Biography I have provided oversight and leadership for the Arts at Ebling working with Ebling library leadership and staff (this includes Corpus Callosum, the Book/Film Discussion group, Recreational Reading) and have presented on this at national meetings. I also like to contribute to the arts as time allows. In addition, I have given workshops on …
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 love writing and contribute to the humanities with my own storytelling as well as my role as editor of Family Medicine, which publishes a lot of narratives about family medicine practice and teaching.
Biography I found my way to Medical Humanities through reading and writing, and enjoy co-teaching a seminar that challenges students to do both things creatively—exploring experimental and nontraditional forms of expression to enrich one’s experience as a clinician and lifelong learner.
Biography I use my writing skills every day with patients. When with a patient, I can describe illness or a disease process in a novel way. Writing allows me to reframe the tremendous trust that patients honor me with. Patients send me poems over MyChart, and I share my favorites with them. The humanities are …
Biography As healthcare providers, we are trained to provide medical care, but there is very little focus on preparing us for the overwhelming and often messy intersections of joy, despair, fragility, futility, fallibility, exhaustion, frustration, compassion, fear, flailing, and fulfilment that we will experience in our careers. We aren’t just observers of our patients—we are, …
Biography Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Emeritus, is a dedicated public historian and librarian. During her tenure, she advised students and curated impactful exhibitions exploring the history of the health sciences. She has long championed the idea that making and engaging with art can enrich all our lives—especially those of healthcare practitioners and researchers.
Biography I am the History of Health Sciences Librarian for Ebling Library in the School of Medicine and Public Health and serve as the liaison to the Department of Medical History & Bioethics. I have also served as a reviewer for Corpus Collosum for the past two years. Prior to my appointment at SMPH, I spent …
Biography I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician. I participated in a Medical Humanities Certificate program during my medical school training and recognized how important reflection is. In healthcare, we face and experience a range of the human condition, as individuals, providers, and caregivers, as well as with our patients and their families, and using tools …
Biography It is the humanities, that sense of individual, cultural, societal, and experiential, that bring us in and bring us together. I come from a blended background. My father was a mathematician; his passion, however, was in music. My mother was accepted into the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop (but deferred to start a family). …