In the Press
Calvin is a highly and frequently requested speaker who enjoys discussing and speaking about medicine, travel, and motivating people to live life to the fullest.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Well Said by Cuore — How to Communicate Hard News from an ER Doctor Who’s Been to Nearly Every Country (Spotify)
Well Said by Cuore — How to Communicate Hard News from an ER Doctor Who’s Been to Nearly Every Country (YouTube)
Well Said by Cuore — How to Communicate Hard News from an ER Doctor Who’s Been to Nearly Every Country (Apple Podcasts)
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Rejection Rehab — He Ultrasounded Himself-and Found Cancer: Dr. Calvin Sun on Rejection, Lasting Confidence & The Surprising Cause of Cancer (Spotify)
Rejection Rehab — He Ultrasounded Himself-and Found Cancer: Dr. Calvin Sun on Rejection, Lasting Confidence & The Surprising Cause of Cancer (YouTube)
Rejection Rehab — He Ultrasounded Himself-and Found Cancer: Dr. Calvin Sun on Rejection, Lasting Confidence & The Surprising Cause of Cancer (Apple Podcasts)
Thursday, July 31, 2025
The New York Times — Manhattan Borough President Primary Election Results
Friday, June 27, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
StrausMedia — Democratic Primary Race: Manhattan Borough President
The Spirit | Westsider — Democratic Primary Race: Manhattan Borough President
Our Town | Downtowner — Democratic Primary Race: Manhattan Borough President
Chelsea News | Chelsea Clinton News — Democratic Primary Race: Manhattan Borough President
Monday, June 9, 2025
The Spirit — Democratic Primary Race: Manhattan Borough President
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Casino.org — Want a Casino in New York City? Don’t Vote for this Manhattan Borough Presidential Candidate
W42St — “Don’t Vote for Me If You Want a Casino”: Borough President Hopefuls Debate Manhattan’s Future
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College — 2025 Manhattan Borough President Candidate Forum
Friday, May 9, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
TIME Magazine — A Full-Body MRI Scan Could Save Your Life. Or Ruin It
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
A Twist of Fate — #19 On the Frontlines of COVID-19 – Calvin Sun
Friday, March 7, 2025
CGTN — Measles Outbreak
Monday, January 5, 2025
The Loida Lewis Podcast — Dr. Calvin Sun
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Huffington Post — I’m An ER Doctor. Here’s The 1 Thing I Always Do When I Travel.
Monday, October 7, 2024
Ask Doctors & Nurses — 2024 Elections: Activist Talk with Dan Stone and Calvin Sun
Thursday, October 2, 2024
Asian American Authors Book Club — Monsoon Diaries By Dr. Calvin Sun – Meet the NY Times Best-selling Author
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine — White Coat Ceremony Celebrates 30 Years at Downstate
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine — SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Hosts Its 30th Annual White Coat Ceremony
Friday, September 20, 2024
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine — White Coat Ceremony 2024 Keynote – Session I
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine — White Coat Ceremony 2024 Keynote – Session II
Saturday, March 30, 2024
CGTN America — Calvin Sun analyzes the recent Dengue Outbreak
Thursday, March 28, 2024
The Wall Street Journal — ‘Is There a Doctor on Board?’: Tales From In-Flight Medical Emergencies
Friday, March 15, 2024
The Neil Haley Show — The Monsoon Diaries: A Memoir
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
SPEAK! — SPEAK: Grief
Monday, May 1, 2023
TuftsNOW — Making Waves—Across Media
Monday, January 16, 2023
The Voyages of Tim Vetter — Episode 289 The Monsoon Diaries with Calvin D. Sun, MD (Spotify)
The Voyages of Tim Vetter — Episode 289 The Monsoon Diaries with Calvin D. Sun, MD (Apple)
The Voyages of Tim Vetter — Episode 289 The Monsoon Diaries with Calvin D. Sun, MD (SoundCloud)
Monday, January 9, 2023
CGTN America — The Heat: Tripledemic in the U.S.
