Amy B Zelenski

Credentials: PhD

Position title: General Internal Medicine, Associate Professor (CHS), Director of Education Innovation and Scholarship

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Email: zelenski@medicine.wisc.edu

Website: Department of Medicine

Phone: (608) 263-7358

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My work focuses on teaching healthcare professionals how to engage in empathic behaviors with their patients, learners, and interprofessional colleagues; and how building skill in empathic behavior can increase the quality of teaching and patient care while decreasing burnout and personal distress. I have found the humanities to be the most powerful tools for teaching these concepts and grappling with them in the clinical environment.