Activities Related to Humanizing Medicine
Clinical Care: Author of a book for patients and their loved ones, From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness. Johns Hopkins University Press. October 2021. ISBN-10: 1421441586, ISBN-13: 978-1421441580. Winner of the 2022 Silver Nautilus Award in the Psychology/Mental & Emotional Well-Being category. https://nautilusbookawards.com/2022-winners-cat-11-20/
Education: Course director and instructor of an annual 4-week course for Johns Hopkins medical students designed to humanize medicine, “Professional Identity Transformation: An Art Museum-based Elective.”, Visual Thinking Strategies certified facilitator and coach
Research: International leader in the field of museum-based health professions education with multiple education research publications on the role of the visual arts to enhance skills that are essential to the delivery of humanized care
Leadership/Administrative: Director of the Paul McHugh Program for Human Flourishing whose mission is to “bring the body of scientific evidence from interdisciplinary scholarly research on the key pathways to human health and flourishing to an audience of clinicians and clinicians-in-training, locally and globally.”
