https://www.theintima.org/multimedia daily 0.75 2015-09-01 https://www.theintima.org/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-08 https://www.theintima.org/blog/baselines-by-rebecca-a-efroymson monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944741656-FYQGV39RX6V9TYJ7HDQ3/Efroymson%2C+Rebecca.jpg Blog - Baselines, Self-Exams and Thoughts about Mammograms: A reflection by Rebecca A. Efroymson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/meet-your-first-patient-a-reflection-on-medical-schools-anatomy-lab-by-pellavi-kenkari monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944753891-10VOE6AXREDNZORME9YM/Kenkare%2C+Pallavi.jpg Blog - Meet Your First Patient: A Reflection on Medical School’s Anatomy Lab by Pallavi Kenkare - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-laughing-through-the-pain-by-moshe-gordeon monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944744572-OH0KCW7WQUKRX3H2BDEI/Gordon%2C+Moshe.jpg Blog - On Laughing Through the Pain by Albert Einstein College of Medicine medical student Moshe Gordon - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/house-and-crown monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d785cfb1-3931-4581-b6d7-baa4161720b6/%C2%A9+Beyond+the+Threshold+Aubrey+Reed+Spring+2024+Intima.jpg Blog - Memories of Home: A Reflection about Alzheimer’s and a Mother Who Wanted to Go Home by writer Annette Leddy - Make it stand out © Beyond the Threshold. Aubrey Reed Spring 2024 Intima. Digital art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/64588bfc-eed5-4906-bf03-2f2ca69fc271/Nives+Leddy%2C+Paper+Hat%2C+2020.png Blog - Memories of Home: A Reflection about Alzheimer’s and a Mother Who Wanted to Go Home by writer Annette Leddy - Make it stand out Nives Leddy, Paper Hat, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944756310-PCEZP5ZXXGI8BCBZOZM2/Leddy%2C+Annette.jpeg Blog - Memories of Home: A Reflection about Alzheimer’s and a Mother Who Wanted to Go Home by writer Annette Leddy - Make it stand out Annette Leddy https://www.theintima.org/blog/whats-in-a-name-a-reflection-by-joseph-zarconi monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227039560-A4OO6ZBXP8GV389QAUOB/Zarconi%2C+Joseph.jpg Blog - What Do Doctors Get From Name-Calling? A reflection about our reaction to ‘difficult patients’ by nephrologist and educator Joseph Zarconi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/hear-hear-a-reflection-on-communication-by-mariana-mcdonald monthly 0.5 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944759521-7OYPI7FZDR99L772PUIJ/Mcdonald%2C+Mariana.jpg Blog - Why are patients hesitant to tell the truth? A reflection on communication by public health scientist and activist Mariana Mcdonald - Make it stand out Mariana Mcdonald https://www.theintima.org/blog/where-fear-is-held-by-tulsi-patel monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944764013-87HJYRF3WTV2QWIZNIQN/Patel%2C+Tulsi.jpeg Blog - Where Fear About Living and Dying is Held: A reflection by UC San Diego internal medicine resident Tulsi Patel - Make it stand out Tulsi Patel https://www.theintima.org/blog/in-story-lies-the-cure-by-ron-turker monthly 0.5 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944770107-RHMC4HNWTNSVV512392W/Turker%2C+Ron+.jpg Blog - In Story Lies the Cure by MD Ron Turker - Ron Turker, MD Ron Turker, MD, started in the ’80s as a standup comic and medical student. Through a series of nonlinear events, he became a pediatric surgeon by day and a writer by night. Thirty years of caring for kids at home and worldwide have shaped, sharpened, and ground his sensibilities into a resolute yet witty voice for healthcare change and equity in the U.S. He is the author of the award-winning satirical novel, The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious, his love letter to medicine written with a very sharp pen. His short story, “Sammy's Still Screaming,” appears in the Fall-Winter 2025 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/reaching-across-death-by-madison-palmer monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/7ddb1fd4-0f0b-4b4e-9833-21532e54324a/Still+from+The+Dinner+Party+Ellen+Change.jpeg Blog - Reaching Across Death: A letter to my grandmother by Stanford medical student Madison Palmer - Make it stand out Still from the video © The Dinner Table by Ellen Chang FALL 2025 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/acc53ee2-8274-49a8-a532-94135d12855b/Still+from+the+Dinner+Party+by+Ellen+Chang.png Blog - Reaching Across Death: A letter to my grandmother by Stanford medical student Madison Palmer - Make it stand out Still from the video © The Dinner Table by Ellen Chang FALL 2025 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/3ec475f0-771f-4dac-a26b-98ad0898a18a/Still+The+Dinner+Party+by+Ellen+Chang+3.png Blog - Reaching Across Death: A letter to my grandmother by Stanford medical student Madison Palmer - Make it stand out From © The Dinner Table by Ellen Chang FALL 2025 Intima. Added text by Madison Palmer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944764968-O4RWNK9DA17S3IB57CL0/Palmer%2C+Madison.png Blog - Reaching Across Death: A letter to my grandmother by Stanford medical student Madison Palmer - Madison 'Sonni' Palmer Madison 'Sonni' Palmer is a queer, mixed-race Filipinx writer who holds a BS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is studying at Stanford Medical School. She writes to heal. Palmer’s essay, “What Sticks,” appears in the Fall-Winter 2025-26 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/narrative-medicine-across-contexts-insights-from-south-korea-and-canadian-dental-education-by-homa-fathi monthly 0.5 2026-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944742227-N1MBRUQSZOZLUAN256DE/Fathi%2C+Homa+.jpg Blog - The Narrative Medicine Promise: Why It Pays to Listen. A reflection by McGill University researcher Homa Fathi - Homa Fathi, DDS, MSc Homa Fathi, DDS, MSc, is a doctoral researcher at the faculty of dental medicine and oral health sciences at McGill University. Her scholarly work focuses on improving access to oral healthcare for people with disabilities, advancing decolonization in dentistry and promoting social dentistry as a framework for addressing health inequities. She also engages in projects that integrate biopsychosocial and narrative approaches into dental education, exploring how transformative learning, storytelling and reflective practice can foster empathy and patient-centered care. Trained as a general dentist, Fathi brings clinical experience to her academic work, bridging theory and practice. She is committed to developing more inclusive, humanistic, and socially responsive models of dental care that recognize and address the social determinants influencing oral health outcomes. Her work “Towards Biopsychosocial Approaches in Healthcare: Postgraduate Dentistry Students' Experience of Transformative Education” appears in the Fall-Winter 2025-26 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/cancer-competition-annbebensee monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944734058-GVRORNIC9LBOJBC7V4DA/Bebensee%2C+Ann+Photo+by+Gigi+Kraus.JPG Blog - On Inter-Pathology Envy: A reflection by writer and neurologist Ann Bebensee - Ann Bebensee Ann Bebensee is a retired neurologist and writer. Her work appears on The Keepthings. She lives in California with her husband and Bernese Mountain Dog. Her essay “Edna” appears in the Fall-Winter 2025-26 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/makingtimeforcompassionatecare-lisa-kingstore monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1763681124734-HJGLWPHRG9HJOYEEAKWD/Kingstone%2C+Lisa.jpg Blog - "Who knew that time was the biggest factor in compassion?" A reflection about effective clinical care by writer Lisa Simone Kingstone - Lisa Simone Kingstone Lisa Simone Kingstone is the author of Fading Out Black and White, which was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed. A 2025 Rockower award winner for excellence in personal essay, her work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, Shooter Literary Magazine, PW, Hadassah Magazine, Patterns of Prejudice, Lilith, The Linden Review, and Months to Years. A former literature professor at King’s College London, Kingstone lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband. Her essay, “Angel Lounge,” appears in the Fall-Winter 2025-26 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/listening-to-ordinary-things-by-robert-mceachern monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944760584-W2G48D2H8R1XUKLG3WLN/McEachern%2C+Robert+.png Blog - Listening to Ordinary Things Can Get You Through the Day by cancer advocate and writer Robert McEachern - Robert McEachern Robert McEachern is a cancer advocate and writer. His work has appeared in JCO Oncology Practice, KevinMD, Blood-Cancer.org, Lymphoma News Today, Lyfebulb, The Mighty and CURE Today. His essay “Restoration” appears in the 2025 Fall-Winter Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/medicinesdiscomfortwithdeath monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944771182-9MO2S8VUB2LYP1SVH7N8/Ulin%2C+Lindsey.jpeg Blog - The Scars of Our Silence: Medicine’s Discomfort with Dying by palliative care physician Lindsey Ulin - Lindsey Ulin, MD Lindsey Ulin, MD, is a palliative care physician and assistant professor of medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and storyteller. Her writing is featured in ABC News, Good Morning America, The Boston Globe, and STAT News. Ulin has been a guest commentator for NBC Nightly News, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Yahoo Life, and Cancer Today. Her Field Notes essay, “Dying to Know,” appears in the Fall-Winter 2025-26 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/crossroads-reflection-on-ocd-anxiety-by-cynthia-miller monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944760657-DNG755QQWFCRJ5D0TDHP/Miller%2C+Cindy.jpeg Blog - Remembering in the Rain: A reflection on anxiety and OCD by Cynthia Miller, MD, MPH - Cynthia Miller, MD, MPH Cynthia Miller, MD, MPH, consults for life science firms in the area of market access. She is a thought leader in the healthcare space with publications in the Medical Care Blog, Physicians Practice, and Healthcare Business Today. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband and 7-pound toy schnauzer. In addition to reading and writing, she enjoys visiting bookstores, hiking, yoga, and Pilates. Her Field Notes essay “First, Check Your Heart Rate” appears in the Fall-Winter 2025-26 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-language-of-endurance-by-mark-e-paull monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944765199-8ZGZGDN2BABO8316LM2N/Paull%2C+Mark+E.jpg Blog - The Language of Endurance by educator and patient advocate Mark E. Paull - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-the-emotional-geography-of-care-by-artist-annunziata-tricarico monthly 0.5 2025-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/4c3a8439-e17c-4512-8023-cf2dbbd284b5/Screenshot+2025-11-18+at+1.47.36%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - On the Emotional Geography of Care by artist Annunziata Tricarico - Make it stand out © CHEMO-od. Annunziata Tricarico. Acrylic - 7 - “Lonely Always Never” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ab911e08-e80c-4191-bf41-f144380673a8/CHEMOed+-+5.png Blog - On the Emotional Geography of Care by artist Annunziata Tricarico - Make it stand out © CHEMO-od. Annunziata Tricarico. Acrylic - 5 - “Gourmand More Than Ever” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944769572-FZNS6CMDB16X25012I29/Tricarico%2C+Annunziata.jpg Blog - On the Emotional Geography of Care by artist Annunziata Tricarico - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/griefsightbyvalkfisher monthly 0.5 2025-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761954304204-RZBK1QSIMSR5R4119COL/Fisher%2C+Valk.jpg Blog - What is Grief-Sight? Writer and researcher Valk Fisher reflects on what prompts it. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-letting-go-intimajournalcrossroadsblog monthly 0.5 2025-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/097d10b2-89a9-418b-8111-2b9b79c355ed/Janet+Greenhut.png Blog - On Letting Go: A reflection about a writer dealing with the experience of living with sarcoidosis by Michigan doctor Janet Greenhut   - Janet Greenhut, MD MPH Janet Greenhut is a preventive medicine physician in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is co-founder of Narrative Dimensions, a nonprofit devoted to promoting the patient's lived experience, and co-creator of the Living Well with Illness workshop, which is based on the philosophy of phenomenology. She is co-author of The Wholeness Handbook: Care of Body, Mind, and Spirit for Optimal Health. Her story, “A (Con)versation” appeared in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/mjgdg6x61wyqqvmeyrhi54i0t1fgi2 monthly 0.5 2025-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/b2d29d60-8265-4189-acfd-818ff83c2d2f/Priya+Amin.png Blog - How Big Moments Hide in the Mundane Ones: A reflection by Intima editor Priya Amin - Priya Amin Priya Amin is a medical student at Harvard Medical School and a graduate of Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program. Her academic interests center on palliative care and oncology, with a focus on how narrative can illuminate the lived experience of serious illness. Prior to medical school, she worked in educational media with organizations such as PBS NOVA and later contributed medical writing and animations to ABC News during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amin is also an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her work has been recognized by the Association of Medical Humanities, the Columbia University Film Showcase, and the Health Humanities Consortium. Her poetry has appeared in the Brown Journal of Medical Humanities (Spring 2024), and she is an editor for both the Harvard Medical School Student Review and In Vivo, HMS’s medical humanities magazine. Amin joined the editorial board of Intima in Fall 2025. https://www.theintima.org/blog/medically-assisted-death-a-reflection-amanda-le-rougetel monthly 0.5 2025-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1749209256028-R3L9NG53FSTU7VXPYRLF/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+6.26.44%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - The Discordant Note of the Estranged Daughter from California. A reflection about medically-assisted death by Amanda Le Rougetel - Amanda Le Rougetel Amanda Le Rougetel retired from college teaching to be a writer and community educator; she lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her focus is short-form creative non-fiction essays, 50-word stories, and 100-word micro-memoirs. She facilitates learning in community classrooms about how writing can be a tool for transformation in our lives. Personal agency and autonomy are themes that inform her teaching and show up in her writing. Her work has been published, among other places, in Brevity magazine, on Brevity blog, and in the Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. https://www.theintima.org/blog/dalywalkerintimacrossroads monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/526ba5fd-f96d-4305-884f-9ee8736a8de7/Screenshot+2025-08-03+at+3.34.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - The Power of Stories to Change Attitudes: A reflection by fiction editor Daly Walker - Daly Walker, MD DALY WALKER is a retired surgeon. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary publications including The Sewanee Review, The Louisville Review, The Southampton Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, The Saturday Evening Post and The Atlantic Monthly. His work has been shortlisted for Best American Short Stories, a Pushcart Prize, and an O’Henry award. He has published three books, Doctor’s Dilemma, Surgeon Stories, and Little Creek. He divides his time between Boca Grande, Florida and Quechee, Vermont. He teaches a fiction writer’s workshop at Dartmouth College in Osher@Dartmouth’s summer program. His short story “Resuscitation” appeared in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/desperatetobewell-liddy-grantland monthly 0.5 2025-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/83abc9f4-5c1e-4df0-a5a3-ebd496c4c02d/Liddy+Grantland.png Blog - Desperate to be Well: A reflection about the level of comfort (or discomfort) about what we wear when we're ill by Liddy Grantland - Liddy Grantland Liddy Grantland (she/her) is a queer disabled writer and care worker from South Carolina. She shared time as a direct support professional and team leader at L’Arche, Greater Washington, D.C.: an intentional community of Medicaid-funded group homes for folks with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is in the process of a Master of Social Work program and, as of January 2025, lives with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Her work can be found in her book, Flesh and Bones: Learning to Love This Body, and on OurBodiesOurselves.substack.com. She is author of “Reverse Landing Strip” (Field Notes, Intima, Spring/Summer 2025). https://www.theintima.org/blog/by-holly-cantley monthly 0.5 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/32881ff0-2297-4ffb-984d-393d53b8ca2a/Holly+Cantley.png Blog - Getting to Say Goodbye: A reflection by patient advocate Holly Cantley - Holly Cantley Holly Cantley became a patient advocate through the experience of her daughter being a cancer patient for almost a decade. Her seventeen-year career in medical professional liability claims allowed her to deeply consider the variables that impact patient care and the work of physicians and medical staff. Cantley, who has a degree in Biological Science and Biotechnology, is married with three daughters, one who will forever be 18. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-practice-of-uncertainty-a-reflection-on-joan-wilkinsons-invisible-by-meg-sniderman monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/fb42363f-b8fa-46a2-a3f9-ac7ee98b4882/meg+sniderman.png Blog - The Practice of Uncertainty: Understanding the suffering and mercies witnessed in our everyday work by nurse practitioner Meg Sniderman - Meg Sniderman Meg Sniderman lives in East Tennessee and works as a nurse practitioner for people living with HIV. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Nursing and the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Sniderman spends her free time hiking, cooking and tending her chickens and pigs. https://www.theintima.org/blog/he-search-for-omens-amid-infertility monthly 0.5 2025-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/0fff534a-2814-46e4-94cb-28748424f6ad/Melissa+Cummins.png Blog - The Search for Omens Amid Infertility. A Reflection by Melissa Cummins - Melissa Cummins Melissa Cummins is a fourth-year medical student at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. Her work reflects upon the values of clinicians, defining moments in patient care and her career, and her personal experiences with infertility and loss. Cummins seeks to bridge the gap between patients and providers, and to use the written word as a means of integrating the beauties of science and art. In so doing, she hopes to use the power of narrative medicine to present a raw, unfiltered reflection on the highs and lows of the practice of medicine as well as the pursuit of wellness. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reasons-for-running-late-a-reflection-by-fiona-dunbar monthly 0.5 2025-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5ecebe94-c03f-4a03-aaf3-612389462491/Running+Late+-+Miindrup+-+Intima.png Blog - Reasons for Running Late: A reflection and response about documentation and no-time to dally days by pediatric OT Fiona Dunbar - Make it stand out © Running Late. Rachel Mindrup. Variable print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/7d73fe28-2a38-4d00-8ca0-33fdfb94f30e/Fiona+Dunbar+.png Blog - Reasons for Running Late: A reflection and response about documentation and no-time to dally days by pediatric OT Fiona Dunbar - Fiona Dunbar Fiona Dunbar is a pediatric Occupational Therapist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where she uses play to foster recovery and rehabilitation in the acute-care setting. Before becoming an OT, she was an environmental educator, gardener and landscape designer, and is curious about the intersections between the human body and the natural world. https://www.theintima.org/blog/affirming-what-i-know-is-true-a-reflection-on-katherine-zippels-body-of-evidence-by-jenny-burkholder monthly 0.5 2025-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/23d7b71f-426f-41d5-a1c8-5b83adf21a24/Jenny+Burkholder.png Blog - Going through airport security and other awkward life moments with an ‘invisible’ disease: A reflection by breast cancer advocate Jenny Burkholder - Jenny Burkholder Jenny Burkholder is a writer, teacher and breast cancer advocate living and working in Pennsylvania. Formerly the Montgomery County Poet Laureate, Burkholder is the author of the poetry chapbook “Repaired” (Finishing Line Press, 2016). Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in North American Review, So to Speak, 2River View, The Healing Muse and The Maine Review, among others. She is the co-host of the podcast “OVERexpressed & OUT,” which amplifies the voices of Philadelphia-area, modern-day pioneers–women transforming their communities from the inside. Her essay, Disambiguation, appears in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/theartofmetaphortoescribethebody monthly 0.5 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1744195328967-CJBBYKARJG38P8S91YLL/Pavoldi%2C+R.A..jpeg Blog - Poetry’s Use of Metaphor for What Happens Inside and Outside the Body. A reflection by writer R. A. Pavoldi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/inspiration-from-the-painting-the-wish-by-megan-gerber-colleen-cavanaugh monthly 0.5 2025-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/e0aa6f69-8e85-40e1-858f-251060d6cc57/%C2%A9+The+Wish++Megan+Gerber+Spring+2025+Intima.JPG Blog - How Art Inspires: Looking at “The Wish” by primary care physician Megan Gerber. A reflection by Colleen Cavanaugh - Make it stand out © The Wish. Megan Gerber. Mixed-Media: Acrylic, ink and tissue paper on canvas. Spring 2025 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1744194944197-MDCJ5FL8QV6P2O34MD1M/Cavanaugh%2C+Colleen.jpg Blog - How Art Inspires: Looking at “The Wish” by primary care physician Megan Gerber. A reflection by Colleen Cavanaugh - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/twodoctors-twocander-diagnoses monthly 0.5 2025-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1744197926731-CRLXHAGYOU67PF8JG8X2/Murphy%2C+Susan.jpg Blog - Two Doctors, Two Cancer Diagnoses by Susan Schuerman Murphy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reflecting-on-the-courageous-who-have-left-imprints-on-our-soul-by-miki-simic monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/566583e3-71e7-425d-8a54-fa3a442639e3/%C2%A9+The+Girl+in+the+Green+Dress+by+Miki+Simic+Spring+2025+Intima.jpeg Blog - Reflecting on the courageous who have left imprints on our soul by Miki Simic - Make it stand out © Girl in the Green Dress by Miki Simic. Acrylic. Spring 2025 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1744195448677-27EVDYUCOGZT7FRQ7YMH/Simic%2C+Miki.jpeg Blog - Reflecting on the courageous who have left imprints on our soul by Miki Simic - Make it stand out Miki Simic https://www.theintima.org/blog/graceyi monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1738326037567-N948BGQW3BZMMEBP7VDS/Yi%2C+Grace.jpg Blog - Fear of Loss: A reflection by medical student and Intima editor, Grace Yi - Grace Yi, MSPH Grace Yi, MSPH is a fourth-year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Originally from Cleveland, she graduated from Yale University with BA degrees in Cognitive Science and the History of Public Health and Medicine and subsequently earned an MSPH degree in Sexual and Reproductive Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is passionate about the role of storytelling, writing and creative expression in medicine and community health. In medical school, she was Co-Editor-in-Chief of The BEAT, the journal for literary and artistic expression at UCLA, and is a co-coordinator of the 2025 Night of Storytelling through the Gold Humanism Honor Society at DGSOM. Her written work was presented at the 2024 TEDxUCLASalon talk: “Humanizing Those Who Heal.” Yi joined the Intima editorial board in 2025. https://www.theintima.org/blog/markingthefirstsbycoribaill monthly 0.5 2025-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/a398f6f7-2433-4c6e-8dea-8b0b10531d41/Screenshot+2025-03-29+at+2.57.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - Marking the Firsts and Reflecting on "What Now?" by OB/GYN Physician, Dr. I. Cori Baill - I. Cori Baill, MD I. Cori Baill, MD is a board-certified OB/GYN and a Professor of Medicine at The University of Central Florida College of Medicine (UCF COM). She is the author of a children's picture book—"Why is Mommy Crying?”—explaining early pregnancy loss to young children. Baill is enrolled in Columbia University's program for the Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine, and it is her goal to further incorporate narrative medicine into faculty and student activities at UCF COM. Her interests include menopausal medicine, nontraditional student education, and limiting government interference in reproductive healthcare. Her essay, “Late,” appeared in the Fall 2024 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/hospital-hallways-physician-poet-jennifer-li-reflects-on-grief monthly 0.5 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ed4f57fc-75cc-4f15-8b40-344cb47adc55/Li%2C+Jennifer.jpg Blog - Hospital Hallways: Physician-Poet Jennifer Li Reflects on Grief - Jennifer Li, MD Jennifer Li, MD, who completed both medical school and residency training at Emory, is an academic hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Li graduated with a BA in English literature from Emory University and was on the founding editorial board of an arts organization and literary magazine on campus. In medical school, she was an editor for the online journal in-Training and was part of an advisory board focused on diversity called Mosaic in Medicine. Aside from medicine, she enjoys playing piano and tennis, attending indie concerts, watching sad art films, consuming Asian American media and spending too much time in coffee shops. Her essay "Remembrance" appeared in the Fall 2022 Intima; her poem "The Spaces Between" appeared in the Spring 2021 Intima. Li joins the editorial board in 2025. https://www.theintima.org/blog/7tafhz2iayfpred2kht9vdakl5wmii monthly 0.5 2025-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257164605-DZET9LGACODYDUU1U5CW/Silvestri%2C+Dianne.jpg Blog - A Poem of Thanks: A Reflection by Poet/Physician Dianne Silvestri - Dianne Silvestri Dianne Silvestri, poet and physician, is author of But I Still Have My Fingerprints (CavanKerry Press, 2022), which recounts her journey to recovery from leukemia and stem cell transplantation. Her poem “Meeting My Stem Cell Donor” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/u03ece8se6oop5euw7hd2st6zi7zmy monthly 0.5 2025-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257168032-TDX9EVMEJ8YC4CXDKE76/Wilkinson%2C+Joanne.jpg Blog - Moments of Humanity During a Clinician’s Day: A Reflection by Joanne Wilkinson - Joanne Wilkinson Joanne Wilkinson is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Brown University, a voracious reader and a single parent who writes whenever she gets the chance. Her Field Notes essay “Invisible” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-art-and-dance-help-process-grief-a-reflection-by-tessa-palisoc monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/07d56110-6b66-413f-ba54-a18a04cdb1a7/%C2%A9+Mitwelt+Melt+Series++3+Jennie+Vegt+Spring+2024.jpeg Blog - Art, Dance, and Grief: A Reflection by Tessa Palisoc and Andrew Murdock - Make it stand out © Mitwelt Melt Series 3. Jennie Vegt. Spring 2024 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1297152f-6d76-4514-ad5b-77b7886a151a/Screenshot+2025-02-23+at+1.15.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - Art, Dance, and Grief: A Reflection by Tessa Palisoc and Andrew Murdock - Tessa Palisoc and Andrew Murdock Tessa Palisoc and Andrew Murdock are MD candidates at Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM), where they participate in the Medical Humanities Scholar Track. They are members of the DUCOM dance club Impulse where they serve as board members. Palisoc studied contact improvisation, Mande dance, and aerial arts and acrobatics for 4 years at Brown University, where she earned an Sc.B. in immunobiology. Their multimedia dance, “The First Patient,” appears in theFall 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/those-who-came-before-a-reflection-by-angela-tang-tan monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257166532-OGU36ZTBZ54VSGG7I95V/Tang-tan%2C+Angela+.jpg Blog - Those Who Came Before: A Promise and a Reflection by medical student-artist Angela Tang-Tan - Angela Tang-Tan Angela Tang-Tan is a third-year medical student at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Two of Tang-Tan’s poems, “Code OB" and "Pediatric Hemicraniectomy," appeared in the Spring 2024 Intima. Her Field Notes essay “Top Surgery” and artwork “White Coat Ceremony” appear in the Fall 2024 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/prayers-a-reflection-by-angela-tang-tan monthly 0.5 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1737753811714-2OBMI0FEHDSC6YLDU7NP/Angela+Tang-Tan.png Blog - Prayers: A Reflection by Angela Tang-Tan - Angela Tang-Tan Angela Tang-Tan is a third-year medical student at Keck School of Medicine of USC. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 2020 with a dual degree in Neurobiology and Psychology before becoming an ambulance EMT during the COVID-19 pandemic. She plans to pursue a residency in neurosurgery. Two of Tang-Tan’s poems, “Code OB" and "Pediatric Hemicraniectomy," appeared in the Spring 2024 Intima. Her Field Notes essay” Top Surgery” and artwork “White Coat Ceremony” appear in the Fall 2024 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/my-illness-my-story-maja-milkowska-shibata monthly 0.5 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/112a8315-703e-47a1-93dc-0176813ddb34/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theintima.org%2Fhuman-experience-gianna-paniagua-fall-2022-intima Blog - My Illness, My Story: Graphic Medicine and Narratives by Maja Milkowska-Shibata - Make it stand out A detail from “Human Experience,” by Gianna Paniagua - Intima - Fall 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257154616-4H3K9QPEW99O25T8VSNK/Milkowska-Shibata%2C+Maja.JPG Blog - My Illness, My Story: Graphic Medicine and Narratives by Maja Milkowska-Shibata - Maja Milkowska-Shibata Maja Milkowska-Shibata was born and raised in Poland and now lives in Naperville, Illinois. A public health professional and medical interpreter by training, Milkowska-Shibata uses writing and art to share stories and perspectives. Her artwork “Beyond Broken: The Science of Bone Lengthening and My Ilizarov Story” appeared in the Fall 2024 Intima. Learn more at majamilkowska-shibata.com https://www.theintima.org/blog/k8egty9vzhqqq0m4kbk57vyhkddqxh monthly 0.5 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257160773-UK1OC1ZAU56JQI1264T5/Ryder%2C+Elizabeth.jpeg Blog - The Strange Experience of Learning the Art of Medicine by chaplain Elizabeth Ryder - Elizabeth Ryder Elizabeth Ryder serves as a chaplain in the outpatient oncology setting in Boise, Idaho. She enjoys all things outdoors, along with writing, gardening and exploring through travel and adventure. Her Field Notes essay “String of Pearls” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Connect on IG: @lizryder217 https://www.theintima.org/blog/jog73jfyj7nnwhiv408701hojkevhr monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652132043118-9YJXHFQUELU58V0MJC7X/%C2%A9+Art+of+Being+Here+1156am+by+Kirilee+West+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Blog - The Art of Being Here: A Reflection on the Hidden Moments of Care by medical student Tiffany Chen - The Art of Being Here The Art of Being Here: 11:56am. Kirilee West. Spring 2022 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257145449-6KSJ4TDI2OB5503VJ4AN/Chen%2C+Tiffany.jpg Blog - The Art of Being Here: A Reflection on the Hidden Moments of Care by medical student Tiffany Chen - Tiffany Chen Tiffany Chen is a 4th-year medical student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her Field Notes essay “Coffee and Crosswords” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/everythingchanged5yearsagoemilygroot monthly 0.5 2025-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257148612-AI6P1MQX1Q9O5RQGDF2K/Groot%2C+Emily.png Blog - Remember, Everything Changed Five Years Ago Today by public health physician Emily Groot - Make it stand out Emily Groot is a public health physician, born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on the territory of Garden River and Batchewana First Nations. Her short story “Splitting Wood” appeared in the Fall 2024 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/unburdened-by-ryan-boyland monthly 0.5 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257143610-17OIHBAX23L5GG17U3NC/Boyland%2C+Ryan+copy.jpeg Blog - Un/Burdened: A reflection by physician/poet Ryan Boyland about empathy, self-care and shared joy - Make it stand out Ryan Boyland is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, wanderer, doctor and amateur astronomer based out of Denver, Colorado. Boyland and his work have been featured on Button Poetry, Poets and Writers, Nebraska Public Media, with the Nebraska Poetry Society, and Larksong Writers’ Place, as well as in Rattle, Omaha Magazine, and The Cookout Literary Journal. Recordings and performances can be found on YouTube and TikTok. His poem “Omens” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima. Read more about his work at ryanboyland.com. https://www.theintima.org/blog/canweavoidburnoutjenniferanderson monthly 0.5 2025-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257138742-9W2N8Z6VQREK4MS0ET5E/Anderson%2C+Jennifer.jpeg Blog - How to Have Empathy for Others As Well as Ourselves: A Reflection by clinician Jennifer Anderson - Make it stand out Jennifer Anderson worked for twenty- three years as an inpatient psychiatric nurse for children and adolescents. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Antioch University and begins her study of narrative medicine through Columbia University's C.P.A. program this fall. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Missouri Review and Iron Horse Literary Review. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and their three teens. Her essay “Managed Care” appeared in the Fall 2024 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/insights-on-metaphors-for-pain-and-medical-care-by-vilmarie-sanchez-rothkegel monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257162079-EHYOEVLVUXFUN0S679IR/Sanchez-Rothkegel%2C+Vilmarie.jpeg Blog - Deepening Insights on Metaphors for Pain and Medical Care by Vilmarie Sanchez-Rothkegel - Make it stand out Vilmarie Sanchez-Rothkegel, PhD resides in southern New Hampshire. For the last several years she has delved into creative writing with an interest in personal narratives. Of particular interest to her is the meaning-making process of the language of multiple sclerosis. She enjoys photography, reading, and the cherished moments with family, friends, and her dog Kevin. Sanchez-Rothkegel’s essay, “House of Pain,” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/rituals-of-care-by-gaetan-sgro monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257163883-2ADB0K19H8E7H4IWCSIT/Sgro%2C+Gaetano.jpg Blog - Rituals of Care: How We All Possess More Agency in the World Than We Think: A reflection by doctor Gaetan Sgro - Make it stand out Gaetan Sgro is an internal medicine doctor, girl dad, and associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he directs a program in the medical humanities. His writing has appeared in Rattle, The Bellevue Literary Review, Hippocampus, Gravel, Hektoen International, The Healing Muse, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. Read more of his work at GaetanSgro.com https://www.theintima.org/blog/we-are-not-amazons-by-medical-illustrator-mesa-schumacher monthly 0.5 2024-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d44ca33b-9ac9-4b0e-ae28-6eb195baebf6/We+are+not+Amazons+by+Mesa+Schumacher+.jpg Blog - We Are Not Amazons: A Reflection by Medical Illustrator Mesa Schumacher - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/fec09536-31f9-4850-b0ef-824332ca4803/Schumacher%2C+Mesa.jpg Blog - We Are Not Amazons: A Reflection by Medical Illustrator Mesa Schumacher - Make it stand out Mesa Schumacher is an award-winning scientific and medical illustrator with an MFA from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Learn more about her work on X and Instagram @mesabree and mesaschumacher.com https://www.theintima.org/blog/giving-up-metaphors-a-reflection-by-poet-physician-ronald-land monthly 0.5 2024-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257152022-OC62EVXXCW61ZF0LF9LG/Lands%2C+Ronald.jpeg Blog - Giving Up Metaphors: A reflection about how we talk about illness by poet physician Ronald Lands - Make it stand out Ronald Lands a retired hematologist. He is an MFA alumnus of Queens University of Charlotte. His non-fiction essay, “A Promise of Rest” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima. Read our review of his poetry collection, Final Path. https://www.theintima.org/blog/crossroadsjackiegreenwood monthly 0.5 2024-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257147711-ZE99TPDIZGJSAIVZG3KT/Greenwood%2C+Jackie.JPG Blog - Normalizing—and Honoring—the Process of Dying," a reflection by veterinarian Jackie Greenwood - Make it stand out Jackie Greenwood practiced small animal medicine and surgery for 38 years. Her non-fiction essay, “An Unlikely Friend” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/pb6zdtqwpw1eqm4g5jxa81tfs8c5v2 monthly 0.5 2024-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257156953-ED7ZPL82676IE5M0MJR9/O%27Sullivan%2C+Rory.jpeg Blog - Big Moments are Surrounded by Little Moments: An End-of-Year Reflection by doctor Rory O’Sullivan - Make it stand out Rory O'Sullivan is a family doctor in Toronto, Canada, and an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Toronto. His short story, “There’s a Special On Car Washes,” appears in the lFall 2024 issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/grief-on-all-continents-by-sophia-guthier monthly 0.5 2024-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257147834-LY2IYADGSS5N53FDTA2S/Gauthier%2C+Sophia.jpg Blog - Witnessing Grief by pediatric hospitalist Sophia Gauthier - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/findingthehumaninhumanityzorannaumovski monthly 0.5 2024-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257156139-YYUI33ERMW7OX8UXEG08/Naumovski%2C+Zoran.jpeg Blog - Finding the Human in Humanity. A reflection by Zoran Naumovski - Make it stand out Zoran Naumovski is a hospitalist physician in Southern Ohio who has lived, worked and cared for his local community members for over twenty years. His essay “Rekindling a Physician’s Soul” appears in the Fall 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/whogetstogohomebyangelatangtan monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257166532-OGU36ZTBZ54VSGG7I95V/Tang-tan%2C+Angela+.jpg Blog - At the End of a Call Shift, Who Gets to Go Home? A reflection by Angela Tang-Tan - Make it stand out Angela Tang-Tan is a third-year medical student at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Two of Tang-Tan’s poems “Code OB" and "Pediatric Hemicraniectomy" appeared in the Spring 2024 Intima. Her Field Notes essay “Top Surgery” and Studio Art piece “White Coat Ceremony” were just published in the Fall 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/searching-for-the-nugget-of-connection-by-kristin-graziano-do-mph-faafp monthly 0.5 2024-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643737299-5F6Y8M3ZZ04DIOTWBK9O/Graziano%2C+Kristin.jpg Blog - Searching for the Nugget of Connection by Kristin Graziano, DO, MPH, FAAFP - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-house-not-a-home-house-imagery-representing-struggles-in-the-human-psyche-in-artworks-by-aubrey-reed-and-jennie-vegt monthly 0.5 2024-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716557421835-AJ77VA895TR1BD2EX14E/Mitwelt+Melt+Series++3.jpeg Blog - A House, Not a Home: Reflecting how imagery can reveal the human psyche byJennie Vegt - Make it stand out One of the images from the Mitwelt Melt Series by Jennie Vegt. Spring 2024 Intima “Finding meaning in suffering is sometimes the only coping strategy remaining,” says the artist. This series of six paintings explores grief in a visually complex manner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d785cfb1-3931-4581-b6d7-baa4161720b6/%C2%A9+Beyond+the+Threshold+Aubrey+Reed+Spring+2024+Intima.jpg Blog - A House, Not a Home: Reflecting how imagery can reveal the human psyche byJennie Vegt - Make it stand out Beyond the Threshold by Aubrey Reed Spring 2024 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716644140571-NKA9812FTHP2H4EEER8Q/Vegt%2C+Jennie+.jpg Blog - A House, Not a Home: Reflecting how imagery can reveal the human psyche byJennie Vegt - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/art-as-a-bodys-blessing-a-reflection-by-sarah-piper monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643836225-3Q9DYTZ68OC15CUKTKJA/Piper%2C+Sarah.jpeg Blog - Art as a Body’s Blessing: A Reflection by physician-poet Sarah Piper - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-unexpected-labor-of-caregiving-by-ann-e-green monthly 0.5 2024-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643789475-HLUVQHRQKX9WAZDYHZSX/Green%2C+Ann.jpg Blog - The Unexpected Labor of Caregiving by Ann E. Green - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/howtobepresentfortheactofdying monthly 0.5 2024-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1558607397143-NXW2WPM1ODW6YPJCECVU/A+Death+in+Chicago+by+Pat+Arnow.jpg Blog - Learning to be Present for an Act of Dying by UCSF Medical Center professor Krishna Chaganti - Make it stand out The first page in a graphic medicine narrative by Pat Arnow, who is a photographer, writer and cartoonist in New York. Download a PDF of it here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643716563-U88SQOD4JK2F46VEQO22/Chaganti%2C++Krishna+.png Blog - Learning to be Present for an Act of Dying by UCSF Medical Center professor Krishna Chaganti - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/incomplete-transformations-by-angela-tang-tan monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643867338-OSDMZ5URCQJX07ADHUDW/Tang-tan%2C+Angela+.jpg Blog - How We Doctors Learn How to Act and React by USC Keck School of Medicine medical student Angela Tang-Tan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/thresholds-and-doorways-exploring-mental-health-narratives-through-art-by-aubrey-reed monthly 0.5 2024-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d785cfb1-3931-4581-b6d7-baa4161720b6/%C2%A9+Beyond+the+Threshold+Aubrey+Reed+Spring+2024+Intima.jpg Blog - Thresholds and Doorways: Exploring Mental Health Narratives Through Art by Emory MD/PhD candidate Aubrey Reed - Make it stand out © Beyond the Threshold Aubrey Reed Spring 2024 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643838070-5DK21CRQL76JDU3MR5VX/Reed%2C+Aubrey.jpg Blog - Thresholds and Doorways: Exploring Mental Health Narratives Through Art by Emory MD/PhD candidate Aubrey Reed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/missing-someone-a-reflection-on-loss-and-yearning-by-shruti-koti monthly 0.5 2024-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643791838-ILM54C1CRK54MR66H2WS/Koti%2C+Shruti.jpg Blog - Missing Someone: A Reflection on Loss and Yearning by Shruti Koti - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/sestinatiaforsmanlynnlawrence monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652301982251-VNY6S41GEHW56GD6W015/%C2%A9+Remnant+2+by+Tia+Forsman+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Blog - A Sestina in Honor of Tia Forsman’s “Remnant” by Lynn Lawrence - Make it stand out © Remnant 2 by Tia Forsman Spring 2022 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652301983615-9INMQO9IREYQKN88A7OM/%C2%A9+Remnant+6+by+Tia+Forsman+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Blog - A Sestina in Honor of Tia Forsman’s “Remnant” by Lynn Lawrence - Make it stand out © Remnant 6 by Tia Forsman. Spring 2022 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643792060-0IZ2CUKOCDXAJSUTFHSG/Lawrence%2C+Lynn.jpg Blog - A Sestina in Honor of Tia Forsman’s “Remnant” by Lynn Lawrence - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/selfexaminationburdensofbeingsickamandaford monthly 0.5 2024-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643728100-QQ05CY8DZ1CYAE6CQAME/Ford%2C+Amanda.jpg Blog - Self-Examinations and the Burdens of Being Sick by Amanda Ford - Make it stand out Amanda Ford is a writer and scientist living in Northern California. She trained as an astrophysicist; her work on galaxy formation and evolution has appeared in Science, The Astrophysical Journal, and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. She works as a data scientist for the San Francisco Mayor’s Office; using statistics, modeling, and analysis to improve the City’s response to the homelessness crisis. Ford, a survivor of cancer and brain injury, is learning how to live well with severe Lyme disease. Her essay, "Another Day of Childhood" appears in the Spring 2024 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685151207599-FQNX3LXSX5ABPP0FQLJ2/Self+Examination+with+Otoscope+Abigail+Parsons+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Blog - Self-Examinations and the Burdens of Being Sick by Amanda Ford - Make it stand out Self Examination with Otoscope by Abigail Parsons. Spring 2023 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685151208496-8L8HJT9TACNZHYX5EDJC/Self+Examination+with+X-ray+by+Abigail+Parsons+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Blog - Self-Examinations and the Burdens of Being Sick by Amanda Ford - Make it stand out Self Examination with X-ray by Abigail Parsons. Spring 2023 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685151207874-2FWVX4JMH8GTI5XW6U3I/Self+Examination+with+Ultrasound+Abigail+Parsons+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Blog - Self-Examinations and the Burdens of Being Sick by Amanda Ford - Make it stand out Self Examination with Ultrasound by Abigail Parsons. Spring 2023 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/does-one-honor-or-diminish-an-elderly-parent-by-insisting-on-the-truth-a-reflection-by-david-pines monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643830735-AFEKEIKPQ7RVQ2XG9UKB/Pines%2C+Davida.jpg Blog - Does one honor or diminish an elderly parent by insisting on the truth? A reflection by Davida Pines - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/our-body-is-an-ecosystem monthly 0.5 2024-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685199603059-4W5U1VKBGH773AXNVQMH/%C2%A9+Tracing+Our+Roots+1+Digitalis+Sonja+Eagle+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Blog - Our Body is an Ecosystem: A reflection by Jeanne Yu - Make it stand out “Tracing Our Roots: Digitalis” by Sonja Eagle. Digitalis purpurea, also known as Foxglove, which Digoxin is derived from. While the plant’s medicinal properties were likely known of for centuries, they were first published about in the late 1700’s to treat congestive heart failure, known in those times as ‘dropsy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d7809740-5e7b-4117-b5f4-636ef44bde5f/%C2%A9+Body+As+Tool+Jonathan+Tijerina+Fall+2022+Intima.JPG Blog - Our Body is an Ecosystem: A reflection by Jeanne Yu - Make it stand out © Body