Thursday, December 15, 2022
yahoo! Finance — COVID: Bivalent booster shots were ‘tremendous’ in lowering hospitalization rates, doctor says
Thursday, December 8, 2022
John O’Leary Live Inspired — Dr. Calvin Sun: Healing From the COVID Frontlines (ep. 522)
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Accepted Podcast w/ Linda Abraham — What was it like to be an ER doctor at the beginning of COVID? [Episode 493]
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Podmissium — Alumnus Author Calvin D. Sun class of 2004
To Be Human Podcast w/ Jennah-Louise — Experience True Freedom Through Travel | Dr Calvin Sun | To Be Human Podcast #089 (YouTube)
To Be Human Podcast w/ Jennah-Louise — Experience True Freedom Through Travel | Dr Calvin Sun | To Be Human Podcast #089 (Spotify)
To Be Human Podcast w/ Jennah-Louise — Experience True Freedom Through Travel | Dr Calvin Sun | To Be Human Podcast #089 (Apple Podcasts)
Monday, October 24, 2022
Monday, October 17, 2022
The Irreplaceable Man — Regret, Resentment & Keeping Your Integrity Intact with Dr. Calvin Sun – Episode 284
Sunday, October 9, 2022
Stand Up! With Pete Dominick — Episode 699: Dr Calvin Sun / The Monsoon Diaries
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Happiest When Reading — Q3 Favorites // 2022
Book Notions — Q&A With Calvin D. Sun
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Newsy Tonight w/ Chance Seales
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
ACEP Frontline — Frontline Author Series – Monsoon Diaries – Dr. Calvin Sun
The Storybox w/ Jay Fantom — Calvin D. Sun Unboxing | What Travelling The World Teaches You About Life & COVID-19
Authority Magazine Q&A — Dr. Calvin Sun: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became A Doctor
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
PIX 11 Morning News LIVE — NYC doctor talks about COVID-19 from the front lines in his memoir
Zero to Travel Podcast w/ Jason Moore — Embracing Chaos w/ Dr. Calvin Sun from Monsoon Diaries
Dear Asian Americans w/ Jerry Won — Calvin Sun // The Monsoon Diaries
Monday, September 26, 2022
The Mental Health Today Show w/ John Cordray — A Doctor’s Journey Of Hope And Healing From The Frontlines Of COVID-19 With Dr. Calvin D. Sun
Brawn Body Health and Fitness w/ Dan Braun — Dr. Calvin Sun: Covid & the ER, The Monsoon Diaries, International Travel, and more!
Friday, September 23, 2022
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Go Solo — The Monsoon Diaries – Calvin Sun
Bloom, News Channel 8 — Care During Early Days of COVID
Friday, September 9, 2022
World News Era — 10 New Nonfiction Books Out in September to Add to Your TBR
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Monday, March 21, 2022
CGTN America — Calvin Sun on the global state of COVID-19
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Mercersburg Academy — Calvin Sun Speaks at Beauregard School Meeting
Monday, February 14, 2022
Newsy Morning Rush — Dr. Calvin Sun on Policy Changes on COVID-19
yahoo! News — Receiving vaccinations ‘is part of the social contract we sign up for’ in communities: Doctor
Monday, January 24, 2022
yahoo! News — Omicron: ‘The main climax seems to be over,’ doctor says
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Al Jazeera — Calvin Sun on Moral Injury
CGTN America — Omicron Update Panel
Friday, December 31, 2021
yahoo! News — New Covid treatments are very promising
Lisa Ling — IG Live with Calvin
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Newsy Morning Rush — Dr. Calvin Sun on Omicron & Children
Friday, December 24, 2021
CGTN America — Dr. Calvin Sun on Omicron in the U.S.
