Biography I received my undergraduate BA in English with a focus on Non-fiction writing from University of Iowa. I find my humanities background helps me to think more broadly about the patient and their experience, remembering the things that make us all uniquely human aside from the function of our parts. During my time at …
Biography I am the principal investigator for the Family LENS (Lived Experience i(N) Scholarship for Children with Medical Complexity) study. This study focuses on sharing family experiences as a means for maintaining the humanity in caring for children with medical complexity and their families and improving relationships between families and health care providers.
Biography As Family Medicine Residency Faculty, I have the privilege to work with learners in medicine at many points in their training: pre-medical, medical school, residency and fellowship and am interested in helping medical professionals use reflection to enhance their learning. I find that both established curriculum in narrative medicine and personal reflective practices can …
Biography Medical students have consistently described The Healer’s Art elective as a brave space for students to gather and share about their own lived experiences, the process of learning medicine, and the practice of being in relationship with the patients for whom they care. In alignment with the course’s intention for all involved to be …
Biography I feel very lucky to have found myself, through serendepitiy, able to integrate humanities into my education practice. My primary art practice as a child and young adult was in the performing arts space, in theatre and dance. As for many people, medical education took a toll on my ability to be engaged meaningfully …
Biography I have always been drawn to the intersections between medicine and the humanities. I completed graduate work in literature before becoming a PA and have consistently found meaningful connections with the humanities in my work in emergency medicine and as a faculty member within the SMPH. I think that my training in interpreting literature …
Biography 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 …