As Tool by Jonathan Tijerina. Graphite on paper. Fall 2022 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716644131259-URUHHEG38ZCGHVB41DAR/Yu%2C+Jeanne.jpg Blog - Our Body is an Ecosystem: A reflection by Jeanne Yu - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/wewaitnancylewisintimaspring2024 monthly 0.5 2024-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643797337-9L1POP9TOPFJS4F5HFOW/Lewis%2C+Nancy.jpeg Blog - We Wait….a reflection by writer Nancy Lewis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/poetry-and-palliative-care-a-reflection-by-writer-dan-yashinsky monthly 0.5 2024-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716644163964-T5EAAWDKHQBENFMGF1ZU/Yashinsky%2C+Dan+Credit-Jacob+Zavitz.jpg Blog - Poetry and Palliative Care, a reflection by writer Dan Yashinsky - Make it stand out Dan Yashinsky is a storyteller living in Toronto. He's the author of “Suddenly They Heard Footsteps - Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century” and “I Am Full - Stories for Jacob.” He worked for five years at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care as a storyteller-in-residence, and created — with social worker Melissa Tafler — a story-based approach to healthcare called "storycare." Author photo by Jacob Zavitz https://www.theintima.org/blog/moving-into-compassion-one-small-moment-at-a-time-by-molly-mccormick monthly 0.5 2024-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/7ee5a553-f3e9-4453-af4d-dee35bdabc87/Mccormick%2C+Molly.jpg Blog - Moving into Compassion, One Small Moment at a Time by anesthesiologist Molly McCormick - Make it stand out Molly McCormick is a practicing anesthesiologist who has worked in anesthesiology for the past 33 years. https://www.theintima.org/blog/caregivingessayleenaambady monthly 0.5 2024-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643693887-YVAFH9DY8EKKYLXYC2NC/Ambady%2C+Leena.jpeg Blog - It’s Happening to Me, Too: Reflections on Interconnectedness, Interdependence, and Independence in Caregiving Relationships by Leena Ambady - Make it stand out Leena Ambady is a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. She is interested in a career in primary care and enjoys reading and writing. https://www.theintima.org/blog/caring-and-the-challenges-of-social-convention-by-jeffrey-millstein-md monthly 0.5 2024-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643808330-SUNY574V5S0D01PQ8DR9/Millstein%2C+Jeffrey.jpg Blog - Caring and the Challenges of Social Convention, by Jeffrey Millstein, MD - Make it stand out Jeffrey Millstein is an internist, writer and educator, and serves as a Regional Medical Director for Penn Primary Care. https://www.theintima.org/blog/were-invisible-too-by-cheryl-bailey monthly 0.5 2024-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643700110-YAQ6CSI0ZX4JRIKWCSNP/Bailey%2C+Cheryl.jpeg Blog - We’re Invisible, Too: Showing Respect for Healthcare Workers by Cheryl Bailey - Make it stand out Cheryl Bailey is a retired gynecologic oncologist whose short story “People Are Dumb” appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1698258848963-9S364FO6Z9FFPCLZIOEJ/%C2%A9+Dr+Hu+Cathy+by+Leon+Axel+FALL+2023+Intima.jpg Blog - We’re Invisible, Too: Showing Respect for Healthcare Workers by Cheryl Bailey - Make it stand out One of the watercolors in Leon Axel’s series titled “RT Journey” (Intima, Fall 2023) showing members of his radiation team. https://www.theintima.org/blog/crossroadsspring2024brucecampbell monthly 0.5 2024-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643710420-3LBG55011AB03NPMOFYL/Campbell%2C+Bruce.png Blog - Wisdom of the Ages: A Surgeon's Reflections on Writing, Vocation and Satisfying Endings - Make it stand out Bruce H. Campbell, MD, FACS, is a retired head and neck cancer surgeon who practiced at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is the author of A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity, and Grace (TEN16 Press, 2021). Campbell is a non-fiction editor for Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. www.BruceCampbellMD.com https://www.theintima.org/blog/z7g2gwfzu18q6bev5xeouu6eeuu2yd monthly 0.5 2024-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227036546-95Y5DVMAC7X7DD92BEKU/Taylor%2C+Katie.JPG Blog - Before and After: In Response to “The Face as an Organ of Identity” by California community doctor Katie Taylor - Make it stand out Kathryn Taylor is a community doctor who works at a homeless clinic in San Francisco, California. Her essay, “On My Way to Work: A Walk Through San Francisco’s Tenderloin District ,” which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, appeared in the Fall 2023 Intima. Another essay: by Taylor: “Delusional Parisitosis, Delusional Me,” appeared in the Spring 2022 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1709573731903-RANFHSA9HNYYKGRTK4A0/%C2%A9+The+Face+as+an+Organ+of+Identity1+Nathan+Makarewicz+Spring+2023.jpg Blog - Before and After: In Response to “The Face as an Organ of Identity” by California community doctor Katie Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1709573731881-GXC6HOAGGREPG4SSKXT2/%C2%A9+The+Face+as+an+Organ+of+Identity2+Nathan+Makarewicz+Spring+2023.jpg Blog - Before and After: In Response to “The Face as an Organ of Identity” by California community doctor Katie Taylor https://www.theintima.org/blog/408j439xp2fvva61ochwgclkjkrnag monthly 0.5 2024-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227015139-DEZTJ8U0DH30QXA0BILS/Johnsrude%2C+Laura.jpg Blog - Leaning Close: "No more interventions. No more transfusions." A reflection on mortality and morbidity rounds by pediatrician-writer Laura Johnsrude - Make it stand out Laura Johnsrude is a retired pediatrician living in Louisville, Kentucky. Her essays have been published or are forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, Hippocampus, The Spectacle, Please See Me, Minerva Rising, Drunk Monkeys, Under the Gum Tree, The Examined Life Journal, Sweet: A Literary Confection, The Boom Project anthology, and on Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog. Take a moment to read her Field Notes essay “Beholding Something Fine” (Fall 2023 Intima), https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-healing-power-of-empathy-does-it-exist-can-it-be-acquired monthly 0.5 2024-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1628478275102-5B51SR8COHNSF9ROG8EI/Walker%2C+Daly+Photo+by+Sally+Carpenter.jpg Blog - The Healing Power of Empathy: Does it Exist? Can it be Acquired? - Make it stand out Daly Walker is a retired surgeon. His short story “Resuscitation” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1698258848963-9S364FO6Z9FFPCLZIOEJ/%C2%A9+Dr+Hu+Cathy+by+Leon+Axel+FALL+2023+Intima.jpg Blog - The Healing Power of Empathy: Does it Exist? Can it be Acquired? - Make it stand out © Dr Hu and Cathy by Leon Axel FALL 2023 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1698258850861-BK6MJHG2PIRCTUCS6MRO/%C2%A9+Recovering+by+Leon+Axel+FALL+2023+Intima.jpg Blog - The Healing Power of Empathy: Does it Exist? Can it be Acquired? - Make it stand out © Recovering by Leon Axel FALL 2023 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/fear-and-compassion-understanding-panic-attacks-by-lisa-hd-napolitan monthly 0.5 2024-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598042363360-E5TK0H2HFNBQPEPX2WR3/%28c%29+How+a+Heart+Grows+by+Susan+Baller-Shepard+FALL+2018+INTIMA.jpg Blog - Fear and Compassion: At the Heart of Panic Attacks by Lisa H.D. Napolitan - Make it stand out © How a Heart Grows. Susan Baller-Shepard. Fall 2018 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598042981012-7QBV41B0FJB2JDV7KL0Z/%C2%A9+Side+Effects+by+Tina+La+Porta.+INTIMA+FALL+2019+copy.jpg Blog - Fear and Compassion: At the Heart of Panic Attacks by Lisa H.D. Napolitan - Make it stand out © Side Effects. Tina La Porta. FALL 2019 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227031407-TRNXR1AK4H194OWMA0YH/Napolitan%2C+Lisa+Fall+2023.jpeg Blog - Fear and Compassion: At the Heart of Panic Attacks by Lisa H.D. Napolitan - Make it stand out Lisa Napolitan is married to a brilliant, selfless woman who supports her writing habit; they have two awesome college kids. Her work has appeared in various journals. Her short story, “Destrehan,” which was published by Into the Void, was nominated to Best Small Fictions. She serves on the Board and Conference Committee of Women Who Write, Inc., a non-profit supporting women writers at all stages of their careers. She holds a BA in Semiotics from Brown, an MFA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Hofstra and is working toward her doctorate in writing and literary studies at Drew University. She credits her brilliant mother for inspiring her as a writer. Discover more: lisanapolitan.com and on Twitter @4amwriterlisa. https://www.theintima.org/blog/yrnf5o464hbkpeaj222vm5z1vv7r3c monthly 0.5 2024-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227007822-IL34DB77ZBL4O0GOFL37/Byler%2C+Lynne.jpeg Blog - How to Write About Cancer: How Poetry Can Break the Rules by writer Lynne Byler - Make it stand out Lynne Byler is a poet and cancer patient (mantle cell lymphoma) in remission. Her poem “Minds Go Where Bodies Can’t” appears in the Fall 2023 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/at-the-intersection-of-professional-responsibility-and-personal-recognition-bysusan-carlson monthly 0.5 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699362561384-AXESPHDOPSS9GSWDCQB2/Carlson%2C+Susan+.jpg Blog - Listening to Beethoven: A Reflection on Professional Responsibility and Personal Recognition by poet Susan Carlson - Make it stand out Susan Carlson’s work has appeared in various journals including Passager, River Heron Review, Gyroscope Review, Typishly and Persimmon Tree. Her poem “The Operating Room” appears in the Fall 2023 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a74yz5s4691ng1olbqw2dbx2qvaq8x monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652216303961-32FO5O9XAWXIANYE1BIL/%C2%A9+The+War+Outside+Claire+Lawrence+Spring+2022+Intima.jpeg Blog - Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: When the Outside Looks Different From What’s Happening Inside by Kimberly Mitchell - Make it stand out © The War Outside. From “The Impact of War on Mental Health” series. Claire Lawrence Spring 2022 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652216314691-RRTUS6CO4K2QJDG52LT8/%C2%A9+The+War+Inside++Claire+Lawrence+Spring+2022+Intima.jpeg Blog - Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: When the Outside Looks Different From What’s Happening Inside by Kimberly Mitchell - Make it stand out © The War Inside from “The Impact of War on Mental Health” series. Claire Lawrence Spring 2022 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227030622-WA8F8PI4Z9D8ZRE9HFSD/Mitchell%2C+Kimberly+Fall+2023.jpg Blog - Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: When the Outside Looks Different From What’s Happening Inside by Kimberly Mitchell - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/endurance-and-gratitude-by-laura-carmen-arena monthly 0.5 2024-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1698332890529-73BFYJRYUUUJQBUHX46A/Oncology+Fish+2+by+Laura+Arena+FALL+2023+Intima.jpg Blog - Endurance and Gratitude: A reflection on finding joy in difficult moments by Laura Carmen Arena - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227004770-OYNFEFV6L9EMLRD3TYGT/Arena%2C+Laura.jpg Blog - Endurance and Gratitude: A reflection on finding joy in difficult moments by Laura Carmen Arena - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reading-patients-when-illiteracy-is-what-afflicts-them-a-reflection-by-medical-oncologist-jose-bufill monthly 0.5 2023-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227006562-RNW1M9MZ4DWO8PKV8NJK/Bufill%2C+Jose.jpg Blog - "Reading" Patients When Illiteracy is What Afflicts Them: A reflection by medical oncologist Jose Bufill - Make it stand out Jose A. Bufill is a medical oncologist in full time clinical practice for 30 years in South Bend, Indiana. For about 10 years, he served as director of medical education at his local hospital. Born in Havana, Cuba to a college professor father and a librarian mother, he is convinced that neglect of the humanities impoverishes the practice of medicine. He likes to listen to his patients, to write and to paint in oils. Find out more about his work at buroakfoundation.org https://www.theintima.org/blog/eww3658ah937wu42p7gupzvm4vlgck monthly 0.5 2023-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227006533-Y45VW5GH6EI2UE53ZAAC/Brender%2C+Teva.jpg Blog - What Great Literature Taught Me by internal medicine resident Teva Brender - Make it stand out Teva Brender is a second-year internal medicine resident at the University of California, San Francisco. He graduated from Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine in 2022. https://www.theintima.org/blog/1l2y2i54h064uy87gigmutz0el3bo7 monthly 0.5 2023-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238583328-ITNR4HONDLJRR4QUZ4QR/Rodgers%2C+Sarajane.jpg Blog - The Thing About ‘Good News’ at the Doctor’s Office by neuropsychology postdoc fellow Sarajane Rodgers - Make it stand out Sarajane Rodgers is a second-year neuropsychology postdoctoral fellow at Geisinger Medical Center in central Pennsylvania. While she sees patients with a variety of conditions in several settings, she most enjoys working with inpatients who have altered consciousness. In addition to her postdoc, she is doing a remote Master of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and hopes to contribute to the world of global health. Her short story “Time Machine” appeared in the Spring 2023 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-subtraction-understand-whats-lost-and-gained-in-sickness-and-in-health-by-abby-wheeler monthly 0.5 2023-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227038246-GESCO8W00ELHJRZ8ATBA/Wheeler%2C+Abby.JPG Blog - On Subtraction: Understanding What's Lost and Gained in Clinical Encounters by Abby Wheeler - Make it stand out Abby Wheeler lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a 2022 Pushcart nominee and has work published or forthcoming in The Cimarron Review; Grist; the anthology, I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices (Sheila-Na-Gig) and elsewhere. Her chapbook, In the Roots, is available from Finishing Line Press. https://www.theintima.org/blog/what-clown-doctors-see-and-dont-see-a-look-at-healthy-humor-by-phyllis-capello monthly 0.5 2023-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227008047-H52NAZ02YXUFDBX7J8OB/Capello%2C+Phyllis.jpeg Blog - What Clown Doctors See and Don't See: A Look at Healthy Humor by Phyllis Capello - Make it stand out Phyllis Capello, who is a writer and musician, is a NYFA fellow in fiction I and a winner of an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Her collection “Packs Small Plays Big” is from Bordighera Press, 2018. Cantastoria work (sing/storyteller) has taken her from Ireland-to-Istanbul. She has presented at the International Oral History Conference in Rome, Italy and has been a musician/clown since 1990 with Healthy Humor Red Nose Docs, as well as a member of the poetry/activist trio, The Ferlinghetti Girls. ferlinghettigirls.com In 2023 she was honored with People’s Hall of Fame Award for teaching artistry for her work in New York City schools. Her poem “The Ballad of a Harlem Boy” appears in the Fall 2023 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-cure-and-language-are-inadequate-what-remains-reflecting-on-bearing-witness-by-rachel-ciccoria monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238468604-UCWBIQXGTAGZBZRZJXU2/Cicoria%2C+Rachel.jpg Blog - When Cure and Language are Inadequate, What Remains? Reflecting on bearing witness by Rachel Cicoria - Make it stand out Rachel Cicoria, who hails from Pine Island, Florida, is a graduate student in philosophy at Texas A&M University. Her essay “Eyes of Sea and Earth” appeared in the Spring 2023 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-feeling-blue-and-self-care-a-reflection-by-elizabeth-osmond monthly 0.5 2023-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/91329d97-7789-4cae-9468-b522d8e24991/%C2%A9Feeling+Blue+Amanda+Hage+Spring+2022+Intima.png Blog - On "Feeling Blue" and Self Care: A reflection by neonatologist-poet Elizabeth Osmond - Make it stand out © Feeling Blue Amanda Hage Spring 2022 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1699227032042-87EXMUR83N1D6WHPQWYG/Osmond%2C+Elizabeth+.JPG Blog - On "Feeling Blue" and Self Care: A reflection by neonatologist-poet Elizabeth Osmond - Make it stand out Elizabeth Osmond is a UK-based consultant neonatologist and a poet. In 2021, she won third prize in the Hippocrates competition for poetry and medicine and her work has been published in medical and literary journals. She writes poetry as a form of reflective practice. https://www.theintima.org/blog/crossing-the-line-the-power-of-touch monthly 0.5 2023-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238522297-F8HRR06KC8ZI6MEF218F/Humikowski%2C+Cathy.jpg Blog - Crossing the Line: The Power of Touch by Catherine Humikowski - Make it stand out Catherine Humikowski is a pediatric intensive care physician who survived a cardiac arrest on the day her daughter was born. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-individual-nature-of-care monthly 0.5 2023-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238469459-KKXL2FRQ2CTCSHD69FBI/Clarkson%2C+Joanne.jpg Blog - The Individual Nature of Care by Joanne Clarkson - Make it stand out Joanne Clarkson is a poet whose sixth poetry collection, "Hospice House," was released by MoonPath Press in 2023. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-work-worn-hands-and-gestures-of-love monthly 0.5 2023-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238467731-LGV1ZWRJZO8CP4FWFX6F/Baranow%2C+Joan+David+Watts+photo+credit+%283%29.jpg Blog - On Work-Worn Hands and Gestures of Love, a short essay by poet and educator, Joan Baranow - Make it stand out Joan Baranow is the author of six poetry collections, including Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, winner of the 2021 Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. https://www.theintima.org/blog/scripting-death-when-words-fail-in-conversation-with-liana-mefferts-death-is-usually-an-easy-diagnosis-by-paula-holmes-rodman-1 monthly 0.5 2023-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1687016158214-1GXNBVNNCANU0AMCK4YS/Holmes-Rodman%2C%2BPaula%2B.jpg Blog - Scripting Death: When Words Fail – In Conversation with Liana Meffert’s “Death is Usually an Easy Diagnosis” by Paula Holmes-Rodman - Make it stand out Paula Holmes-Rodman, PhD, is an anthropologist, writer, caregiver, and an advocate for cancer patients on the autism spectrum. She is interested in narrative repatriation, pilgrimage, and postcolonial Indigenous identities, particularly among women in the American Southwest. She lives in Courtenay, BC on Vancouver Island. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-third-ear-listening-for-intergenerational-trauma monthly 0.5 2023-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238466582-SGKT0W8RNDZ7XFRER0B9/Baisch%2C+Becca.jpg Blog - The Third Ear: Listening for Intergenerational Trauma - Make it stand out Becca Baisch is a pediatric psychiatrist who quiets her busy days and mind by writing books, short stories, and essays. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-knowing monthly 0.5 2023-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238579592-PBK58MKZCL1SLL4LXWVA/Napoli+Long%2C+Denise.jpeg Blog - On Knowing - Make it stand out Denise Napoli Long is a home hospice and emergency department RN and EMT with her local volunteer fire department. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-being-confined monthly 0.5 2023-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238749783-B5LLCKYWUSYM8L7VJ1IV/Lands%2C+Ron.jpeg Blog - On Being Confined - Make it stand out Ron Lands recently retired from UT Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee as a hematologist. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-sinatra-bach-and-daughters-the-power-of-true-joy-in-the-face-of-illness monthly 0.5 2023-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238468103-4AU1WJRUB85LHD2HLPNA/Baselga-Garriga_Clara.png Blog - On Sinatra, Bach, and Daughters: The Power of True Joy in the Face of Illness - Make it stand out Clara Baselga-Garriga is a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-importance-of-providing-compassionate-palliative-and-end-of-life-care monthly 0.5 2023-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238465618-J0IGZ95RMH9D7Q93G87F/Allen%2C+Liza.jpg Blog - The Importance of Providing Compassionate Palliative and End-of-Life Care - Make it stand out Liza Allen is a technical writer and health coach who lives in Minnesota. https://www.theintima.org/blog/leave-work-at-work monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238524505-WUEYXP6I11MGBF3NBW05/Kingston%2C+Andrew.png Blog - Leave Work at Work - Make it stand out Andrew Kingston is a nurse who currently specializes in pediatric/adolescent psychiatry. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-embodied-connection-in-patient-provider-interaction monthly 0.5 2023-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685238585926-M1YU2JWVHKPU3KNLL98R/Shamash%2C+Kieran.jpeg Blog - The Embodied Connection in Patient-Provider Interaction - Make it stand out Kieran Shamash is a former PICU nurse who now works as a nurse anesthetist in the Los Angeles area. https://www.theintima.org/blog/stories-make-us-human-by-krista-puttler monthly 0.5 2023-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ee91896d-1446-4cfb-927d-a45c625ff260/Puttler%2C%2BKrista.jpeg Blog - Stories Make Us Human by Krista Puttler - Make it stand out Krista Puttler studied fiction writing at Northwestern University and is working on her first book, a memoir of her last year on active duty in the US Navy as the Ship’s Surgeon on a deployed aircraft carrier. Her story “This Other Person” appears in the Spring 2023 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/scripting-death-when-words-fail-in-conversation-with-liana-mefferts-death-is-usually-an-easy-diagnosis-by-paula-holmes-rodman monthly 0.5 2023-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/9619cefa-0cd3-48db-9efa-b0e2dc974080/Holmes-Rodman%2C%2BPaula%2B.jpg Blog - Scripting Death: When Words Fail – In Conversation with Liana Meffert’s “Death is Usually an Easy Diagnosis” by Paula Holmes-Rodman - Make it stand out Paula Holmes-Rodman, PhD, is an anthropologist, writer, caregiver, and an advocate for cancer patients on the autism spectrum. She is interested in narrative repatriation, pilgrimage, and postcolonial Indigenous identities, particularly among women in the American Southwest. She lives in Courtenay, BC on Vancouver Island. Instagram: @holmesrodman. Her piece "Mercies, Or, the Mostly True Tale of a Narratively Assisted Death," appears in the Spring 2023 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/religious-moments-in-medical-practice monthly 0.5 2023-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685276014208-JRLGDIT0MHZFUSRBC9VO/Pierce%2C+John+.jpeg Blog - Religious Moments in Medical Practice by internist John Pierce - Make it stand out John Pierce practiced in West Texas as a primary care internist for two decades, and then served on the faculties at the Texas Tech University School of Medicine and University of New Mexico School of Medicine (UNM). https://www.theintima.org/blog/objectivity-versus-art-a-reflection-on-technology-in-medicine monthly 0.5 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1642532253526-ET8O1DO98T1MYS02A880/Lycette%2C%2BJennifer.jpeg Blog - Objectivity versus Art: A Reflection on Technology in Medicine - Make it stand out JL Lycette is a novelist, award-winning essayist, rural physician, wife, and mother. https://www.theintima.org/blog/absences-in-cortney-davis-it-was-the-second-patient-of-the-day monthly 0.5 2023-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064141617-DNC1TCR3VKSSOQN8TFGR/Roley%2C+Brian+Ascalon.jpeg Blog - Absences in Cortney Davis' "It Was the Second Patient of the Day" - Make it stand out Brian Ascalon Roley is a professor and award-winning author of Philippine and American descent, and a recent National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow. https://www.theintima.org/blog/let-me-speak-my-free-mind-into-you-seeking-genuine-connection-in-medical-practice monthly 0.5 2023-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287553673-H4N6QVAV33ZL6AVZWKJY/Okonkwo%2C+Jude.jpg Blog - Let Me Speak My Free Mind into You: Seeking Genuine Connection in Medical Practice - Make it stand out Jude Okonkwo is a graduate of Harvard College and a medical student at Columbia Medical School. https://www.theintima.org/blog/after-testimony-tribute monthly 0.5 2023-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287553945-RP8D25O4U2SM1I724CT3/Nikhamina%2C+Kasia++Credit+Sam+Polcer.jpeg Blog - After Testimony, Tribute - Make it stand out Kasia Nikhamina was born in Poland and came of age in New York City. She earned a BA in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. https://www.theintima.org/blog/hungry-for-the-everyday-on-jennifer-abernathys-hunger monthly 0.5 2023-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287520833-8JD1UMS32ZBX80FH9ZGI/McKenna%2C+Siobhan.jpg Blog - Hungry for the Everyday: On Jennifer Abernathy’s "Hunger" - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-disability-tools-and-dignity monthly 0.5 2023-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287520633-89HG8E18MSSEF9R650PP/McArdle%2C+Jeanne.jpg Blog - On Disability, Tools, and Dignity - Make it stand out Jeanne McArdle is pursuing a CPA in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and writes frequently about disability and chronic illness. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-magic-meets-medicine-a-reflection-on-the-power-of-play monthly 0.5 2023-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668340743257-HCF6JGLOSGSGAKJRDUB0/Langan%2C+Tess.jpg Blog - When Magic Meets Medicine: A Reflection on the Power of Play - Make it stand out Tess Langan is a community-based coach. She lives in Oakland, California. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-reduction-of-human-life-and-tight-narrative monthly 0.5 2023-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287469434-U64COCACISP6YZWU5OLG/Leavitt%2C+June.jpg Blog - The Reduction of Human Life and Tight Narrative - Make it stand out June Leavitt, PhD is a retired adjunct professor in the Overseas Students Program at Ben Gurion University (Israel) in mystical literary traditions as well as an author who directs creative writing workshops. https://www.theintima.org/blog/therapeutic-alliance-a-key-to-effective-treatment monthly 0.5 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287522711-N6MA6CTCN7JV739JYB32/Muhrer%2C+Jill.jpeg Blog - Therapeutic Alliance: A Key to Effective Treatment - Make it stand out Jill Muhrer is a family nurse practitioner who retired after providing primary care to patients in Camden, New Jersey through a federally-qualified healthcare center. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-sense-of-being-lost-in-the-face-of-illness-and-death monthly 0.5 2023-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1558005925305-EYY15WICV0SKH6TRI1E3/Kravitz%2C+Richard.jpeg Blog - The Sense of Being Lost in the Face of Illness and Death - Make it stand out Richard Kravitz is a psychiatrist at the VA Hospital in West Haven, Connecticut. https://www.theintima.org/blog/seeing-through monthly 0.5 2023-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895580796-7SD4FK5LZLWOHTVK4SRY/Smith%2C+Nancy.jpg Blog - Seeing Through - Make it stand out Nancy Smith is a retired registered nurse, who moved through many of the venues of hospital nursing, but who worked mostly in an Intensive Care Unit. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-beautiful-surprise monthly 0.5 2023-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287613121-T61ETMQLF77F9TT13EU8/Sumner%2C+Julie.jpeg Blog - The Beautiful Surprise - Make it stand out Julie Sumner teaches creative writing in Nashville, Tennessee. She has worked as a critical care nurse, liver transplant coordinator, and massage therapist. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-poetry-changed-my-practice monthly 0.5 2023-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287639310-QJU2O7HWAV4P8LTNT8VU/Wynn%2C+Michael.jpg Blog - How Poetry Changed My Practice - Make it stand out Michael Wynn is a neurologist in Corvallis, Oregon. His chapbook “Bodies of Evidence” was published in 2015. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-transplant-patients-reflection-on-living-while-dying monthly 0.5 2023-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287554370-G48ENRIFNL6L5KVIAGEX/Paniagua%2C+Gianna+.jpg Blog - A Transplant Patient's Reflection on Living While Dying - Make it stand out Gianna Paniagua was born in New York in 1991 and is the recipient of two heart transplants (1992 & 2021). She pursued a BA and MFA in the arts and used her career as a professional artist and master papercutting sculptor to find unique ways into the medical world where she had originally wanted to work since infancy. https://www.theintima.org/blog/from-both-sides-now monthly 0.5 2023-02-03 https://www.theintima.org/blog/being-more-than-just-a-white-coat monthly 0.5 2023-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287579402-B1OHRM8J8BD5T5SA8LQX/Reed%2C+Glynnis.jpg Blog - Being More Than Just a White Coat - Make it stand out Glynnis Reed is an accomplished visual artist, art educator, and emerging scholar. She is currently a fourth-semester doctoral candidate in Art Education & Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. https://www.theintima.org/blog/instruction-as-narrative-a-reflection-on-rachel-kowalskys-your-first-pediatric-intubation monthly 0.5 2023-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287397014-RB02WQS10X6W57DDS5MG/Conner%2C+Adam.jpg Blog - Instruction as Narrative: A Reflection on Rachel Kowalsky's "Your First Pediatric Intubation" - Make it stand out Adam Conner currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-healing-suffering-and-end-of-life-care monthly 0.5 2023-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668477938818-CZQ1EVQFK4R1ZP4HCVS1/Anand%2C+Divya.jpg Blog - On Healing, Suffering, and End-Of-Life Care - Make it stand out Divya Anand is a second-year student at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. https://www.theintima.org/blog/using-laughter-to-face-the-darkness monthly 0.5 2023-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287581222-OTVV11RAY17716GHUTJU/Ruskin%2C+Ron.jpg Blog - Using Laughter to Face the Darkness - Make it stand out Ron Ruskin is a psychiatrist-writer and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. https://www.theintima.org/blog/i-am-moments-i-am-nature monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287520090-LP3H79GECYRU1L6HNFTZ/Martin%2C+Jena.jpeg Blog - I Am Moments / I Am Nature - Make it stand out Jena Martin is a pathologist in Minneapolis. https://www.theintima.org/blog/caregiving-when-the-patient-is-your-mother-a-reflection monthly 0.5 2022-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287580472-QMH5F1KFQMC9S6UHH9K5/Roley%2C+Brian+Ascalon.jpeg Blog - Caregiving: When the Patient is Your Mother. A Reflection by poet Brian Ascalon Roley - Make it stand out Brian Ascalon Roley is a professor and award-winning author of Philippine and American descent, and a recent National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow. https://www.theintima.org/blog/an-abortion-doula-and-the-greatest-professional-calling monthly 0.5 2022-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287495706-72QZTKR1WUFQQ6E1UJFY/Leung%2C+Jacquelyn.jpg Blog - An Abortion Doula and the Greatest Professional Calling - Make it stand out Jacquelyn Leung is a New Jersey-based family physician and science writing graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-gordian-knot-in-health monthly 0.5 2022-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287613121-4FMSLHXEAWJ9Q9D4WBLF/Stock%2C+Cynthia.JPG Blog - The Gordian Knot in Healthcare: A reflection by critical care clinician & writer Cynthia Stock - Make it stand out Cynthia Stock retired after forty-three years in Critical Care Nursing. Her short story “The PRN Wife” appears in our Fall 2022 issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1619649319616-1IFWJV311XPKFIZQ4DB6/%C2%A9+Gordian+Knot+by+Elisabeth+Preston-Hsu+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.jpg Blog - The Gordian Knot in Healthcare: A reflection by critical care clinician & writer Cynthia Stock - Make it stand out “Gordian Knot” (Intima, Spring 2020), a photograph by Elisabeth Preston-Hsu https://www.theintima.org/blog/taking-him-apart-took-me-apart-too monthly 0.5 2022-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287413053-MNWWM5GOAAIY5AZ839P0/DyBuncio%2C+Chrissie.png Blog - Taking Him Apart Took Me Apart, Too: On medical school and anatomy class by Chrissie DyBuncio - Make it stand out Chrissie DyBuncio is a Filipina-American writer and former physician. Her essay “Gross Anatomy” appears in our Fall 2022 issue. https://www.theintima.org/blog/moral-injury-in-medicine monthly 0.5 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668286425836-J9PG4J3JEH4N81EU7LE2/Baudino%2C+Frank.png Blog - Moral Injury in Medicine: What it means by physician Frank Baudino - Make it stand out Frank Baudino has been a physician specializing in Family Medicine for the past forty-two years. He believes strongly in medical volunteerism. His Field Notes essay “Her Eyes” appears in our Fall 2022 issue. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reflecting-on-the-blues monthly 0.5 2022-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1668287314225-AIOO7625AD30LQG1MS70/Alhashim%2C+Azhar.jpg Blog - Everyone Has the Blues: Learning acceptance by paramedic Azhar Alhashim - Make it stand out Azhar Alhashim is a hard-working dedicated female paramedic in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her artwork titled “Untouchable” appears in our Fall 2022 issue. https://www.theintima.org/blog/desensitization monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1653016616560-8IA6TKRQ6WZOS3EY7ML5/Read%2C+Catherine.jpeg Blog - Desensitization to the Face of Death: A reflection by poet and medical student Catherine Read - Make it stand out Catherine Read is a medical student at Eastern Virginia Medical School and pursuing a career in surgery. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-brian-ascalon-roleys-caregiving monthly 0.5 2022-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801446801-HDGX4VJTPE7QP7CX5VHC/Kowalsky%2C+Rachel.jpg Blog - On Brian Ascalon Roley’s "Caregiving" - Make it stand out Rachel Kowalsky is a pediatric emergency physician in New York City. https://www.theintima.org/blog/leading-change-in-healthcare-through-a-healing-nature monthly 0.5 2022-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801356590-XH5P49JL7SM3RSN7RXAP/Dominguez-Salazar%2C+Krista+.jpeg Blog - Leading Change in Healthcare Through a Healing Nature - Make it stand out Krista Dominguez-Salazar is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-moment-of-intimacy monthly 0.5 2022-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801571636-LM53P693LOQEC3MJTG99/Rovegno%2C+Luisa.jpg Blog - A Moment of Intimacy - Make it stand out Luisa Rovegno is beginning to write from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://www.theintima.org/blog/repeat-after-me monthly 0.5 2022-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801376461-M143MJVF1Y9H36KDO3CW/Huggett%2C+Nancy.jpg Blog - Repeat After Me: Questions about the brain in transition by writer Nancy Huggett - Make it stand out Nancy Huggett is a writer, caregiver and settler descendant who lives in Ottawa, Canada. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-patients-teach-us monthly 0.5 2022-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1663353915719-OD3R0W7R9VPXCCX8V9PE/%C2%A9+Art+of+Being+Here+1234pm+by+Kirilee+West+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Blog - How Patients Teach Us by Catalina Flores - Make it stand out The Art of Being Here by Kirilee West Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-tyranny-of-normal monthly 0.5 2022-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801345270-O87UMA82Y05JKCN253T1/Chebly%2C+Kate+Otto+.JPG Blog - The Tyranny of "Normal" in healthcare and healing by Dr. Kate Otto Chebly - Make it stand out Kate Otto Chebly is an American internal medicine physician working in Caracas, Venezuela. https://www.theintima.org/blog/describing-cancer-with-imagery-and-metaphors monthly 0.5 2022-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064142631-8T5YYMNG4VL1N4RVEGBV/Smith%2C+Sarah.jpg Blog - Describing Cancer with Imagery and Metaphors by Sarah Smith, MD - Make it stand out Sarah Smith is a board-certified family physician, an author, and a mother of two. https://www.theintima.org/blog/toes-talk-with-blue-pajamas monthly 0.5 2022-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983060589-GZRHSNXX6KBGP5XWUVEE/Blue+Pajama+Series+Crowd+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.JPG Blog - When Visuals Become Verbal: The Art of Communicating Emotional States of Mind by Barbara West - Make it stand out © Blue Pajama Series - Crowd by Rachel Wyman Fall 2021 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801626608-LF2LHI9NU4GJT57C0C9P/West%2C+Barbara.jpg Blog - When Visuals Become Verbal: The Art of Communicating Emotional States of Mind by Barbara West - Make it stand out Barbara West is a writer and hospice nurse, having focused on wound/ostomy/continence and foot care for the past decade. Her essay “Toe Talk” appears in the Spring 2022 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983051115-1BZX6UCFY5PZH28KZ2FP/Blue+Pajama+Series+-+Train+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.JPG Blog - When Visuals Become Verbal: The Art of Communicating Emotional States of Mind by Barbara West - Make it stand out © Blue Pajama Series - Train by Rachel Wyman Fall 2021 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983056211-DV7FZ8798EM8SSSYG0NV/Blue+Pajama+Series+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.jpg Blog - When Visuals Become Verbal: The Art of Communicating Emotional States of Mind by Barbara West - Make it stand out © Blue Pajama Series - Court by Rachel Wyman Fall 2021 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983066470-03YNDYQ2N2YEUYM7KR65/Blue+Pajama+Series+Walking+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.jpg Blog - When Visuals Become Verbal: The Art of Communicating Emotional States of Mind by Barbara West - Make it stand out © Blue Pajama Series - Walking by Rachel Wyman Fall 2021 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983029213-6ZON9O27SU58V8GQ4KVC/Blue+Pajama+Series+-+Flight+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.JPG Blog - When Visuals Become Verbal: The Art of Communicating Emotional States of Mind by Barbara West - Make it stand out © Blue Pajama Series - Flight by Rachel Wyman Fall 2021 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-importance-of-touch-in-medicine-and-beyond monthly 0.5 2022-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/7e5431a7-fa65-4034-870a-b15b7e52c6f8/White%2C+Katherine.jpg Blog - The Importance of Touch in Medicine (and Beyond) by neonatologist Katherine C. White - Make it stand out Katherine C. White, MD, is a retired neonatologist. Her work appears in Hektoen International, 1807, An Art & Literary Journal and the zine, Depression Walks. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-lost-patient-narrative-and-the-harm-of-ehr-centered-medicine monthly 0.5 2022-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801570223-D7NJV4XWF0QKGCUB9DQT/Redmer%2C+Jacqueline+MD.jpg Blog - The Lost Patient Narrative in our era of "EHR-Centered" Medicine: A Reflection by family medicine physicianJacqueline Redmer - Make it stand out Jacqueline Redmer works as a family medicine physician in rural WI. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-where-are-you-mary-oliver monthly 0.5 2022-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801446801-HDGX4VJTPE7QP7CX5VHC/Kowalsky%2C+Rachel.jpg Blog - On "Where Are You, Mary Oliver?" A pediatric ER doctor contemplates what two poets taught her about healing - Make it stand out Rachel Kowalsky is a pediatric emergency physician in New York City. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-luxury-of-walking-away monthly 0.5 2022-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801350069-S6CEGRFFV8HHDC2MO9JW/DeFelice%2C+Alexandra.JPG Blog - The Luxury of Walking Away: An MS4 meditates on time, isolation and the comforts of home - Make it stand out Alexandra DeFelice is an MS4 at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and plans to go into psychiatry. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-leslie-carrs-popsicle monthly 0.5 2022-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801372285-2XLS0O8CCG1608XCA1QT/Goldenburg%2C+Benjamin.jpeg Blog - Where do you turn for comfort? A reflection on Popsicles, Tater Tots and hospital gift shops by internist Ben Goldenberg - Make it stand out Ben Goldenberg is an internist and infectious diseases fellow in Chicago, IL. https://www.theintima.org/blog/surprise-behavior-in-the-pandemic monthly 0.5 2022-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801622482-FSPVWVBZX2S8QXKLM6DQ/Thomas%2C+Susan.jpg Blog - Surprising Behavior in the Pandemic - Make it stand out Susan Thomas is a Senior Nurse in Palliative Care working in a Hospice, whose work was recognized by The Hippocrates Prize in 2021. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-imagined-boundaries monthly 0.5 2022-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801360332-JPTHE6NTVY0PGZBFQ5GH/Errichetti%2C+Tony.jpeg Blog - On Imagined Boundaries: A reflection on "the body as a narrative instrument" by Tony Errichetti - Make it stand out Tony Errichetti is a CPA graduate from Columbia's Narrative Medicine program and co-founder of the Simulationist Narrative Medicine Community for individuals working in the human patient simulation field. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-lot-of-patients monthly 0.5 2022-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801373630-OA74S3M12A6CTRT18B8K/Haddad%2C+Amy.jpg Blog - Waiting: A reflection on anticipating a diagnosis by poet RN Amy Haddad - Make it stand out Amy Haddad is a poet, nurse, and educator who taught in the health sciences at Creighton University, where she is now a Professor Emerita. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-chance-to-say-goodbye-or-not monthly 0.5 2022-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801344854-AF4AF54RK2E44SR2BVKM/Chang%2C+Victoria.jpg Blog - The Chance to Say Goodbye... or Not: Thoughts about being prepared—or surprised— by death by end-of-life doula Virginia Chang - Make it stand out Virginia Chang, PhD, is a certified end-of-life doula and founder of Till The Last. https://www.theintima.org/blog/nay-nays-rebirth-by-sara-lynne-wright monthly 0.5 2022-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1628478275102-5B51SR8COHNSF9ROG8EI/Walker%2C+Daly+Photo+by+Sally+Carpenter.jpg Blog - Exploring End-of-Life themes in "Nay Nay's Rebirth," a short story by Sara Lynne Wright - Make it stand out Daly Walker is a retired surgeon. His story “Resuscitation” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/poems-help-us-deal-with-change-and-choice monthly 0.5 2022-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801347908-M4SOQC49P02A247DVIC1/Corey%2C+Anne.jpeg Blog - Poems Help Us Deal with Change and Choice by Anne Corey - Make it stand out Anne Corey is a teacher, writer, and artist living in New York’s Hudson Valley. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-writer-reads-a-life-by-beda-higgins monthly 0.5 2022-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801626484-64GNA6Z10XP6U3I40FOU/Weiss%2C+Judith+Hannah+.jpg Blog - The Sincerity of A Great Story: A Reflection on “A Life” by Judith Hannah Weiss - Make it stand out Judith Hannah Weiss freelanced for clients like Time Warner and Condé Nast. Her short story “The Doctor Said” appears in the Spring 2021 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/savoring-sunset monthly 0.5 2022-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801628799-K34WFODIPJGVGCYVVTYG/Wright_Sara.jpg Blog - Savoring Sunset: A reflection on saying goodbye by physician assistant Sara Lynne Wright - Make it stand out Sara Lynne Wright is a physician assistant in geriatric primary care at Stanford Health Care. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-sound-mind-in-a-sound-body monthly 0.5 2022-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ab0d07a6-5f4d-460a-871a-36818f12a637/%C2%A9+Pillar+of+Light+Jacqueline+Pflaum-CarlsonSpring+2022+Intima.jpeg Blog - A Sound Mind in a Sound Body, a reflection by poet Anastasia Vassos - Make it stand out © Pillar of Light by Jacqueline Pflaum-Carlson. Spring 2022 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801625389-L1ICVARPX4ONMUD4T3MG/Vassos%2C+Anastasia.jpg Blog - A Sound Mind in a Sound Body, a reflection by poet Anastasia Vassos - Make it stand out Anastasia Vassos is the author of Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (Nixes Mate 2021). https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-gifts-reserved-for-age-a-reflection monthly 0.5 2022-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801457508-89EFJTJF68SA5VD5758M/Morehead%2C+Richard+Scott+.jpeg Blog - The Gifts Reserved for Age: A Reflection by Richard Scott Morehead - Make it stand out Richard Scott Morehead, MD is Professor of Medicine at West Virginia University School of Medicine and teaches and practices pulmonary and critical care medicine at Charleston Area Medical Center. https://www.theintima.org/blog/who-knows-how-the-body-turns-a-reflection monthly 0.5 2022-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801451640-GJ0F95W34RVH59QCSICM/Luna%2C+Sheila.jpg Blog - Who Knows How the Body Turns? A Reflection on Lyme and Rheumatoid Arthritis by Sheila Luna - Make it stand out Sheila Luna is a writer from Arizona whose essays have appeared in Kaleidoscope, PILGRIM: A Journal of Catholic Experience, Longridge Review, Spry Literary Journal and DINE: An Anthology (Hippocampus Books). https://www.theintima.org/blog/poets-on-poets-a-look-back-and-forward monthly 0.5 2022-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1622381045525-U62OKR01GC0WC92AMOBH/Goldsmith%2C+Ellen+2021.jpg Blog - Poets on Poets: A Look Back and Forward by Ellen Goldsmith - Make it stand out Ellen Goldsmith is a writer whose recent book, Left Foot, Right Foot, is an illness and recovery story in 28 poems. https://www.theintima.org/blog/whats-a-good-patient-a-reflection monthly 0.5 2022-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1653017353615-SF7T26INRG9EFYWGQDFU/Ellis%2C+Jacqueline.jpg Blog - What's a "Good Patient"? A Reflection by Jacqueline Ellis - Make it stand out Jacqueline Ellis is a writer and professor of women's and gender studies. