved ones with dementia.

Sally loves public speaking and would be glad to share with your group about caregiving Alzheimer's disease, her funny and inspiring experiences as a doctor, and The Ten Things Every Doctor Wished You Knew. She can be contacted on her website to set up a public speaking event.

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Besides writing and public speaking, Sally enjoys hiking (she completed a 100-mile hike around Mont Blanc in summer of 2024), bicycling, reading, and whipping up tasty chocolate desserts. She does not enjoy the 5 hours weekly she spends on the Elliptical to keep up with her love of all things chocolate.