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Unsugarcoated with Aalia — E66: To Vaxx or Not to Vaxx—with Dr. Calvin D. Sun
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
yahoo! Finance — Omicron: Doctors talk COVID-19 testing demand, booster shots, and hospital staffing
yahoo! Finance — Doctor laments ‘exhausting’ Omicron wave: ‘We’re trying to juggle a million things at once’
Thursday, December 16, 2021
CGTN — End of Year Panel on COVID-19
Monday, December 13, 2021
Newsy Morning Rush — Dr. Calvin Sun on Omicron
Thursday, December 9, 2021
yahoo! Finance — Vaccines are the ‘working seatbelts’ for dealing with the Omicron coronavirus variant: Doctor
Monday, December 6, 2021
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Friday, December 3, 2021
Newsy Morning Rush — Dr. Calvin Sun on Omicron
Sunday, November 28, 2021
CGTN America — Dr. Calvin Sun discusses on the newest coronavirus variant
Tuesday, October 22, 2021
yahoo! Finance — Pfizer says vaccine is 90.7% effective in kids aged 5 to 11: BBG
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Business Insider — I’m an ER doctor who runs a travel company on the weekends — and it’s landed me a 6-figure book deal, free trips, and more
Monday, September 27, 2021
The Life Medical — Journeys – Outward and Inward
Friday, September 24, 2021
yahoo! Finance — Dr. Calvin Sun: on whether frontline workers should get boosters
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Newsy — “Breakthrough” Infections
yahoo! Finance — Emergency physician warns against questioning vaccine efficacy: ‘You’re betting against the house’
Friday, August 5, 2021
Monday, July 26, 2021
yahoo! Finance — Doctor on COVID-19 vaccination: ‘Too little too late, better late than never, if anything it all counts’
Sunday, July 25, 2021
MSNBC The Week — ER doctor on surge in Covid-19 cases
Friday, July 23, 2021
Newsy — Live @ 7:20AM EST
Thursday, July 8, 2021
The Proust Questionnaire — Calvin Sun | Emergency Physician, Clinical Asst. Professor, Entrepreneur and Founder & CEO, The Monsoon Diaries
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Lucky Boys Podcast — Episode 67 Part 1: Lab Leaks, Vaccine Risks And Wild Covid Conspiracies w/Dr. Sun
Friday, June 4, 2021
yahoo! Finance — ‘Vaccinating children… gives them a hope of a lifetime of being free of those permanent long-term disabilities associated with COVID’: Doctor
Monday, May 24, 2021
CGTN — Live @ 9:30pm EST
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Friday, May 14, 2021
CGTN America — Dr. Calvin Sun on U.S. Mask Policy
Monday, May 10, 2021
East Side Stories — Emergency Physician On Fighting COVID & Racism Simultaneously | East Side Stories & Monsoon Diaries
Monday, May 3, 2021
Thursday, April 29, 2021
CGTN America — Dr. Calvin Sun on China’s COVID-19 vaccines
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
ATV / A HABER LIVE (Turkey)
The Broken Dove Podcast — S1.E.10 – Calvin D. Sun, MD (Monsoondiaries)
Friday, April 9, 2021
CGTN — Live @ 8:05pm
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
NY City Lens — COVID’s Impending Doom?
yahoo! Money — Coronavirus: ‘We are seeing so many younger patients’
Monday, April 5, 2021
yahoo! Finance — “We are at an inflection point”: Doctor on a fourth covid-19 wave
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
WALLST TV — Who did “model immigrants” hurt? Why did the Chinese doctors called “Chinese virus” take to the streets?
I Want to Travel! Podcast by Discoverlist — Ep #8: An avid traveler and ER doctor in NYC during the pandemic
yahoo! Finance — Coronavirus: 3 reasons why confirmed cases are on the rise again
Sunday, March 21, 2021
ABC 7 Eyewitness News — 66-year-old Asian man attacked in Manhattan in unprovoked assault; rallies held
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Al Jazeera — Why is violence against Asian-Americans on the rise?
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Monday, March 15, 2021
Voice of America (Russian) — Моей пациентке было 31, как и мне, и она скончалась…
Monday, March 4, 2021
yahoo! Finance — COVID-19 cases surpass 28.7M in the U.S.
Monday, March 1, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021
The National News — US reaches grim milestone of 500,000 Covid deaths
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021
The Life Medical Podcast — Into the Fray: Saving Lives and Facing Pandemics
Sunday, January 17, 2021
CNN — One year on, doctors around the country grapple with fatigue and burnout as the pandemic rages
CGTN — Live @ 3:15pm EST
Friday, January 15, 2021
The Haitian Times — “Am I Eligible” App And Other Info For Covid-19 Vaccine Help
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Epicenter-NYC — The 411 on Vaccines, Live Comedy and Mulled Wine, IKEA