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-to-do-breast-cancer monthly 0.5 2022-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801340969-3LQYU9QDSNJ9XCLLIIME/Brownstein%2C+Dena.jpeg Blog - How to "Do" Breast Cancer by Dena Brownstein - Make it stand out Dena Brownstein is a pediatric emergency physician who retired in 2020 after a 35-year career. https://www.theintima.org/blog/notes-from-a-nurse-on-our-patients-self-care-and-hospitals monthly 0.5 2022-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/12b281a7-bd89-4f21-87b5-a5fc99445fda/%C2%A9+Nurse+3+William+Doan.jpeg Blog - On Caring and Suffering by Michael Evans, William Doan, Kiernan Riley, Kalei Kowalchik, and Logan DeSanto - Make it stand out © Nurse Saying Goodbye by William Doan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5e9a519b-65de-4cf7-be9e-7df83ec09f91/%C2%A9+Nurse+2+William+Doan.jpeg Blog - On Caring and Suffering by Michael Evans, William Doan, Kiernan Riley, Kalei Kowalchik, and Logan DeSanto - Make it stand out © Nurse with mask rash #4 by William Doan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/10004eae-df4a-4c90-9a04-1b38fe308afc/%C2%A9+Nurse+1+William+Doan.jpeg Blog - On Caring and Suffering by Michael Evans, William Doan, Kiernan Riley, Kalei Kowalchik, and Logan DeSanto - Make it stand out © Nurse with mask rash #5 by William Doan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1655920495028-AERY9IN4CJ395ES8ND1Z/Evans%2C+Michael.jpg Blog - On Caring and Suffering by Michael Evans, William Doan, Kiernan Riley, Kalei Kowalchik, and Logan DeSanto - Michael Evans Michael Evans, PhD., RN, is the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Nursing Education and a Teaching Professor in Nursing at Penn State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1655920514910-5MGJ1SQOZIDDDHLPEMFT/Doan%2C+William.jpeg Blog - On Caring and Suffering by Michael Evans, William Doan, Kiernan Riley, Kalei Kowalchik, and Logan DeSanto - William Doan William Doan, PhD is a Professor of Theatre in the College of Arts and Architecture, and Director of the Arts and Design Research Incubator at Penn State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1655920539217-FYZFW5HIFMDTQ2TN7ANH/Riley%2C+Kiernan.jpeg Blog - On Caring and Suffering by Michael Evans, William Doan, Kiernan Riley, Kalei Kowalchik, and Logan DeSanto - Kiernan Riley Kiernan Riley, PhD., RN, is a home hospice nurse in Worcester, Massachusetts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1655920553610-CI87SRZTETK3WU4NVCEK/DeSanto%2C+Logan.JPG Blog - On Caring and Suffering by Michael Evans, William Doan, Kiernan Riley, Kalei Kowalchik, and Logan DeSanto - Logan DeSanto  Logan DeSanto is a fourth-year honor's nursing student at Penn State University. https://www.theintima.org/blog/an-unlikely-refuge monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625924093608-VKAQGIVM5R69GZSTH1BR/HIRTHLER+2021.jpeg Blog - The Hospital Gift Shop: An Unlikely Refuge by Maureen Hirthler - Make it stand out Maureen Hirthler is a retired physician who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Hirthler is the Managing Editor of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/whats-the-right-way-to-die-a-reflection monthly 0.5 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652885150584-XEJ442L61A0SXJ8ESLVU/Paul%2C+Kathryn.jpeg Blog - What’s the Right Way to Die? And Where? A reflection by poet Kathryn Paul - Make it stand out Kathryn Paul (Kathy) is a survivor of many things, including cancer and downsizing. Her poems have appeared in Rogue Agent, Hospital Drive, The Ekphrastic Review, Lunch Ticket, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Pictures of Poets, and Poets Unite! The LiTFUSE @10 Anthology. Her poem “To the Woman at My Mother’s Funeral Who Thought It Was So Lovely That My Mother Died at Home” appears in the Spring 2022 Intima; another of her poems “Dementia Waltz” appeared in the Spring 2021 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/curing-bodies-how-uncertainty-and-variation-shape-early-experiences-in-medicine monthly 0.5 2022-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801375039-XQ8UPKE6IIEFK4SQZP3H/Harvey%2C+Anna.jpeg Blog - Curing Bodies: How Uncertainty and Variation Shape Early Experiences in Medicine by Anna Harvey Bluemel - Make it stand out Anna Harvey Bluemel is a medical doctor and junior clinical academic in the north of England. https://www.theintima.org/blog/9c28e6t0gx06oamkgysgjuh7huqjck monthly 0.5 2022-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d35ce116-0f3c-48fb-b250-7c6619a49f4b/Asif%2C+Saljooq+-+Editor+Intima+Journal.jpg Blog - The Role of the Medical Television Drama in Cinemeducation - Make it stand out Saljooq M. Asif is a medical student at New York Institute Technology of Osteopathic Medicine. We welcome him to our editorial board. https://www.theintima.org/blog/jj8wv99znozh1ygytf4aayf0smuh69 monthly 0.5 2022-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/da53629c-993f-4ccd-ac10-f668a41fecdc/Barreiro%252C%2BTimothy.jpg Blog - To Enhance, Supplement, and Support - Make it stand out Timothy Barreiro, DO, MPH, FCCP, FACP, FACOI is Professor of Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Medical University (Rootstown) and Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (Athens) and faculty at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA. We welcome him to our editorial board. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-witnessing-anothers-painor-is-it-our-own monthly 0.5 2022-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1645633537916-75HR31VPOHLVVBUJH6CT/Zahra%2BKhan%2BIntima%2Beditor.jpg Blog - On Witnessing Another’s Pain—Or Is It Our Own? - Make it stand out Zahra H. Khan, MS is a freelance editor and lecturer in the Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. We welcome her to our editorial board. https://www.theintima.org/blog/pnjynhab78v44aeixt8tzwd3mp20us monthly 0.5 2022-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1645563611666-NIVR0GPHDCGJ3B1YUAZJ/Campbell%2C+Bruce2.png Blog - Hands-On versus Hands-Off Medicine: Reflections of a Surgeon - Make it stand out Bruce H. Campbell, MD FACS is the author of A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity and Grace (2021). We welcome him to our editorial board. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-wisdom-of-the-pomegranate-4y2l6 monthly 0.5 2022-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/6ec2e528-ab81-49af-80ea-755fee85d740/Forutanjazi.png Blog - The Wisdom of the Pomegranate: A Reflection on Poetry and Mothers by Sina Foroutanjazi - Make it stand out Sina Foroutanjazi is currently a fourth-year medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He received his bachelor’s in science in chemistry and biology from UMass Boston, where he taught and conducted research in chemistry for several years. We welcome him to our Editorial Board. https://www.theintima.org/blog/what-the-dying-need-by-rachel-prince monthly 0.5 2022-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/85bd3b9c-7148-44c0-8ed8-b444af9b91dc/Prince.png Blog - What the Dying Need by Rachel Prince - Make it stand out Rachel Prince is currently an undergraduate senior at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she is part of the Honors program, and is in the process of obtaining a Certificate of Specialization in Creative Writing. We welcome her to our Editorial Board. https://www.theintima.org/blog/to-be-healed-by-olamide-adejumo monthly 0.5 2022-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/41000b54-0268-4c3e-908e-52162b3ce2dd/Adejumo%2C%2BOlamide.jpeg Blog - To Be Healed by Olamide Adejumo - Make it stand out Olamide Adejumo is a graduate student of Narrative Medicine at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies. A Nigeria Licensed Medical Doctor passionate about narrative care practices in clinical medicine. His academic paper “Truth, Reconciliation and Racial Unification in America: Using White’s Narrative Practices in Facilitation Conversations about Race” appears in the Fall 2021 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/ways-of-knowing-and-not-knowing-by-pk-kennedy monthly 0.5 2022-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/24c168a2-fdab-461a-a6fa-247b29605be3/Kennedy%2C%2BPK.jpeg Blog - Ways of Knowing (and Not Knowing) When the Prognosis is Terminal by writer PK Kennedy - Make it stand out Patricia "PK" Kennedy has taught writing to first-year students at Princeton University since 2003. She earned a JD and an MA from the Washington College of Law at The American University in Washington, DC, after earning her BA at the University of Pennsylvania. Her essay “Some Body” appears in the Fall 2021 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/written-in-the-stars-a-reflection-on-youth-cancer-by-will-moody monthly 0.5 2022-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/93123b60-2a18-4e06-91f0-dae5b0ad53b9/Moody%2C%2BWill.jpg Blog - Written in the Stars: A Reflection on Youth Cancer by Will Moody - Make it stand out Will Moody graduated from the University of Denver in June 2020. He is currently applying to medical school, writing, and spending time with his family while he continues treatment. His piece “Against the Glass” appears in the Fall 2021 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reflectingonbedsidemannerisms-intima monthly 0.5 2022-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064154557-3VRJEXGZ5HXI8S790YPU/Viswanathan%2C+Vidya.jpg Blog - Bedside Mannerisms: Finding the time to care by pediatrics resident Vidya Viswanathan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/palliative-care-shapes-stories-of-death-by-liz-morris monthly 0.5 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/68570a30-0dba-4b34-abc8-dd0a377ce5f0/Morris%2C%2BLiz.jpeg Blog - Palliative Care Shapes Stories of Death by Liz Morris - Make it stand out Liz Morris loves exploring complex questions. Her professional experiences in project management, librarianship, and community development prepared her well for her favorite role as mom to Colson, who has been impacted by mitochondrial disease since birth and inspired Morris to face the complicated aspects of his life through writing and advocacy. Her essay “Seeking Clarity” appears in the Fall 2021 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-vulnerability-and-transformation-a-reflection-by-jennifer-lycette monthly 0.5 2022-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/0b3384ca-c30c-4d49-9af1-9b23c8b6f683/Lycette%2C%2BJennifer.jpeg Blog - On Vulnerability and Transformation, a reflection on open hearts and medical training by hematologist-oncologist Jennifer Lycette - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-wider-capacity-to-love-by-flo-gelo monthly 0.5 2022-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/3f51a3b0-eb3d-48ce-86b5-3e8f4f19f9fe/Gelo%2C%2BFlorence.jpg Blog - Playing Favorites: When Caregivers Recognize a Wider Capacity to Love by Flo Gelo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/costumes-by-carla-barkman monthly 0.5 2022-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ca7ef019-ffdc-4bf1-8882-c71deadfe7e6/Barkman%2C%2BCarla.jpeg Blog - Costumes: What a Plague Doctor Wears to Deliver Care by family physician Carla Barkman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/sirens-and-hummingbirds-by-anna-dovre monthly 0.5 2022-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d244a6e8-5444-47fa-84dd-3ab88b08ac88/Dovre%2C%2BAnna.png Blog - Sirens and Hummingbirds: How Poetry Can Make Sense out of the Mundane by MS4 Anna Dovre - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/beyond-acronyms-contemplating-what-old-carts-really-stands-for-by-tulsi-patel monthly 0.5 2022-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634274948874-ZG4QD0J5L3BK76YQ56TY/Patel%2C+Tulsi+picture.jpg Blog - Beyond Acronyms: Contemplating what 'OLD CARTS' really stands for by Tulsi Patel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/getting-it-right-even-when-it-feels-wrong-a-reflection-by-poet-ceren-ege monthly 0.5 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634063942790-6A72OCU4OB1OIM5GNUKQ/Ege%2C+Ceren.jpg Blog - Getting it Right, Even When it Feels Wrong: A Reflection by poet Ceren Ege - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/sp1xu1hda8anwxhndj8e5cydu45e3w monthly 0.5 2022-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/707c59f1-5732-4a72-9f01-6a3f5b680043/Sophia+Wilson.jpg Blog - Out of Time? A reflection about illness and its toll on our past, present and future by Sophia Wilson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/rooms-and-wombs-a-reflection-by-patrick-connolly monthly 0.5 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634063931393-MN95G4LKAL1C4S846IQ1/Connolly%2C+Patrick.jpeg Blog - Rooms and Wombs and Writing: A Reflection on Stories Highlighting Life’s Impermanence by Patrick Connolly - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-wide-world-of-our-patients-a-reflection-by-savita-rani monthly 0.5 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064140436-H6ZUNWLOQP1JDR63PU4I/Rani%2C+Savita.jpg Blog - Connecting with the World of Our Patients: A Reflection by Savita Rani - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/xmdnny628dk43nnepifkbxdwclt53s monthly 0.5 2022-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634274957259-MW55EBUFCIZK6QVA4GAW/Pasch%2C+Marleen.jpg Blog - Inside Voices: Learning When to Listen, When to Control by writer Marleen Pasch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/facelessness-and-the-glass-between-us-finding-connection-in-the-era-of-covid-by-hannah-dischinger-md monthly 0.5 2021-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/fd1cb93a-daf0-4624-a8cb-b353a5919da6/Dischinger%2C+Hannah.jpg Blog - Facelessness and the Glass Between Us: Finding Connection In the Era of Covid by Hannah Dischinger, MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/kristen-a-zeller monthly 0.5 2021-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634280969050-KP448C2J5IJD34YMEWSL/Zeller%2C+Kristen.png Blog - Lauds: A solitary prayer at the scrub sink by pediatric surgeon Kristen A. Zeller - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-medical-professionals-care-for-their-own-a-response-to-of-prematurity-and-parental-leave-by-mason-vierra monthly 0.5 2021-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634281913974-FJDAMKX7DKDXNU3WNMV7/Vierra%2C+Mason.jpg Blog - When Medical Professionals Care for Their Own: A Response to “Of Prematurity and Parental Leave,” by Mason Vierra - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/still-we-dream-by-mary-anne-moisan monthly 0.5 2021-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064047036-F3PWUUB78KRZRPVO43NC/Moisan%2C+Mary+Anne.jpg Blog - Still We Dream: How We Face the Unpredictable World by Mary Anne Moisan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/asimpleritualbysurgeonphotineliakos monthly 0.5 2021-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064042511-KDB10B70NDW0DT7WZQD3/Liakos%2C+Photine.jpeg Blog - A Simple Ritual: Reflecting on the Moments Before Surgery by poet and orthopedic surgeon Photine Liakos - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-reflection-by-betty-morningstar monthly 0.5 2021-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064047663-8Z9HCRSBWPA2Q2KL2VFW/Morningstar%2C+Betty.jpeg Blog - When the “Clock of the Living” Runs Down: A Reflection by clinical social worker and chaplain Betty Morningstar - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-shit-poems-a-reflection-by-drea-burbank monthly 0.5 2021-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/9feba81f-9632-4ec7-a051-e5208be5c10a/Burbank%2C+Drea.jpg Blog - The Shit Poems: A Reflection by Drea Burbank - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-limits-of-love-a-reflection-by-carmela-mcintire monthly 0.5 2021-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064046611-FQZ8D46ECL6G3PU2VZWR/McIntire%2C+Carmela.jpg Blog - The Limits of Love: A Reflection by Carmela McIntire about Anorexia, Overeating and Fulfillment - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/crossroadswhatilearnedfromtheicu monthly 0.5 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064140299-RFCR1W2RIASJQZ5WOGWB/Rattray%2C+Benjamin.jpg Blog - What I Learned about the ICU: A Reflection by Benjamin Rattray - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/empty-highways-by-cole-w-williams monthly 0.5 2021-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1618833719647-K4WXKWOOMH4BB38SUA43/Williams%252C%2BCole%2BW.jpg Blog - Empty Highways by Cole W. Williams - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/oh20nxvv89mvexsnll247a28y0g6y0 monthly 0.5 2021-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624742046606-8ELVQYUSQKIG4MHRSP3I/%C2%A9+Macroscopic%3A+Looking+at+the+Bigger+Picture+by+Adela+Wu+Spring+2021+Intima.jpg Blog - Mothers and Daughters: A Reflection on Cancer, Caring and Seeing the Whole Picture by poet Kathryn Paul - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624741811458-5L6Y1D97WVF2Y73SBVHF/Paul%2C+Kathryn+Photo+by+Andrew+Givhan.jpeg Blog - Mothers and Daughters: A Reflection on Cancer, Caring and Seeing the Whole Picture by poet Kathryn Paul - Make it stand out Kathryn Paul Photo by Andrew Givhan https://www.theintima.org/blog/does-the-patient-know-the-prognosis-is-terminal-by-julie-freedman monthly 0.5 2021-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625860116447-AKJLRJWCA64II3F12LMS/Freedman%2C+Julie.jpg Blog - Does the Patient Know the Prognosis is Terminal? A reflection by Julie Freedman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/shakespeare-stanzas-and-how-we-think-about-death-by-albert-howard-carter-iii-phd monthly 0.5 2021-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625867429692-D3ESUFKL3BN8EUC1D6LC/Carter%2C+Albert+Howard+III.jpg Blog - Shakespeare, Stanzas and How We Think About Death by Albert Howard Carter, III, PhD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-body-in-bloom-thoughts-on-two-artworks-by-simona-carini monthly 0.5 2021-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625865212092-7NEF9S02GKBQFVR76SEN/%28c%29+Floral+Anatomy+by+Kristen+Kelly+FALL+2018+INTIMA.jpg Blog - The Body in Bloom: Thoughts on Two Artworks by Simona Carini - Make it stand out (c) Floral Anatomy by Kristen Kelly. FALL 2018 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625865393385-HMK7DJWNHYA8RMO73KUV/%28c%29+Ephemeral_Garden+Lindsey+Francis+Fall2018+Intima.jpg Blog - The Body in Bloom: Thoughts on Two Artworks by Simona Carini - Make it stand out (c) Ephemeral Garden by Lindsey Francis. Fall2018 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625864356215-7B43AG76GBRHIMG1CCYO/Carini%2C+Simona.jpeg Blog - The Body in Bloom: Thoughts on Two Artworks by Simona Carini - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/rhc967kt6qc66288pxu9tmaso7rns5 monthly 0.5 2021-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625861967867-DBK688HRCU06W657AJCE/Unis%2C+Claire.jpeg Blog - How a Doctor Learns to Act: A Reflection by Claire Unis, MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/aarbxtz2ofwjydgugszhd01wldf9si monthly 0.5 2021-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624740408906-UFBIJYJLS6BWDXUY64J0/Tong%2C+Wendy.jpg Blog - How Touch Affects Healing, a reflection by Wendy Tong - Make it stand out Wendy Tong https://www.theintima.org/blog/p9j289luv4dhjv7css06ollr0c9kf2 monthly 0.5 2021-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624741206581-1X8K0NVWK469QC7XJ2U0/Mahr%2C+Greg.jpg Blog - On Fathers, Love and “Exit Wounds” by psychiatrist and essayist Greg Mahr - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/whereistheheartinhealthcare monthly 0.5 2021-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1619649319616-1IFWJV311XPKFIZQ4DB6/%C2%A9+Gordian+Knot+by+Elisabeth+Preston-Hsu+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.jpg Blog - Auscultating Meaning: Reflections on the Heart of Medicine by Marc Perlman © Gordian Knot by Elisabeth Preston-Hsu Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1619649049873-VOF9SJMM2E6C1PXP8LIG/Perlman%2C+Marc.jpeg Blog - Auscultating Meaning: Reflections on the Heart of Medicine by Marc Perlman https://www.theintima.org/blog/d8q834a2htnaiyvjqxit7sdk7f2vu1 monthly 0.5 2021-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624741566586-KPQXC0IODALNSHAZBIYS/Elterman%2C+Kelly.jpg Blog - Doctoring and Disobedience: Speaking an Important Truth, a reflection by Kelly Elterman - Make it stand out Anesthesiologist Kelly Elterman https://www.theintima.org/blog/healing-and-trauma-recontextualizing-suffering-by-sundara-raj-sreenath monthly 0.5 2021-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624740838878-FKH3NZ9TC3JPYFZR9C8G/Sreenath%2C+Sanjana+Sundara+Raj.jpg Blog - Healing and Trauma: Recontextualizing Suffering by Sundara Raj Sreenath - Make it stand out Sanjana Sundara Raj Sreenath is a medical student in the United States. She is particularly interested in digital art, medical humanities, as well as narrative medicine. This piece highlights the multifaceted impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and our relentless fight against it. Her studio art “Red, White and Blue” appears in the Spring 2021 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624992655507-H8P6CXUP6W6191TIH3W5/%C2%A9Hard-as-Nails.jpg Blog - Healing and Trauma: Recontextualizing Suffering by Sundara Raj Sreenath - Make it stand out ©Hard as Nails. Sarah Se-Jung Oh. Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/reimagining-chaos-in-art-and-poetry-by-selene-frost monthly 0.5 2021-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1622630053454-1HJOMLSAVRMQB4EHME5I/Anatomy_of_the_Vogue_coloredpencil.JPG Blog - Reimagining Chaos in Art and Poetry by Selene Frost - Make it stand out Anatomy of the Vogue by Meagan Wu. Fall 2017 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1622633294685-BNXO09K0RBNVW2AOKHSX/Frost%2C+Selene.JPG Blog - Reimagining Chaos in Art and Poetry by Selene Frost - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/veq9h1k29jgwp273at6uwtgskoaj2l monthly 0.5 2021-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624739704989-HBXY8TJVMGWQ04LGMRXE/Kritzer%2C+Jordana.jpg Blog - The Cost of Efficiency and the Price of Empathy, a Reflection by Jordana Kritzer MD - Make it stand out Dr. Jordana Kritzer https://www.theintima.org/blog/life-in-the-gaps-how-illness-transforms-our-sense-of-time-by-renata-louwers monthly 0.5 2021-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624392466376-33EVDMNGKWZAAO61HB8C/Louwers%2C+Renata.jpg Blog - Life in the Gaps: How Illness Transforms Our Sense of Time by Renata Louwers - Make it stand out Renata Khoshroo Louwers https://www.theintima.org/blog/healing-growth-is-not-linear monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1618832373763-TYBLOT3MSF4P7E1G1CYB/Manohar%2C+Sujal.jpg Blog - Growth is Not Linear: A Reflection on Recovery and Healing by Sujal Manohar - Make it stand out Sujal Manohar https://www.theintima.org/blog/becoming-the-superheroes-our-parents-need-the-journey-from-child-to-worthy-caretaker-by-usman-hameedi monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579020623183-MDQ2D02KBWXVPKQZ2OVN/Hameedi%2C+Usman.jpg Blog - Becoming the Superheroes Our Parents Need: The Journey from Child to Worthy Caretaker by Usman Hameedi Usman Hameedi is a Pakistani-American scientist and poet. Since 2008, he has competed in and coached for collegiate, national, and international level poetry slams. He has been featured on Upworthy, Huffington Post, and the Story Collider: Storytelling for Scientists podcast. His poem “Heirloom” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/caring-for-our-caregivers-short-reflection-by-nina-solis monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1624381324555-5A709S8P1ZO71U017MCA/Solis%2C+Nina+Photo+by+Sara+Joan.jpeg Blog - Caring for Our Caregivers: A short reflection by poet and hematology-oncology nurse Nina Solis - Make it stand out Nina Solis Photo by Sara Joan https://www.theintima.org/blog/expanding-visions-in-i-no-longer-have-a-favorite-color-by-ellen-goldsmith-and-anatomy-in-nature-by-jesse-holth-a-reflection-by-ellen-goldsmith monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1622381106414-VHIVVQTQNS0T9W1HYLZY/Goldsmith%2C+Ellen.jpg Blog - Poetry Helps Healing: Writing Poems on the Road to Recovery by Ellen Goldsmith - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-withering-bloom-memory-dementia-and-finding-original-happiness-a-reflection-by-rhiannon-weber monthly 0.5 2021-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1622406112940-C6QNYQJNF2VEDXM00KOY/They+Tell+Me+It%27s+Normal+Grief+by+Makoto+Ogawa+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpeg Blog - Memory, Dementia and Finding ‘Original Happiness’: A Reflection by Rhiannon Weber - Make it stand out They Tell Me It's Normal Grief by Makoto Ogawa. Spring 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/anatomy-lesson-see-the-face-of-those-before-you-by-rodolfo-villarreal-calderon-md monthly 0.5 2021-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1622381958789-IR8UXGLFUO2MSRDZQEH4/Villarreal-Calderon%2C+Rodolfo.png Blog - Anatomy Lesson: See the Face of Those Before You by Rodolfo Villarreal-Calderon, MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blog/lady-psychiatrist-queen-by-eileen monthly 0.5 2021-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1621630221393-L0VAEJ1SYZBR5TSJDMRK/Collins%2C+Eileen+Vorbach.jpg Blog - Lady Psychiatrist Queen: Compassion in Caregiving, a reflection by Eileen Vorbach Collins - Make it stand out Eileen Vorbach Collins https://www.theintima.org/blog/seeing-things-differently-finding-common-ground-between-patients-and-health-professionals-by-ewan-bowlby monthly 0.5 2021-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1620073550961-KML6D390MT07X0Y3VKPE/Bowlby%2C+Ewan.jpg Blog - What Does ‘Paying Attention’ Mean in a Healthcare Setting? A Reflection by Ewan Bowlby Ewan Bowlby is a doctoral student at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) in St Andrews. He is researching ways of using mass-media artworks to design new arts-based interventions providing emotional, psychological and spiritual care for cancer patients. Bowlby’s paper “Talk to me like I was a person you loved”: Including Patients’ Perspectives in Cinemeducation” appears in the Spring 2021 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/giving-what-generosity-looks-like-in-the-clinical-encounter-by-lane-robson monthly 0.5 2021-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1620478098984-RUNNJSDSBV1M9DJC6WYG/Robson%2C+Lane.jpeg Blog - Giving: What Real Generosity Looks Like in Healthcare by pediatrician Lane Robson Lane Robson graduated from the first medical class at the University of Calgary in 1973. He was Head of Pediatric Nephrology and Head of Pediatrics at several Universities and a full professor at Brown University. He served as a volunteer pediatrician in Haiti, Nicaragua and Sierra Leone. His essay “Taking Off the Gloves” appears in the Spring 2021 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/i23pyzfor24p8m1x34f568ydmtr6vn monthly 0.5 2021-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1619650455692-S2OSP406I47HTD47VUPX/Huber%2C+Sonya.JPG Blog - Warmth, Body and Longing by Sonya Huber Sonya Huber is the author of six books, including the award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System and the forthcoming Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day. Her essay “Bubbles and Poppies” appears in the Spring 2021 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/thresholds-by-nancy-smith monthly 0.5 2021-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1611679982854-LFQ7IM17RUORJ03TDLUC/Smith%2C%2BNancy.jpg Blog - Thresholds and Transgressions, a reflection on ICU chaos, communitas, liminality and Levinas by Nancy Smith Nancy Smith is a retired Registered Nurse. Though she moved through the many domains of hospital nursing, most of her work took place in an Intensive Care Unit. Her co-workers noticed that she would place small strips of paper with poems by various authors on her locker from time to time along with the pictures of her family. Her poem “When Patients Die” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1611755042551-BJGJ0J02NVNCIALOFU69/%C2%A9+Just+Laundry+by+Brina+Bui+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.jpg Blog - Thresholds and Transgressions, a reflection on ICU chaos, communitas, liminality and Levinas by Nancy Smith © Just Laundry by Brina Bui. Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/something-more-beautiful-than-the-lives-we-were-living-finding-hope-outside-of-the-hospital-by-vanessa-vandoren monthly 0.5 2021-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1611680562240-5VZ1LEJGV4F92I9MEDCA/Untitled.png Blog - Finding Hope Outside of the Hospital by internal medicine resident Vanessa Vandoren. “Something More Beautiful than the Lives We Were Living.” Vanessa Van Doren is a current internal medicine resident physician in Georgia. She started her career as a primatologist but eventually found her way to clinical medicine. She plans to pursue an infectious disease fellowship with a focus on HIV. She lives in Atlanta with her husband Dan and their cat Beau. Her Field Notes essay “The Right Choice” appeared in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-to-hold-cold-hands-by-laura-anne-white monthly 0.5 2021-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1611691398069-H83I7C3PNKZ04SWBX3GG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Hold Cold Hands by Laura-Anne White Laura-Anne White is a registered nurse who works primarily with adult cancer patients. Art and writing serve as a healthy outlet and source of joy for her. She created this piece in April, while working on an inpatient Covid-19+ cancer unit in New York City. Her artwork “Grip” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/intractable-2-the-marriage-of-visual-arts-and-modern-medical-training-by-virali-shah monthly 0.5 2021-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1611678926359-BTYQGA9SJ8V11HAECALL/Shah%2C%2BVirali.jpeg Blog - Speaking Truth: The Visual Arts Help Clinical Diagnosis by Virali Shah Virali Shah, MBA is a medical student at Albany Medical College in Upstate New York. Early into her medical training, Virali discovered how art, including visual and literary forms, was a powerful tool to externalize complex emotions, depict abstract ideas related to medicine, and create awareness of important issues surrounding healthcare. Her artwork “Recharge” and Field Notes essay “The New Hangman” appear in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1611754168312-SUPJXI1TP6JEUMSRDJFB/%C2%A9Intractable_2_Karl+Kroeppler.jpg Blog - Speaking Truth: The Visual Arts Help Clinical Diagnosis by Virali Shah ©Intractable 2 by Karl Kroeppler. Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/who-is-black-excellence-for-exactly-a-poem-that-reflects-on-that-question-by-medical-student-michael-arnold monthly 0.5 2021-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1613849351353-CZEJ4CEZZSZB11BCNJKP/1+Arnold%2C+Michael.jpg Blog - "Who is Black excellence for exactly?" A poem reflects on that question by medical student Michael Arnold Michael Arnold is a medical student at Ohio State University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. His poem “Chronic Black Excellence” appeared in the Fall 2019 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-trauma-and-hope-by-galen-schram monthly 0.5 2021-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610906458555-HXMJ1CFXA42WUGD0U1DF/Schram%2C%2BGalen.jpg Blog - On Trauma, Hope and Dragonslayers, an essay by hospital-based physical therapist Galen Schram Galen Schram is a hospital-based physical therapist at NYU Langone Health in New York City. He has worked with patients across several departments including pediatrics and emergency medicine and currently specializes in cancer rehab. His short story “Dislocation” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-practice-of-prolonging-death-by-chris-schifeling monthly 0.5 2021-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610905402004-MS2E8DD2XD391GP9U8PC/Schifeling%2C%2BChristopher.jpeg Blog - The Practice of Prolonging Death, a reflection by palliative care physician Chris Schifeling Christopher Hamblin Schifeling is a geriatric and palliative care physician in Denver. His creative work has been featured in JAMA and Annals of Internal Medicine. His multimedia piece “Calavera” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610905241785-Q0MECQ6X0GG3WUTOZXKT/Picture+2.png Blog - The Practice of Prolonging Death, a reflection by palliative care physician Chris Schifeling A still from Deborah Starr’s “Plain Talk,” her video featured in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610905206695-0KPC33LX4AVZVWASTK8K/Picture.png Blog - The Practice of Prolonging Death, a reflection by palliative care physician Chris Schifeling The drawings, by Ellen Stedfeld, are an effective complement to the narration. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-untarnished-who-draws-first-by-ibrahim-sablaban monthly 0.5 2021-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610903929824-N461SYPNHJ8R8HHLMNCC/Sablaban%252C%2BIbrahim.jpg Blog - Who Draws First? A reflection about racial stereotyping by Dr. Ibrahim Sablaban Ibrahim Sablaban is an inpatient psychiatrist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. A second generation American and son of Palestinian refugees, he takes a keen interest in minority mental health, culture bound syndromes, and healthcare disparities across American urban centers. He sits on the Michigan Psychiatric Society. His non-fiction essay “When Suicide Speaks Arabic” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/just-laundry-essential-painting-and-poetry-in-dialogue-by-alexis-rehrmann monthly 0.5 2021-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610903084981-PW15AWF5MI8BZZP5Q9DX/Rehrmann%2C%2BAlexis.jpeg Blog - Finding What's Essential in Just Laundry: Painting and Poetry in Dialogue By Alexis Rehrmann Alexis Rehrmann is a writer and editor whose journalism and digital work has appeared in publications including The New York Times and Portland Monthly magazine. Her poem”Essential” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1612532703041-C6HP9A2LJFNK9ZJK6HB8/%C2%A9+Just+Laundry+by+Brina+Bui+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.jpg Blog - Finding What's Essential in Just Laundry: Painting and Poetry in Dialogue By Alexis Rehrmann © Just Laundry by Brina Bui Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-unknowing-things-beneath-a-reflection-on-the-imagination-and-the-body-by-michelle-dyer monthly 0.5 2021-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1611667100710-UMBNOSBPZDWULVI4WUL4/%C2%A9+What+Lies+Beneath+by+Sapana+Adhikari+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.jpg Blog - On (Un)Knowing: A Reflection on the Imagination and the Body by poet Michelle Dyer ©What Lies Beneath by Sapana Adhikari Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/covid-hero-reflection-of-a-man-in-pediatrics-living-through-a-global-pandemic-by-brandon-mogrovejo-1 monthly 0.5 2021-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610301396330-Y8B121MAEXIGTMUDQWNE/Mogrovejo%2C%2BBrandon.jpg Blog - My COVID Hero: How Art Helped Me Reflect on a Global Pandemic by Dr. Brandon Mogrovejo Brandon Mogrovejo is a first-generation Latino physician training in Pediatrics. He makes comics with diverse, underrepresented characters in his spare time. His drawing ‘Covid Hero’ appears in the Fall 2020 issue of the Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1611664181078-K48CV0IQVOBN9X9W1VAP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - My COVID Hero: How Art Helped Me Reflect on a Global Pandemic by Dr. Brandon Mogrovejo ©COVID Hero by Brandon Mogrovejo Fall 2020 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/global-citizenship-personal-and-professional-complexities-in-international-health-care-by-violet-kieu monthly 0.5 2021-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610299506359-5WSQY8BZ6MQQXMJQZUYE/Kieu%2CViolet%2Bauthor%2Bprofile%2BVIetnam.jpg Blog - Global Citizenship: The Complex Emotions of ‘Going Home’ to a Place You’ve Never Been by Violet Kieu Violet Kieu is a fertility doctor and writer from Melbourne, Australia, who writes memoir about medicine and motherhood. This author photo was taken during a medical elective in Saigon, Vietnam. “Medical Elective in Vietnam” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/are-we-still-ourselves-by-marie-elisabeth-lei-holm monthly 0.5 2021-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610298560324-VRXPSWZJVCOUFOYG8WDG/Holm%252C%2BMarie-Elisabeth.jpg Blog - Are We Still Ourselves? By Marie-Elisabeth Lei Holm Marie-Elisabeth Lei Holm earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020 while working at the center Uses of Literature. The Social Dimensions of Literature led by Professor Rita Felski. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. Her paper “Temporality, Reader Recognition and Literary Consolation: A Reading of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air with Narrative Medicine” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-line-blurring-joy-and-grief-empathizing-from-a-distance-by-daniel-ginsburg monthly 0.5 2021-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610297699388-5PDUFZKGLT8OHIX8S4VR/Ginsburg%252C%2BDaniel.jpg Blog - “A Line Blurring Joy and Grief”: Empathizing from a Distance, by Daniel Ginsburg Daniel Ginsburg earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from American University. Discover more about his work @danielhginsburg on Instagram and Twitter. His poem “Triage” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/opening-to-the-moment-a-response-to-healing-by-brenna-fitzgerald monthly 0.5 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610296436581-79TT8XOB70GJ9D8A28U3/FITZGERALD%2C%2BBrenna.jpg Blog - Opening to the Moment: A Response to the drawing “Healing” by writer Brenna Fitzgerald Brenna Fitzgerald is a writer, editor, collage artist and creativity coach. She holds an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction and an M.A. in film and media studies. Her artwork “I Am Moments” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1610720011108-U0UJJH8E9SHMRC93UF49/%C2%A9+Healing+by+Wesley+Usher+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.png Blog - Opening to the Moment: A Response to the drawing “Healing” by writer Brenna Fitzgerald © Healing by Wesley Usher Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/caught-between-floating-and-drowning-by-mikayla-brockmeyer monthly 0.5 2021-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609886640607-60SP541RZ9G7BI7MMOG5/Brockmeyer%252C%2BMikayla.jpg Blog - Caught between Floating and Drowning, a reflection about poetry, memory and adapting to chaos by Mikayla Brockmeyer Mikayla Brockmeyer https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-response-to-differential-diagnosis-by-yan-emily-yuan-by-colleen-corcoran monthly 0.5 2021-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609883797316-24MS6W78CR6BJE0HG79V/%C2%A9+Differential+Diagnosis+by+Yan+Emily+Yuan+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.jpeg Blog - ‘Differential Diagnosis’ Can Be A Lifesaver, a Reflection by Colleen Corcoran © Differential Diagnosis by Yan Emily Yuan Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609883712910-WVE77GC4F1RGRRYK7P21/Corcoran%2C+Colleen.jpg Blog - ‘Differential Diagnosis’ Can Be A Lifesaver, a Reflection by Colleen Corcoran Colleen Corcoran https://www.theintima.org/blog/finding-our-way-home-a-reflection-on-new-years-day-2021-by-priscilla-mainardi monthly 0.5 2021-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609261487402-DKJGWEG6480GWE1M1OWU/Mainardi%252C%2BPriscilla%2B2020%2Bphoto.jpg Blog - Finding Our Way Home: A Reflection on New Year's Day 2021 by Priscilla Mainardi Priscilla Mainardi https://www.theintima.org/blog/in-this-time-of-corona-by-daly-walker monthly 0.5 2020-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609260090609-ACLQ4IZHI4MSVXRZEQ8W/%C2%A9+Covid%27s+Agony+by+Sapana+Adhikari.jpg Blog - In This Time of Corona: Many Stories, Many Lives, a reflection by surgeon Daly Walker © Covid's Agony by Sapana Adhikari. Spring 2020 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609260230532-QND3ZD2IJMQFRW88G4IK/Walker%2C+Daly.png Blog - In This Time of Corona: Many Stories, Many Lives, a reflection by surgeon Daly Walker https://www.theintima.org/blog/4yqjuqtzy1xb8iemyvac9w7pzpc0ck monthly 0.5 2020-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606139399660-INE29FRFI2EOBSHI8YP9/Krohn%2C+Douglas.jpg Blog - Always Tell The Truth, Except When It’s Maladaptive by Douglas Krohn https://www.theintima.org/blog/83dc2p5d9axvnu0g4jfluixkzxxytr monthly 0.5 2020-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606840587285-AKR3W3SQKK16HIH8GXKX/Klatzker%2C+Catherine.jpeg Blog - Attunement: Reflecting on the Art of Making a Difference by Catherine Klatzker https://www.theintima.org/blog/mw1g7pecmvephmrbbqdogvx5drem3b monthly 0.5 2020-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606087957234-3XPMEEQ10510VX1VMX92/Elizabeth+Walmsley.jpg Blog - "Chronic Black Excellence," a reflection on the power of poetry to reflect structural racism by Elizabeth Walmsley Elizabeth Walmsley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606088359201-1ZKDZFEMXWQ4NXZ3VW26/1+Arnold%2C+Michael.jpg Blog - "Chronic Black Excellence," a reflection on the power of poetry to reflect structural racism by Elizabeth Walmsley Michael Arnold is a medical student at Ohio State University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. His poem “Chronic Black Excellence” appeared in the Fall 2019 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/ruj31hh5wkqwunjqaef8wwxtotp50v monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606084859120-M1TE2OV4RQB5896G9D5Q/Hammerschick%2C+Mark+.JPG Blog - Remembering Fathers: Raspberry Picking, the Silence of Roses, and Taking a Breath: A reflection on two poems by Mark Hammerschick https://www.theintima.org/blog/fire-cake-and-stone-a-wayfarers-guide-to-remembering-by-deborah-burkhart monthly 0.5 2020-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606082735840-1PK1833CGB8AG53GO40K/Burghardt%2CDeborah.jpeg Blog - Fire, Cake and Stone: A Wayfarer’s Guide to Remembering by Deborah Burghardt Deborah Burghardt https://www.theintima.org/blog/losing-touch-how-covid-19-has-interfered-with-the-way-we-bond-by-adam-lalley monthly 0.5 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605791331258-8QL4DWDUP47BKO1AZ0GI/Lalley%2C+Adam.jpg Blog - Losing Touch: How COVID-19 Has Interfered With the Way We Bond by Adam Lalley, MD Adam Lalley https://www.theintima.org/blog/within-the-outside-yet-outside-the-within-the-way-art-creates-a-liminal-space-by-brent-carr monthly 0.5 2020-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605128097944-BSTDZD0KPZ411EMTEJ44/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Within the Outside yet Outside the Within: The Way Art Creates a Liminal Space by Brent Carr © Man versus Nature versus Man by Ohirenua Giwa-amu. Spring 2020 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605129983376-8RFG6H3HFY0GYIPQE669/%C2%A9+Living+in+Between+by+Mandy+Archibald+Fall+2015+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.JPG Blog - Within the Outside yet Outside the Within: The Way Art Creates a Liminal Space by Brent Carr © Living in Between by Mandy Archibald Fall 2015 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605128306042-DCKFHXTCZSU7LMRS0T31/%C2%A9+What+Lies+Beneath+by+Sapana+Adhikari+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.jpg Blog - Within the Outside yet Outside the Within: The Way Art Creates a Liminal Space by Brent Carr © What Lies Beneath by Sapana Adhikari Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605128426189-4SHVBYJOAX571WIQ3EUU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Within the Outside yet Outside the Within: The Way Art Creates a Liminal Space by Brent Carr (c) Takotsubo_Cardiomyopathy The_Broken Heart Syndrome by Rayda Joomun. Intima Fall 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605128808471-V5TAJ1MZBAXCQEA0FYYP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Within the Outside yet Outside the Within: The Way Art Creates a Liminal Space by Brent Carr © Little Isolated Bird by Brent Carr Fall 2020 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605129061709-V3ZKQSVYP0QDBC0W52HX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Within the Outside yet Outside the Within: The Way Art Creates a Liminal Space by Brent Carr Brent Carr https://www.theintima.org/blog/44r87erp6rqyc63ijzh87sw5eabjbz monthly 0.5 2020-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605101710408-DQBIS43ZXVF6VFILSQ4F/Ramesh%2C+Sunidhi+.jpeg Blog - On “When Suicide Speaks Arabic”: A Deeply-felt Call for Cultural Representation in Medicine by Sunidhi Ramesh https://www.theintima.org/blog/counterweight-on-veterans-day-a-reflection-about-carrying-the-weight-of-the-past-by-michael-lund monthly 0.5 2020-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605096345586-K87AMHL4Z9N72LUSFUYZ/Lund%2C+Michael.jpg Blog - Counterweight: On Veteran’s Day 2020, a reflection about carrying the weight of the past by Michael Lund https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-bodies-and-minds-a-reflection-on-raina-greifers-artwork-bodies-by-diane-forman monthly 0.5 2020-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603579660664-EC6DMN3EQPVBT9D0JZD5/Bodies+by+Raina+Greifer+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpg Blog - On Bodies and Minds: A Reflection on Raina Greifer’s Artwork 'Bodies' by Diane Forman ©Bodies by Raina Greifer. Spring 2018 Intima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603579451608-90F0SBX2GW3A17S81WL1/Forman%2C+Diane.jpg Blog - On Bodies and Minds: A Reflection on Raina Greifer’s Artwork 'Bodies' by Diane Forman https://www.theintima.org/blog/anna-de-la-merced monthly 0.5 2020-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1602098782613-CDSR4WGZ7XGA7YHRPMNT/Delamerced%252C%2BAnna.jpg Blog - Poetry and Music: How Each Word in a Poem Reflects an Emotion by Anna Delamerced https://www.theintima.org/blog/thoughts-on-doctors-and-disobedience-by-nina-gaby-aprn-pmh-cns monthly 0.5 2020-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1599496208292-Z5G947TJE6II8IDCS9N0/Gaby%252C%2BNina.jpg Blog - Thoughts on “Doctors and Disobedience” by Nina Gaby, APRN-PMH, CNS Nina Gaby is a writer, visual artist, and advanced practice nurse who specializes in addiction and psychiatry. Her essay “Yours” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a9dj5jqa3bagdgj9r65poy0lwzo3wr monthly 0.5 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1599491707153-TVMJIN9J3578UNLS7GRM/Kostro_Katrina%2Bphoto.jpeg Blog - Fear in the face of Uncertainty: A Reflection about Patients and Medical Emergencies by Katrina Kostro Katrina Kostro, MD, graduated from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons in Spring 2020, and was selected into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She will begin psychiatry residency training at NYU/Bellevue. Katrina strives to combine yoga, meditation, poetry, and art, into her practice of clinical healing. Katrina’s poem “E.R. prophet, night shift/Spring 2020” appears in the Spring issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/hidden-trauma-a-reflection-on-artist-ins-ixierdas-fasciotomy-by-karen-germain monthly 0.5 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1599495054936-S1YBAZ0O4F70NUXURDW2/German%252C%2BKaren%2BLea%2Bpng.jpg Blog - Hidden Trauma: A Reflection on Artist Inés Ixierda’s “Fasciotomy” by Karen Germain Karen Lea Germain is a Los Angeles native who recently relocated to Colorado with her British husband and two spoiled cats. She graduated from the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program and is currently working on her first novel. Her non-fiction story “Weight” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/our-mission-to-give-voice-a-physician-poets-reflection-on-speech-and-human-connection-by-katrina-kostro monthly 0.5 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1599490700193-B5FK83346WWFLB6M2HGV/Kostro_Katrina%2Bphoto.jpeg Blog - Our Mission to Give Voice: A Physician-Poet’s Reflection on Speech and Human Connection by Katrina Kostro Katrina Kostro, MD, graduated from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons in Spring 2020, and was selected into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She will begin psychiatry residency training at NYU/Bellevue. Katrina strives to combine yoga, meditation, poetry, and art, into her practice of clinical healing. Katrina’s poem “Family meeting: medical student meets patient’s daughter” appears in the Spring issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/you-are-not-your-own-by-adam-lalley monthly 0.5 2020-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1599321023312-2RLE4AK7WWLZ0MKNVXKV/Lalley%2C%2BAdam.jpg Blog - The Body Politic: Fashioning our own earthly justice in a challenging time by Adam Lalley Adam Lalley is a graduate of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and an incoming Emergency Medicine resident at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. He is a winner of the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award, and the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition. His short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have been featured in Narrateur: Reflections on Caring, the Journal of Medical Humanities, and The Eagle and the Wren Reading Series. He was a finalist in the 2020 NYACP Story Slam and is currently working on a book-length work of non-fiction about how patients find meaning in illness. His essay “And Not To Be” appears in the Spring 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/in-sight-by-andrew-taylor-troutman monthly 0.5 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1597425391657-L80GSPUZWG8O5N5URQS8/Taylor-Troutman%2C+Andrew.jpg Blog - Seeing is Believing: Reflecting on Miracles by Andrew Taylor-Troutman Andrew Taylor-Troutman is the author of four books, most recently Gently Between the Words: Essays and Poems.. Taylor-Troutman, who earned a graduate certificate in Narrative Healthcare from Lenoir-Rhyne University, serves as pastor of Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church in North Carolina. He and and his wife, also an ordained minister, parent three children. His story “Good as New” appears in the Spring 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/holding-vigil-by-elizabeth-lanphier monthly 0.5 2020-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1599319964922-UC5QTU0JYMGUU3WOWFC2/Lanphier%2C%2BElizabeth.jpeg Blog - Holding Vigil: The privilege of putting death off for another day by Elizabeth Lanphier Elizabeth Lanphier is a social and political philosopher and medical ethicist. