Petros Levounis, MD, MA is a psychiatrist specializing in behavioral health and addiction medicine, as well as LGBT mental health. He currently serves as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and chief of service at University Hospital in Newark,
James Hamblin, MD, is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. He hosts the video series If Our Bodies Could Talk, for which he was a finalist in the Webby awards for Best Web Personality, and will soon release a book under the
Dr. Bennett Lorber is the Thomas M. Durant Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. In addition, Dr. Lorber is an accomplished abstract artist whose work has been exhibited in various commercial and
Katherine Chretien, MD is chief hospitalist at the Washington DC VA Medical Center and assistant dean for student affairs and associate professor of medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). At SMHS, where she completed the Master Teacher Leadership Development Program, she
Diana Anderson, M.D., M.Arch, is a “Dochitect®,” or physician-architect who practices internal medicine while exploring architecture’s influence within the hospital walls. She has written for architectural and medical publications such as World Health Design, Healthcare Design Magazine, and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Emily Silverman, MD is a third-year resident in internal medicine at UCSF. Last year, she started a storytelling event for physicians called The Nocturnists, which was covered by the San Francisco Chronicle in May and is described as being like The Moth for physicians.
Deye Wei, M.D., is an anesthesiologist-inventor who recently received a U.S. patent for the intubation tube stylet holder, a device that allows for efficient intubation of post-trauma patients. He completed the prototype with his two sons, Chapman and Chaplin. Although Dr. Wei’s childhood dream was
Dr. Amar K. Das, MD, PhD is director of healthcare effectiveness research at IBM Research, where he leads initiatives in outcomes research agenda of the new division by proposing, modeling, and carrying out clinical studies of informatics solutions. Prior to joining IBM, he spent four years
Dr. Jeffrey Way is a Senior Staff Scientist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering. Dr. Way facilitates research on the development of protein based drugs, and he is particularly inspired by systems within nature and genetic engineering. He has published on the synthesis
Joseph Park is a second-year medical school student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program, where he is planning on pursuing his graduate study in Genomics and Computational Biology. He is a Juilliard-trained
Rafael Campo, MD MFA is an award-winning poet and essayist, as well as an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and internist at healthcare associates at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He was born in New Jersey in 1964 and attended Amherst College,
Anne Negrin, MD, is a television news personality, health blogger, and ophthalmologist in Rye, New York. She has appeared on television programs including ABC7 Eyewitness News, The Today Show, and PIX11 News to discuss topics ranging from medical myth debunking to eye-friendly makeup. When she’s
Arthur H. Rubenstein, MD, MBBCh, served as Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean of the University of Pennyslvania’s Perelman School of Medicine from 2001 to 2011. He is a professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of
Michael Vitez is the Director of Narrative Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Before joining Temple in Spring 2016, Michael was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer for 30 years, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
Dr. Eric C. Schneider, MD, M.Sc. is a senior vice president for policy and research at The Commonwealth Fund, where he provides strategic guidance for independent research on social policy and healthcare issues in the United States. After studying biology at Columbia University, Dr. Schneider
In an era where “burnout” is becoming a buzzword describing healthcare professionals, creativity in medicine includes coming up with successful strategies to take care of your own health and wellness. Arhana Chattopadhyay, fourth-year medical student at the Stanford School of Medicine, has spent the last few years balancing studies,
Dr. George Liu, MD, PhD is a leader in the Chinese community in New York City as a practicing endocrinologist and the founder and president of the Asian Diabetes Center in New York City and CAIPA (Coalition of Asian-American Independent Physicians Association). He received his
Growing up, I always struggled with math and science. My teachers encouraged me to pursue my more natural talents, which were in the arts and humanities. I never thought I could make it in medical school with my hard science deficiencies and my unstructured, creative
Dr. Vikas Saini, MD is the president of the Lown Institute, which aims to change the healthcare system to improve patient care and address health care disparities. After studying philosophy at Princeton and medicine at Dalhousie University, Dr. Saini completed his residency at Baltimore City
Suzanne Koven, MD, MFA is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and writer-in-residence for its division of general internal medicine. She received her B.A. in English literature from Yale and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins, as well as her M.F.A. in nonfiction