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Northstar Unplugged — Calvin D. Sun, MD — Emergency physician on NYC’s COVID frontlines & founder & CEO of the Monsoon Diaries
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
yahoo! Finance — Governor Cuomo confirms first case of UK COVID-19 variant in NY
Friday, January 1, 2021
Sky News — COVID-19: Times Square in no mood to party
Sky News — New York marks new year with grief and grace
Friday, December 18, 2020
Lisa Ling — IG Live with Calvin – Warrior
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Monday, December 7, 2020
CGTN America — Live at 11:00pm EST
Saturday, November 28, 2020
MSNBC Live with Alex Witt — Live @ 1:00pm EST
Al Jazeera English — U.S. Outbreak Record High
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Between Headlines with Alison Hall — Dr. Calvin Sun – NYC Emergency Doctor on the Frontlines of Covid-19
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Four Minutes From The Frontlines — Minute 4
CGTN America — The Heat: COVID-19 surge in the United States
Monday, October 19, 2020
Korean Broadcasting System (South Korea) — Virus & Nations (21:47)
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Saturday, October 10, 2020
CGTN America — Dr. Calvin Sun on Trump’s coronavirus recovery timeline
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
CGTN America — The Heat: US President Trump returns to Oval Office
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The Lincoln Project — 28 Days from Election: “Don’t Be Afraid of Covid”? w/ guests Elizabeth Neumann, Dr. Calvin Sun
Monday, October 5, 2020
Newsy — Live @ 7:00am EST
Sunday, October 4, 2020
CGTN America — Dr. Calvin Sun on President Trump’s covid treatments
Friday, October 2, 2020
Newsy — Live @ 1:00pm EST
CGTN America — Live @ 9:00pm EST
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Saturday, September 26, 2020
We Got The Runs Podcast — Heart Health, Mental Health and Covid with Dr. Calvin Sun, MD
Friday, September 18, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Monday, August 10, 2020
AARP AAPI Community — Join AARP in thanking Asian American healthcare frontliners across America
Sunday, August 2, 2020
MSNBC — Live @ 7:00am EST
Sunday, June 22, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 10:25am EST
Sunday, June 21, 2020
MSNBC — Live @ 6:30am EST
Monday, June 15, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 10:25am EST
Sunday, June 14, 2020
MSNBC — Live @ 6:00am EST
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Apple Daily (Hong Kong) — Records of Chinese doctors’ anti-epidemic experience on the frontline
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
MSNBC — Live with Stephanie Ruhle @ 09:45am EST
FOX San Antonio — 21 states across the U.S. have seen increase in COVID-19 cases
Tuesday, June 7, 2020
Unsugarcoated with Aalia — Diversity, Travel & Coronavirus with Dr. Calvin D. Sun
Monday, June 8, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 10:25am EST
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 9:25am EST
Newsmax — Live @ 10:25am EST
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
WIRED Magazine — Healthcare Workers Explain COVID-19 Cases In Their Cities
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 9:25am EST
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Snapchat’s Hashtag Our Stories — What It’s Like To Be A Frontline Doctor in NYC
Saturday, May 16, 2020
NBC Asian America — ER doctor in NYC shares what it’s like to work in dozens of hospitals during pandemic
Friday, May 15, 2020
IG Live — Evie Joy Music
LIVEMEDAID — Dr. James Maskalyk and Dr. Calvin D. Sun
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 9:25am EST
Newsmax — Live @ 10:05am EST
Monday, May 11, 2020
Talking Points Memo — NYC ERs Are Getting More ‘Normal’ Type Cases — But The Mood Is Anything But
Saturday, May 9, 2020
The Intercept — A New York City Hospital Is Investigating A Nurse For Sharing Video Footage With The Intercept
Underknown / LiveMedAid — LiveMedAid
Friday, May 8, 2020
IG Live — @newyorkcity
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 9:00am EST
Newsmax — Live @ 10:00am EST
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Natia Gvazava — Scrolling the Pandemic: Silenced Frontliners
Saturday, May 2, 2020
MSNBC Live with Alex Witt — Live @ 7:00am EST
NEXT TV (Taiwan) — 紐約醫護崩
Friday, May 1, 2020
Yahoo News — ER doctor in N.Y.C. shares what it’s like to work in dozens of hospitals during pandemic
Thursday, April 30, 2020
100 Faces of the Cure — Faces of the Cure
CGTN America — The Heat: COVID-19 research and medical response
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Character Media — Frontliners Taking Charge During COVID-19: Calvin D. Sun, MD
Central Television (Russia) — Central Television: April 25, 2020 issue
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 9:00am EST
Newsmax — Live @ 10:00am EST