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University, an MS degree in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, and was an Ethics Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She joins the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Ethics Center faculty in 2020. Her poem “Haglund’s Deformity” appears in the Spring 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/surrendering-trust-in-ones-life-is-just-another-stickie-note-in-our-outlook-calendars-a-clinicians-reflection-by-jordan-teitelbaum monthly 0.5 2020-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1599319087403-VO21RISU9A3I0V67FSI9/Teitelbaum%2C%2BJordan.jpg Blog - Surrendering Trust in One’s Life is Just Another Stickie Note in Our Outlook Calendars: A Clinician’s Reflection by Jordan Teitelbaum Jordan Teitelbaum, D.O. is an Otolaryngologist / Head & Neck Surgeon with subspecialty training in Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery. His poem “The Donna Summer Operation,” appears in the Fall issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/speaking-of-speech-by-james-wyshynski monthly 0.5 2020-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1599318516298-RTDKD48O9SV6LQVE2F7H/James%2BWyshynski%2B2.jpg Blog - Speaking of Speech by James Wyshynski James Wyshynski is a former editor of the Black Warrior Review. His poem “Night 4: What They Ask, What I Hear,” appears in the Fall 2020 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reflection-on-the-desert-by-elisabeth-preston-hsu monthly 0.5 2020-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1597423927479-WMYVG2JKICQ7HPRK33PX/Preston-Hsu%2C+Elisabeth.jpg Blog - Reflection on the Desert By Elisabeth Preston-Hsu Elisabeth Preston-Hsu is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician in clinical practice in Atlanta, Georgia. Her photograph "Gordian Knot" happened organically: a busy clinic day and a stethoscope thrown onto her desk. A glance at its twisted knot of tubing reminded her how difficult it can be for patients, caregivers, and health care workers alike to navigate, be cared for, and work in the American health care system. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-the-confinement-of-hospitals-a-reflection-on-the-choice-by-keenan-whitesides-and-double-black-doors-by-trev-moragi-by-rebecca-grossman-kahn monthly 0.5 2020-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1595173247097-QKZVCAV4JTSNV7SNLWEI/Grossman-Kahn%2C+Rebecca.png Blog - Being a Patient: Coping with the Loss of Control and Privacy in a Hospital by Rebecca Grossman-Kahn Rebecca Grossman-Kahn MD is a resident physician in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her piece “Confined” was written during the initial weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, and appears in the Spring 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/humility-complements-competence-by-rachel-fleishman monthly 0.5 2020-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1595171780233-KLSDZUZBMRNKPQXG90XP/Fleishman%2C+Rachel.jpg Blog - A Physician's Response in an Emergency: Humility Complements Competence by Rachel Fleishman Rachel Fleishman is a neonatologist practicing in Philadelphia who studied creative writing as an undergraduate student. She writes about her experiences caring for infants, often exploring the intersection of her own provider grief and the grief of parents whose infants require extraordinary care. Her essay “Bubbles” appears in the Spring 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-the-sacrosanctity-of-the-body-chambers-by-michal-coret monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1595169588900-NTIJDBGS4ZO2YU1T7FF0/Coret%2C+Michal.jpeg Blog - On the Sacrosanctity of the Body Chambers by Michal Coret Michal Coret is a medical student at the University of Toronto. She writes poetry, short fiction, and plays about medical encounters and experiences in medical school. Her poem “No Expiration” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-treatment-takes-over-thoughts-on-two-visual-artworks-by-simona-carini monthly 0.5 2020-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1595168501033-0TNI6Y81CZ1L22J0OPCY/Carini%2C+Simona.jpeg Blog - When Treatment Takes Over: Thoughts on Two Visual Artworks by Simona Carini Simona Carini writes nonfiction and poetry and has been published in various print and online venues. Her poem “I Ask My Friend How She Feels: Her Response” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/pilgrimages-at-nightfall-a-reflection-on-how-we-all-have-to-help-each-other-by-ariel-boswell-1 monthly 0.5 2020-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1591468119045-GUIVX3WY0HQHO8YZTAFQ/Boswell%2CAriel%2CJPG.JPG Blog - Pilgrimages at Nightfall: A Reflection on How We All Have to Help Each Other by Ariel Boswell Ariel Bugosh Boswell is a nurse and writer who lives in Rochester, Minnesota. She strongly believes poetry can help to heal the body, mind and soul. Her poem “Late Night” appears in the Spring 2020 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-worthwhile-art-of-careful-listening-by-hui-wen-sato monthly 0.5 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1591467236733-55UTIYYFMNNJKV66U7VN/Sato%2C+Hui-Wen.jpg Blog - The Worthwhile Art of Careful Listening by Hui-Wen Sato Hui-wen Sato currently practices as a pediatric ICU nurse in Los Angeles. She blogs regularly for the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) in their blog, Off the Charts. Her writing has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work as well as the Reflections column for AJN. Her essay “Best Brother” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-the-value-of-toys-and-bridges-how-healers-make-connections-by-samuel-lebaron monthly 0.5 2020-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1590684173089-34HP716C4P6PHH0DMOIR/LeBaron%2C+Samuel.jpg Blog - On the Value of Toys and Bridges: How Healers Make Connections by Samuel LeBaron Samuel LeBaron was born in Canada and completed his medical school training there. He earned a PhD in clinical psychology from Michigan State University. Now living in California, he is a Stanford Professor Emeritus with a long career as a family physician and clinical psychologist. His story “Bling” appears in the Spring 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/aging-and-memory-from-two-poetic-perspectives-a-reflection-by-larry-oakner monthly 0.5 2020-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1590595237368-XKUIIQSNSRESOCAEVQPK/Oakner%2C+Larry.JPG Blog - Aging and Memory from Two Poetic Perspectives: A Reflection by Larry Oakner Larry Oakner’s poem “Slippage” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/discerning-different-shades-of-grief-by-jeffrey-millstein-md monthly 0.5 2020-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1590594104101-WDMVKXTI1WFT0N1G40QR/Millstein%2C+Jeffrey.jpg Blog - Discerning Different Shades of Grief by Jeffrey Millstein, MD Jeffery Millstein, MD’s essay “Remembrance” appears in the Spring 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-nature-calms-us-in-challenging-times-a-reflection-on-sara-awans-twins-in-yellow-hats-by-katharine-lawrence monthly 0.5 2020-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1590333231869-PJZQT8N93IN9TP260QHE/Lawrence%2C+Katharine.jpg Blog - How Nature Calms Us in Challenging Times: A reflection on Sara Awan’s “Twins in Yellow Hats” by Katharine Lawrence https://www.theintima.org/blog/k1a8jx38smkg7rj51pvb7ys1h9goz7 monthly 0.5 2020-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1590417958039-GSOPBEDNSY9OT3V6RWHP/Wilson%2C+Sophia.jpg Blog - ‘New Normal. Precious Normal.’ A Reflection about Loss and Love in the Wake of COVID-19 by poet Sophia Wilson https://www.theintima.org/blog/an-invisible-job-a-reflection-on-albert-howard-carters-story-the-cookie-intervention-by-rossana-di-renzo monthly 0.5 2020-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1580426838240-GCDZQGVUPTGOUJ5GMLDJ/DiRenzo%2C+Rossana.png Blog - The Caregiver’s Invisibility Cloak: A Reflection on Albert Howard Carter’s story “The Cookie Intervention” by Rossana Di Renzo Rossana Di Renzo, author of the academic paper, "Embraced By Words" (Fall 2019 Intima) with Marilena Vimercati, lives and works in Bologna, Italy. Her interest has always been narrative and applied narrative medicine which she uses in different fields: in training courses for health professionals, in the degree course in Nursing at the University of Bologna and in research. https://www.theintima.org/blog/embracing-the-emotional-and-the-empathic-by-logan-shannon monthly 0.5 2020-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579637335539-ADCTYP6MRWEOMT8QN722/Shannon%2C+Logan.jpg Blog - Embracing the Emotional and the Empathic in Healthcare by Logan Shannon Logan M. Shannon has a BFA in Studio Art with a minor in English from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design. Her essay, “The Gold Standard,” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/strong-beat-susan-samples-indigo-and-the-music-of-rhythms-by-by-michele-parker-randall monthly 0.5 2020-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579025815673-6O6MZL581JNM7PZZT5NI/Randall%2C+Michele+Parker.jpg Blog - Strong Beat: Susan Sample’s poem“Indigo” and the Music of Rhythms by Michele Parker Randall Michele Parker Randall is the author of Museum of Everyday Life (Kelsay Books 2015). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Nimrod International Journal, Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her poem “An Explanation of Sorts” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reflection-on-philip-berrys-semantics-in-the-elevator-and-the-word-sorry-by-v-karri monthly 0.5 2020-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579024309778-FXWZDMPA6471UP2YJV01/Karri%2C+Padmavathi.jpg Blog - A Reflection on Philip Berry’s “Semantics in the Elevator” and the Word “Sorry” by V Karri Padmavathi Karri, known as V, is a student at McGovern Medical School. She is currently on a research and service focused gap year between her third and fourth year of medical school. Her Field Note essay “Stuck” appears on the Fall 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-power-of-trust-by-amanda-swain monthly 0.5 2020-02-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1583004759069-OSLVKV2I0AQRVJHMPWE2/SwainAmanda%2BFinegold.jpg Blog - The Power of Trust in the Clinical Encounter by Amanda Swain Amanda Swain is a full-time physician at the University of Pennsylvania Student Health Service.. Her specific areas of interest include narrative medicine and the intersection of theater arts and clinical practice. Her essay “Hand Holding” appears in the Fall 2019 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-isolation-of-the-caregiver-in-john-jacobsons-now-and-then-by-brian-ascalon-roley monthly 0.5 2020-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579026443729-I1WHF3GLQCMVS03JA3E7/Roley%2C+Brian.jpg Blog - The Isolation of the Caregiver in John Jacobson’s “Now and Then,” a reflection by English professor Brian Ascalon Roley Brian Ascalon Roley has received fellowships and awards from the University of Cambridge, Cornell University, the Ohio Arts Council, Djerassi, Ragdale, and the VCCA. He is currently Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. His poem “Caregiving” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-response-to-a-mothers-life-by-emily-kerlin monthly 0.5 2021-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579025228817-O3YEFTGXUFNTR79HH1DF/Kerlin%2C+Emily.jpg Blog - When Life Changes in a Moment: A Response to “A Mother’s Life” by poet Emily Kerlin Emily Kerlin studied creative writing while attending Antioch College. Her poem “Outpatient Procedure” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.. https://www.theintima.org/blog/sufferings-generous-end-from-veterinary-lessons-to-william-casss-story-gentle-breezes-by-jane-desmond monthly 0.5 2020-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579018612043-4DY501VF3H1F4ETYHMQP/Desmond%2C+Jane.jpg Blog - Suffering’s Generous End: From “Veterinary Lessons” to William Cass’s story “Gentle Breezes,” a reflection by poet Jane Desmond Jane Desmond is a poet and scholar who writes about the intersections between veterinary medicine and human medicine, as well as our relations with non-human animals. Her poem “Veterinary Lessons” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/sfyebg0ni201andebp98erwm5a0v1g monthly 0.5 2020-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1580407700816-K52QKHIJI22ASB71XDL6/Vimercati%2C+Marilena.png Blog - “Daily life is a massacre”: A reflection on “Now and Then,” John Jacobson’s essay about caregiving, by Marilena Vimercati Marilena Vimercati, author of the research paper "Embraced by Words" (Fall 2019 Intima) with Rossana Di Renzo, lives and works in Milan where she collaborates with ISMU—Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity, an independent scientific body—to carry out projects focusing on interaction between migration processes and training paths for professionals. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-balance-of-blame-by-philip-berry monthly 0.5 2020-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481468886631-EDIM69FI93ABT3TPZ1YI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Balance of Blame, When Something Goes Wrong, a reflection on "Physician as Enabler" by Philip Berry Philip Berry is a consultant hepatologist working in London, UK. Outside his specialty, he writes regularly on medical ethics, patient-physician relationships and the psychology of medical decision-making. His article "Semantics in an Elevator" appears in the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/little-rescues-and-betrayals-by-katy-giebenhain monthly 0.5 2020-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579019862953-0DOKQVG5IXR41W3VWD01/Giebenhain%2C+K.jpg Blog - Little Rescues and Betrayals: A reflection on the practice of drug formulary exclusions and more by Katy Giebenhain Katy Giebenhain is the author of Sharps Cabaret (Mercer University Press). She is part of the monthly Narrative Medicine group at WellSpan York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in The Healing Muse, The National Academy of Medicine's Expressions of Clinician Well-Being online gallery (Athena, Dialing), The Arkansas Review, The Glasgow Review of Books, The Examined Life and elsewhere. Her poem “Swedish Fish Rescues” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/widening-the-gaze-for-full-spectrum-humans-by-howard-carter monthly 0.5 2020-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579017207088-PT3JEPTFSYEDLUJ84WDN/Carter%2C+Albert+Howard+.jpg Blog - Listening, Conversation and the Power of Touch in Healthcare, a reflection by Howard Carter Albert Howard Carter, III, is faculty affiliate, Trent Center, Duke University. He has worked in the literature and medicine/health area for over 30 years. His short story “The Cookie Intervention” appears in the Fall 2019 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/should-you-limit-your-emotional-connections-with-your-patients-two-differing-views-by-andrea-eisenberg monthly 0.5 2020-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579019249682-33QO7RCV0EMC8GI6CMEA/Eisenberg%2C+Andrea.jpg Blog - Should You Limit Your Emotional Connections with Your Patients? Two differing views, by Andrea Eisenberg Andrea Eisenberg is an OB/GYN in the metro Detroit area who has been in practice 26 years. She writes about her experiences in medicine exploring the relationships and bonds that are formed. Her essay “Willing to Die” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-flip-side-by-charlotte-crowder monthly 0.5 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579016076470-WVHRGYQD0E0HOW453XIK/Crowder%2C+Charlotte.jpg Blog - The Flip Side of Mammography Screening by Charlotte Crowder Charlotte Crowder lives and writes on the coast of Maine. She is a medical writer and editor by day. Her short stories have been published in Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors magazine, The Maine Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and American Writers Review. Her essay “In the Pink” appears in the Fall 2019 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/who-are-illness-narratives-for-anyway-by-rachel-conrad-bracken monthly 0.5 2020-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1576259494477-Q78GFKMSL3TA34AG37Y9/Bracken%2C+Rachel.JPG Blog - Who Are Illness Narratives For, Anyway? by Rachel Conrad Bracken Rachel Conrad Bracken is Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University. As a scholar of US literature and the health humanities, Bracken explores the intersections of literature and public health at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as contemporary speculative fiction, medical technology, and the rhetoric surrounding pediatric vaccination. Her academic analysis “Diagnosing the ‘American Girl’: Henry James's Daisy Miller as a Study in Illness Narrative” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/all-the-girls-were-there-and-gorgeous-by-hope-atlas monthly 0.5 2020-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1576258400556-EUA4CJ0K1Q5Y8HI4EY9U/Atlas%2C+Hope.jpeg Blog - On Alzheimer’s and the poem, “All The Girls Were There and Gorgeous,” a reflection by Hope Atlas Since the age of fifteen, Atlas has been putting pen to paper. Writing is her lifeline and her voice. She writes her story through poetry, quotes and memoirs. “The Hospital Room of Understanding” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/multi-lingual-solace-holding-space-for-co-existence-by-elisabeth-abeson monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1576256676581-DGWG5N2P48C35HKKLUKL/Abeson%2C+Elisabeth.jpg Blog - Multi-lingual Solace: Holding Space for Co-Existence by Elisabeth Abeson Elisabeth Abeson, a recent graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute, takes an integrative approach to treating her sero-positive erosive Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and is in remission thanks to classical Ayurveda & Allopathic Medicine.Her piece “Integrative Medicine” appears in the Fall 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.. https://www.theintima.org/blog/an-artist-living-with-trigeminal-neuralgia-and-jen-karetnicks-poem-dances-with-pills-by-karl-gustav-kroeppler monthly 0.5 2019-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1568295425093-ZBMS4H6RTXHHTOEKQ8PA/Kroeppler.jpg Blog - “‘Dances with Pills’ is a poem that speaks to me,” by Karl Gustav Kroeppler, an artist living with Trigeminal Neuralgia Karl Gustav Kroeppler is an artist and professor. https://www.theintima.org/blog/comments-on-vik-reddys-field-notes-the-weight-by-beth-a-lown monthly 0.5 2019-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1568296889796-U148ERQ1R4BCVY85S56K/Lown%2C+Beth.jpg Blog - "The Reality of A Missed Diagnosis," a reflection on "The Weight," an essay by Vik Reddy, by Beth A. Lown Beth Lown is Chief Medical Officer of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, Boston MA, https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-shift-from-objective-to-subjective-scrap-of-a-story-by-justin-milan monthly 0.5 2019-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1568297463198-OSRJ9ER6K7EL0AGTBB9V/Millan%2C+Justin.JPG Blog - The Shift from Objective to Subjective: A Reflection on "Scrap of a Story" by Justin Milan, RN Justin Millan is a writer and registered nurse working https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-synergy-of-reading-and-writing-poetry-by-ron-lands monthly 0.5 2019-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1567987066057-LJRRQ1P9KO3CVI6G8AR9/Lands%2C+Ron.jpg Blog - The Synergy of Reading and Writing Poetry by Ron Lands Physician and poet Ron Lands https://www.theintima.org/blog/capturing-the-ordinary-writing-about-illness-and-the-everyday-by-yoshiko-iwai monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1563466373710-D9EQHTDK4JH2V95KLOJ5/Iwai.png Blog - Capturing the Ordinary: Writing about illness and the everyday by Yoshiko Iwai Yoshiko Iwai is a writer and dancer from Japan, living in New York City. She is a master’s candidate at Columbia University for her MFA in Creative Nonfiction and MS in Narrative Medicine. At Columbia, she is a Chair’s Fellow for the Graduate Writing Program and teaches creative writing in prison facilities as a member of Columbia Artist/Teachers. Her non-fiction essay “The Witness’” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-compassionate-storytelling-in-graphic-memoir-pat-arnows-a-death-in-chicago-1972-elizabeth-kubler-ross-and-my-family-by-jonathan-garfinkel monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1563465803517-2GD6I8EUH3A29NK8FPLO/r5bY7xZ2.jpeg Blog - On Compassionate Storytelling in Graphic Memoir: Pat Arnow’s "A Death in Chicago, 1972: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and My Family" By Jonathan Garfinkel Jonathan Garfinkel is a writer whose work has been translated into twelve languages. He is the author of the book of poems Glass Psalms (Turnstone Press, 2005) and the chapbook Bociany (Storks) (KFB, 2017). Garfinkel is currently doing a PhD in Cultural Studies in the field of Medical Humanities at University of Alberta. Find more of his work at jonathan-garfinkel.com. His non-fiction piece “Diabetes Diary” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-caregivers-space-thoughts-on-john-jacobsons-essay-now-and-then-by-simona-carini monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1563463999716-4I3XTW6RNRSEPX95J42D/Carini%2C+Simona.jpeg Blog - The Caregiver’s Space: Thoughts on John Jacobson’s Essay “Now and Then” by Simona Carini Simona Carini, who was born in Perugia, Italy, is a graduate of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy and Mills College. Carini writes nonfiction and poetry and has been published in various print and online venues. She lives in Northern California with her husband and works as an academic researcher in Medical Information Science. Her poem Diagnosis appears in Poetry in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Find more of her work at simonacarini.com. https://www.theintima.org/blog/dads-daughters-death-by-pat-arnow monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1563461538530-TFMIOZCJCEJD4HF5GIX1/Arnow-.jpg Blog - Dads, Daughters, Death by Pat Arnow Pat Arnow is a photographer, writer, and more lately, a cartoonist in New York. She often writes and draws stories about death.Her artwork “A Death in Chicago, 1972: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and My Family” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-a-fathers-legacy-prepares-a-medical-student-for-the-minefield-by-jennifer-abcug monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1563460913435-IYT7S5GE4FJ59JD1W9C5/ZHF-Lx7N.jpeg Blog - How A Father’s Legacy Prepares a Medical Student for the Minefield by Jennifer Abcug Jennifer Abcug is a psychotherapist in New York City where she maintains a private practice focused on women’s life transitions. Formerly, she worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center providing counseling to patients and families. While there, she experienced the privilege of being present with others facing the most personal of crises. Along with this came a daily dose of humility and a grounding in shared humanity. Writing is how Abcug makes meaning of bearing witness. Her non-fiction essay “Daddy” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/what-we-hide-and-what-we-kill-between-we-should-all-be-storytellers-and-dr-godfreys-life-death-and-betta-fish-by-giannina-muncey monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1561408270031-3MZY4NZALT4JJGSESHPN/Muncey%2C+G.jpeg Blog - What We Hide and What We Kill, between “We Should All Be Storytellers” and Dr. Godfrey’s “Life, Death, and Betta Fish.” by Giannina Muncey Giannina (Lissa Garces-Ambrossi) Muncey, MD, is an intensivist, writer and mom. She is the founder of the first ICU in Jupiter, Florida, where she lives with her husband and son.She is a former journalist whose articles have appeared in The Nation. Her Field Notes essay “We Should All Be Storytellers” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/truth-and-dreams-in-m-sophia-newmans-under-the-wreckage-an-ocean-by-rory-osullivan monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1561407597848-7Y57Z9ER0QQYCSO2SLCZ/O%27Sullivan%2C+Rory.jpg Blog - Truth and Dreams in M. Sophia Newman’s “Under the Wreckage, an Ocean” by Rory O’Sullivan Rory O’Sullivan is a practicing family physician in Toronto, Canada. His medical career has taken him to rural and remote parts of four different Canadian provinces, and he feels privileged to have collected the extraordinary stories of people and places along the way. His short story “The Country Doctor” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reflecting-on-the-loneliness-of-dying-by-veronica-tomasic-by-henry-sussman-and-jeffrey-newman monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1560963944707-U3SHERC5EIGXKAWWYUSH/Sussman%2C+Henry.JPG Blog - Reflecting on "The Loneliness of Dying" by Veronica Tomasic by Henry Sussman and Jeffrey Newman Henry Sussman received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Johns Hopkins University in 1975 and taught Comparative and German Literatures at universities including Johns Hopkins, SUNY Buffalo, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rutgers, and Yale. At Yale, he evolved a course in German fairy tales out of his interests in critical theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cybernetics. “Wisdom in the End: Folktales and Narrative Technique in End-of-Life Palliation” by Sussman and co-author Jeffrey Newman appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1560964015765-BTA0549V3D5QUFYQKQKL/Newman%2C+Jeff.JPG Blog - Reflecting on "The Loneliness of Dying" by Veronica Tomasic by Henry Sussman and Jeffrey Newman Jeff Newman is a Professor in the Institute for Health & Aging at UCSF. Trained in Preventive and Internal Medicine, his previous positions were in the US Public Health Service, the California Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, and Sutter Health. “Wisdom in the End: Folktales and Narrative Technique in End-of-Life Palliation” by Newman and co-author Henry Sussman appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.. https://www.theintima.org/blog/ode-to-critical-thinking-intima-in-the-classroom-by-barry-peters monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1561392470980-MEUVISW16QBSL2PKITWO/Peters%2C+Barry.jpg Blog - Ode to Critical Thinking: Intima in the Classroom by Barry Peters Barry Peters lives in Durham, NC, with his wife, the writer Maureen Sherbondy. His poem “Pascal, The Hard Way” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/what-was-what-is-and-what-will-be-a-reflection-on-the-poem-decision-by-ron-lands-by-tharshika-thangarasa monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1560962966218-G24RKBGQR5Y6Q626FNQF/Thangarasa%2C+Tharshika.jpg Blog - What Was, What Is and What Will Be: A reflection on the poem “Decision” by Ron Lands by: Tharshika Thangarasa Tharshika Thangarasa is a daughter, sister, friend and fourth year medical student at the University of Ottawa. Her artwork “Stroked” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/winnowing-by-lailah-shima monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1561391871546-HBNHRUDU4I5CWE4E2KS7/Shima%2C+Lailah.jpeg Blog - Winnowing: Reflecting on Preconceptions About Surgeons Before My Procedure by Lailah Shima Lailah Dainin Shima lives and writes in Wisconsin, where she’s a single mom of teenagers, an aspiring hospice chaplain, and a practitioner of Zen Buddhism. She has also survived cancer, finding deeper healing every step of the way and doing her part to infuse medical worlds with poetry. Her poem “Body of Wisdom” appears in the Spring 2019 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-art-of-sparing-by-xanthia-tucker monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1560961688066-5NPHWENUGN7PND1CUCBO/Tucker%2C+Xanthia.jpg Blog - The Art of Sparing: When the Patient May Not Want to "Hear it Straight" by Xanthia Tucker Xanthia Tucker is a third-year medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Her poem “Neuropathy” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/recapitulating-ontology-thoughts-on-meaning-making-in-life-limiting-illness-by-ethan-stonerook monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1561390527678-VMCMYATA8DAKRWD15CDB/Stonerook%2C+Ethan.jpg Blog - Recapitulating Ontology: Thoughts on meaning making in life-limiting illness by Ethan Stonerook Ethan Stonerook is a native Floridian, fisherman, former ecologist, and physician assistant in bone marrow transplant at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He is particularly interested in the use of creative writing as a way to make meaning in the context of life-limiting and altering illness. His poem “A Gullah Woman comes to clinic” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/from-eliot-to-alzheimers-similar-themes-within-separate-illnesses-by-laura-anne-white monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1560961031643-AXAIAHQJM3R526MGW0OK/White%2C+Laura+Anne.jpeg Blog - From T. S. Eliot to Alzheimer’s: Similar Themes Within Separate Illnesses by Laura-Anne White Laura-Anne White, RN, BSN graduated from the University of Texas. She currently works with adults suffering from leukemia at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a clinical nurse. Her creative non-fiction “Vacant Lots” appears in the Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-to-really-see-a-patient-by-nikhil-barot-nsnrk monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1560959227687-5V5Z6MK8DJFPQY9NW01L/Barot%2C+Nikhil.jpg Blog - How to Really See a Patient by Nikhil Barot Nikhil Barot is an Associate Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and practices Pulmonary & Critical Medicine and Palliative Care Medicine at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. His essay “Numb” appears in the current issue of Intima, https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-to-really-see-a-patient-by-nikhil-barot monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1560959822156-YPRIPEH5NBBKJ1GIAAGG/Barot%2C+Nikhil.jpg Blog - How to Really See a Patient by Nikhil Barot Nikhil Barot is an Associate Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and practices Pulmonary & Critical Medicine and Palliative Care Medicine at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. His essay “Numb” appears in the current issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-carolyn-welchs-poem-relapse-reflects-on-americas-opiod-crisis-by-angelica-recierdo monthly 0.5 2019-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1551535277001-1UQDL0O29M8LQSZRHCVT/AngelicaRecierdo.jpg Blog - How Carolyn Welch's poem "Relapse" reflects on America's opioid crisis by Angelica Recierdo Angelica Recierdo, who is on the Editorial Board of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, is a graduate student in Columbia University's Narrative Medicine program. Her essay “Coming Out of the Medical Closet” appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/caregivers-grief-and-metaphors-reflecting-on-birds-of-prayer monthly 0.5 2019-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1550272221878-5KB6AQXZ989M2FGSY55I/Jacobson%2CJohn+.jpg Blog - Caregivers, Grief and Metaphors: Reflecting on Sara Adler's poem “Birds of Prayer” by John Jacobson John Jacobson’s essay “Now and Then” appears in Field Notes in the Fall 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-reflection-on-the-poem-letter-to-a-93-year-old-cadaver-who-died-from-multiple-causes-by-christine-nichols monthly 0.5 2018-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427658186168-Y27YIF0G2HNRMZWR5XYS/The_Art_Of_Anatomy.jpg Blog - A reflection on the poem, "Letter to a 93-year-old Cadaver who Died from Multiple Causes" by Christine Nichols The Art of Anatomy by Khalil Harbie. Fall 2013 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/messengers-of-grief-by-katherine-seluja-arnp monthly 0.5 2018-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499528607201-8EGZV4MUFHEKRFSNAWU1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Honoring the Messengers of Grief: Thinking deeply about what haunts us by poet and nurse practitioner Katherine Seluja, ARNP Katherine DiBella Seluja, who won the Southwest Writers Poetry award, is a poet and a nurse practitioner. Her poem "Not Every Homemade Thing" appears in the Spring 2017 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/love-and-death-in-medicine-and-psychiatry-by-andrea-rosenhaft monthly 0.5 2018-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1428757914075-4Z369EN1FN0ZBC0H7VN7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thinking about Love, Death and Suicide by Andrea Rosenhaft Andrea Rosenhaft is a licensed clinical social worker, who practices at an outpatient mental health clinic in New York City. She writes primarily on the topic of mental illness and recovery and has published in various literary journals and anthologies. Read her piece, “Eight Months After a Suicide Attempt” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-bodies-the-transformative-power-of-nature-by-jesse-holth monthly 0.5 2018-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1534596800970-LZ8PL6UE8FCBF2FT53SG/Holth%2C+Jesse+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpg Blog - On Bodies: The Transformative Power of Nature by poet Jesse Holth Jesse Holth is a freelance writer and editor based in the Pacific Northwest. She writes about health and wellness, science, history, and conservation, and her work has been featured in over a dozen international publications. Her poem "Anatomy in Nature" appears in the Spring 2018 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/swimming-alone-thoughts-on-what-its-like-being-a-medical-student-thrown-into-the-proverbial-deep-end-of-the-hospital-wards-by-thomas-j-doyle-md monthly 0.5 2018-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1533992595537-JY1WT0XA2VK7NOCZOSGZ/Doyle%2C+Thomas+SPRING+2018+.JPG Blog - Swimming Alone: Thoughts on What It’s Like Being a Medical Student Thrown Into the Proverbial Deep End of the Hospital Wards by Thomas J. Doyle, MD Thomas J. Doyle MD is an internist who lives in Providence, Rhode Island. His Field Notes essay "To Pronounce" appeared in the Spring 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-death-is-not-closure-how-poems-can-start-to-bring-clarity-to-our-loss-by-alida-rol monthly 0.5 2018-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1533383328788-LAB5A0U47ZNPD2TG1MQZ/Rol%2C+Alida+SPRING+2018JPG.JPG Blog - A Death Is Not Closure: How Poems Can Help Bring Clarity to Our Loss by Alida Rol Alida Rol practiced as an OBGYN physician for many years. She holds an MFA in writing from Pacific University. Her poem "After A Year in Hospitals" appears in the Spring 2018 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-role-of-scripts-in-understanding-illness-by-lori-duin-kelly monthly 0.5 2018-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532951875121-SLT6L5NLK0Z2QHVXKBDU/Kelly%2C+Lori+Duin.jpg Blog - How We Might Use a ‘Script’ in Navigating a Diagnosis of Breast Cancer by Lori Duin Kelly Lori Duin Kelly was the founder and longtime chair of the Body and Physical Culture area of the Popular Culture Association. Her paper "The Scar Project: Visual Language for Telling the Story of Breast Cancer in Women" appeared in the Spring 2017 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/poetry-and-string-theory-how-each-brings-the-macro-and-micro-together-to-heal-by-ingrid-andersson monthly 0.5 2018-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1533764146091-XOM86OIOGKZY5K2LQCR7/Andersson%2C+Ingrid+SPRING+2018.jpg Blog - Poetry and String Theory: How Each Brings the Macro and Micro Together to Heal by Ingrid Andersson Ingrid Andersson is a full-time midwife and poet in Madison, WI. She is completing her first collection of poetry, entitled Down the Female Ages. Her poem "At The Green Burial Informational Luncheon" appeared in the Spring 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/be-patient-listen-to-your-patient-a-reflection-on-the-difficulties-of-describing-a-disease-by-suzanne-edison monthly 0.5 2018-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532817057957-N8HFTK3GBT9LH23MGCD2/Edison%2C+Suzanne+SPRING+2018.jpg Blog - Be Patient, Listen to your Patient: A Reflection on the Difficulties of Describing a Disease by Suzanne Edison Suzanne Edison MA, MFA, writes most often about the intersection of illness, healing, medicine and art. She has a child living with Juvenile Myositis. Her chapbook, The Moth Eaten World, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poem "The Body Lives Its Undoing" appears in the Spring 2018 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/we-need-more-stories-from-young-patients-by-kelley-yuan monthly 0.5 2018-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532816360973-UPO1SVIHDBHMFNBMDELZ/Yuan%2C+Kelley+SPRING+2018.jpg Blog - We Need More Stories From Young Patients by Kelley Yuan Kelley Yuan will begin her studies at Sidney Kimmel Medical College in 2018 as part of the Penn State/SKMC combined BS/MD program. Her paper entitled "Stories from Kids: The Unheard Voices of Pediatric Patients" appears in the Spring 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/i-lost-a-patient-last-week-by-carolyn-welch monthly 0.5 2018-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532815457866-Z7HLQMAMDPTCJGJH5ISI/Welch%2C+Carolyn+SPRING+2018.png Blog - I Lost a Patient Last Week by Carolyn Welch Carolyn Welch worked for many years as a pediatric intensive care nurse and currently works as a family nurse practitioner. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poetry collection, The Garden of Fragile Being, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Her poem "Relapse" is in the Spring 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/life-and-death-in-the-er-whats-real-whats-fiction-by-carol-scott-connor-HdfmX monthly 0.5 2018-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532814641591-43RN6SBSSTSWAK9EW9H6/Scott-Connor%7ECarol+cropped.jpg Blog - Life and Death in the ER: What's Real, What's Fiction? by Carol Scott Connor Carol Scott-Conner is Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Her story "After Midnight" is homage to the night shift, when everything extraneous seems to fade away and only life and death remain. https://www.theintima.org/blog/lifeanddeathintheer monthly 0.5 2018-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532813828917-89WMSO12LSC6Z4H67SHG/Scott-Connor%7ECarol+cropped.jpg Blog - Life and Death in the ER: What's Real and What's Fiction? by Carol EH Scott-Conner MD PhD Carol Scott-Conner is Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Her story "After Midnight" pays homage to the night shift, when everything extraneous seems to fade away and only life and death remain. