Carol Cassella is a bestselling novelist and practicing anesthesiologist. Born in Dallas, Texas, she lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington with her husband and two sets of twins. Biography Birth and Family Carol Cassella was born as Carol Elise Wiley in Dallas, Texas. She is the youngest of three daughters to Katherine and Ray Wiley, and graduated from Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas in 1975. Present Carol married Stephen Rowan Cassella in 1991 and now lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington. They are the parents of fraternal twins born in 1995, and identical twins born in 1996. Education Carol has a degree in English literature from Duke University, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and was president of her medical school class three of the four years. She received her medical degree in 1986 and completed her internship at Baylor-St. Lukes Affiliated Hospitals in Houston, Texas before moving to Seattle where she completed her residency in internal medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center. In 1992 she returned to Virginia Mason for training in anesthesiology. Carol is board certified in both internal medicine and anesthesiology. Career Early career Immediately after college Carol worked for Prentice Hall Publishing Company in New York City before deciding to attend medical school. Later career Carol is a practicing anesthesiologist in the Seattle area and also a published novelist. She was the founder of Mind to Mind, the literary section in Anesthesiology, the Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiology, and served as associate editor of the section from 2009 to 2016. She has been a Wall Street Journal Expert Panelist on Healthcare. She is also a founding member of Seattle7Writers, a non-profit supporting literacy and reading in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to writing fiction, Carol wrote medically centered articles for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation profiling their grant recipients working in low resource countries around the world. She published her first novel OXYGEN in 2008. Medical career After completing her internal medicine residency at Virginia Mason Medical Center, Carol practiced primary care at Pacific Medical Center, SeaMar Community Clinic and Pike Market Community Clinic, with a special interest in cross-cultural medicine. In 1992 she began her residency in anesthesiology at Virginia Mason Medical Center and now works as a staff anesthesiologist in the Seattle area. Carol serves on