NBC Channel 4 NYC — Live @ 12:00pm EST
Monday, April 27, 2020
Newsy — Live @ 3:45pm EST
Sunday, April 26, 2020
MSNBC Live with Alex Witt — Live @ 7:00am EST
Saturday, April 25, 2020
NYCAASC — NYCAASC 2020 Closing Keynote
Friday, April 24, 2020
Working Woman Report — Dr. Calvin Sun – On The Frontlines of The Pandemic At NYC Hospitals
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 9:00am EST
Newsmax — Live @ 10:00am EST
The Matthew Aaron Show — 4/23/2020 Coronavirus Talk: Fox News Hot Mic, NYC E.R. Doctor Tells All
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Botswana Radio — Boingotlo Montingwa
CNBC Mumbai with Sonia Shenoy — #coronawarrior Dr. Calvin Sun
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
NBC News Now — Live @ 5:30pm EST
Sunday, April 19, 2020
ATV / A HABER LIVE (Turkey)
Longboat Key News — Several Hundred People on Longboat Key Are Going to Die
Saturday, April 18, 2020
MSNBC Live with Velshi — Live @ 9:00am EST
WNBC4 Universal
Thursday, April 16, 2020
MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle — Live @ 9:00am EST
Washington Post — Nurses and Doctors are Taking Extreme Precautions to Avoid Bringing Coronavirus Home
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Newsmax — Live @ 9:30am
MSNBC Live with Katy Tur — NYC ER doctor: I am now relying on personal donations of PPE
Fox 31 Denver — ER Doctor in NYC Shares Experiences on the Frontlines
Monday, April 13, 2020
Community Works NYC — Harlem is… HEALING: Celebrating Heroes of the Pandemic Honors Dr. Calvin Sun
Sunday, April 12, 2020
MSNBC The Today Show — Live @ 6:00am EST
Sekai ha ima / The World Now (Japan) — Sunday, April 12
Friday, April 10, 2020
TVN24 (Poland) — “Pacjenci umierają. Idziesz i… nie żyje, nie żyje, nie żyje”
Newsmax — Live @ 11:00am EST
Newsy — Live @ 6:00pm EST
NHK News 7 (Japan) — Friday, April 10
Thursday, April 9, 2020
NHK Broadcasting & TV Asahi (Japan) — Today’s Close Up
A Current Affair (Australia) — Coronavirus: New York doctor reveals city’s fight with COVID-19
RTS (Switzerland) — Tout un monde – Présenté par Eric Guevara-Frey
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Channel 9Now, A Current Affair — ‘Something out of a horror film’: New York doctor explains the coronavirus situation
Voice of America, Plugged In with Greta Van Susteren — The Coronavirus Crisis: Cures and Care
KroneTV (Austria) — New Yorker Arzt berichtet von Notaufnahmen vor Ort
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle — NYC ER Doctor on treating coronavirus patients
CTV (Taiwan) — 紐約疫情本週高峰 華裔醫：如在著火房中救人
CNN Anderson Cooper 360 — “Courage can’t exist in the absence of fear”
Monday, April 6, 2020
Newsy Television
WRNN News Channel 91
Channel 4 News (UK) — ‘Temporary burials’ for coronavirus victims may be needed says NY mayor
MSNBC Live with Katy Tur — NYC ER doctor on fight to treat coronavirus
Richard French Live — Emergency Medical Physician in NYC on the Rapid Spread of Coronavirus
Sunday, April 5, 2020
MSNBC – Weekends with Alex Witt
NBC Universal, Yahoo News — ER doctor shares experience fighting coronavirus, intubating a colleague
The Today Show LIVE — What are emergency room doctors fighting the coronavirus outbreak seeing day to day?
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Channel 1: Journal de 20 heures (France)
The Atlantic — What Doctors Are Afraid Of
Friday, April 3, 2020
Thursday, April 2, 2020
MSNBC – Morning Joe LIVE
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
7NEWS Australia — Are New York hospitals coping under the pressure?
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
MSNBC Live with Katy Tur — NYC emergency room doctor on battling coronavirus
MSNBC Nightly News — Hospital Workers Speak Out
CGTN The Heat Podcast — COVID-19: Who lives and who dies? A harrowing decision for U.S. doctors
Katie Couric — Q&A: What It’s Like to Be an ER Doctor in New York City
Monday, March 30, 2020
Medicine ReMixed — Inside The Hospital | Fighting COVID-19 in NYC ERs
Katie Couric — What An E.R. Doctor Wants You To Know About Covid-19
CNN Go There — One week in the life of an emergency room doctor
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Washington Post — New York’s bioethics experts prepare for a wave of difficult decisions
Friday, March 27, 2020
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Vox’s Today, Explained — The emergency room emergency
Fox Business — US hospitals with coronavirus patients race to find beds
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Syosset Jericho Tribune — Thank You To Our Heroes
Monday, March 23, 2020
WALLST TV — With the novel coronavirus, how dire is the emergency room physician’s challenge in New York?
Friday, March 20, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Wall Street Journal — Hospitals Facing Coronavirus Are Running Out of Masks, Other Key Equipment