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-reflection-on-handsin-art-in-medicine-by-pamela-hart monthly 0.5 2018-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532812089935-K4P3WEAJZ3GZ4D9S9VQJ/Hart%2C+Pamela+SPRING+2018.JPG Blog - A Reflection on Hands—in Art, in Medicine by Pamela Hart Pamela Hart is writer in residence at the Katonah Museum of Art where she teaches and manages the Museum’s Thinking Through the Arts program. Her poem "Dorothy's Hands" is in the Spring 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532812839686-SF9AITXADKPJWNHQDXOR/TheSurgicalStage_24x18_oil+by+Meagan+Wu.JPG Blog - A Reflection on Hands—in Art, in Medicine by Pamela Hart The Surgical Stage by Meagan Wu. Fall 2017 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/what-color-is-your-stethoscope-a-reflection-on-how-art-and-colors-affect-us-as-caregivers-by-alice-wang monthly 0.5 2018-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532697767461-UVJA6ZWA9SRR5C20RW5B/Wang%2C+Alice+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpg Blog - What Color is Your Stethoscope? A Reflection on How Art and Colors Affect Us as Caregivers by Alice Wang Alice Wang is a third-year undergraduate student at Stanford University studying Materials Science & Engineering. She is interested in the importance of interpersonal narratives in both art and medicine, and seeks to better understand the healing potential of narrative medicine. Her artwork "Beyond Blue" appears in the Spring 2018 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532697892643-IZ2WGZPWFFTH7Z1JFP1J/Beyond_Blue+by+Alice+Wang+SPRING+2018+INTIMAJPG.JPG Blog - What Color is Your Stethoscope? A Reflection on How Art and Colors Affect Us as Caregivers by Alice Wang "Beyond Blue" by Alice Wang. Spring 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/thoughts-on-poetry-on-dying-by-mikki-aronoff monthly 0.5 2018-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1534082250404-Z819Y1UW5ZVES7ZBGANZ/Aronoff+Mikki+.png Blog - Thoughts on Poetry, On Dying by Mikki Aronoff Mikki Aronoff is a New Mexico poet who worked many years in pediatric and adult hematology-oncology as a patient services manager and with creative arts therapies. Now retired, her passions are playing with words and advocating for animals. Her poem "I Was Satisfied with Silence" appeared in the Fall 2017 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/unconscious-memoir-re-visioning-a-medical-emergency-from-others-perspectives-by-elisabeth-hedrick-moser monthly 0.5 2018-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532696833528-V4F6WCGXM2PRR5M2DYK7/Hedrick-Moser%2C+Elisabeth+SPRING+2018.jpg Blog - Unconscious Memoir: Seeing My Medical Emergency from Others' Perspectives by Elisabeth Hedrick-Moser Elisabeth Hedrick-Moser, a native of El Paso, TX, lives in San Antonio. She earned a doctorate in English Literature from Saint Louis University and has published academic essays on war literature, trauma, and teaching. Her non-fiction piece "Fluid" appears in the Spring 2018 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-a-poem-entitled-all-the-girls-were-there-and-gorgeous-helps-us-reflect-on-illness-morality-and-memories-by-andrew-troutman-taylor monthly 0.5 2018-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532695825060-J2BTJN103GJUOH1OO07G/image-asset.png Blog - How a poem entitled “All the Girls Were There, and Gorgeous” helps us reflect on illness, morality and memories by Andrew Taylor-Troutman Andrew Taylor-Troutman earned a certificate in Narrative Healthcare from the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative through Lenoir-Rhyne University. He is a Presbyterian pastor serving a congregation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His story “Cups and Such” appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/28f4obcizbnc3pb77gcx54w8e3vi1z monthly 0.5 2018-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532536479011-NA4KF1TBG4VDLGJ27KJP/Brown%2C+Michael+SPRING+2018.jpg Blog - A Matrix for Healing: Understanding the Psychic and Moral Wounds on Clinicians During Wartime by Michael Brown, OD Michael Brown is an optometrist who has practiced with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for over 25 years and served as an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry. His piece, "Red Line Rising," appears in the the Spring 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/blog/these-hands monthly 0.5 2018-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520177239565-N9D5IB11CVV6596RGCRL/Klatzker%2C+Catherine.jpeg Blog - DNR: How Hands Put Things In Order by Catherine Klatzker Catherine Klatzker is a writer and RN in Los Angeles, California, retired after twenty-two years in pediatric intensive care. Her poem "Order" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/time-of-death-how-clinicians-cope-with-a-patients-final-moments-by-anna-belc monthly 0.5 2018-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1532535407027-DYVT6XLX58ZO14TT710D/Belc%2C+Anna+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpeg Blog - Time of Death: How Clinicians Cope with A Patient's Final Moments by Anna Belc Anna Belc was born and raised in Warsaw, attended middle and high school in New York City, and as an adult fell in love with the Philadelphia area, where she studied theater and later nursing. Currently she is living in Marquette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she works as an RN in a rural emergency department. Anna, who is the mother of three boys, is a playwright and translator of dramatic works. She is determined to see the Northern Lights before she heads back east next year. Her piece, "Getting to Know Dying" is in the most recent issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/enter-the-child-life-specialist-by-janet-cincotta monthly 0.5 2018-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1515518735801-NEM5QVB1E2RTJ27565L3/Cincotta%2C+Janet.jpg Blog - Enter: The Child Life Specialist by Janet Cincotta Janet Cincotta, MD, is a graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical Center. Dr Cincotta is a published author and physician with over thirty years of experience in family medicine. Her essay “The Pull of Gravity” appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/parallel-lines-by-rohini-harvey monthly 0.5 2018-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1515517986678-T04HCDH802NX6QJL3I3D/Harvey%2C+Rohini.jpg Blog - Mixed Meanings: How Parallel Conversations Between Doctors and Patients Can Affect A Diagnosis by Rohini Harvey Rohini Harvey studied anthropology at Amherst College and attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Now a hospital-based doctor practicing internal medicine and pediatrics in Western Massachusetts, she was unexpectedly diagnosed with a serious illness, which forced her to straddle the line between physician and patient. Her essay “C18.9: Malignant Neoplasm of Colon, Unspecified,” appears in the Fall 2017 issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-chaos-narrative-and-other-disrupted-life-stories-by-jennifer-rebekah-hartmark-hill monthly 0.5 2018-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1515517377306-UZND3797QOL7GQPO42QO/Hartmark-Hill-Jennifer+Faculty+Photo+-+FINAL.jpg Blog - The Chaos Narrative and Other Disrupted Life Stories by Jennifer Rebekah Hartmark-Hill Jen Hartmark-Hill is a Family Medicine physician, medical educator and research mentor. She is the director for the Narrative Medicine & Health Humanities Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. Her story "Dear Patient" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/words-to-the-wiser-a-chronology-of-narrative-appreciation-for-westcotts-bright-is-the-ring-of-words-by-kirk-hathaway monthly 0.5 2018-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1515516445479-QCEG5M9Y19ZEH7PP6UWQ/Hathaway%2C+Kirk.jpg Blog - Words to the Wiser: A Chronology of Narrative Appreciation for Westcott’s “Bright is the Ring of Words.” by Kirk Hathaway Kirk Hathaway, graduate of the Master’s Playwriting Program at San Francisco State University, is a previous recipient of a Showcase Writers Scholarship and Showcase Theatre Award with works produced in California and Ohio. His poem "Chemistry of Prognosis" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/witnessing-the-power-of-story-by-josephine-ensign monthly 0.5 2025-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1515515535866-P3TRDH71PRGIPBH5M0HE/Ensign%2C+Josephine.jpg Blog - Witnessing the Power of Story by Josephine Ensign Josephine Ensign is professor of nursing at the University of Washington in Seattle where she teaches health policy, community health, and health humanities. She received her BA from Oberlin College, her masters in nursing from the Medical College of Virginia, and her doctorate in public health from Johns Hopkins University. Her essay, “Witness: On Telling,” appears in the fall 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/eyewitness-by-patricia-brenneman monthly 0.5 2018-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1515514806959-LFJO5P3DZ9X8RMU1WTOA/Brenneman%2C+Patricia.JPG Blog - Eye/Witness by Patricia Brenneman Patricia Brenneman is a spiritual director, offering spiritual guidance in the Jungian tradition. She specializes in grief and loss, and facilitates groups that make use of sandplay as a contemplative, expressive practice to explore grief as sacred territory. Her essay "My Mudflats" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reaching-across-by-kendra-peterson-md monthly 0.5 2018-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510601150474-HCCO94PY3UKYL8EOTO0N/Peterson%2C+Kendra.jpg Blog - How Doctors Respond to 'Difficult' Patients: A Reflection by Kendra Peterson, MD Kendra Peterson, MD is a neurologist in Palo Alto, California, and a member of the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford. Her poem 'The "Difficult Patient "' appears in the Fall 2017 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-meaning-evades-us-by-laura-anne-white monthly 0.5 2018-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510600655791-7SSZB7USUS4WU9HZJY6H/White%2C+Laura+Anne.JPG Blog - Learning to Speak Meaningfully When Meaning Evades Us by Laura Anne White Laura Anne White works as a registered nurse on an inpatient adult oncology and hospice unit at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas. Her writing and artwork have been featured in Hektoen and Recovering the Self. She lives in Minnesota with her plants and bicycle. Her artwork "Speak" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/calling-to-question-a-reflection-of-healthcare-providers-perceptions-of-life-and-death-by-tharshika-thangarasa monthly 0.5 2018-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510600071076-9NU6WUXHIXILJVYSC0MZ/Thangarasa%2CTharshika+jpg.jpg Blog - Calling to Question: A Reflection on Healthcare Providers’ Perceptions of Life and Death by Tharshika Thangarasa Tharshika Thangarasa is currently a daughter, sister, friend, amateur artist and third year medical student at the University of Ottawa. She completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She has an insatiable hunger for knowledge and a love of trying new things. She hopes to travel more, inspire others and positively influence the lives of many as a future physician. Her poem "Specimen A" appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/denying-demons-by-billie-holladay-skelley monthly 0.5 2018-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510599254482-YKRLS4A2WFQHCO41J7IB/Skelley%2C+Billie+Holladay+.jpeg Blog - Denying Demons: A Meditation on PTSD and Vietnam Veterans by Billie Holladay Skelley Billie Holladay Skelley earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, she provided postoperative care for cardiothoracic surgery patients. She also taught nursing students and worked in curriculum development. Now retired from nursing, she enjoys writing. Her poem, “ d. IF . ferent ,” was published in the Fall 2017 issue of Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/too-little-skin-for-these-bones-by-sydney-sheltz-kempf monthly 0.5 2017-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510598497817-EJXPEOH4Q975UZ6A81O8/Sheltz-Kempf%2C+Sydney.jpg Blog - Too Little Skin for These Bones: A Meditation on Poetry and Illness by Sydney Sheltz-Kempf Sydney Sheltz-Kempf is a Medical Technologist at Covance Central Laboratory Services where she performs genotyping assays and companion diagnostic testing. A previous poetry chapbook (which also serves as her memoir) is scheduled to be published by The Poet's Haven in Spring 2018. Her poem "NSCLC" appears in the Fall 2017 edition of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/its-a-pisser-considering-two-sides-of-kidney-disease-by-larry-oakner monthly 0.5 2017-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510590058255-SYNA3XIS9C6L8A2TD8MK/Oakner%2C+Larry.jpg Blog - It’s a Pisser: Considering two sides of kidney disease by Larry Oakner Larry Oakner’s poems have appeared recently in Tricycle: Buddhist News, PROVOKR.com, The Shambhala Times, The Jewish Literary Review, Lost Coast Review, Home Planet News and Mystic Nebula. His poem "Life After Prednisone" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-waiting-by-sara-lukinson monthly 0.5 2017-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510589370663-QPESFZXLNXQL429GWV8U/Lukinson+photo.jpg Blog - On Waiting: A Meditation on Waiting Rooms by Sara Lukinson Sara Lukinson is a three-time Emmy award winning writer and documentary filmmaker best known for her biographical films of artists, including the films she produced for the “Kennedy Center Honors” for thirty years. Her work has been featured on network specials, PBS and HBO. Her essay "Into the Arms of Strangers" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/cultural-competency-what-emily-post-has-to-teach-us-by-olaf-kroneman monthly 0.5 2017-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510588293158-R1OWKY06W9BZJXXVCGT8/Kroneman%2C+Olaf+.JPG Blog - What Emily Post Has to Teach Us About Cultural Competency in the Clinical Encounter by Olaf Kroneman Olaf Kroneman graduated from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine with an MD. Dr. Kroneman interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, then attended the University of Virginia to complete a residency in internal medicine. He completed a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His work has appeared in literary magazines. His story "Fighting to Heal" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-sense-of-togetherness-by-jake-drobner monthly 0.5 2017-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510586492355-C0YNJPEZ7ALBRWRC0ZIS/Drobner%2C+Jake.jpg Blog - Creating A Sense of Togetherness by Jake Drobner Jake Drobner is a recent graduate of Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in Neuroscience & Behavior. His story "Doors, Walls, Barriers, and How We Break Them Down" appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/from-authoritarianism-to-mentorship-the-hierarchy-in-medicine-by-kani-aziz monthly 0.5 2017-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510585033100-XWDN2PLQCA16KLZJQHTH/Aziz%2C+Kany.jpg Blog - From Authoritarianism to Mentorship: The Hierarchy in Medicine by Kany Aziz Kany Aziz is a third-year Internal Medicine and Pediatric resident at West Virginia University. She is originally from Florida where she completed medical school at Florida State University. Her essay "Bad Lungs" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-diagnosis-of-dying-by-christopher-adamson monthly 0.5 2017-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1510584348468-U2949HR46IPT20ZV4GMJ/Adamson%2C+Christopher.jpg Blog - The Diagnosis of Dying by Christopher Adamson Christopher Adamson is a sociologist and a fiction writer. He is the author of a novella, The Road to Jewel Beach (Exile Editions, 2004). His short stories appear in Ontario Review, Exile Literary Quarterly and Hart House Review. His poem "Ode on a Styrofoam Cup" appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-little-ones-considering-what-illness-looks-like-from-a-childs-perspective-by-kelley-yuan monthly 0.5 2017-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499530490303-9FYRTK6EEFVWZ4BKPOTI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Little Ones: Considering what illness looks like from a child’s perspective by Kelley Yuan Kelley Yuan will begin her studies at Sidney Kimmel Medical College in 2018 as part of the Penn State/SKMC combined BS/MD program. She studies illustration and fences épée when she should be revising for exams. Her work seeks to capture the rare, light-hearted moments in a field filled with pain, fear, and tough decisions. Her artwork, The Last Stand, appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/storytelling-a-way-to-gain-perspective-on-past-traumas-by-cheryl-shore-arnp monthly 0.5 2017-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499529835630-LKF8M6J5EORPOKFHOBAG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Storytelling: A Way to Gain Perspective on Past Traumas by Cheryl Shore, ARNP Cheryl Shore, whose career has included teaching, research and practice, has taught nursing students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and has practiced as a nurse practitioner for more than 20 years. Her story “Soft Side of the Tiger” appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/formaldehyde-and-gratitude-by-sarah-shirley monthly 0.5 2017-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499529363029-BLQOB8HTWJHJHWXBUS7E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Formaldehyde and Gratitude by Sarah Shirley Sarah Shirley lives in Hamilton, New Zealand with her husband and two young children. She previously worked as a molecular biologist, and is now in her final year of medical school. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in star*line, takahe Magazine, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017, Atlas, Ars Medica, and Pedestal. Her poem "Osteosarcoma" appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-lessons-clinicians-can-learn-from-neglected-disease-by-carol-scott-conner monthly 0.5 2017-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499527675855-8DQECVRZ0MYRQJJ2J6WS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Lessons Clinicians Can Learn From ‘Neglected Disease’ by Carol Scott Conner, MD Carol Scott-Conner is Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where she is a member of the Humanities Council and serves on the editorial board of The Examined Life literary journal. Her essay "Christmas Rose" appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/memory-the-most-mysterious-faculty-a-reflection-on-austen-alzheimers-and-aberrant-decoding-by-carlene-kucharczyk monthly 0.5 2017-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499526584954-1DL56I844594XKIIG1BV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Memory, The Most Mysterious Faculty: A Reflection on Austen, Alzheimer’s and “Aberrant Decoding” by Carlene Kucharczyk, MFA Carlene Kucharczyk is a freelance writer currently living in Connecticut. She earned her MFA in Poetry from North Carolina State University and BA in Literature from Wagner College. Her poem “All the Girls Were There, and Gorgeous,” appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/cultural-competency-as-a-rite-of-passage-by-rose-jones-phd monthly 0.5 2017-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499526005882-MPA4RT1G0QFRP6NTBZJJ/image-asset.png Blog - Cultural Competency as a Rite of Passage By Rose Jones, Ph.D. Rose Jones, who has a PhD in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University, has been actively engaged in medical education for more than two decades: teaching, writing curricula, conducting research, and lecturing.Her essay “Hot Stones and Cold Rice” appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/openness-vs-secrecy-what-happens-when-we-share-our-illness-story-by-meredith-obrien monthly 0.5 2017-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499525152589-KWHUEL0AL32NXS4VVLHX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Openness vs. Secrecy: What happens when we share our illness story? By Meredith O’Brien Meredith O'Brien teaches journalism at Northeastern University. The Boston- area author of the newly-released Mr. Clark's Big Band: A Year of Laughter, Tears and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room—about a jazz band's year of grief and recovery after the sudden death of a classmate—O'Brien is nearing completion of an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University. Her essay, "Getting with Dr. Uhthoff” appears in the Spring 2017 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/76zwdpgy5o07d4d37iiu1yu2jqzsgg monthly 0.5 2017-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1498335734544-SQ3CEO9X6R1U1EELA995/juttabraun Blog - Letter to a Caretaker: An Acknowledgement by Jutta Braun, RN Jutta Braun is celebrating her fortieth year in nursing this spring. Her essay "Candace" appears in the Spring 2017 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/in-defense-of-others-a-reflection-about-the-ways-illness-can-divide-and-conquer-concern-by-liz-fyne monthly 0.5 2017-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1499524114363-TYIINUATUANE9ZTU7126/image-asset.jpeg Blog - In Defense of Others: A Reflection About the Ways Illness Can Divide and Conquer Concern by Liz Fyne. MS Liz Fyne has an M.S. in neuroscience and she spent over fourteen years doing biomedical research, including six years working in a translational HIV cure lab. Her story “Bones in the Sand” appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/dinner-revelations-and-narrative-medicine-tales-told-by-intima-spring-2017-by-wendy-french monthly 0.5 2017-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1498327423911-NGEDH2U0G7ZRKXIZGLWQ/wendyfrench Blog - Dinner, Revelations and Narrative Medicine: Tales told by Intima Spring 2017 by poet Wendy French Wendy French is a poet, whose latest collection of poems is "Thinks Itself A Hawk" (Hippocrates, 2016). Her collaboration with Jane Kirwan resulted in the book "Born in the NHS" (Hippocrates, 2013). She won the Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine prize for the NHS section in 2010 and was awarded second prize in 2011. She has worked for the past twenty years in healthcare settings. Her poem "Exchange" appears in the Spring 2017 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/rooms-with-a-viewpoint-the-metaphorical-power-of-hospitals-and-medical-complexes-in-illness-narratives-by-priscilla-mainardi-rn monthly 0.5 2017-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1497901602512-7BPIITO7ZZ689HEOXCJ7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Rooms with a viewpoint: The metaphorical power of hospitals and medical complexes in illness narratives By Priscilla Mainardi, RN PRISCILLA MAINARDI, a registered nurse, attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned her MFA degree in creative writing from Rutgers University. She joined the editorial board of the Intima in 2015.   https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-heart-in-harmony-by-poet-and-medical-student-schneider-k-rancy monthly 0.5 2017-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1497786950527-TQ2UQX4SG8DJKXVWPHKV/Rancy%2C+Schneider+K.png Blog - The Heart in Harmony by poet and medical student Schneider K. Rancy Schneider K. Rancy is a Haitian-American graduate of Columbia University, where he studied English and Comparative Literature, and Biology. His poetry has been featured in Columbia New Poetry magazine, which publishes experimental works of poetry and art. He is also a matriculating medical student in New York City. His peer-reviewed research articles on nerve and wrist reconstruction have been published in the Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume), the Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), and the Journal of Wrist Surgery. His poem “Heart Transplant,” appears in the Spring 2017 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/giu7kjec9hj4dau10vnoj557m62oll monthly 0.5 2017-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1497785031383-TVP7YN13KE3MOT3ZCEU1/DavidHilden Blog - Medicine: Finding the ordinary among the extraordinary by Dr. David Hilden David Hilden is an internal medicine physician practicing in a large urban hospital in Minneapolis.  He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 2000 and remains on the faculty as Associate Professor of Medicine.  He has a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Minnesota focusing on healthcare policy. His essay, "“Don’t worry, at least we will die together!” appears in the Spring 2017 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/history-lessons-what-doctors-learn-when-doing-patient-histories-by-natasha-massoudi monthly 0.5 2017-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1498482305419-Z73DQ279SI4L3N1JRL2A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - History Lessons: What Doctors Learn When Doing Patient Histories by Natasha Massoudi NATASHA MASSOUDI is a second-year medical student at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. She is a member of the Editorial Board at Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/crossroadsatintima monthly 0.5 2017-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1497738512786-5TVPB1M45MCLHDDQI6CU/ANDREAEISENBERG Blog - The Importance of Transitions: A Reflection by Ob/Gyn Andrea Eisenberg Andrea Eisenberg https://www.theintima.org/blog/being-useful-the-emotional-transformation-of-a-caregiver-a-commentary-on-family-and-coming-together-by-bekka-depew monthly 0.5 2017-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1497737626329-CWOO4TWMZRLEVPLWA3LY/BekkaDePew Blog - Being Useful: The Emotional Transformation of A Caregiver. A Commentary on Family and Coming Together by Bekka DePew Bekka DePew is a first year medical student living in Nashville, TN. She loves biking, music, seasons, and Christmas lights. Her poem "Vestibular" appears in the Spring 2017 issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/this-game-we-play-called-dying-by-vivian-lam monthly 0.5 2017-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1486914631100-PB7US1EMEN4BV91FZU7R/image-asset.png Blog - This Game We Play Called “Dying." A Meditation About Being on the Sidelines by Vivian Lam Vivian Lam is a senior at Stanford University studying Human Biology, with a concentration in Medical Humanities and Ethics, and Comparative Literature. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/introspection-at-the-heart-and-art-of-medicine-by-trisha-paul monthly 0.5 2017-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1486912902533-U1XMOKKDUXOJ6CWF8Y1J/image-asset.png Blog - Introspection: At the Heart (and Art) of Medicine by Trisha Paul Trisha Paul is a fourth year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School. Trisha enjoys learning, researching, and teaching about illness narratives, and she is interested in how narrative medicine enhances humanism in medicine. Trisha Paul is on the editorial board of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1490190929728-TW2RYAQQ1BQ2A1J0PKIQ/TheArtofAnatomy+by+Khalil+Harbie Blog - Introspection: At the Heart (and Art) of Medicine by Trisha Paul The Art of Anatomy by Khalil Harbie. Intima, Spring 2014 https://www.theintima.org/blog/doctors-like-the-rest-of-us-have-good-days-and-bad-by-nelly-edmondson monthly 0.5 2017-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1486912289310-OYXF0Z3OIZ670P3ODCJL/NE.jpeg Blog - Doctors, Like The Rest of Us, Have Good Days and Bad by Nelly Edmondson Nelly Edmondson is a graduate of the Narrative Medicine Master's program at Columbia University. She also is an award-winning editor and writer with extensive experience covering medical topics for print and online outlets. She is a member of the editorial board for Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/letting-gowithout-letting-go-the-idea-of-thinking-it-over-versus-giving-up-by-maida-broudo monthly 0.5 2017-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1486910238513-XK3FL67KQC2X0PIBEUW8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Letting Go—Without Letting Go: The Idea of Thinking It Over versus Giving Up by Maida Broudo MAIDA BROUDO, R.T.T., M.A., has worked for more than 25 years as a radiation therapist, treating cancer patients at the National Cancer Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital. https://www.theintima.org/blog/taking-the-time-finding-the-words-a-reflection-on-doctors-who-listen-by-annie-xiao monthly 0.5 2017-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1486909534187-9V95KD9UNC41LISYNEIH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Taking the Time, Finding the Words: A Reflection on Doctors Who Listen by Annie Xiao Annie Xiao is a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-person-behind-the-pattern-a-reflection-about-doctors-and-diagnoses-by-blake-gregory-2 monthly 0.5 2017-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1486908174038-SQ5SQME6MJGY9AIZTFEE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Person Behind the Pattern: A Reflection about Doctors and Diagnoses by Blake Gregory Blake Gregory, M.D. is a primary care physician and the Associate Medical Director the Adult Medicine Clinic at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California. Her essay "Breath Sounds" appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/otherness-revealed-sounds-gestures-stance-by-kaja-weeks monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481474127046-MGN4H71FEXMVVH98UKFD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Otherness Revealed: Sounds, Gestures, Stance by Kaja Weeks Kaja Weeks is a clinic-based Developmental Music Educator with training in early intervention (Floortime/DIR) and a classically-trained singer who has designed the approach, The Relational Voice, to use with children on the autism spectrum. Her essay "Changeling and the Baroness: Notes from a Journey of Enlightenment", appears in the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/poetry-as-narrative-medicine-that-heals-by-andrew-taylor-troutman monthly 0.5 2017-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481473207101-53BF66BNZTTEZ27ES58L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Poetry as Narrative Medicine That Heals by Andrew Taylor-Troutman Andrew Taylor-Troutman is a writer whose most recent book is a novel titled Earning Innocence in homage to a line from Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. His story "I Know Queen Elizabeth" appears in the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-narrative-fails-by-ellen-sazzman monthly 0.5 2017-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481472114139-60F2Z0XPHB1JE00STW7H/Sazzman%2C+Ellen.jpg Blog - When Narrative Fails by Ellen Sazzman Ellen Sazzman has recently been published in Moment, Comstock Review, Beltway Quarterly, Common Ground, CALYX, and Poetica, among others. Her poem "Assisted Living Lullaby" appears in the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-speed-kills-your-ability-to-listen-by-melissa-rosato monthly 0.5 2017-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481468223936-ASU5ZOM6B7LGZ8PGQDRP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - When Speed Kills Your Ability to Listen by Melissa Rosato Melissa Rosato lives in her hometown of Philadelphia with her son Benjamin. By day, she is a mild-mannered family physician providing primary care to adults and children. By night, she is a writer. Her essay, "This Story," appears in the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/positive-visualization-does-it-help-to-talk-to-your-ailing-body-by-sarah-safford monthly 0.5 2017-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481467527272-QG9ENUQJ24PLK0H34Z5T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Positive Visualization: Does It Help to Talk to Your Ailing Body? by Sarah Safford Sarah Safford is a lyricist and an educator, recently retired from NYC Department of Education. She has a Masters in Public Health and is an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Her poem "A Cute Kidney Failure" appears in the Fall 2016 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/about-the-artistic-temperament-by-eugenia-g-amor monthly 0.5 2017-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481466875768-6P7S29TBK06LVNVRO4BR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Comics, Neural Plasticity and the Artistic Temperament: A Reflection by Eugenia G. Amor Eugenia G. Amor is currently enrolled on her third year of Medicine at the University of Valladolid (Spain). While she has decided to follow a career in sciences , she believes in the importance of the arts and is passionate about incorporating them into medicine. Her comic "Gray Matter" appears in the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-role-of-family-in-coping-with-illness-and-death-by-kelly-goss monthly 0.5 2016-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481465846783-9Y4T1S5U86XS1ST3PW8R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Role of Family in Coping with Illness and Death by Kelly Goss Kelly Goss is a second-year master's student in the General Psychology program at New York University who will graduate May 2017. Her academic essay "Storytelling, Illness, and Carl Jung's Active Imagination" appears in the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/frida-kahlos-portrait-of-her-doctor-and-my-ofrenda-by-carly-bergey monthly 0.5 2016-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1477757561388-WIGU9UDVXCOT2RM8GGVV/image-asset.png Blog - Frida Kahlo’s Portrait of Her Doctor and My Ofrenda by Carly Bergey Carly Bergey is a speech-language pathologist, singer and writer working primarily with people experiencing voice problems. Her essay "Palpate: To Examine by Touch" appeared in the Field Notes section of the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-person-behind-the-pattern-a-reflection-about-doctors-and-diagnoses-by-blake-gregory-1 monthly 0.5 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1481464177611-29ZKN41THXITOXGUQU64/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Person Behind the Pattern: A Reflection about Doctors and Diagnoses by Blake Gregory Blake Gregory, M.D. is a primary care physician and the Associate Medical Director the Adult Medicine Clinic at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California. Her essay "Breath Sounds" appears in the Fall 2016 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/self-discovery-as-a-process-lessons-from-the-substance-use-disorder-clinic-by-ting-gou monthly 0.5 2016-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1477756397934-X4X6193VD14XQ1TLYTS1/image-asset.png Blog - Self-discovery as a Process: Lessons from the Substance Use Disorder Clinic by Ting Gou Ting Gou is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School, interested in psychiatry and the relationship between memory and identity. Her poems "Family as Six Scenes" and "Vanishing Point" appeared in the Fall 2017 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-truthful-are-your-memories-by-kerry-malawista monthly 0.5 2016-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1477755574313-T0PE349FEFEBA0DJ0MPD/image-asset.png Blog - How Truthful Are Your Memories? By Kerry Malawista Kerry Leddy Malawista is a writer and training psychoanalyst in Potomac, MD and co-chair of New Directions in Writing. Her essay "Finding the Words" appeared in the Fall 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/poetic-word-play-by-anne-vinsel monthly 0.5 2016-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1477754292902-H1D0HDYXOTYIOWWFOFKW/image-asset.png Blog - Poetic Word Play by Anne Vinsel Annie Vinsel’s day job is at a large academic hospital, doing residency troubleshooting and surgical photography. Read her poem, "Tense," which appears in the Fall 2016 issue of Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/struggle-counterpoised-by-consolation-by-mary-oak monthly 0.5 2016-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475423070345-CUO8ZKF9LUMLTVK5IQ4F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Breast Cancer: Being One Among Many. A Reflection by Mary Oak Mary Oak, MFA, is author of Heart’s Oratorio: One Woman’s Journey through Love, Death and Modern Medicine (Goldenstone Press, 2013). She is currently working on a patient’s handbook for cultivating inner resources to undergo surgery and medical interventions. Her poem "Love Compounded" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/it-makes-all-the-difference-by-malgorzata-nowaczyk monthly 0.5 2016-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475421086410-E6NB6AW6191NI6CR5YXJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Power of A Doctor's Story During the AIDS Crisis: A Reflection by Malgorzata Nowaczyk Margaret Nowaczyk is a pediatrician and a clinical geneticist. She is a Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University and DeGroote School of Medicine in Hamilton, Ontario. Her writing has appeared in Geist Magazine, The Examined Life Journal, and Canadian Medical Association Journal. Her stories are scheduled to appear in literary magazines Prairie Fire and Numero Cinq. She lives in Hamilton with her husband and two sons. Her story, "Your Father's Heart" appeared in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/little-insights-by-jennifer-chianese monthly 0.5 2016-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475419086670-NSY67P5OFEBW0W7WE9AT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Child's Grief When A Parent Dies: A Reflection by Jennifer Chianese Jennifer Chianese works as a general pediatrician with Bass Wolfson pediatrics, affiliated with Children’s Community Pediatrics of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. In the midst of writing about dyslexia, the story “My Father’s Doctor,” which seems to have been buried for years, presented itself and demanded to be written. https://www.theintima.org/blog/cancers-color-by-hena-ahmed monthly 0.5 2016-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475420254200-IHJVVZ5YUJ1J7O3AZJM8/image-asset.png Blog - Cancer’s Color: A Doctor/Painter Finds Resolution in Art and Poetry. A Reflection by Hena Ahmed Hena Ahmed is a 4th year student at Harvard Medical School. She is interested in head and neck surgery. In her free time, she enjoys painting, drawing, and sketching. Her drawing “Forget me not: a visual tale of a head and neck cancer patient” appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/call-and-response-medical-maze-and-rounds-by-josephine-ensign monthly 0.5 2016-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475418260293-XNJTQT39F5P4RTGFYBU1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Call and Response: Thinking About The Medical Maze and Rounds. A Reflection by Josephine Ensign Josephine Ensign is a writer and a nurse. She teaches health policy and health humanities at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her essay "Medical Maze" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. See our review of her new book, "Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net" published this year. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-everything-is-weird-by-zoe-mays monthly 0.5 2016-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475417294857-TRRZ4TG9W4L0TT2OUQUY/image-asset.png Blog - When Everything is Weird by Zoe Mays Zoe Mays is a librarian in Kansas City. Her work focuses on youth programming and urban farming. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Montana. Her poetry has appeared in Zone 3. Her poem "Dovetail" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/elevator-world-by-andrea-hansell monthly 0.5 2016-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475416416524-919FUYMWAP2DMD3W60GB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elevator World by Andrea Hansell Andrea Hansell earned a creative writing certificate at Princeton University. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and practiced as a psychotherapist in Michigan for many years. Her essay "Therapy Space" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/illness-identity-revision-and-writing-perspective-by-ali-grzywna monthly 0.5 2016-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475342435294-7EHM9ZYJH077PBL93ZD1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illness, Identity Revision, and Writing Perspective by Ali Grzywna Ali Grzywna graduated with a Bachelor of Art in English at Wellesley College and now works as a research coordinator in Orthopedics at Boston Children's Hospital. She began Tufts Medical School Maine Track in Fall 2016. Her academic paper "Anorexia Narratives" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/storied-tissues-the-narrative-of-medical-imagery-by-helen-harrison-1 monthly 0.5 2016-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475424614934-GJOPZPDL8JT8GG5JUFA4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Storied Tissues: The Narrative of Medical Imagery by Helen Harrison Helen Harrison graduated in the spring of 2016 from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Public Health. She is interested in neuroscience, behavioral health and medicine and hopes encourage the use of artistic narratives in science and medicine as her academic career progresses. Her piece "Learning/Unlearning" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/through-the-looking-glass-by-vik-reddy monthly 0.5 2016-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1471804656896-M6C2RD7NGDEQU1XCXDKN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Through the Looking Glass by Vik Reddy Vik Reddy is a practicing plastic surgeon and writer. His work has been published in The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, Bridge Magazine, the Journal of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, and Intima: a Journal of Narrative Medicine. Vik lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and serves as Medical Director of Quality at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital. His essay, "Physician as Enabler" appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-unfinished-gaze-of-the-other-by-roxana-delbene-1 monthly 0.5 2016-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1471803632522-9X9VIHUKDNNUXWIWN6T4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Unfinished Gaze of the Other By Roxana Delbene Roxana Delbene, PhD MS is a linguist and discourse analyst. Her passion for the discourse of health and medicine, the conversational encounters between clinicians and patients, as well as for the narratives of patients and practitioners motivated her to pursue a MS in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Her essay "Frida Kahlo's Re-creation Of Her Doctor" written with Sayantani DasGupta appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/i-cant-go-back-by-allison-r-larsen-md monthly 0.5 2016-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1471802003869-JJ0MAE5Q63G5N5D7LD7A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - I Can't Go Back by Allison R. Larson, MD Allison Larson is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Boston University School of Medicine. In addition to 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles, she has published narrative medicine pieces in the International Journal of Women’s Dermatology and the Journal of the American Geriatric Society. She is particularly interested in how experiences of grief and loss shape and change us. Her essay "The Myth of the White Coat" appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-being-grateful-by-thomas-nguyen monthly 0.5 2016-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1471801097652-PI0Q6BBVLXAYR5WNUAVL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On Being Grateful by Thomas Nguyen Thomas Nguyen is an aspiring physician and poet, and currently attends the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a third-year undergraduate student studying Neuroscience and Creative Writing. He has previously been published in The Healing Muse. His poem "6 Ways of Looking at a Friend" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima.       https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-unfinished-gaze-of-the-other-by-roxana-delbene monthly 0.5 2016-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1472520103671-789LVT9Y47NEV5UXGLBN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Unfinished Gaze of the Other by Roxana Delbene Roxana Delbene, PhD MS is a linguist and discourse analyst. She studied literature in Montevideo, Uruguay before coming to the University of Pittsburgh to complete her doctorate degree in Hispanic Sociolinguistics. She is currently an adjunct faculty in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at The College of New Jersey. Her paper, "Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Dr. Farill: Frida Kahlo's Recreation of Her Doctor," written with Sayantani DasGupta, appeared in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/door-no1-or-door-no1-by-deborah-l-jones monthly 0.5 2016-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1467823131047-6WG0BJCT5IFY5T8F5XDK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Door No.1 or Door No.1? by Deborah L. Jones Deborah L. Jones lives by the credo, “Stay boundlessly curious, listen actively, lead as a learner, learn as a leader, and laugh often.” Deborah, a transplant from Chicago to southern Indiana, is currently a health advocacy consultant for Sarah Lawrence’s End of Life Care program. Her essay “Doors of Reception: Invitation to a Narrative” appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-communities-of-trauma-by-wendy-french monthly 0.5 2016-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1467822024608-WE5EGJ0TX281ONB0310R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Communities of Trauma by Wendy French Wendy French is a published poet. French, who won the Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine prize for the NHS section in 2010, has worked for the past twenty years in healthcare settings helping people come to terms with their situations through poetry. She was Poet in Residence at the UCH Macmillan Centre from April 2015-2016. Her poems The Commiphora Myrrah Tree and There is a Dreadful Hell Within Me appear in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-writing-recovery-and-the-communalization-of-trauma-by-saljooq-asif monthly 0.5 2016-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1467819744175-CX7RBM3514CCC6XN2TXO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On Writing, Recovery, and the Communalization of Trauma by Saljooq Asif Saljooq Asif is currently a student at Columbia University, where he will receive his Master of Science in Narrative Medicine in May 2017. Asif is interested in the intersection between medicine and the humanities as well as media portrayals of race, gender, and class in regard to healthcare. His academic paper "Don't Be A Warrior: Be A Doctor:" Healing and Love After Wartime Trauma appears in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-language-of-doctors-by-kelly-garriott-waite monthly 0.5 2016-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1467818515011-WED4X0S1ZMWMDK15DQBW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Language of Doctors by Kelly Garriott Waite Kelly Garriott Waite writes from Ohio. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. Her essay "Precipice" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/hi-techlo-tech-by-john-graham-pole monthly 0.5 2018-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1467816588243-VPL66QUPG8HMRI91J3LE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hi-Tech/Lo-Tech by John Graham-Pole John Graham-Pole is a graduate of London University (1966) and professor emeritus of pediatric oncology and palliative care from the University of Florida. He’s published/co-edited six books on arts health and poetry, and his short stories and essays have been published in Ars Medica, CMA Journal, Hektoen, Medical Humanities, and Yale Journal of Humanities. He’s just completed a novel and a memoir. He lives in blissful retirement with his wife, Dorothy, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. His essay "Premies" appears in the Spring 2016 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/what-you-dont-hear-by-andrew-boden monthly 0.5 2016-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1466011485145-M5G7JYTQ5JDTIR3Y6YOW/image-asset.png Blog - What You Don't Hear by Andrew Boden Andrew Boden’s recent short stories, essays and poetry have appeared in The Journey Prize Stories 22, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Other Voices, Vancouver Review, and Descant. His story “The Parts of Ourselves Without Names” was a recent honourable mention in Glimmer Train's "Family Matters" fiction contest. His fiction "Quiet, Quiet Room" appears in the Spring 2016 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/writing-as-self-care-for-nurses-by-linda-kobert monthly 0.5 2016-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1466009327377-SMUI0GZXSAW3D8GNAJKU/image-asset.png Blog - Writing as Self-Care for Nurses by Linda Kobert Linda Kobert worked and taught in nursing for 20 years. Now she writes and teaches creative writing in central Virginia. She also serves as prose editor for the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s online literary magazine Hospital Drive. Her essay "Writing the Cure" appears in the Spring 2016 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/one-good-thing-by-ronald-lands monthly 0.5 2016-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1454422817848-C3YHPJR0VPPD86CO32B9/Lands%2C+Ronald.jpg Blog - Is There Anything Good About Parkinson's? Dr. Ronald Lands Talks About A Poem That Explores That Question Ron Lands is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee where he teaches and practices hematology https://www.theintima.org/blog/narrative-secrets-by-maureen-hirthler monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1454423684456-JFSWO8SNBU1C9F34QSO6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Narrative Secrets: Why Disclosure Day is the Hardest One for Clinicians by Maureen Hirthler Maureen Hirthler is a physician and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her piece, “D/D” appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/tragic-and-comedic-timing-by-elizabeth-lanphier monthly 0.5 2016-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1454425720626-QB9EFEBDKSUI0AZ8SSU2/Elizabeth%2BBarone.png Blog - (Tragic and) Comedic Timing by Elizabeth Lanphier Elizabeth Lanphier is a doctoral student in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Before moving to Nashville, she studied literature and history at NYU and received her MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. https://www.theintima.org/blog/try-to-be-an-ear monthly 0.5 2016-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1454338267068-CHRGV86N5U35DI83R59J/Paccione%2C+Charles.png Blog - Try To Be an Ear by Charles Paccione Charles Paccione, M.S., Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, is studying for his second Masters Degree in the Spirituality Mind-Body Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University ́s Teachers College. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-grief-happens-by-jenny-qi monthly 0.5 2016-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1449510479061-JKEZJMIMQX5XKSMUKY8Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Grief Happens by Jenny Qi Jenny Qi is getting her PhD in Biomedical Science at UC San Francisco. Her essays and poems have been published in various journals, including The Atlantic, Huffington Post, and Off the Coast. She is finishing her first chapbook. Her poem "Writing Elegies Like Robert Hass" apperas in the Fall 2015 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-unbearable-event-by-joan-michelson monthly 0.5 2016-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1449509145057-OVBGFY3LQODY8CFD2DKL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Unbearable Event by Joan Michelson Joan Michelson is a writer whose poem ‘Eva Borrisov’ appears in the Fall 2015 issue of The Intima and is from ‘Bloomvale,’ a sequence set in a Home for Assisted Living and giving a glimpse into individual lives within the aging ailing spirited community. Former Head of Creative Writing, University of Woverhampton, Michelson teaches creative writing to Medical Students at Kings College, University of London. https://www.theintima.org/blog/skill-and-silence-by-emily-mayhew monthly 0.5 2016-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1449508160266-8GYMTID1RYH6TNYAGRM8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Skill and Silence by Emily Mayhew Emily Mayhew is Historian in Residence in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, where she works with the clinicians and scientists of the Centre for Blast Injury Studies. Her essay "A Special Book Kept for the Purpose” Writing Patient Diaries: A Century of Skill in the Silence, from the Great War to Afghanistan and beyond, with David McArthur, appears in the Fall 2015 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-heart-of-medical-practice-by-lori-duin-kelly monthly 0.5 2016-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1449506725735-7FYBMT15WSLI40MF7LRT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Heart of Medical Practice by Lori Duin Kelly Lori Duin Kelly is Professor Emeritus of English at Carroll University, with a special interest in the intersection of gender and medical issues in the 19th century. Her essay "The Full Measure of Cheerfulness: Mary Ely, Weir Mitchell, and Victorian Views on Treating Melancholia" appears in the Fall 2015 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/sick-with-desire-a-conversation-by-lisa-kerr monthly 0.5 2016-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1449077398922-09K4E6ZK8TZ4E47G0767/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sick with Desire: A Conversation by Lisa Kerr Lisa Kerr Dunn is an associate professor of writing and humanities at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she is a faculty member in the Writing Center and serves as chair of the University Humanities Committee. https://www.theintima.org/blog/sharp-edges-by-elisabeth-mcketta monthly 0.5 2016-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1449076610051-JEVMQY6BFKQ40YXVVAHL/image-asset.png Blog - Sharp Edges by Elisabeth McKetta Elisabeth Sharp McKetta teaches writing for Harvard Extension School and is the founder of Poetry for Strangers. https://www.theintima.org/blog/monologues-and-dialogues-by-elizabeth-spradley monthly 0.5 2016-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1449075740508-SMWUXQKGGP45FPE6QSZP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Monologues and Dialogues by Elizabeth Spradley ELIZABETH SPRADLEY is an assistant professor at Stephen F. Austin State University. Elizabeth completed her Ph.D. in health communication at Texas A&M University in fall 2013 and has embarked on an academic career aiming to blend interests in health communication, narrative, and interpersonal relationships. