Projects

• Aging and its Tropes

  (Columbia University)

• Care for the Polis

  (Columbia University)

• Community Commons

• Explorations in the Medical Humanities

  (Columbia University)

• Medicine, Literature and Society Major Track

  (Columbia University)

• Synapsis Covid-19 Special Issue

  (Columbia University)

• Synapsis Special Issue: Justice-in-Education and Covid-19

  (Columbia University)

• Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities

  (Columbia University)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Space, Place and Design (University of Southern Denmark)

  (University of Southern Denmark)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Health Beyond Borders (Columbia Global Centers | Paris)

  (Columbia Global Centers | Paris)

biography

PhD in English and MD in Emergency Medicine from Columbia University (2010). Currently, Assistant Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Also teaches at the Institute of Comparative Literature at Columbia University; Formerly, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and English Literature at the University of Arizona; Formerly, Director of Medical Humanism for the college of medicine. Interests: intersections of medicine and culture, representations of illness, and medical cognition and identity

research interests