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,
In front of an audience of first-year medical students, a teenage boy with one eye sat with his mother. They told a story of triumph, even miracle: brushes with death, an eye removed, cancer overcome. This young man has become a star baseball player despite
Fluorescent Microscopy Medium: Water-miscible oil Size: 18″ x 24″ This painting was inspired by the meditative experience of working under the glow of fluorescent microscopy. Here, the microscope shines green light at the specimen while the woman looks through the objective. She has incubated her
Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) announced that it is starting a new Arts and Medicine section. Associate Editor Roxanne Young wrote in the editorial introducing the new section: “In 2016, we take the transformation further, beyond the visual and fine arts
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
On October 18th at 7:00PM, DWC Staff Artist Lizz Card will be showing her art along with 60 other local Philadelphian artists with a national group of juried artists called RAW. The show will take place at The Trocadero Theatre in Center City, Philadelphia, and
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
Medstro, the social network for physicians, is running three online challenges that offer the opportunity to win up to $57,000 in prizes and to present your product in front of live audiences of up to 3000 people. Partners Connected Health is still accepting submissions to the
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
We are excited to announce that since our launch in April 2015, we have expanded the Doctors Who Create staff. We are a team of dedicated volunteers: attendings, residents, medical students, post-bac pre-meds, and undergraduates, all passionate about the DWC mission. Read our team page to learn
The Intima publishes articles from a variety of perspectives exploring Narrative Medicine and its applications in healthcare and healing. Narrative Medicine is interdisciplinary, and we encourage entries that engage any of the following: medicine in literature and/or poetry biomedical ethics history of medicine and/or science
The Nocturnists started as a scrappy, open-mic storytelling event for physicians, and has now blossomed into a full-fledged bicoastal movement. To learn more about us, check out our website and/or read about us in the SF Chronicle. Attached are flyers for our upcoming events in SF and
Medical decision-making near the end of life has been complicated in recent years by advents in the biomedical sciences, which have enabled clinicians to provide advanced life sustaining treatment for patients. What evidence shows, however, is that patients with serious illness are seldom discussing their
Ezra Klein, writer and founder of Vox Media, interviews “surgeon, writer, researcher, dilettante” Atul Gawande for his podcast The Ezra Klein Show on Panoply Media. (Ezra can’t contain his utter excitement at doing this interview, which he says he has wanted to do “for a
Pendulum, a new psychiatry residents’ magazine founded by psychiatrists at the University of Pennsylvania, is accepting submissions from the public. See the announcement below for more information. Psychiatry is rapidly changing, at Penn and everywhere. Psychiatry has always been changing. Pendulum will give voice to the
Why Doctors Write: Finding Humanity in Medicine is an upcoming documentary film about the intersection of medicine and literature, created by Emmy award-winning producer/director Ken Browne. Among many themes, the film documents the tradition and motivation of physician-writers, how art is joining science to become a part of modern