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-blissful-unknowing-by-susan-ito monthly 0.5 2015-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1446929339050-379XBTLAXZKDB8T9P8ZU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Before Diagnosis: The Blissful Unknowing by Susan Ito Susan Ito is author of the mini-memoir, The Mouse Room. She co-edited the anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. She is a creative nonfiction editor at Literary Mama, and her essay "Rounds" appears in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/growing-thick-skin-by-michael-fredrick-geisser monthly 0.5 2018-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1446927889706-1SB88FXHZFZE3WE342GH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Growing Thick Skin by Michael Fredrick Geisser Michael Fredrick Geisser writes in Warren, Rhode Island, in the tiny enclave of Touisset that overlooks the Kickemuit River. He lives there with his wife, Anna, and their wonder Westy, Kosmo. Geisser writes non-fiction, fiction, and personal essays. His essay "Night Trip" appears in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-paradoxical-role-of-paradox-by-jeffrey-l-brown-md monthly 0.5 2015-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1446927048820-PS0HHPJP8AP24A4I5TH7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Paradoxical Role of Paradox by Jeffrey L. Brown, MD Jeffrey Brown teaches as a Clinical Professor at New York Medical College and at Weill Cornell. His essay "The Moral Matrix of Wartime Medicine" appears in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/we-all-suffer-by-april-brenneman monthly 0.5 2015-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1446661474818-QC9B14RFIIVHPQZIVBHX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We All Suffer by April Brenneman April Brenneman has lived with her husband in Tigard, Oregon for over 30 years where she has home educated and raised her five children. Since the diagnosis of cancer in her youngest child in 2004, she has been on a personal and spiritual quest to understand her son’s medical journey. Her artwork, “Lament 1: A Passionate Expression of Grief or Sorrow” appears in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-body-public-by-holly-schechter monthly 0.5 2015-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1446574761298-NP84SDY8HUBEZXNC0DME/Holly+Schechter+Photo.jpg Blog - The Body Public by Holly Schechter HOLLY SCHECHTER teaches English and Writing at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. She graduated from McGill University with a degree in English Literature, and holds an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her piece, "Genealogy" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/needs-and-needles monthly 0.5 2015-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1446573728888-47S6Q5YRVHLK6DICUVR7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Needs and Needles by Sara Backer Sara Backer is a New Hampshire writer whose poems appear this year in So to Speak, Crannóg (Ireland), Gargoyle, New Welsh Reader (UK), Rust + Moth, and many others. Her poem "Needles" appears in the Fall 2015 edition of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-round-of-tea-by-ellis-avery monthly 0.5 2015-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1446572114312-L5BJ02UCT6RA5FZVIHRJ/Avery%2C+Ellis.jpg Blog - A Round of Tea by Ellis Avery Ellis Avery, the author of two novels, a memoir, and a book of poetry, is the only writer to have received the American Library Association Stonewall Award for Fiction twice. "What She Left Me," an essay, appeared in the Fall 2015 issue of The Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/against-medical-advice-two-memorable-intima-characters-by-mari-georgeson-1 monthly 0.5 2015-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1446493907958-M4HABZ4C0KW0A0OG46A7/Georgeson%2C+Mari.jpg Blog - Against Medical Advice: What "Bad" Patients Teach Us by Mari Georgeson MARI GEORGESON, who is a Chicago native, lives in New York City where she is currently working as a Public Health Educator. "The Identification" appeared in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/clearing-the-thought-dishes-by-priscilla-mainardi monthly 0.5 2015-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1445425444995-MY6CJK8M7PQ8B9AP2XZX/IntimaEditorPriscilla+Mainardi Blog - Clearing the Thought Dishes  by Priscilla Mainardi PRISCILLA MAINARDI  is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University where she received a MFA in creative writing in 2012 while continuing to practice as a registered nurse.  Her short story, "Pretending Not to Know," appeared in the Spring 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-closer-read-of-doug-hesters-speed-dating-by-type-by-kimberly-laforce monthly 0.5 2015-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1445427121550-OY4TVES0EJINA3NC252D/Kimberly+Laforce Blog - A Closer Read of Doug Hester’s poem "Speed Dating by Type" by Kimberly LaForce Kimberly La Force is a writer and a Registered Nurse by profession. She is a 2015 Master’s degree candidate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Her short story "Emerging Into the Light" appeared in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/fwd-timing-is-everything-knowing-when-a-story-shouldand-canbe-told-richard-sidlow monthly 0.5 2015-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1428782625931-Q3JD4CT72P4EVFTWE7JW/image-asset.png Blog - When Timing is Everything: Knowing When A Story Should Be Told by Richard Sidlow Richard Sidlow is the Associate Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Staten Island University Hospital and the Director of its Pediatric Hospitalist Group. His piece, "Christmas Day," appears Spring 2015 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-global-inequality-in-kindness-by-m-sophia-newman monthly 0.5 2015-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1444825998614-LY4U0Q481072YXBCRODL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Global Inequality in Kindness by M. Sophia Newman M. Sophia Newman, MPH, has worked with Pacific Standard Magazine and Beacon Reader to return to West Africa to cover stories related to Ebola, food insecurity, and other health issues. Read more at https://www.beaconreader.com/m-sophia-newman/on-the-ebola-outbreaks-anniversary-a-reflection-on-the-disease-of-journalism. Her piece, "Death of an Old Farmer" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1444825868408-YIZMK0K2FTNHXHWT443L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Global Inequality in Kindness by M. Sophia Newman An abandoned home in Ajumako-Techiman, Central Region, Ghana, 2010. Photo by M. Sophia Newman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1444826260363-LMKGI3SYEPBRR1TKDHST/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Global Inequality in Kindness by M. Sophia Newman A street scene in rural Central Region, Ghana, before a rainstorm, 2010. Photo by M. Sophia Newman https://www.theintima.org/blog/19181dc8-74ea-4704-ab54-591c33a1cb54 monthly 0.5 2015-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442940513231-HMQ9CN0DE166JSFTSZK1/IntimaContributorKaren+Jahn Blog - Darkness is Human: Let It Help You, the Doctor, See the Other by Karen Jahn A retired professor of English, Karen Jahn earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in writing creative nonfiction. Read her piece, “My Heart is in My Hands” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/its-funny-lining-the-path-of-illness-with-humor-by-sean-j-mahoney monthly 0.5 2015-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442937895210-8MFW77CNEFDODC2S6X4T/IntimaContributorSean+Mahoney Blog - It’s Funny: Lining the path of illness with humor by Sean J. Mahoney Sean J Mahoney (shown here with Tig) is a writer in Santa Ana, CA. His poem, “Dude, The Stage?” appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/doctors-are-clueless-so-are-patients-by-marcia-butler monthly 0.5 2015-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442831681072-A0Q5AGV0KM2TOJCAOQRT/BUTLER%2C+MARCIA++SPRING+2015.jpg Blog - Doctors are clueless. So are patients. By Marcia Butler Marcia Butler worked as a professional oboist for 25 years in New York City. She retired from the music profession in 2008 and now has a successful interior design firm. Her memoir, The Skin Above My Knee, is scheduled for publication by Little, Brown and Company in January 2017. Read her piece, "Cancer Diva," which appeared in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-yes-and-approach-speaking-the-language-of-illness-by-samantha-greenberg monthly 0.5 2015-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442785384560-HHFZ24V9WWY1PQOZ6KNG/IntimaSamantha+Greenberg Blog - The “Yes, And” Approach: Speaking the Language of Illness by Samantha Greenberg Samantha Greenberg earned a dual B.A. in English and Psychology from Muhlenberg College. She runs an academic consulting business in Northern New Jersey. Read her poem, “The Phone” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442785806494-GAUDWIUREDJTFTL1A75N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The “Yes, And” Approach: Speaking the Language of Illness by Samantha Greenberg Things She Cannot Show You. Sara Hobbs Kohrt. Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-knowing-what-to-do-with-the-dying-by-sara-baker monthly 0.5 2015-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442780300699-UL71G9I653WYOB00NNIP/IntimaSaraBaker Blog - On Knowing What To Do with the Dying by Sara Baker Sara Baker is a fiction writer and poet, whose own journey with chronic illness led her to create the Woven Dialog Workshops, writing workshops that aid in facilitating the healing process. Read her pieces, “The Sun in Cannes” and “What Do The Dying Want?” in the Spring 2015 Intima and atsaratbaker.wordpress.com. https://www.theintima.org/blog/once-upon-a-time-uncensored-diagnosis-or-the-moment-of-disclosure-by-kathryn-a-cantrell monthly 0.5 2015-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442781917058-6EAOT2YFXTR74GCJH3VT/INTIMAKathryn+Cantrell Blog - Once Upon a Time, Uncensored: Diagnosis, or the Moment of Disclosure by Kathryn A. Cantrell Kathryn A. Cantrell, MA, CCLS is a certified child life specialist and doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Read her piece, “Disclosure Day” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-art-of-translation-finding-the-right-words-about-cancer-by-sarah-safford monthly 0.5 2015-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442096067463-85EIEXZVKN2WJROSIRPB/IntimacontributorSarahSafford Blog - The Art of Translation: Finding the Right Words About Cancer by Sarah Safford Sarah Safford is a lyricist and an educator, currently employed at the Brooklyn Adult Learning Center. She has a Masters in Public Health and is an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Listen to her songs, “I’ll Try Anything” and “Wake Up” which appeared in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/reclaiming-empathy-by-stefanie-reiff-md monthly 0.5 2015-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1440774605438-RFPU72HXCWXH94RR2P7D/REIFF%2C+STEFANIE.jpg Blog - Reclaiming Empathy: Why Doctors Need to Tell Their Stories by Stefanie Reiff, MD Stefanie Reiff, MD is an Internal Medicine resident at Columbia University-NYP. Read her poem, “Emergency Department” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/what-would-you-do-doctor-a-reflection-on-how-much-a-doctor-should-share-with-his-or-her-patients-by-katie-guess monthly 0.5 2015-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1438659875291-G0IFMLCD46504DGF4BMH/Intima+Studio+Art+Systole+Diastole+by+Natale+Uy+Spring+2014 Blog - “What Would You Do, Doctor?” A reflection on how much a doctor should share with his or her patients by Katie Guess Systole Diastole. Natalie Uy, Spring 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-price-of-cancer-by-wendy-french monthly 0.5 2015-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1440857297595-SXRJ1KT4BF6XPM7W7XRK/FRENCH%2C+WENDY.jpg Blog - The Price of Cancer by Wendy French Wendy French wrote “The Price of Cure” (Spring 2015 Intima) during a residency as Poet in Residence, Macmillan Cancer Centre, University College London Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1440775595373-73U98U38RAUYGQCRX0G5/image-asset.png Blog - The Price of Cancer by Wendy French Cup by Raphael Shirley https://www.theintima.org/blog/bearing-witness-and-the-power-of-narrative-medicine-by-vaidehi-mujumdar monthly 0.5 2015-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1440858994068-JYPZGTB4LRWV5XLC91CY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bearing Witness and the Power of Narrative Medicine by Vaidehi Mujumdar Vaidehi Mujumdar is an aspiring physician interested in the social determinants of health and narrative medicine. “The Operation,” appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-hospital-as-a-dynamic-spatial-experience-by-tarina-quraishi monthly 0.5 2015-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1440430224808-WSRX1QRFX7WA6HBD2YJF/INTIMA+CONTRIBUTOR+TARINA+QURAISHI Blog - The Hospital as a Dynamic Spatial Experience by Tarina Quraishi Tarina Quraishi is a 2014 graduate of Harvard College, where she studied literature and biology. She currently works at Massachusetts General Hospital. Read her piece, “On Elevators” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/bearing-witness-to-orphans-mothers-and-strangers-by-sara-awan monthly 0.5 2015-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1438657903959-L8KIPPQMS83B4V5VD4H7/Intima+contributor+Sara+Awan Blog - Bearing Witness to Orphans, Mothers and Strangers by Sara Awan Sara Awan’s artwork, “Twins in Yellow Hats,” appears in Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/breathing-in-metaphor-and-simile-by-julia-jenny-sevy monthly 0.5 2015-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1439759226186-HCLQHIVXHZK79NK2QZI8/JuliaSevy Blog - Breathing in Metaphor and Simile by Julia Jenny Sevy Julia Sevy is a passionate dancer and creative writer who graduated from Brown University in 2014. Read her piece, “Constellations” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1439758991945-LK7KIB0PRY388WGJBP5O/SaraHobbKohrtThingsSheCannotShowYou Blog - Breathing in Metaphor and Simile by Julia Jenny Sevy "Things She Cannot Show You" by Sara Hobbs Kohrt. Fall 2014 Intima https://www.theintima.org/blog/double-blind-lily-c-chan monthly 0.5 2015-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1439757179584-38SLA1XN5PUAKRV20GCN/CROSSROADS+CHAN%2C+LILY+ART.png Blog - Seeing beyond the Double Blind Study: A Reflection on Evidence-Based Medicine and Scientific Truth by Lily C. Chan Courtesy wondermark.com https://www.theintima.org/blog/string-theory-how-learning-to-play-the-violin-saved-me-by-jason-cheung monthly 0.5 2015-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1439722855840-1IMPKMFP3VSC3AD9N6U5/Screenshot+2015-08-16+06.59.59.png Blog - String Theory: How Learning to Play the Violin Saved Me​ by Jason Cheung​ Jason Cheung is a performance artist who advocates on mental health issues, specifically recovery through his dramatic re-telling of his personal story of lived experience. He is involved with the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society and the Mental Health Commission of Canada as a volunteer. His piece, “The Instruments of Precision,” appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/another-reflection-on-the-slippery-slope-of-compassion-by-nina-gaby-aprn-pmh monthly 0.5 2015-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1438557460116-1SNOIFWVH67LMA2JVSKH/Intima+contributor+Nina+Gaby Blog - Another Reflection on the Slippery Slope of Compassion by Nina Gaby, APRN-PMH Nina Gaby's piece "The Baby on the Bus" appeared in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/i-am-not-a-role-model-by-jacob-freedman monthly 0.5 2015-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1438656792284-J23JBJ2OTFLEN2HI92YZ/Intima+contributor+Jacob+Freedman Blog - “I am not a Role Model” by Jacob L. Freedman Jacob L. Freedman, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist in Boston and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. His poem, "My Favorite Piece," and story, "Maybe That's Why I Became a Psychiatrist" appeared in the Spring 2015 Intima.   https://www.theintima.org/blog/can-art-mediate-the-indignity-of-illness-by-claire-constance monthly 0.5 2015-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1438431084104-TZBN71GNF5QDLRJ811HQ/Bamboo+Sanctuary+by+Jessica+Nute Blog - Can Art Mediate the Indignity of Illness? by Claire Constance Bamboo Sanctuary by Jessica Nute. Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/a-transmutation-balancing-the-emotional-intellectual-constraints-of-becoming-a-doctor-by-irene-mathieu monthly 0.5 2015-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1437244477186-D0S1KK6JQ7ULGB6KYZFZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Transmutation: Balancing the Emotional-Intellectual Constraints of Becoming a Doctor by Irène Mathieu Irène Mathieu is a writer and medical student at Vanderbilt University. Her poem, "Fear of Causing Pain," is in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1437244897838-DHEDXYH5JE9O002DOWBL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Transmutation: Balancing the Emotional-Intellectual Constraints of Becoming a Doctor by Irène Mathieu Elmer by Renua Giwa-Amu (Intima Spring 2013) https://www.theintima.org/blog/celebrating-life-thoughts-about-blood-flowers-orphans-and-dating-by-doug-hester monthly 0.5 2015-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1437235710773-89GOP1R9UYS00CR6IJRO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Celebrating Life: Thoughts about Blood, Flowers, Orphans, and Dating by Doug Hester Doug Hester is an anesthesiologist at Vanderbilt University. He is also an MFA student at Murray State University. His poem, "Speed Dating By Type" appears in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/lines-of-vision-what-doctors-vs-patients-see-by-catherine-klatzker monthly 0.5 2015-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1434715888488-FCHWRZST4QV8L8AZOWCE/Klatzer%2C+Catherine.jpg Blog - Lines of Vision: What Doctors vs Patients See by Catherine Klatzker Catherine Klatzker's writing has appeared in Emry’s Journal, Tiferet Journal, Lime Hawk Journal, and are forthcoming in mental health anthologies from In Fact Books and Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective. She was a Ragdale Foundation writing resident and won Tiferet Journal’s 2014 first prize in nonfiction. Catherine is a recently retired pediatric ICU RN and she has coordinated mindfulness retreats for ten years for professional health caregivers coping with death. Read “What We See When We See Each Other” in the Spring 2015 Intima and more about her work at catherine.klatzker.com. https://www.theintima.org/blog/lifting-the-clinical-gaze-by-amy-caruso-brown monthly 0.5 2015-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1434716825018-YDV79QOUKGJXJ4UTP19N/caruso-brown-headshot%283%29.jpg Blog - Lifting the Clinical Gaze by Amy Caruso Brown Amy Caruso Brown is an assistant professor of bioethics and humanities and a pediatric oncologist at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Read her piece, “E.B.” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/of-humans-and-aliens-by-andrea-hansel monthly 0.5 2015-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1434715299291-1PZZHV4LAV4D4PYPJDJR/HANSELL%2C+ANDREA+SPRING+2015.jpg Blog - Of Humans and Aliens by Andrea Hansell Andrea Hansell, who has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, earned a creative writing certificate at Princeton University and has published work in Lilith, Mademoiselle and The Ann Arbor News. Read her piece, “The Dragonslayer” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-intimacy-of-illness-reading-tom-whaynes-poem-i-kiss-you-by-ellen-lapointe monthly 0.5 2015-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1431967196495-NGKZUP8D7B1EDFV5UL18/image-asset.png Blog - The Intimacy of Illness: Reading Tom Whayne’s poem, “I Kiss You” by Ellen Lapointe Ellen LaPointe is a Maine native and current Californian who works in the health care sector. In addition to narrative nonfiction, she also writes short fiction and poetry. Her piece, "Last Dance" appears in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-immeasurable-cost-of-infertility-reflections-on-holly-schechters-genealogy-by-katherine-macfarlane monthly 0.5 2015-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1429533908142-HTVLYY9U78SQH8QKFX8C/image-asset.png Blog - The Immeasurable Cost of Infertility: Reflections on Holly Schechter’s "Genealogy" by Katherine Macfarlane Katherine Macfarlane is a law professor and Rheumatoid Arthritis blogger. Read her piece, "Flying Into Jerusalem" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/having-a-perspective-on-love-kim-drew-wright monthly 0.5 2015-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427376256068-CYF487QZW2NVK1YYUZ4E/IMG_7403+2.JPG Blog - Secrets We Keep: Gaining a Perspective on Love by Kim Drew Wright Kim Drew Wright’s fiction and poetry has appeared in many literary journals, including The Pinch, Boston Literary Magazine, and The Milo Review. She graduated from the University of North Carolina and had an advertising career. Kim is CEO at Quick Wit Lit and produces Real Spiel, a newsletter for witty readers and writers. Learn more about her work at kimdrewwright.com. Wright's piece, “A Mother’s Life,” appears in Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/whats-going-on-here-watching-listening-and-caring-for-patients-by-thom-schwarz monthly 0.5 2015-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1429363744210-7FSE6T00ZFVRM76VZ746/SCHWARZ%2C+THOM.jpg Blog - What's Going On Here? Watching, Listening, and Caring for Patients by Thom Schwarz Thom Schwarz has been a registered nurse since 1979, a hospice nurse for the past seven years, working for HV Hospice, Inc., Poughkeepsie, NY. He is also a writer: his work has been published in Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Nursing, The New York Times, Newsweek and more. His piece, "Watching" appears in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/seeing-god-in-man-finding-the-divine-manifest-in-a-cell-or-an-organ-by-julia-elizabeth-mcguinness monthly 0.5 2015-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1429360049089-SB6GN96N9X4D5NBXO29R/The_Art_Of_Anatomy.jpg Blog - Seeing God in Man: Finding the Divine Manifest in a Cell or an Organ by Julia Elizabeth McGuinness The Art of Anatomy by Khalil Harbie. Intima Fall 2013 https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-urinal-prank-the-health-benefits-of-making-a-personal-connection-by-julie-rea monthly 0.5 2015-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1428782151027-CZEG7G4W731D9W5X2LRL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Urinal Prank: How a Good Laugh Brings Us Together by Julie Rea Julie Rea is a graduate of the City College M.F.A. Creative Writing Program and the N.Y.U. School of Law. Her work has been published by Atonal Apples, The Promethean, and Thoughtsmith and has been read by Abington Theatre. She lives in the Philadelphia area with a couple of cats and writes about life in a wheelchair and many other intriguing things. Her piece, "Numb" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-bearing-witness-how-it-can-be-a-source-of-healing-for-both-the-giver-and-receiver-by-jafeen-ilmudeen monthly 0.5 2015-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1429967368712-4L9C86PZYIP41A2EFHI2/CROSSROADS%3A+On+Bearing+Witness+by+Jafeen+Ilmudeen Blog - On Bearing Witness: How it can be a source of healing for both the giver and receiver by Jafeen Ilmudeen Jafeen Ilmudeen is a medical student at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. She is working on a collection of short stories. er story, "Between Us" appears is the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/when-the-medical-mask-slips-the-contradictions-of-care-by-vik-reddy monthly 0.5 2015-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427655711752-FTASGUJ2HL1EROOJUWUG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - When the Medical Mask Slips: The Contradictions of Care by Vik Reddy Vik Reddy is a practicing plastic surgeon and a regular contributor to the *Detroit Free Press*. He serves as the Medical Director of Quality at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital. Read his piece, “Stuck” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/the-ultimate-meet-greet-our-hands-leading-the-way-by-hugh-silk monthly 0.5 2015-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1428777451871-HP5W6H2YUZ0FGOQPMMZO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Ultimate Meet & Greet: Our Hands Leading the Way by Hugh Silk Hugh Silk is a member of the UMass Medical School Humanities in Medicine Committee and oversees the medical humanities teaching of the family medicine residents. Read “The Power of a Handshake” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/does-a-poem-a-day-keep-the-doctor-away-thoughts-on-injecting-a-dose-of-culture-in-medical-waiting-rooms-by-debbie-mcculliss monthly 0.5 2015-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427657452143-BXQUJ8FX9NVZ66QBRR18/Debbie+McCulliss Blog - Does A Poem A Day Keep the Doctor Away? Thoughts on Injecting A Dose of Culture in Medical Waiting Rooms by Debbie McCulliss Debbie McCulliss, RN, MS, CAPF, CJI, is a science-medical writer and Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator whose focus is on writing for medical, nursing, mental-health and the lay public. Her piece, "Humanity in Medicine: Robert Frost and the Medical Applications of Poetry" appears in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/blog/how-meta-narratives-protect-and-serve-us-by-maureen-hirthler monthly 0.5 2015-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427655280308-LK5U9ZF4KP3HDF1QTP6M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Meta-Narratives Protect and Serve Us by Maureen Hirthler Maureen Hirthler is a physician and an MFA candidate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. 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A review of "Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families & the Search for a Cure" by Jennie Erin Smith - Make it stand out Ian Hu https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/germaines-daughter-transforming-pain-through-art monthly 0.5 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/47789a5d-85a5-4d87-a342-4cf9f47f4fc3/Screenshot+2025-11-19+at+7.15.17%E2%80%AFPM.png BOOK REVIEWS - Germaine’s Daughter: A graphic novel that transforms pain through art by psychotherapist Lydia Kann - Make it stand out Germaine’s Daughter: A Graphic Novel; author and artist Lydia Kann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/da22bda3-9bba-41eb-bc2f-1f4adde4b9a2/Hooked+at+the+Meeting.+4.7MB.IMG_6322.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Germaine’s Daughter: A graphic novel that transforms pain through art by psychotherapist Lydia Kann - Make it stand out ©Lydia Kann 'Hooked at the Meeting', (42" X 60", acrylic paint on paper), depicts Germaine, the mother in this story, joining the group of left-wing communist/socialist workers' political groups in Paris as she arrives from Poland in the late 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/fd055ca7-858a-4c4b-a01e-74c9f1d4f659/In+the+Closet.9MB.IMG_4355.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Germaine’s Daughter: A graphic novel that transforms pain through art by psychotherapist Lydia Kann - Make it stand out ©Lydia Kann 'In the Closet', (45" X 60", acrylic paint and textile on paper), depicts Germaine in NYC once she becomes psychotic, as her teenage daughter tries to sleep in the closet to shut out the sound of her mother screaming at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/a929cf6e-089b-42b6-95ac-169758a6579e/Pastel+4+Moms+Sitting+Hands+Hold+Head.Slide+Memories+01_022.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Germaine’s Daughter: A graphic novel that transforms pain through art by psychotherapist Lydia Kann - Make it stand out ©Lydia Kann ‘Germaine in the Hospital', (hand on head), (60" X 44", pastel on paper), four pastel drawings as one depiction of Germaine in the mental hospital, drawn by the daughter while visiting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/e1fa6b4d-9ca0-419f-9f75-635c49bcbc31/Eve+Makoff+-+Poetry+editor+-+intima.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Germaine’s Daughter: A graphic novel that transforms pain through art by psychotherapist Lydia Kann - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/w7q7g6uefu3tmam0aeyyaqyb2krfsd monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/867eb74d-3d36-4ace-b767-226df5136938/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+10.21.38%E2%80%AFPM.png BOOK REVIEWS - Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix by Nghana Tamu Lewis - Make it stand out Nghana Tamu Lewis, author of Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix(Ohio State University Press, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/51671c48-3785-4c81-8f34-f9ba65890c17/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+10.29.25%E2%80%AFPM.png BOOK REVIEWS - Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix by Nghana Tamu Lewis - Make it stand out Jade Dickenson https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/jane-kenyon-the-making-of-a-poet-bydana-greene monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ecd14f8a-14a0-4972-9a34-115f3b0acf15/Screenshot+2025-10-04+at+3.11.17%E2%80%AFPM.png BOOK REVIEWS - Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet by Dana Greene - Make it stand out Dana Greene. Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/3216d6d7-0eb1-4c80-9c06-3027f3d111b1/Screenshot+2025-10-04+at+3.14.11%E2%80%AFPM.png BOOK REVIEWS - Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet by Dana Greene - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/legacy-a-black-physician-reckons-with-racism-in-medicine-by-uch-blackstock monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/de9c6e60-498e-461f-909b-3ef9991ee1a8/Screenshot+2025-08-25+at+12.17.45%E2%80%AFPM.png BOOK REVIEWS - Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock - Make it stand out Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/a2c43c84-d7c5-43e6-88b0-a0cb569c4d6b/Screenshot+2025-08-25+at+12.25.38%E2%80%AFPM.png BOOK REVIEWS - Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock - Make it stand out Roxana Delbene https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/it-doesnt-have-to-hurt-your-smart-guide-to-a-pain-free-life-by-sanjay-gupta-md monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/624e5d34-ea8a-42d0-8649-9db87889a207/It+Doesn%27t+Have+to+Hurt+-+Gupta.png BOOK REVIEWS - It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life by Sanjay Gupta, MD - Make it stand out Author photo: CNN John Nowak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/0961d3fc-8099-450f-bcf0-9449f8f05d22/Screenshot+2025-08-03+at+3.34.08%E2%80%AFPM.png BOOK REVIEWS - It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life by Sanjay Gupta, MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/before-the-next-crisis-untold-stories-of-public-health-and-why-they-matter-is-tista-s-ghosh monthly 0.5 2025-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/56faf5a2-a312-484d-a97f-9fa536407bdc/Before+and+After+-+Ghosh.png BOOK REVIEWS - Before the Next Crisis: Untold Stories of Public Health and Why They Matter by Tista S. Ghosh - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/bada9725-b839-4ae5-85d2-40aad86f3c1a/Tony+Errichetti%2C+PhD%2C+MA+.png BOOK REVIEWS - Before the Next Crisis: Untold Stories of Public Health and Why They Matter by Tista S. Ghosh - Make it stand out Tony Errichetti https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/exquisite-moments-of-sorrow-and-grace-by-kenneth-weinberg-md monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/8346f7dd-4f0e-4234-b64b-4d1ab64f216d/Screenshot+2025-07-09+at+11.10.12%E2%80%AFAM.png BOOK REVIEWS - Exquisite Moments of Sorrow and Grace: A memoir by Kenneth Weinberg, MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d6e8f754-202d-49bd-a8e8-be2ef4a48827/DSC_0667.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Exquisite Moments of Sorrow and Grace: A memoir by Kenneth Weinberg, MD https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/sogweayeaco5sm38obmmpmvbjgehi6 monthly 0.5 2025-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/4121481e-c9c1-45d4-bdee-248ce129d74a/Everything_is_TB_High_Res_Cover+copy.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green - Make it stand out Everything is Tuberculosis (Crash Course Books, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/735ccba4-0d70-4d63-959a-f7174d4128f1/John_Green+Credit+Marina_Waters.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green - Make it stand out John Green is the author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. Green serves on the Board of Trustees for global health nonprofit Partners in Health and, in partnership with PiH and the Nerdfighter community around Vlogbrothers video, has raised over $30 million dollars to tackle maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. In 2023, he spoke at the United Nations calling for the eradication of tuberculosis cases in the next decade. Green lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana. Read more at johngreenbooks.com and learn about the fight against tuberculosis at tbfighters.org. Photo by Marina Waters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/9f99de46-e1be-4f51-8a86-9f4fec9b513b/Grace+Judd+.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green - Grace Judd, MD Grace Judd https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/bookreviewdonaldhall monthly 0.5 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/62349867-b5d5-46f9-8fc1-6b25dcd646e3/Donald+Hall+Book.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety by Donald Hall - Make it stand out A Carnival of Losses was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2018 shortly after Donald Hall’s death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5c129423-276e-493a-a0b0-27cc33a3c4d7/J.C.+Cordova.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety by Donald Hall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-invisible-kingdom-reimagining-chronic-illness-by-meghan-orourke monthly 0.5 2025-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/2a309f41-a42f-44f3-938f-4e270a3afe7d/The+Invisible+Kingdom+by+Meghan+O%27Rourke.png BOOK REVIEWS - The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke - Make it stand out The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness was published by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/e4b01653-89ed-4bd3-a330-7853cd52bace/Crystal+Lemus+Book+Review.JPG BOOK REVIEWS - The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/bookreviewbecomingabetterphysician monthly 0.5 2026-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/b1fe2c8d-e938-4845-90db-64ea75648814/Goldstein_Tran_-_Better_Physician_cover.png BOOK REVIEWS - Becoming a Better Physician: Insightful and Inspirational Stories from Attending Physicians, Residents, and Medical Students, edited by Mark Allan Goldstein and Kathy May Tran - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1716643710420-3LBG55011AB03NPMOFYL/Campbell%2C+Bruce.png BOOK REVIEWS - Becoming a Better Physician: Insightful and Inspirational Stories from Attending Physicians, Residents, and Medical Students, edited by Mark Allan Goldstein and Kathy May Tran - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/shattered-by-hanif-kureishi monthly 0.5 2025-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5989f395-c152-425a-8d41-54463c275809/Shattered+CREDIT+Ecco+%281%29.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Shattered, a memoir by novelist, screenwriter and playwright Hanif Kureishi - Make it stand out Ecco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/18fb3c10-71e6-4567-9cb7-bb521914f8f3/Hanif+Kureishi+CREDIT+Kier+Kureishi+%281%29.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Shattered, a memoir by novelist, screenwriter and playwright Hanif Kureishi - Make it stand out Hanif Kureishi is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is the author of nine novels, including The Buddha of Suburbia (winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel), The Black Album, Intimacy, and The Nothing. His screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated for an Oscar, and he is the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize and the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He lives in London. Author hoto by Kier Kureishi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/2bfb209b-a3b0-46cf-a843-8456cd2a4f3a/Kevin+Brown+book+reviewer+Intima.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Shattered, a memoir by novelist, screenwriter and playwright Hanif Kureishi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/movingalongparkinsonsdiseasejaviersuarez monthly 0.5 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/44d09f3c-77a0-4483-8a61-d10c99b15d9d/Moving+Along%3A+a+graphic+novel+about+Parkinson%27s+dance+therapy.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Moving Along: A graphic medicine novel about Parkinson’s Dance by Lisbeth Frølunde, Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø and Louise Phillips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5ac2c5a8-6b16-4484-af55-dc2067b42efb/Javier+Suarez+Olivers+--+book+review.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Moving Along: A graphic medicine novel about Parkinson’s Dance by Lisbeth Frølunde, Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø and Louise Phillips - Make it stand out Javier A Suarez will complete a movement disorders fellowship at the University of Minnesota in summer 2025. He received an MD degree from Feinberg School of Medicine and completed neurology residency at Mass General Brigham. His clinical interests include the management of movement disorders with deep brain stimulation. Suarez, who is an avid reader of comics and graphic novels, has presented work on the neurology of comics at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/but-i-still-have-my-fingerprints-a-book-of-poetry-and-healing-by-dianne-silvestri-md monthly 0.5 2024-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/2d64384b-3f34-4860-b5a2-b23c42fa8221/Fingerprints+cover+Dianne+Silvestri.png BOOK REVIEWS - But I Still Have My Fingerprints, a book of poetry and healing by Dianne Silvestri, MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1730257164605-DZET9LGACODYDUU1U5CW/Silvestri%2C+Dianne.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - But I Still Have My Fingerprints, a book of poetry and healing by Dianne Silvestri, MD - Make it stand out Dianne Silvestri, poet and physician, is the author of But I Still Have My Fingerprints (CavanKerry Press, 2022), which recounts her journey to recovery from leukemia and stem cell transplantation. Several of her recent works reflect on people close to her receiving critical diagnoses. Since retirement from medicine, she advocates for medical humanities through speaking and teaching. Discover more about her work at diannesilvestri.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/76b71e53-a70d-4301-85a2-17c489eb7a91/Lamenza%2C+Linda.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - But I Still Have My Fingerprints, a book of poetry and healing by Dianne Silvestri, MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-occasional-human-sacrifice-medical-experimentation-and-the-price-of-saying-no-by-carl-elliot monthly 0.5 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/8544272f-c2f0-4143-82ac-86335344b37a/The+Occasional+Human+Sacrifice.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No by bioethicist Carl Elliot - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/219b0b5b-ce16-4d85-a41f-bbcb373e9a05/Carl+Elliott.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No by bioethicist Carl Elliot - Make it stand out Carl Elliott is the author of Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream and White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine. He is coeditor of The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, he lives in Minnesota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/0a07adb1-5423-4bc5-afe3-5e7b2923c6e9/Ben+Frush_pic.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No by bioethicist Carl Elliot - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/reckoning-ten-seasons-in-fire-island-pines-a-fictionalized-memoir-by-miles-cigolle monthly 0.5 2024-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/6723aa86-a850-441e-a04c-995716bf5ff8/RECKONING.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Reckoning: Ten Seasons in Fire Island Pines by Miles Cigolle - Make it stand out "Reckoning: Ten Seasons in Fire Island Pines" by Miles Cigolle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/6fe91321-2ba1-4350-90be-3ddb24c8cd19/Miles+Cigolle+.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Reckoning: Ten Seasons in Fire Island Pines by Miles Cigolle - Make it stand out Miles Cigolle grew up in a classic adobe house near Albuquerque's historic Old Town with his parents and three siblings. Cigolle studied architecture at Cornell University and went on to practice architecture for twenty-five years with New York City firms including Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Richard Meier & Partners. He met his future husband Abbey on Memorial Day in 1982 in a leather bar in New York's Meat Packing District. Abbey was a Stonewall baby. The couple returned to Ithaca, New York in 2000. Cigolle's first memoir, Miles's World, was published by Secord Books in 2021. Three subsequent memoirs, Reckoning, Upon Arrival and Places and Faces were published by Sunstone Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634063914828-CX0LV3SF7MCM7ZNJ7NRW/Abrams%2C+Robert.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Reckoning: Ten Seasons in Fire Island Pines by Miles Cigolle - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/a-body-made-of-glass-a-cultural-history-of-hypochondria-by-caroline-crampton monthly 0.5 2024-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/7dc46c7a-ea70-4c66-b04c-68e3143c637d/A+Body+Made+of+Glass+CREDIT+Ecco.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/dbc619c2-0999-4c19-8303-e927cd6ebbb6/Caroline+Crampton+CREDIT+Jamie+Drew+-+jacket+option.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton - Make it stand out Caroline Crampton is a writer and reviewer who covers a wide variety of subjects for the Guardian, the Spectator, the Mail On Sunday, and other publications. Her first book, The Way to the Sea, was published by Granta in 2019. She appears regularly as a critic on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Merseyside, England. Author photo by Jamie Drew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/2bfb209b-a3b0-46cf-a843-8456cd2a4f3a/Kevin+Brown+book+reviewer+Intima.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton - Make it stand out Kevin Brown https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/sciviaschoreomaniabylakeangela monthly 0.5 2024-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/e0db74dc-6c28-4ddc-8a28-af6e80a0e514/Scivias_Choreomaniae_book_cover_image%281%29.png BOOK REVIEWS - Scivias Choreomaniae, a poetry collection about madness and mystics, psychosis and prisons by Lake Angela - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/dee11fd8-fb61-41f3-9296-4eb5aaacb09d/Lake+Angela+Photo+by+Abigail+Parker.png BOOK REVIEWS - Scivias Choreomaniae, a poetry collection about madness and mystics, psychosis and prisons by Lake Angela - Make it stand out Lake Angela a poet, translator and dancer-choreographer from Lake Erie, whose books include Organblooms, Words for the Dead and Scivias Choreomaniae. Angela holds a PhD in intersemiotic translation and is a medieval mystic. Her work can be read in Seneca Review, The Common, filling Station, and Poetry Salzburg Review, among others. With her poetry-dance group Companyia Lake Angela, she presents the value of schizophrenia spectrum creativity. lakeangeladance.com. Author photo by Abigail Parker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5a3ad36f-3cc4-4208-a279-4a73f64ab215/Georg+Amsel+self+portrait.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Scivias Choreomaniae, a poetry collection about madness and mystics, psychosis and prisons by Lake Angela - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/sky-was-falling-a-young-surgeons-story-of-bravery-survival-and-hope-by-dr-cornelia-griggs-book-review-by-dr-claire-unis monthly 0.5 2024-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/88f26c7e-8ccc-44d4-8f6a-748fc94280bd/The+Sky+is+falling.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Story of Bravery, Survival and Hope by Cornelia Griggs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d2293794-bb3e-4b9c-98ab-b0b6a19b3d73/Cornelia+Griggs+Photo+redit+Anelise+Tubinis.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Story of Bravery, Survival and Hope by Cornelia Griggs - Make it stand out Cornelia Griggs is a triple board-certified pediatric surgeon. She completed medical school at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. She completed her adult general surgery residency and surgical critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she currently practices. She is a graduate of Harvard College and earned a certificate in health policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and many top medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine. Author photo by Anelise Tubinis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/8d7e7a06-53a6-4657-9151-6c4920c93597/2022_11_UnisHeadshotsHR-0074.JPG BOOK REVIEWS - The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Story of Bravery, Survival and Hope by Cornelia Griggs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/a-review-of-the-quiet-room-a-timeless-memoir-unpacking-schizophrenia-by-alyssa-sales monthly 0.5 2024-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/81883c9d-3684-4ac0-b547-b78d4fcc9674/81OLpOMOAGL._SL1500_.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Quiet Room: A Timeless Memoir Unpacking Schizophrenia by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/f2723a01-8199-4ddb-a772-43d56e0a2def/Intima_Alyssa_Sales_Headshot.png BOOK REVIEWS - The Quiet Room: A Timeless Memoir Unpacking Schizophrenia by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/our-long-marvelous-dying-by-anna-deforest monthly 0.5 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1cdd7d47-410b-474f-8909-44290252417d/Our+Long+Marvelous+Dying+-+New+cover+copy.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Our Long Marvelous Dying by Anna DeForest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/14c1a9d4-80c5-49f3-b042-631456f2d791/Anna+DeForest_new+2024+photo_credit+Stephen+Douglas+%281%29.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Our Long Marvelous Dying by Anna DeForest - Make it stand out Anna DeForest (they/their) is the author of the novels A History of Present Illness and Our Long Marvelous Dying, and a palliative care physician in New York City. Photo by Stephen Douglas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/c136cae6-4c6f-4c4c-8188-334f6315c076/Margo+Peyton.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Our Long Marvelous Dying by Anna DeForest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/aging-as-a-spiritual-practice-a-contemplative-guide-to-growing-older-and-wiser-by-lewis-richmond monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/80dc821d-18b7-4885-90a8-d828480c5c66/richmond.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Aging as a Spiritual Practice – A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser By Lewis Richmond - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/18d02fe7-e34b-4860-970b-af9190b5a6b4/pic+richmond.