Biography I have been co-teaching Narrative Medicine since it was first offered at SMPH, which has been an intensive but rewarding couple of weeks annually. I also try to bring narrative principles into clinical medicine teaching (both in the classroom around history-taking, and then the application of that practice in actual clinical encounters). Additionally, in …
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 Stories have always been central to my life and my way of processing the world around me and exploring patients’ stories is the most compelling part of my work as a physician. But sharing stories of the great joys and deep challenges of being a physician with learners and colleagues has been equally critical …
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). …
Biography As a viola performance major in college, I entered medicine from a non-science background. Though imposter syndrome was a constant companion, I also appreciated that I had bypassed many of the pre-med stressors my classmates had endured. Twenty years later as faculty, I began learning mandolin, and it continues to be a surprisingly significant …