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Aging as a Spiritual Practice – A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser By Lewis Richmond - Make it stand out Lewis Richmond is the author of five books: the national bestseller Work as a Spiritual Practice; the award-winning Healing Lazarus (a memoir of his experience with and recovery from a rare neurological disease); and most recently, the highly praised A Whole Life’s Work, a sequel and companion to his first book, and the award-winning Aging as a Spiritual Practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ff4e9864-ce3f-441e-aee6-665c1527f1b8/HIRTHLER%2B2021.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Aging as a Spiritual Practice – A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser By Lewis Richmond - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/a-delicate-web-of-ignorance-betrayal-and-magic-a-review-of-delicate-condition-by-danielle-valentine monthly 0.5 2024-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/075ca3f8-9b71-4092-b6bb-b204042e2323/Delicate+Condition+cover.png BOOK REVIEWS - Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/63b6b764-59a4-414a-a113-34754c977a3e/Danielle+Valentine+headshot.png BOOK REVIEWS - Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine - Make it stand out Learn more about Danielle at https://daniellevalentinebooks.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/b2ffa95e-5ed8-47c2-8f41-e81bd7fd3180/IMG_1507+copy.png BOOK REVIEWS - Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine - Make it stand out Isabela Cordero is a writer, editor, and creative based in New York City. She has a BA in Literary Studies from The New School and an MFA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York. She is a Senior Copy Editor and Email Marketing Specialist at StyldLife. She's currently working on her passion project, a baseball romance novel. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/rearranged-an-opera-singers-facial-cancer-and-life-transposed-a-memoir-by-kathleen-watt monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1a05f325-487b-4ffa-9c39-ae8e34d967b6/Rearranged+cover.png BOOK REVIEWS - Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/02d77ea7-9c75-4e6f-80f7-b31ab98df7ff/3c4368_b7648bc52dad4d85963091fe9f75fdd5%7Emv2.png BOOK REVIEWS - Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt - Make it stand out Learn more about author Kathleen Watt at kathleenwatt.com or @kewatt @kathlwatt or on Facebook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625924093608-VKAQGIVM5R69GZSTH1BR/HIRTHLER+2021.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/shark-heart-a-love-story-by-emily-habeck monthly 0.5 2024-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/b637f786-1dd9-4fc1-8651-d9c457ba9a8d/Shark+Heart+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/41fc223f-3a85-48b5-b929-283229bbab60/Habeck%2C+Emily.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck - Make it stand out Emily Habeck has a BFA in Theater from Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts as well as master’s degrees from Vanderbilt Divinity School and Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. Her debut novel Shark Heart was a Book of the Month selection, a New York Times book review editor’s choice, and the #1 Indie Next pick for August 2023. She is from Ardmore, Oklahoma and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609261487402-DKJGWEG6480GWE1M1OWU/Mainardi%252C%2BPriscilla%2B2020%2Bphoto.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/seeing-the-humanity-in-himselfa-review-of-the-country-of-the-blind-a-memoir-at-the-end-of-sight-by-andrew-leland monthly 0.5 2023-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/9bd7c30d-8393-4de8-97f6-753c7416e1f8/The+Country+of+the+Blind_Andrew+Leland.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Seeing the Humanity in Himself: A Review of “The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight” by Andrew Leland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/e4be8461-b4d0-4dd1-ad55-244e70f4d1c7/Andrew+Leland+credit+Gregory+Halpern+copy.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Seeing the Humanity in Himself: A Review of “The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight” by Andrew Leland - Make it stand out Andrew Leland. Photo by Gregory Halpern https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/2bfb209b-a3b0-46cf-a843-8456cd2a4f3a/Kevin+Brown+book+reviewer+Intima.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Seeing the Humanity in Himself: A Review of “The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight” by Andrew Leland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/what-we-bring-to-the-practice-of-medicine-perspectives-from-women-physicians-ed-kimberly-greene-liebowitz-and-dana-corriel monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/a044bdea-e98d-4eb5-90e8-477d49de4a55/What+We+Bring+to+the+Practice+of+Medicine+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine: Perspectives from Women Physicians. Editors: Kimberly Greene-Liebowitz and Dana Corriel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625924093608-VKAQGIVM5R69GZSTH1BR/HIRTHLER+2021.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine: Perspectives from Women Physicians. Editors: Kimberly Greene-Liebowitz and Dana Corriel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/jj7736t12c1qe68zsu1ncf1ttul6mh monthly 0.5 2023-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d307f089-c1a6-4eee-9256-667cfc2ed46a/zig-zag+boy+cover+art%281%29.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d4cb561c-b597-4bb6-9737-46028022cb82/Tanya+Frank_by_+Nancy+Huddleston.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank - Make it stand out Tanya Frank received her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of California, Riverside. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in London with her wife. Photo by Nancy Huddleston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/df68c023-c8b7-441d-a91a-c5aedb1022e3/Peyton%2C+Margo+Intima+book+reviewer.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/beautiful-trauma-by-rebeca-fogg monthly 0.5 2023-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/c9542d64-d66b-4975-9249-8b12c57c6e9d/Beautiful+Trauma.png BOOK REVIEWS - Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, An Obsession and A New Lease on Life by Rebeca Fogg - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/3318f9a5-105e-44fe-b7f0-b73d7dc30950/Rebecca+Fogg+headshot.square.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, An Obsession and A New Lease on Life by Rebeca Fogg - Make it stand out In 2008, Rebecca Fogg walked away from her New York life and successful career in financial services to move to London, where she co-founded the Institute of Pre-Hospital Care at London’s Air Ambulance and continues to work, write, and learn Scottish fiddle. A graduate of Yale University and The Harvard Business School, she spent five years (2014-2019) researching and writing about healthcare with renowned Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, author of The Theory of Disruptive Innovation. Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life (Avery, Penguin Random House) is Fogg’s first book. It was awarded the 1029 Royal Society of Literature Giles St. Aubyn Judge’s Special Commendation for work in progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801360332-JPTHE6NTVY0PGZBFQ5GH/Errichetti%2C+Tony.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, An Obsession and A New Lease on Life by Rebeca Fogg - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/76253k86gegmbmupjymv0goveoqygq monthly 0.5 2023-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/431340b7-7a91-4141-b504-f2194f19e223/Uncaring.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Uncaring: How The Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients by Robert Pearl - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/51abcafb-7616-48be-ba19-64a262917e38/Pearl%2C+Robert.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Uncaring: How The Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients by Robert Pearl - Make it stand out Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (1999-2017), the nation’s largest medical group, and former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (2009-2017). In these roles he led 10,000 physicians, 38,000 staff and was responsible for the nationally recognized medical care of 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on the West and East Coasts. Named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is an advocate for the power of integrated, prepaid, technologically advanced and physician-led healthcare delivery. He serves as a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership, and lectures on information technology and health care policy. robertpearlmd.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/da53629c-993f-4ccd-ac10-f668a41fecdc/Barreiro%252C%2BTimothy.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Uncaring: How The Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients by Robert Pearl - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/some-kind-of-happiness-by-claire-legrand monthly 0.5 2023-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/a38dddff-2c60-4cbc-b930-b18f807e8aaf/Some+Kind+of+Happiness+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5f7324ef-9607-4828-a1f7-f48454a9e55a/Claire+Legrand+Sourcebooks%2C+LLC_+copy.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand - Make it stand out Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn’t stop thinking about the stories in her head. Now Ms. Legrand is a full-time writer living in New Jersey. She has written two middle grade novels—The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2012, and The Year of Shadows—as well as the young adult novel Winterspell. Her newest book A Crown of Ivy and Glass Book One of the Middlemist Trilogy will be published by Sourcebooks Casablanca in May 2023. Visit her at Claire-Legrand.com and on Twitter @ClaireLegrand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/0532d135-c688-432b-8ec8-577ec50fa873/Mason+Bennett+Intima+Book+Reviews.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/review-of-aunt-bird-poetry-collection monthly 0.5 2022-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/0ed8aa29-4f1e-45db-bc73-dc75c1165037/Aunt+Bird+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Second-Generation Healing: The Holocaust poetry of Yerra Sugarman in "Aunt Bird" by Robert C. Abrams - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/54103bc1-1c0d-4cbd-aa7a-8112fbea5e26/Yerra+Sugarman%2C+author+of+Aunt+Bird.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Second-Generation Healing: The Holocaust poetry of Yerra Sugarman in "Aunt Bird" by Robert C. Abrams - Make it stand out Yerra Sugarman is the author of Forms of Gone, which won PEN American Center’s PEN / Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and The Bag of Broken Glass, poems from which received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, The Nation, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, New England Review and elsewhere. She earned an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. Born in Toronto, she lives in New York City. Photo: (c) Pamela Lischin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801338825-QO0EXQ53NYGPPGD9DD1N/Abrams%2C+Robert.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Second-Generation Healing: The Holocaust poetry of Yerra Sugarman in "Aunt Bird" by Robert C. Abrams - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/kb8zfxm4mbgnnbcxzar8i591srrq7a monthly 0.5 2022-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/a7dfcfe8-310e-4c45-8f92-08e8ab6d09f2/WARRAICH_The+Song+of+Our+Scars_REVISED.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain by Haider Warraich - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/7de3b686-a54a-4ef1-8a16-4b9688466098/Warraich%2C+Haider.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain by Haider Warraich - Make it stand out Haider Warraich is a physician, author and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has published more than 140 research papers including in the NEJM, JAMA and BMJ. He frequently writes for the New York Times and Washington Post, and is the author of the books Modern Death, State of the Heart and the just published The Song of Our Scars – The Untold Story of Pain (Basic Books).@haiderwarraich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1588104337927-YNVGQ0PL1NCV3L8JB4MI/Robert%2BMundle.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain by Haider Warraich - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/a-history-of-present-illness-by-anna-deforest monthly 0.5 2022-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/56de3163-428f-497d-97a9-ee56ede7c7b2/A+History+of+Present+Illness+cover.png BOOK REVIEWS - A History of Present Illness by Anna DeForest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ceadc3a9-7c2c-4f19-a729-883a9b5d59d2/Anna+DeForest+Little%2C+Brown+and+Company+copy.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A History of Present Illness by Anna DeForest - Make it stand out Anna DeForest is a neurologist and palliative care physician in New York City. Her writing has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Paris Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/df68c023-c8b7-441d-a91a-c5aedb1022e3/Peyton%2C+Margo+Intima+book+reviewer.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A History of Present Illness by Anna DeForest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/ordinarydeathbysamuellebaron monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/19c2b210-24af-4d20-b162-61dfaa923a90/Ordinary+Deaths+by+Sanuel+LeBaron.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Ordinary Deaths: Stories From Memory by Samuel LeBaron - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/bb29087b-e834-4073-99fe-becc72f4ab27/LeBaron_Samuel.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Ordinary Deaths: Stories From Memory by Samuel LeBaron - Make it stand out Dr. Samuel LeBaron is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology and was an early pioneer on managing pain and suffering. His short story “Bling” appeared in the Spring 2020 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. He lives both near San Francisco, CA, and in Victoria, BC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652801360332-JPTHE6NTVY0PGZBFQ5GH/Errichetti%2C+Tony.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Ordinary Deaths: Stories From Memory by Samuel LeBaron - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/intimacies-received-poetry-by-taneum-bambrick monthly 0.5 2022-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/4f8d27fb-cb7d-4634-ae55-d33245227a1c/Intimacies+Received+by+Taneum+Bambrick+Copper+Canyon+Press+2022.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Intimacies, Received: Poetry by Taneum Bambrick - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ced14f84-7039-4f67-b3b5-5da8c7add28d/Taneum+Bambrick+Photo+by+Alexandro+Zamora.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Intimacies, Received: Poetry by Taneum Bambrick - Make it stand out Taneum Bambrick Photo by Alexandro Zamora https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1645561584520-E86PCI7A8Q12VPAYKIDE/Rachel+Prince+Editor+Intima+Journal.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Intimacies, Received: Poetry by Taneum Bambrick - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/medspeak-illuminated-the-art-and-practice-of-medical-illustration-by-francois-i-luks monthly 0.5 2022-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/af6b4047-b9b3-470a-aa63-6f262cf683d0/MedSpeak+Illuminated+by+Francois+I.+Luks+COVER.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by François I. Luks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/31b0d298-2d04-4426-8dcc-c416bd7e103f/Franc%CC%A7ois+Luks.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by François I. Luks - Make it stand out François I. Luks is professor of surgery at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and pediatric surgeon-in-chief at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. As a medical student, he drew a daily comic strip for several newspapers and later started to illustrate some of his own research publications, then those of colleagues. MedSpeak Illuminated grew out of the full semester course in medical illustration he teaches for undergraduate students at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. TW: @FrancoisLuks IG:@rhodeside.art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/b8aa08e6-f7d2-43bc-8218-e15789f069b8/Illustration+in+Medspeak.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by François I. Luks - Make it stand out Tricks of the trade from MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration: Dr. Luks shows how medical illustration uses techniques from cinema to show movement and describes how less is more when pinpointing a how-to demonstration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1634064159731-ACQOZBSMRT132TLNQPWZ/Wu%2C+Adela+2021.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by François I. Luks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/neurocinemathe-sequel-by-eelco-wijdicks monthly 0.5 2022-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d9e71b57-f898-4fcc-80ae-fa83f836bdaa/Neurocinema+The+Sequel+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Q & A about Neurocinema—The Sequel! by Eelco Wijdicks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/abac34ea-af67-403b-8db5-4e1546221013/Eelco+Wijdicks.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Q & A about Neurocinema—The Sequel! by Eelco Wijdicks - Make it stand out Eelco Wijdicks Eelco F.M. Wijdicks MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. He established Neurocritical Care at Mayo Clinic and is consultant neurointensivist in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic Campus Rochester). He has published commentary and criticism on medical and neurologic portrayal in film, including Neurocinema: When Film Meets Neurology (CRC Press 2014) and Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen (OUP 2020). He lives with his wife Barbara-Jane in Rochester (MN) and Bonita Springs (FL). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/c4a146d5-9136-4710-9f75-ee363361a15b/Michael+Stanley+headshot.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Q & A about Neurocinema—The Sequel! by Eelco Wijdicks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-kissing-of-kissing-by-hannah-emerson monthly 0.5 2022-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/4dad86c6-d85c-4ff5-986a-148a010f04fd/KissingOfKissing+by+Hannah+Emerson.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Kissing of Kissing: Poems by Hannah Emerson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/62154066-efde-4f5c-a800-ab3e9b7c5d6e/Hannah_Emerson_circle.png BOOK REVIEWS - The Kissing of Kissing: Poems by Hannah Emerson - Make it stand out Hannah Emerson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/fd977401-be00-4159-8541-666e5f4147ad/Donna+Bulseco+headshot.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Kissing of Kissing: Poems by Hannah Emerson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/interview-with-poet-chris-martin-about-multiverse-a-new-poetry-series-from-milkweed-press monthly 0.5 2022-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/41e26811-071a-44aa-9cfe-511b7fb4e51f/Chris+Martin.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Interview with poet Chris Martin about Multiverse, a new poetry series from Milkweed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/4dad86c6-d85c-4ff5-986a-148a010f04fd/KissingOfKissing+by+Hannah+Emerson.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Interview with poet Chris Martin about Multiverse, a new poetry series from Milkweed - Make it stand out The Kissing of Kissing by Hannah Emerson is the first in Milkweed’s Multiverse series, curated by Chris Martin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/3adeab18-53a8-4500-a5b9-a6318034a7cc/May+Tomorrow+Be+Awake+by+Chris+Martin.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Interview with poet Chris Martin about Multiverse, a new poetry series from Milkweed - Make it stand out May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future by Chris Martin was just published by Harper One. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/fd977401-be00-4159-8541-666e5f4147ad/Donna+Bulseco+headshot.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Interview with poet Chris Martin about Multiverse, a new poetry series from Milkweed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/in-love-by-amy-bloom monthly 0.5 2022-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/63eafec9-1d7a-4aaf-847e-bc5e7909979d/In+Love+A+Memoir+of+Love+and+Loss+by+Amy+Bloom.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ce4a2721-9cd9-4f5a-b085-5773c4502514/Amy+Bloom+Photo+by+Elena+Seibert.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom - Make it stand out Amy Bloom Photo by Elena Seibert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1628478275102-5B51SR8COHNSF9ROG8EI/Walker%2C+Daly+Photo+by+Sally+Carpenter.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom - Make it stand out Daly Walker Photo by Sally Carpenter https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/wordswecannotsaybysitaromero monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/703f3ba3-cea2-420d-b60d-a13a813c4b78/Words-We-Cannot-say-1877x3000-Amazon-300dpi.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Words We Cannot Say by Sita Romero - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/15e744b4-28ec-4ed5-9b53-5fd8b34f54a2/SitaHeadshot-web.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Words We Cannot Say by Sita Romero - Make it stand out Sita Romero. The author’s next book Vanishing Shoals “is a micro-memoir written during a year-long cancer journey;” the book will be available on July 1, 2022 from L10 Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/9069ad30-3bcd-4104-92db-e3872f61960c/BOOK+REVIEWER+Jessica+Blandford.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Words We Cannot Say by Sita Romero - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/smile-story-of-a-face-by-sarah-ruhl monthly 0.5 2022-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/165fb397-1a1f-42d6-acab-57216958defb/Smile+The+Story+of+a+Face+cover+Sarah+Ruhl.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl - Make it stand out Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/6d276529-0d63-44b3-a461-a6786e98f99f/Sarah+Ruhl.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl - Make it stand out Sarah Ruhl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5501dbc6-b9a3-4ee7-a530-a74f8478a905/Kevin+Brown+book+reviewer+Intima.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/show-me-where-it-hurts-living-with-invisible-illness-by-kylie-maslen monthly 0.5 2022-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d9625a9f-864f-44e4-9335-0dc49c87f991/Show+Me+Where+it+Hurts%3A+Living+with+Invisible+Illness+by+Kylie+Maslen.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Show Me Where it Hurts: Living With Invisible Illness by Kylie Maslen - Make it stand out Show Me Where it Hurts by Kylie Maslen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/9de250ce-c8d0-495c-8ac8-3905b7dc64c1/Kylie+Maslen+Photo+by+Lauren+Connolly.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Show Me Where it Hurts: Living With Invisible Illness by Kylie Maslen - Make it stand out Author Kylie Maslen . Learn more about her work at kyliemaslen.com Photo by Lauren Connolly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1620507784151-W36O7KU35U4K1JGISW6B/Alekszandra+Rokvity.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Show Me Where it Hurts: Living With Invisible Illness by Kylie Maslen - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/healing-when-a-nurse-becomes-a-patient-by-theresa-brown-rn monthly 0.5 2022-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/fca97b88-7e52-4e8d-8c3d-15d2f286b3da/Brown_HEALING_HC_HR.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - HEALING: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown, RN - Make it stand out Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown was published by Algonquin Books in April 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/acbb216c-c95c-4dbd-a3ba-f83f5a2d85cf/Theresa+Brown+%28c%29+Heather+Kresge.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - HEALING: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown, RN - Make it stand out Theresa Brown, RN, author of HEALING: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient. Photo by Heather Kresge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609261487402-DKJGWEG6480GWE1M1OWU/Mainardi%252C%2BPriscilla%2B2020%2Bphoto.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - HEALING: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown, RN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/whatcannotbeundonebywaltermrobinson monthly 0.5 2022-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/67b8678a-c492-4362-8773-70034cbe2424/What+Cannot+Be+Undone+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - What Cannot Be Undone: True Stories of a Life in Medicine by Walter M. Robinson - Make it stand out What Cannot Be Undone: True Stories of a Life in Medicine by Walter M. Robinson was published early this year by the University of New Mexico Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/2294882f-ece4-4b69-9644-e18c8d3b2e23/Robinson_AU+Photo_credit+Stephen+Cullar-Ledford.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - What Cannot Be Undone: True Stories of a Life in Medicine by Walter M. Robinson - Make it stand out Walter M. Robinson Photo by Stephen Cullar-Ledford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625924093608-VKAQGIVM5R69GZSTH1BR/HIRTHLER+2021.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - What Cannot Be Undone: True Stories of a Life in Medicine by Walter M. Robinson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/sentient-by-jackie-higgins monthly 0.5 2022-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/fb1f6f39-c1f0-49d5-bfe9-8c5bdbcfcb28/Sentient+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses by Jackie Higgins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/30cf31d6-013a-4759-b2e2-54143113a1ea/Jackie+Higgins_by+Alex+Schneideman.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses by Jackie Higgins - Make it stand out Jackie Higgins Photo by Alex Schneideman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/e7ea4e65-3718-4c6d-ac0f-b9d916eb3fc3/Zohar+Lederman.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses by Jackie Higgins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/letter-to-a-young-female-physician-notes-from-a-medical-life-by-suzanne-koven monthly 0.5 2022-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/b80a09a6-a2f5-4425-8600-cbf1368bfc08/Letter+to+a+young+female+physician.png BOOK REVIEWS - Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life by Suzanne Koven - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/432a6c9d-7767-4a91-82cc-1ae737682db6/Suzanne+Koven.png BOOK REVIEWS - Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life by Suzanne Koven - Make it stand out Suzanne Koven, MD Photo by Patrick B. Duffy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/c4a146d5-9136-4710-9f75-ee363361a15b/Michael+Stanley+headshot.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life by Suzanne Koven - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/at-peace-choosing-a-good-death-after-a-long-life-by-samuel-harrington-md monthly 0.5 2021-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/2b5ac7ef-37e2-4db1-a2fd-b1adf815c278/HarringtonATPEACE+%28HC%29.JPG BOOK REVIEWS - At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life by Samuel Harrington MD - Make it stand out At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life by Samuel Harrington, MD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/386b7d85-0c32-4284-bd24-bbe84209b3cf/HarringtonATPEACESamuel.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life by Samuel Harrington MD - Make it stand out Samuel Harrington, MD Photo by Danielle Libine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1628478275102-5B51SR8COHNSF9ROG8EI/Walker%2C+Daly+Photo+by+Sally+Carpenter.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life by Samuel Harrington MD - Make it stand out Photo by Sally Walker https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/were-all-in-a-cage-a-review-of-the-war-for-gloria-by-atticus-lish monthly 0.5 2021-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/3c6fbe28-2783-47a2-af5d-676fd5d8b30c/The+War+for+Gloria+by+Atticus+Lish+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish - Make it stand out The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/c494d802-68e0-47ef-8d2a-8eff1d32ac06/Atticus+Lish+Penguin+Random+House.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish - Make it stand out Atticus Lish Photo by Ryan Hermens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1609261487402-DKJGWEG6480GWE1M1OWU/Mainardi%252C%2BPriscilla%2B2020%2Bphoto.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/every-deep-drawn-breath-bu-wes-ely monthly 0.5 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1628591762554-07AZFKJ70A3FA9Z6RDYL/every-deep-drawn-breath-9781982171148_hr.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU by Wes Ely, MD - Make it stand out Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU by Dr. Wes Ely (Simon & Schuster, September 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1628768853246-O2B3VBVTXILJRIB89JQD/Wes+Ely+MD++Photo+by+Heidi+Ross.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU by Wes Ely, MD - Make it stand out Wes Ely, MD. Photo by Heidi Ross https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1630329382419-5AUIWZPV1O0N2LUX2GRT/Mikhaiel%2C+JP.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU by Wes Ely, MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/black-death-at-the-golden-gate-the-race-to-save-america-from-the-bubonic-plague monthly 0.5 2021-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1627495675081-U06ZD7JBUJBX8S24YVOX/Black+Death+at+the+Golden+Gate+The+Race+to+Save+America+from+the+Bubonic+Plague.png BOOK REVIEWS - Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by Steven K. Randall - Make it stand out Black Death at the Golden Gate by David K. Randall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1627495952448-SPPD048L5RZKU8M370P0/David+K+Randall.png BOOK REVIEWS - Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by Steven K. Randall - Make it stand out David K. Randall is a senior reporter at Reuters. The New York Times best-selling author of Black Death at the Golden Gate, Dreamland and The King and Queen of Malibu, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey http://davidkentrandall.com/ Photo by Jason Roth Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625747652029-RTWNOEUSM429ARL13ON9/Grace+Xu.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by Steven K. Randall - Make it stand out Grace Xu https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-beauty-in-breaking-by-michele-harper monthly 0.5 2023-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1626362322904-LMQ12GRM6DFVDOJ774WZ/THE+BEAUTY+IN+BREAKING+cover%281%29.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper - Make it stand out The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1626362519702-O0CA1EQ4PAUSW0PTYVTX/Michele+Harper+%28c%29+LaTosha+Oglesby%281%29.JPG BOOK REVIEWS - The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper - Make it stand out Michele Harper has worked as an emergency room physician for more than a decade at various institutions, including as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency department at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. The Beauty in Breaking is her first book. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/cvpq4zahcvdaoybd6nrgicaj3l0eel monthly 0.5 2021-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625744944587-L95XZVLF0R8J5JSLS9BA/Alexander+-+The+Hospital+-+Cover+Art.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625923861911-CZJLG7MSP8YPTH455420/Brian+Alexander+-+Author+Photo_Courtesy+of+the+author+copy.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander - Make it stand out Brian Alexander, the author of Glass House and winner of the Ohioana Book Awards, is a contributing writer to The Atlantic. He’s written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Esquire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625924093608-VKAQGIVM5R69GZSTH1BR/HIRTHLER+2021.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-doctors-dilemma-by-daly-walker-md monthly 0.5 2021-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625518772460-0XCDD6YRA1I05Q3UUCAJ/The-Doctors-Dilemma-Kindle.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Doctor’s Dilemma by Daly Walker MD - Make it stand out The Doctor’s Dilemma by Daly Walker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1628477894039-GAQTCUGSCSDBLLVMT8RV/Walker%2C+Daly.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Doctor’s Dilemma by Daly Walker MD Daly Walker MD is retired from a general surgery practice in Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University Medical school and served his residency at the University of Wisconsin. He served as a battalion surgeon in the Vietnam War. A fiction writer, his stories have appeared in numerous literary publication including The Atlantic. “Resuscitation,” one of the stories in The Doctor’s Dilemma, appeared in the FALL 2020 Intima. Author photo: Sally Carpenter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1626094970684-TM4F3D2CC9R5FT370EV3/elias.hyams.photo.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Doctor’s Dilemma by Daly Walker MD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/between-two-kingdoms-a-memoir-of-life-interrupted-by-suleika-jaouad monthly 0.5 2021-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625405907695-0YY4H772FC12MGT0OCOD/Between+Two+Kingdoms.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625405799550-7RE33R3FNRDV1E6I8G09/Suleika+Jaouad.png BOOK REVIEWS - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad - Make it stand out Suleika Jaouad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1625660824314-PYY9QG6OLOAA6U1MR14U/Cherie+Henderson+-+mugshot+-+May+2021.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad - Make it stand out Cherie Henderson https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/you-will-never-be-normal-by-catherine-klatzer monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605374909084-BC142CTOFE0KEDV6LOSH/You+Will+Never+Be+Normal+Cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - You Will Never Be Normal by Catherine Klatzker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924062978-B4EXL90SRRBHLLH4M8TU/Klatzker%252C%2BCatherine.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - You Will Never Be Normal by Catherine Klatzker Catherine Klatzker is a memoirist, poet, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, meditator, a retired pediatric ICU RN of 22 years, and a member of the Authors Guild. Her work has appeared in Atticus Review, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Emrys Journal, Lime Hawk Journal, The Examined Life Journal, Tiferet Journal and in mental health anthologies. Originally from the quad cities of Illinois, she now lives in southern California with her husband, delightedly nearby their children and grandchildren. Photo by Baz Here https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/a-lab-of-ones-own monthly 0.5 2021-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605375794645-3G9D8J565I4T41H5HQVM/LAB+OF+ONE%27S+OWN+by+Rita+Colwell.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science was published in 2020 by Simon & Schuster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605375651761-4D20IRV7KNUP3J5KBRIX/Colwell_John+T.+Consoli+University+of+Maryland.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation Rita Colwell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1620507784151-W36O7KU35U4K1JGISW6B/Alekszandra+Rokvity.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/sphx4l6d8tem2glz4a0c96m306d46s monthly 0.5 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1615130552784-BLY0RP786CAON2SX1RTH/Staring+Night+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Psychiatric Biography: A Review of "Staring Night: Queen Victoria's Late-Life Depression" by Robert Abrams Staring Night: Queen Victoria’s Late-Life Depression was published by IPBooks in Fall 2020. For more information about the International Psychoanalytic Books imprint, go to ipbooks.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1615126989699-VOL6QBVNHWE8B4PISHU5/Robert+Abrams.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Psychiatric Biography: A Review of "Staring Night: Queen Victoria's Late-Life Depression" by Robert Abrams Robert C. Abrams, MD, a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Icahn School of Medicine, practices psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he has received awards for clinical teaching as Professor of Psychiatry in Medicine. Dr Abrams' research has been focused on old-age psychiatry, including personality disorders, depression, suicidality, and the humanities. Staring Night stems from his lifelong interest in 19th and 20th-century English history and from a series of published papers on the last years of Queen Victoria's reign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1615126643630-L7WL9NTDO49S1W2BQCKK/OwenLewis.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Psychiatric Biography: A Review of "Staring Night: Queen Victoria's Late-Life Depression" by Robert Abrams Owen Lewis https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/carte-blanche-the-erosion-of-medical-consent-by-harriet-a-washington monthly 0.5 2021-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1614220682504-0E2KXK2933NF15A3QL5B/Carte+Blanche+The+Erosion+of+Medical+Consent+by+Harriet+A+Washington.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent by Harriet A. Washington “Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential, Carte Blanche reveals that Americans, including African Americans, are still being medically experimented upon without their consent—yet again in research sanctioned by law. Harriet Washington’s powerful indictment of ongoing medical coercion unveils a gross violation of our human rights,” says Ibram X. Kendi. “It is vital reading at a moment when change is so necessary.” Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent is published by Columbia Global Reports, an imprint that’s producing four to six novella-length works of journalism and analysis a year, each on a different under-reported story in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1614222294881-I4Z26UUFDBXDGV83LSWM/Harriet+Washington.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent by Harriet A. Washington Harriet A. Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1614222376135-R1TAMY7C918SSB7UDGGW/Medical+Apartheid+by+Harriet+A+Washington.png BOOK REVIEWS - Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent by Harriet A. Washington https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/oocqzjo6xvht8rq0mx7vng1oshm1zb monthly 0.5 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605368944622-FPXZWFMB12H0XGCXZC6H/BreathTakingHC-scaled.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs by Michael J. Stephen, MD. Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs by Michael J. Stephen, MD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605371104939-M8DSFLQPKQCWS79N5K6O/Michael+Stephen+%28c%29+Karen+Kirchhoff.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs by Michael J. Stephen, MD. AUTHOR Michael J. Stephen, MD, is an associate professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center. A graduate of Brown University and Boston University Medical School, he lives in New Jersey. Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of our Extraordinary Lungs (Atlantic Monthly Press; January 19, 2021; @groveatlantic) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605371671488-PXK8J8QOSTOH8HNTV5U9/Lara%2BK%2BRonan.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs by Michael J. Stephen, MD. Lara Ronan, MD https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/thenightlakebyliztichenor monthly 0.5 2020-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1608037228074-RCAZSSXVNVMPLFNJRGPV/THE+NIGHT+LAKE+by+Liz+Tichenor.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief by Liz Tichenor The Night Lake by Liz Tichenor, a compelling memoir about grief., will be published by Counterpoint Press on January 5, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1608037725335-VT5YYZR3JTIJLG3OFC2X/Liz+Tichenor+author+photo+by+Nathan+Phillips.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief by Liz Tichenor Author Liz Tichenor has put down roots in the Bay Area but is originally from New Hampshire and the Midwest. An Episcopal priest, she serves as rector at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, Pleasant Hill, California. Tichenor and her husband, Jesse, are raising two young children and continuing to explore the adventure of living, parenting, and leading in the community. Photo by Nathan Phillips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1608389592162-LFD0X0YVQI1AI6XUXNEZ/Bonnie+McDougall+Olson.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief by Liz Tichenor Bonnie McDougall Olson https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/final-path-poems-by-ron-lands monthly 0.5 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605376675289-VBLWT0XM6SIZTVKMEL91/Final+Path+by+Ron+Lands.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Final Path: Poems by Ron Lands Final Path by Ronald H. Lands, MD, was published by Finishing Line Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605407309484-4ISWLCPADMV1E5DQYCZC/Lands%252C%2BRon.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Final Path: Poems by Ron Lands Ron Lands is a semi-retired hematologist at UT Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee and an MFA alumnus of Queens University of Charlotte. He practiced medicine for many years near the community in East Tennessee where he grew up and was privileged to treat strangers, lifelong friends and a few relatives. His writing is about those experiences. His poem “Decision” was in Spring 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine; “The Appointment” was in the Spring 2015 issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1605407187529-OX5VRV7A2JLN71BLS1IA/Donna+Bulseco.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Final Path: Poems by Ron Lands https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/departure-from-the-darkness-and-the-cold-by-lawrence-j-hergott-md monthly 0.5 2020-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598647607806-WM3VXKPZOBGSPW538ZG6/Book%2BCover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Departure from the Darkness and the Cold: The Hope of Renewal for the Soul of Medicine in Patient Care by Lawrence J. Hergott, MD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598648364037-P3ZXUHQSGGQFEPDN9NPH/Lawrence+Hergott.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Departure from the Darkness and the Cold: The Hope of Renewal for the Soul of Medicine in Patient Care by Lawrence J. Hergott, MD Lawrence J. Hergott, MD, author of Departure From the Darkness and the Cold: The Hope for the Soul of Medicine in Patient Care https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598712052085-O1LYGZY8UJS0D41OGT53/AngelicaRecierdo.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Departure from the Darkness and the Cold: The Hope of Renewal for the Soul of Medicine in Patient Care by Lawrence J. Hergott, MD Angelica Recierdo https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/in-two-voices-a-patient-and-a-neurosurgeon-tell-their-story-by-linda-clarke-and-michael-cusimano monthly 0.5 2020-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598292789909-VPQK7HUXNC0YR64YSHWB/In+Two+Voices+-+Cover+%281%29.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - In Two Voices: A Patient and a Neurosurgeon Tell Their Story by Linda Clarke and Michael Cusimano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598293425960-W5ODE0B4E5ZZSJ6RJYOZ/Lindat%2BE%2BClarke.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - In Two Voices: A Patient and a Neurosurgeon Tell Their Story by Linda Clarke and Michael Cusimano Linda E. Clarke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598293526344-M9ZY1Q6FXCISNMSS17G1/Cusimano.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - In Two Voices: A Patient and a Neurosurgeon Tell Their Story by Linda Clarke and Michael Cusimano Michael Cusimano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598295047456-I7MIQ0Z9OTFM61HIM4C9/Faculty%2BAaron%2BMcKain.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - In Two Voices: A Patient and a Neurosurgeon Tell Their Story by Linda Clarke and Michael Cusimano Dr. Aaron McKain is the Director of English, Communication, and Digital Media at North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a scholar focused on narrative theory and public health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598296836853-91VHYBLWV790PLYJYGJU/Amanda%2BAhrens BOOK REVIEWS - In Two Voices: A Patient and a Neurosurgeon Tell Their Story by Linda Clarke and Michael Cusimano Amanda Ahrens is an undergraduate at North Central University, studying the use of narrative and art to facilitate understanding of medical narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598295527316-S1E27P0IDF7IYNK14A8P/Pederson.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - In Two Voices: A Patient and a Neurosurgeon Tell Their Story by Linda Clarke and Michael Cusimano Steven Pederson is a curator-critic and the Director of Communications for the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, a Minneapolis-based arts collective focused on public health. The IAA’s most recent exhibit on medical narrative “Contaminated,” which uses the methods outlined in this review as a mode of art curation, can be viewed at https://www.instituteforaestheticadvocacy.com/ https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/s0hgjjvn0y19nwtjmmntl3bgxab805 monthly 0.5 2020-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1597677183553-445127AX4ZCFV91CNEF6/Take+Daily+as+Needed+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Take Daily As Needed: A Novel in Stories by Kathryn Trueblood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1597677314203-TSH2Z0MU7TBIWELFQTMO/Kathryn+Trueblood+-+Photo+by+Suzanne+Bair.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Take Daily As Needed: A Novel in Stories by Kathryn Trueblood Novelist Kathryn Trueblood. The author teaches at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Like her previous works The Baby Lottery and The Sperm Donor’s Daughter and Other Tales of Modern Family, feminist themes feature prominently in Take Daily as Needed, which highlights the politicized and gendered dimensions of caregiving. Photo by Suzanne Bair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1597613141950-YFZSI6YMFRIS8MN7SSYM/BriannaCheng.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Take Daily As Needed: A Novel in Stories by Kathryn Trueblood https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/on-vanishing monthly 0.5 2020-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1588104541957-YNRETRVTA002O090309L/On+Vanishing_cvr_300dpi+print+res+%282%29.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear by Lynn Casteel Harper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1588104990312-11KGBO309PMOGK1TGVCJ/Lynn%2BCasteel%2BHarper_Photo%2BCredit%2BTravis%2BTanay%25281%2529.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear by Lynn Casteel Harper Lynn Casteel Harper, author of On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, And What It Means to Disappear (Catapult 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1588104337927-YNVGQ0PL1NCV3L8JB4MI/Robert%2BMundle.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear by Lynn Casteel Harper Robert Mundle https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/ask-me-about-my-uterus-a-question-to-make-doctors-believe-in-womens-pain-by-abby-norman monthly 0.5 2020-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586957594440-RWH25LWMCN1WEUJCJTHG/AskMeAboutMyUterus.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586957662380-JC9PASB1QHLUIRSZV6E9/Abby+Norman+bw+photo.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman Abby Norman. Discover more about this writer’s work here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586956982789-QXP87UKN52EWCPW57NHB/AR.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman Alekszandra Rokvity https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/places-ive-taken-my-body-by-molly-mccully-brown monthly 0.5 2020-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586967227492-EQG17Q9EJTWZ00OM7KDK/PlacesIveTakenMyBody.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown, comes out in May 2020. To pre-order a copy, click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586955869670-W44NV6Y1YUQ6JKYO0OZ1/Brown%2C+Molly.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown Martha McCully Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586967039779-MDL2MQYNGXY2W9IKFZ9I/Lara%2BK%2BRonan.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown Lara K. Ronan https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/this-is-going-to-hurt-by-adam-kay monthly 0.5 2020-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586456864511-B8MOQF6ITGKZJUF989KO/This+is+Going+to+Hurt+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586457496125-9T0N9FPE970OJEWIW00M/Adam+Kay+author+photo.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay Author, comedian and former doctor Adam Kay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1586458250622-84JOCPWULZZIQJK23VN1/Fredrick%2BMartyn.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay Fredrick Martyn https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/3zakdlyo3v1q84ix80w71niggsh9au monthly 0.5 2020-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579632789482-XTYHBDARA0K0LE97DOVO/Tender+Points_cover.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz was first published by Timeless Infinite Light in 2015; a new edition from Nightboat Books includes an afterword by the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579633144786-2OPZH4IP9W9R9I1O5WTL/image-asset.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points. Other writing has appeared in publications including Bitch, McSweeney’s, and Wolfman New Life Quarterly. amyberko.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1579727685844-7FZO92U4AXCFHH36RKSY/Britt+Hultgren.+Photo+by+Allison+Coffelt.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz Britt Hultgren. Photo by Allison Coffelt https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/articulations-the-body-and-illness-in-poetry-by-dr-jon-mukand monthly 0.5 2020-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1576938876616-QPTQ8XZNT2J2Z4PCZFEC/Articulations.png BOOK REVIEWS - Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry by Dr. Jon Mukand Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry by Dr. Jon Mukand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1576939284643-VSX7AI2XQEBQBEOFQ1KP/Fredrick%2BMartyn.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry by Dr. Jon Mukand Fredrick Martyn https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-undying-by-anne-boyer monthly 0.5 2019-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1575246012555-NCR8RVTQK508XK87DXAA/The+Undying+by+Anne+Boyer.png BOOK REVIEWS - The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Anne Boyer The Undying by Anne Boyer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1575246699705-6IGX1JPAHNPQQMWIL7DT/Mainardi%2C+Priscilla.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Anne Boyer https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/8jb384pjqy0bdb1ljg6dg6iiay8fg8 monthly 0.5 2019-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1569374357022-JZES9M6QAEFC7P4SPVYM/Dementia21+Kago+Cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago Dementia 21 is a horror graphic narrative by Shintaro Kago, published by Fantagraphics Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1569375515803-PJTR04WMPDY6LELINK8H/Dementia-excerpt3.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1569375505660-A02V5190V5DV1KIG9GSW/Dementia-excerpt4.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1569375511673-6IWYS0BJQU9VUQDKB2AD/Dementia-excerpt5.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1549205067216-5AR1J2A0WX6OBZS4KOB0/Jane+Zhao+headshot.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago Jane Zhao https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-me-in-medicine-reviving-the-lost-art-of-healing-by monthly 0.5 2019-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1548001862047-CYBX7NRCWJ77OSVHTFLN/TheMeinMedicinebook_.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Me in Medicine: Reviving the Lost Art of Healing by Patrick Roth, MD For more information about the book, go to The Me in Medicine: Reviving the Lost Art of Healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1548706220726-252EMS6A06XOFE69XH5M/JP_Mikhaiel.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Me in Medicine: Reviving the Lost Art of Healing by Patrick Roth, MD https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/rx-a-graphic-memoir-by-rachel-lindsay monthly 0.5 2019-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1549202426222-8HTW8I6W5XLILADUITYC/RX+Cover+Art.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - RX: A Graphic Memoir by Rachel Lindsay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1549204810842-6ICUYJ299DHCMA44W6XK/Cartoonist+Rachel+Lindsay.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - RX: A Graphic Memoir by Rachel Lindsay Rachel Lindsay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1549205067216-5AR1J2A0WX6OBZS4KOB0/Jane+Zhao+headshot.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - RX: A Graphic Memoir by Rachel Lindsay Jane Zhao https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-moon-prince-and-the-sea-by-daniela-rose-anderson monthly 0.5 2019-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1548705550413-D51F6V7W75HJRHJ4Y46W/MoonPrince_PAPER_COVER_Page_01.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Moon Prince and the Sea by Daniela Rose Anderson The Moon Prince and The Sea by Daniela Rose Anderson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1548617366026-LHFCCDCK5TMUGORKRVEM/Greg%25252BAdams BOOK REVIEWS - The Moon Prince and the Sea by Daniela Rose Anderson https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/am-i-my-genes-confronting-fate-and-family-secrets-in-the-age-of-genetic-testing-by-robert-l-klitzman-md monthly 0.5 2019-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1547640660687-IDRQYS6N0WBGZV1QQA62/Am%2BI%2BMy%2BGenes%2Bbook%2Bcover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Am I My Genes? Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing by Robert L. Klitzman, MD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1547640449454-9XHSA95LKHWUXJUJH3NV/Zohar+Lederman.png BOOK REVIEWS - Am I My Genes? Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing by Robert L. Klitzman, MD Zohar Lederman https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/taking-care-of-time monthly 0.5 2025-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1542729296132-64TZHWZBGITJAXW4OLEI/image-asset.png BOOK REVIEWS - Taking Care of Time by Cortney Davis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1542650697408-06ZSF0R6RYLSNXY1NHSM/Portrait+by+Jon+Gordon+.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Taking Care of Time by Cortney Davis Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner, is the author of Taking Care of Time, winner of the Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize (Michigan State University Press, 2018). Her poems "Entering the Sick Room" and "It Was the Second Patient of the Day,"appear in the Fall 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Learn more about her work at cortneydavis.com Photo by Jon Gordon. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/art-amp-anatomy-drawings-by-laura-ferguson-amp-katie-grogan-editors monthly 0.5 2018-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539979313235-WIN96D7RFD4JLJQGVIPV/Art+%26+Anatomy+Drawings+book+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Art & Anatomy: Drawings by Laura Ferguson & Katie Grogan, Editors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539979381329-KET76ET3VVTEID8IWVL5/Laura_Ferguson-by-Emon_Hassan-bookv.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Art & Anatomy: Drawings by Laura Ferguson & Katie Grogan, Editors Laura Ferguson, Artist in Residence at New York University's School of Medicine's Master Scholars Program. Photo by Emon Hassan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539979521359-TUMW90IPWJHMSV64W9MX/Grogan_Katie_Med-bookv-1.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Art & Anatomy: Drawings by Laura Ferguson & Katie Grogan, Editors Editor Katie Grogan. Photo by Jeff Weiner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1540034756159-W3DFNLL04JVLHNA1EDIK/Davis%2C+Cortney.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Art & Anatomy: Drawings by Laura Ferguson & Katie Grogan, Editors Cortney Davis https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/gather-the-night-by-katherine-dibella-seluja monthly 0.5 2018-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1537821029863-AJTMAN9M6PCBF27JWGPP/Gather+the+Night+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Gather the Night by Katherine DiBella Seluja Gather the Night by Katherine DiBella Seluja https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1537821574990-8SMS0MWAI0GYR8OPGW0M/Seluja%2C+Katherine.JPG BOOK REVIEWS - Gather the Night by Katherine DiBella Seluja Katherine DiBella Seluja https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/quite-mad-an-american-pharma-memoir-by-sarah-fawn-montgomery monthly 0.5 2018-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1535474780332-M95IP42QH0I7XKVX1HV2/FRONTCOVER+-+QUITE+MAD+BY+S.F.+MONTGOMERY.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir by Sarah Fawn Montgomery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1535475108892-UW6BHKTC6VYESNN804O6/Sarah_Fawn_Montgomery_QUITE_MAD_author_photo.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir by Sarah Fawn Montgomery Sarah Fawn Montgomery, author of Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, just published by The Ohio State University Press. The author will be speaking about her book in different cities this Fall. Go to her website for more information. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/storied-health-and-illness-communicating-personal-cultural-political-complexities monthly 0.5 2018-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1527429974539-XX01S41OPNKCZ40HOBIB/Storied+Health+and+Illness.png BOOK REVIEWS - Storied Health and Illness: Communicating Personal, Cultural & Political Complexities by Jill Yamasaki, Patricia Geist-Martin, and Barbara Sharf https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/draw-stronger-self-care-for-cartoonists-visual-artists-by-kriota-willberg monthly 0.5 2018-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520270025746-U6X4TWXCWATK3HZOQDYK/Draw+Stronger+cover+by+Kriota+Willberg.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists by Kriota Willberg "Draw Stronger" is a new book that helps artists, writers and others methods for self-care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1523740065443-JYSBCJXCBO53QBD63098/Draw+Stronger+by+Kriota+Willberg.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists by Kriota Willberg There's no reason to live with pain, and it's important to cope and learn to handle it, posits this incredibly helpful book that includes exercises to promote that. Above, an illustration from "Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists" by Kriota Willberg published by Uncivilized Books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1523741639152-YR691RJCRFE2XTFJ82Q5/Kriota+Willberg.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists by Kriota Willberg Cartoonist and educator Kriota Willberg draws from decades of experience as a massage therapist and educator i health sciences and the arts, creating a comprehensive guide to injury prevention for cartoonists and anyone who hunches over a computer or smartphone on a daily basis, in "Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists & Other Visual Artists" from Uncivilized Books press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1523739915479-J2RUTMU3LH66VB35CVBS/Who+is+this+book+for%3F.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists by Kriota Willberg Everyone who owns a computer or strains his or her neck looking at a smartphone can benefit from this book. Shown here: An illustration in "Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists" by Kriota Willberg published by Uncivilized Books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1523740175439-PTH8R9V8K18PQ0JCV5V3/Draw+Stronger+Pain.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists by Kriota Willberg Think about how you sit, stand and hold your body during the workday. Shown here: An illustration from "Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists" by Kriota Willberg published by Uncivilized Books. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/the-serpents-secret-kiranmala-and-the-kingdom-beyond monthly 0.5 2018-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1519254706649-FU3C5JTYS13TWHWU8Z00/1+Kiranmala_High+Res_Cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Serpent's Secret: Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond by Sayantani DasGupta "The Serpent's Secret" is the first book in the Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Series; Scholastic publishes the book on February 27, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1519254799877-CV37NKHMFSUZJFHOVJJS/1+sayantani_dasgupta_2670.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - The Serpent's Secret: Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond by Sayantani DasGupta Sayantani DasGupta, the daughter of Indian immigrants, wanted to share her love of books with her own kids but was saddened by the lack of heroes that looked like her family and neighbors. She decided to write her own stories, returning to the folktales she heard on childhood trips to India. Originally trained in pediatrics and public health, Dr. DasGupta is also the author, co-author or co-editor of several books, including a book of Bengali folktales, The Demon Slayers and Other Stories (Interlink 1995), and the recent Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford 2016). She teaches in the Master's Program in Narrative Medicine, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/narrative-in-social-work-practice-the-power-and-possibility-of-story-edited-by-ann-burack-weiss-lynn-sara-lawrence-and-lynne-bamat-mijangos-foreword-by-rita-charon monthly 0.5 2017-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1513480500480-PMWHI4VU94SE1EKHJXXT/Narrative+cover.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Narrative in Social Work Practice: The Power and Possibility of Story. Edited by Ann Burack-Weiss, Lynn Sara Lawrence and Lynne Bamat-Mijangos. 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I’ll not soon forget the voices of these dedicated physicians, nurses, teachers, and technicians who treat their patients with humanity, compassion, and humility. I was riveted and moved by this collection." ― Wally Lamb, #1 bestselling author "Where it Hurts is a powerful anthology with its origins in caregiving, and the pain and suffering that invokes it. The humanity of these poems, stories, and essays makes for compelling reading, an opportunity for spiritual enlargement, and a reminder of why medicine is so much more than service." ― Thomas McGuane, author of A Wooded Shore and The Longest Silence "The honest, heartbreaking, and uplifting voices of doctors and nurses, EMTs and medical students not only bring us behind the scenes of surgeries and intubations and autopsies, but also let us into their hearts and minds, inviting us to bear witness to everything from the giggle of a pole dancing neurologist to the wailing of a mother who learns her baby has no heartbeat. This book will continue to echo long after you finish it." ― Ann Hood, bestselling author of The Knitting Circle and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief "Doctors and nurses are people too―multi-layered, mysterious human beings with complex emotional reactions to the care they provide and the patients they encounter. Ranging panoramically in perspective and tone―from the haunting experiences of adolescent psychiatric nurse Jennifer Anderson in “Managed Care,” to family physician Joanne Wilkinson’s confrontation with her own powerlessness to help a woman with advanced Alzheimer’s in “Invisible,” to infectious-disease doctor Ben Goldenberg’s charming paean to hospital gift shops, “For the Old Man Buying a Stuffed Giraffe”―this collection offers readers grand works of literature in miniature. Each piece is a perfect morsel of perception: a window into the soul of a caregiver and a mirror for the reader’s reflection. A testament to the power of narrative medicine, Where It Hurts belongs on every healer’s nightstand." ― Jacob M. Appel, MD, author of Who Says You’re Dead? "Where It Hurts gathers voices from the intimate, vital space between clinicians and patients, tracing the invisible threads that connect body and story. The writings in this collection reveal the emotional core of medicine―tender, raw, and deeply human." ― Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of What Doctors Feel and editor-in-chief of Bellevue Literary Review "Gritty and abrasive. Brutally honest and forged with sweat equity and spilled blood. Where It Hurts is a collection of essays and poems that will seize your heart. Even when I wanted to retreat and calm my soul, I kept turning the pages. True stories of immeasurable grief and self-doubt tiled alongside the splendor of rebirth and the wonder of curiosity. This is writing performed by experts with lived experience, who know the guttural pain of fractured clinician-patient relationships and the holiness of covenant. What does it mean when your vocation puts you face-to-face with tensions born of racism and religious blindness? How do I as a physician reconcile my own judgements and righteous anger alongside my pledge to cure and care? My shame-induced isolation was broken and my pride exposed. Suicide, addiction, personal trauma, and moral injury. Glory, beauty, empathy, and love. Open the covers of Where It Hurts and all these will be yours. But be prepared. These words will occupy your mind and stir in you uncomfortable questions long after you’re done." ― Wes Ely, MD, physician-scientist and practicing intensivist at Vanderbilt University, and author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath "Where it Hurts masterfully spotlights the humanity, humility, and vulnerability of clinicians at the front lines of health care in the United States. Often portrayed in popular media as either superheroes or automatons, health care professionals wrestle with a battleground of universal emotions―self-doubt, fear of mortality, curiosity, tenderness, panic, love, and despair. Their candid stories offer a window into the messy, poignant, and meaningful facets of the human condition." ― Erica C. Kaye, MD, oncologist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital "Where It Hurts cuts to the core of what it means to be a clinician today. From Rachel Kowalsky’s instructions for “Your First Pediatric Intubation”―with lurking dragons―to the unexpected poignancy of Trisha K. Paul’s “Stroppy Sevens,” each piece in this anthology examines the beauty, the challenges, and the emotional depth of caring for another person." ― Sneha Mantri, MD, Director of Medical Humanities at Duke University School of Medicine "Where It Hurts could easily have been called Where It Heals. The essays, short stories, and poems do not sugar coat the struggles of navigating illness. Yet somehow, the collection is a healing balm for anyone impacted by their own or someone else’s illness―which is to say anyone who is human." ― Elizabeth Lahti, MD, associate professor and director of narrative medicine at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine "Where It Hurts lifts the curtain on the hidden dramas of medicine. These essays and poems reveal the vulnerabilities, private reckonings, fears, and sheer joys of those on the front lines of medical care. A must-read for anyone going into a health care profession, or anyone who may need their services." ― Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, writer in residence and director of the Writing for the Public program at Yale University School of Medicine "This rich, compelling collection will help physicians, nurses, and their patients (who are, ultimately, all of us) learn important lessons about human nature and what it means to care for each other." ― Joel Howell, MD, PhD, director emeritus of the Medical Arts Program, University of Michigan Medical School "The nature of health and illness and the intimacies of our bodily experience are at once deeply personal and profoundly universal. Where It Hurts explores this fascinating terrain. This is a book for clinicians, educators, and anyone drawn to ponder this enterprise of living in our beautiful, perfectly imperfect bodies." ― Deepu Gowda, MD, assistant dean for medical education, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine "The voices in this collection―wise, tender, funny, and vulnerable―pierce right to the heart of medicine, revealing those profound journeys that unfold in a moment when the stakes are high and humans care for other humans." ― Jay Baruch, MD, author of Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Creativity and Constraints in the ER "An extraordinary collection that highlights the intersection between medical mysteries and the mysteries of the human spirit. Each piece is provocative, inspiring, resonant, humane. Brilliantly curated, this collection offers profound, clear-eyed comment on our times and what is most crucial in our lives. A book to return to over and again for insight, compassion, and courage." ― Lou Ann Walker, editor-in-chief of The Southampton Review "The medical field can feel cold and impersonal to patients, and also to doctors, nurses, and others who work in health care. This book should be required reading for students, physicians, nurses, and anyone who has to deal with the health care system (and that includes all of us!). Highly recommended." ― David G. Thoele, MD, and Marjorie Getz, PhD, co-directors of the narrative medicine program at Advocate Health “This magnificent collection offers an intimate view of the heartbreak, compassion, awe, inspiration, frustration, and love that knit together the fabric of clinical practice. The authors’ eloquent voices reveal their deep understanding of themselves and of what it means to be human. 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Rivera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427228995785-SICI9RIUXDTHV5EYILS1/CindySmalletz.jpg Advisory Board Cindy Smalletz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427575286441-M5772PCDA3QOEO5GMQS9/image-asset.png Advisory Board https://www.theintima.org/poetry-a-f daily 0.75 2025-10-11 https://www.theintima.org/multimedia-1 daily 0.75 2017-06-26 https://www.theintima.org/contributors daily 0.75 2017-07-08 https://www.theintima.org/academic-archives-intima daily 0.75 2025-11-04 https://www.theintima.org/fiction-1 daily 0.75 2025-10-11 https://www.theintima.org/studio-art-1 daily 0.75 2015-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426969492124-U7TO73BGMXXU4D1PJJCO/_i_will_wear_my_heart_upon_my_sleeve.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - I WILL WEAR MY HEART UPON MY SLEEVE Trisha Paul, who graduated from the University of Michigan, is attending medical school. She blogs about her experiences in the fields of literature and medicine at illnessnarratives.com. "I Will Wear My Heart Upon My Sleeve" appeared in the Spring 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426969462557-OEBH5XA7KTHLG5J7M70K/locutus.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - LOCUTUS David Brame is a Professor of Visual Communication at Ryerson University in Toronto Ontario."Locutus" appeared in the Spring 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426969362495-ZZGAKFNRURLXNLSS7AJE/Bamboo+Sanctuary+Jessica+Nute.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - BAMBOO SANCTUARY Jessica Nute is a PhD candidate at MD Anderson, researching the use of dual energy computed tomography in brain imaging. "Bamboo Sanctuary" appeared in the Spring 2012 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426973097829-C295X44MTJ19T0J9XZVP/systole_diastole.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - SYSTOLE DIASTOLE Natalie Uy is currently a second year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Art Practice. In addition to medicine, art has also been a lifelong passion. Her main mediums are painting, printmaking, and photography. "Systole Diastole" appeared in the Spring 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426967306179-QEFP716JSK5BDKEWE4RS/A+Bridge+Over+the+River+Thames.png Studio Art to 2013 - A BRIDGE ACROSS THE RIVER THAMES Wesley Usher is a licensed mental health counselor and multi-disciplinary artist. "A Bridge Across the River Thames" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426967344239-B4KNWBJM2LEWP1WJVWDH/migrain_headache.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - MIGRAINE HEADACHE Mohamed Osman is a physician and visual artist. He is a certified family physician, the owner of Primary Care of St. Pauls in St. Pauls, North Carolina, and affiliated with South Eastern Hospital in Lumberton, North Carolina. "Migraine Headache appeared in the Fall 2013 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426967344390-XW5TNFF7Q3UCJN8J11HI/neurodiscovery_in_the_deep_blue.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - NEURODISCOVERY IN THE DEEP BLUE Hena Ahmed is an M.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School with interests in neuroscience, global health, and visual arts. "Neurodiscovery in the Deep Blue" appeared in the Spring 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426967315135-WGC8C2GLE50SLGSLACAD/Boundlessness.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - BOUNDLESSNESS Talia Malekan is a high school artist at North Shore Hebrew Academy in New York. Her passion for creation and interest in the humanitarian aspect of practicing medicine inspired her work. "Boundlessness" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426967344997-C1WG7OT9THX0NUSH8HOH/root_canal.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - ROOT CANAL Kriota Willberg is a massage therapist working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Through writing, drawing, performance, and needlework, she focuses on the intersection between body sciences and creative practice. She has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. "Root Canal" appeared in the Spring 2013 Intima. "My needlework attempts to create emotional attachment to disconnective medical imagery of the body," says Willberg. "Looking upon the most hidden representations of people we love via the MRI, x-ray, or ultrasound, it is often difficult to resolve those images with our emotional connection to that person. Using traditional domestic materials, the imagery created in my needlepoint is intended to connect and intermix the sentimental attachment one feels to family heirlooms, portraiture, and ephemera, with the desire for attachment and intimacy we often experience when gazing upon the clinical image of a beloved unborn child, or a loved one’s internal structures."   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426968494180-CSO3HCUJY3D6MG39QGQC/531346438135270614_a_priceless_gift.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - A PRICELESS GIFT Hena Ahmed is an M.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School with interests in neuroscience, global health, and visual arts. "A Priceless Gift" appeared in the Spring 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426968969806-OLLOXGINEM2JQFWC61SH/The_Art_Of_Anatomy.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - THE ART OF ANATOMY Khalil Harbie is attending medical school at the University of Florida College of Medicine. His experience with the opportunity to dissect in his first year has led him to reflect via a pencil drawing. "The Art of Anatomy" appeared in the Fall 2013 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426970367069-BI10MVQSQVP0LNZMPVW1/Nikita+at+the+Gates+by+Jesus+A+Rivera.png Studio Art to 2013 - NIKITA AT THE GATE Jesús A. Rivera is on the Advisory Board of Intima. Nikita at the Gates, which appeared in the first issue of the Intima in Fall 2011, is a classic Narrative Medicine response to hearing an account of suffering. The painting was presented as a gift to George and Mary, Nikita's owners, after she passed away. When George was diagnosed with a chronic illness, the dog's companionship offered comfort and played a key role is easing his suffering. Shortly before Nikita died, George walked her through Central Park “Gates” exhibit. This painting was inspired by this narrative. It explores the themes of death, transitions and bittersweet freedom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426970993423-B2R3YP2PWATMK0R1JNLZ/Tangible+Evidence+Kim+Gledhill+Fall+2012+Intima.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - TANGIBLE EVIDENCE Kim Gledhill has been represented by several Manhattan galleries, and her work has been shown internationally. "Tangible Evidence" appeared in the Fall 2012 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426971882447-GK39DN8ABPC8RPQ4UQIA/PRN+TINGED+Mohamed+Osman+Fall+2012.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - PRN TINGED | Mohamed Osman Mohamed Osman is a physician and visual artist. He is a certified family physician, the owner of Primary Care of St. Pauls in St. Pauls, North Carolina, and affiliated with South Eastern Hospital in Lumberton, North Carolina."PRN Tinged" appeared in the Fall 2012 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426973029269-YQZZZG0R8OC06163IB55/Thing+She+Cannot+Show+You.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - THINGS SHE CANNOT SHOW YOU | Sara Hobbs Kohrt is a medical research publications specialist living in Asheville, NC. She spends her spare time with either a camera or a piece of charcoal in her hand, or exploring the world with her two favorite people. "Things She Cannot Show You" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426975393375-PS3ZLPH2SLHPF517XWLS/Feeling+Innervation+Fall+2014+Talia+Malekan.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - Feeling Innervation Talia Malekan is a high school artist at North Shore Hebrew Academy in New York. Her passion for creation and interest in the humanitarian aspect of practicing medicine inspired her work. "Feeling Innervation" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426975392990-59KYIIETRT7L2XVMZJCI/Metamorphosis+Fall+2013%3F.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - Metamorphosis Ansel Oommen is a freelance writer, gardener, and medical transcriptionist residing in New York City. Discover more at: https://www.behance.net/Ansel. "Metamorphosis" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426975434531-2LN26CKN38YNGQZSXZ5C/DREAM+OF+LOST+OPPORTUNITY+KIM+GLEDHILL+SPRING+2013.png Studio Art to 2013 - Dream of Lost Opportunity Kim Gledhill is a graphic designer, artist and mother who has written a book called Seeing in the Dark, which is about her experiences of having had premonitions throughout her life and overcoming the challenges of MS. "Dream of Lost Opportunity" appeared in the Spring 2013 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426975592423-7L3OWF9GLHFOSB9L00EE/CANYON+SPRING+2013.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - Canyon Elsa Asher is a writer, educator, and doula. She works at the intersection of birth, medicine, ritual, and narrative. "Canyon," which appeared in the Spring 2013 Intima, is part of a series of paintings and photographs exploring grief and birth. Read more about Asher's work at www.elsaasher.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427060400098-QLV5HRXT0ZKX6PAFCGAR/ELMER+Renua+Giwa-Amu+SPRING+2013+INTIMA.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - ELMER Renua Giwa-Amu is a Nigerian artist studying at the Savannah College of Art and Design. "Elmer," which is inkwash on postcard paper, is dedicated to the artist's sister, who will ride medicine to success. "Elmer" appeared in the Spring 2013 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427061234264-H0HNE42OISH8II0GVOQU/Multiple+Personality+Disorder+Mohamed+Osman+Fall+2014+Studio+Art.jpg Studio Art to 2013 - MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER Mohamed Osman is an American Board Certified Family Physician and accomplished visual artist. He is a former United Nations Physician in Africa. To see more of his Art & Medicine, go to www.osmanarte.blogspot.com. "Multiple Personality Disorder" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/new-page daily 0.75 2016-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1464450750504-PFBIEWC2RR175EDOHM6Y/BUBBLEWRAPbyBERGES+ALVAREZ Bubble Wrap art https://www.theintima.org/lament-1 daily 0.75 2015-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1441915490742-H9HYUXFRAPRD7Z1WT8UL/Aprl_Brenneman-Lament_1_A_Passionate_Expression_of_Grief_or_Sorrow.jpg Lament 1 Lament 1: A Passionate Expression of Grief or Sorrow. April Brenneman. Mixed Media with Lateral Extension Cervical Spine X-Ray, 2013. Fall 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/contributors-carousel daily 0.75 2024-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426952359461-A9PM7X92UG2R8B6Y6GEG/OSMAN%2C+MOHAMED.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Mohamed Osman Mohamed Osman is a board certified family physician and an accomplished artist from Africa. He is affiliated with South Eastern Hospital in North Carolina. View his artwork, "Aids Clinic" and "Visual Hallucination: Art and Medicine" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426975811625-Q5CC0NASOE0HCWCGXA5Y/Rosenhaft%2C+Andrea.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Andrea Rosenhaft Andrea Rosenhaft is a licensed clinical social worker, who practices at an outpatient mental health clinic in New York City. She writes primarily on the topic of mental illness and recovery. Read her piece, “Eight Months After a Suicide Attempt” in the Spring 2015 Intima.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426960895958-16PPPK8CP0AOX37AEETB/Sevy%2C+Julia+.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Julia Sevy Julia Sevy is a passionate dancer and creative writer who graduated from Brown University in 2014. Read her piece, “Constellations” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1429966929409-H0N8YRX31Q0T520USI5M/Ilmudeen%2C+Jafeen2.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Jafeen Ilmudeen Jafeen Ilmudeen is a medical student at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. She is working on a collection of short stories. Read her story, "Between Us" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427050907356-UD9PRPGSBW2754W5B9QH/GABY%2C+NINA.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Nina Gaby Nina Gaby is a writer, visual artist and psychiatric nurse practitioner, who is currently the coordinator of Psychiatric Services at an inpatient rehab facility in New England. Read her piece, “The Baby on the Bus” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427052838421-PV7PNOBSEIK3ICZL8SM8/female+silhouette.svg.hi.png Contributors SPRING 2015 - Mercedes Frankl Mercedes Frankl is a family physician working at a community health center in New York City. “This essay describes parallel relationships in my personal and professional life. To protect the people involved, I have changed their names, including my own. The rest of the story is true.” Her piece, “Without the Violence,” appears in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427058446923-TTDXHHAFI2MGHT5558IP/MONRO%2C+JONATHAN+SPRING+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Jonathan Monro Jonathan Monro has appeared on Broadway as an actor, at Carnegie Hall as a classical pianist, and has written five produced musicals. Listen to his music, "Wake Up" in the Spring 2015 Intima and go to www.jonathanmonro.com for more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427917855164-TAG9OM7RHS7OK61MLZ9J/Katie+Kress.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Katie Kress Katie Kress is an alum of the University of Iowa who graduated with honors in 2012. She lives in Chicago, where she is pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction writing. Her work has appeared in Glassworks Magazine and Stoneboat Literary Journal. Read her piece, “Until You Are Blue in the Face” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426959867281-MSO286TNH55V7WNBMRC9/Steiner%2C+Hans.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Hans Steiner Hans Steiner is Professor Emeritus (Active) of Psychiatry at Stanford University and a founding member of The Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford (www.hanssteiner.com). Read "The Cat Doctor" and "Talking in Toys" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426959352851-PG90Z8JUTK5CK6EELH2L/Silver%2C+Elle.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Elle Silver Elle Silver is an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at California Institute of the Arts. Read her poem, "The Interpretation" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426948005030-OQFQM6QDUGQQ07VBCBDG/Macfarlane%2C+Katherine.png Contributors SPRING 2015 - Katherine Macfarlane Katherine Macfarlane is a law professor and Rheumatoid Arthritis blogger. Read her piece, "Flying Into Jerusalem" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426956284977-WR5GDUSPGVLD4X1EZQ5Z/Scott-Conner%2C+Carol.png Contributors SPRING 2015 - Carol Scott-Conner Carol Scott-Conner is Professor of Surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Read her piece, “A Tale of Three Breasts” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426960268248-RKQ2HD7OSC3Z8M391R8Q/Weiner%2C+Arlene.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Arlene Weiner Arlene Weiner has been a cardiology technician, a college instructor, an editor, and a research associate in educational applications of cognitive science. A MacDowell Colony fellow, Weiner’s work can be found in Escape Velocity, a collection of her poems (Ragged Sky 2006) as well as in Pleiades, Poet Lore, and on Writer’s Almanac. Read her poem, "Line of Beauty" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426952559062-5BHT3I9WB50WKD9L5D4C/Gladys+Rodriguez%2C+Esther+Park.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Gladys Rodriguez and Esther Park Esther Park and Gladys Rodriguez are both fourth year medical students at Yale School of Medicine. Read their piece, "Dying Well: Choose Your Beverage" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426956724399-ONFQS8UQJKEW51BWI2G5/SCHWARZ%2C+THOM.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Thom Schwarz Thom Schwarz has been a registered nurse since 1979 and a hospice nurse for the past seven years, working for HV Hospice, Inc., Poughkeepsie, NY. He is also a writer: His work has been published in Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Nursing, The New York Times, Newsweek, and more. Read “Watching” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426959022239-KQ8YVDTJZLUHWJVRN27Q/Silk%2C+Hugh.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Hugh Silk Hugh Silk is a member of the UMass Medical School Humanities in Medicine Committee and oversees the medical humanities teaching of the family medicine residents. Read “The Power of a Handshake” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426952853060-DRR19TVM6303LUSERDIK/QURAISHI%2C+TARINA.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Tarina Quraishi Tarina Quraishi is a 2014 graduate of Harvard College, where she studied literature and biology. She currently works at Massachusetts General Hospital. Read her piece, “On Elevators” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426951515736-OP25IQSKES5QQ0QLXRTJ/MATHIEU%2C+IRENE.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Irène Mathieu Irène Mathieu is a writer and medical student at Vanderbilt University, whose work can be found in Diverse Voices Quarterly, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Love Insha’Allah. Read her poem, "Fear of Causing Pain" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426951131450-S5VBJ4UBXS27R368G6C2/MAK%2C+NICOLE+.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Nicole Mak Nicole Mak is a MD candidate (2015) at McGill University. She holds a B.Sc. in Microbiology & Immunology, a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and a B.A. in French as well as fellowship diplomas from Trinity College London in piano and violin performance. Read her paper, “Physician Culture and Identity: The Portrait of Medicine in Molière” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426949151250-J510WCE0W0QXU3Y1UEME/SIDLOW%2C+RICHARD.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Richard Sidlow Richard Sidlow is the Associate Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Staten Island University Hospital and the Director of its Pediatric Hospitalist Group. Read his piece, “Christmas Day” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426952130078-HIXFTF1I66E7SIV2448B/NENNEER%2C+FREDERICK.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Frederick Nenner Frederick Nenner is the Director of the Ethics Consultation Service at a community hospital. Read his “When the Cow Jumps Over the Moon” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426951943405-A9ESDIXZNJ9X0039KIUS/MCCULLISS%2C+DEBBIE.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Debbie McCulliss Debbie McCulliss, RN, MS, CAPF, CJI, is a science-medical writer and Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator whose focus is on writing for medical, nursing, mental-health and the lay public. Read her piece, "Humanity in Medicine: Robert Frost and the Medical Applications of Poetry" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426953060168-PJFSN6DZLOZ6SQC8QS79/REDDY%2C+VIK.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Vik Reddy Vik Reddy is a practicing plastic surgeon and a regular contributor to the Detroit Free Press. He serves as the Medical Director of Quality at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital. Read his piece, “Stuck” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426953363371-WRM4CJ4RK94XT3YGP1XQ/REIFF%2C+STEFANIE.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Stefanie Reiff Stefanie Reiff, MD is a second year Internal Medicine resident at Columbia University-NYP. Read her poem, “Emergency Department” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426956476356-PCSYWB33PZJOPLO6NMAV/Safford%2C+Sarah.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Sarah Safford Sarah Safford is a lyricist and an educator, currently employed at the Brooklyn Adult Learning Center. She has a Masters in Public Health and is an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Listen to her songs, “I’ll Try Anything” and “Wake Up” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426958508968-0PIYONPCD0HHFISI5PFK/Wright%2C+Kim+Drew.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Kim Drew Wright Kim Drew Wright is a graduate of the University of North Carolina. She is CEO at Quick Wit Lit and produces Real Spiel, a newsletter for witty readers and writers. Read “A Mother’s Life” in the Spring 2015 Intima and more of her work on kimdrewwright.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426946585598-F1B28SE6VZNZYZDDMNKC/LAFORCE%2C+KIMBERLY.png Contributors SPRING 2015 - Kimberly LaForce Kimberly La Force is a registered nurse and writer, whose screenplay, “A Marriage Proposal” was published in Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 Anthology. She is a 2015 Master of Science degree candidate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Read "Emerging into the Light" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426819010439-E7XJEBPGP9IG81B46RVF/Klatzer%2C+Catherine.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Catherine Klatzer Catherine Klatzer, who won Tiferet Journal's 2014 first prize in non-fiction, is a recently retired pediatric ICU RN. She has coordinated mindfulness retreats for ten years for professional health caregivers coping with death. Read "What We See When We See Each Other" in the Spring 2015 Intima and more about her work at catherine.klatzker.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426947155562-3Q6BA4QXWNEGL4BC3AUA/Freedman%2C+Jacob.png Contributors SPRING 2015 - Jacob L. Freedman Jacob L. Freedman, MD, is psychiatrist in Boston and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, where as a leader in the integrated mental health team he creates strategies for providing evidence-based healthcare to patients. Read “Maybe That’s why I Became a Psychiatrist” and “My Favorite Piece” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426818241799-R6AR5KNG2J8H5KYR1VTM/Lovejoy%2C+Natalie.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Natalie Lovejoy Natalie Lovejoy is a composer/lyricist/writer orginally from Texas, now living in New York. Her work includes the musical Deployed. M.M. from NYU, BMI Workshop. www.natalielovejoy.nyc. Listen to her music for Sarah Safford's piece, "I'll Try Anything" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426884441802-UX12RS7WM5O4A25ZZ56N/FRENCH%2C+WENDY.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Wendy French Wendy French wrote “The Price of Cure” during a residency as Poet in Residence, Macmillan Cancer Centre, University College London Hospital. Read her poem in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426536096101-O0E39XM6H95WR672RTO4/Bracho-Sanchez%2C+Edith+SPRING+2015.png Contributors SPRING 2015 - Edith Bracho-Sanchez Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a fourth-year medical student at New York University School of Medicine. Read her piece, “A Familiar Accent” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426817130033-0T1B5GF4ZPM4VKFXXRGW/Hester%2C+Doug.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Doug Hester Doug Hester is an anesthesiologist at Vanderbilt University. He is also an MFA student at Murray State University. Read his poem, "Speed Dating by Type" in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426540594134-DQHR19CTETEAEBRWU5QG/CASAPINI%2C+ANN+SPRING+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Ann Casapini Ann Casapini studies writing with Steve Lewis at Sara Lawrence College. Read her piece, “Eight Grown Children” and “Beauty” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426540354673-MOYBDH3LU4A0IZ6UZWCU/0837.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Amy Caruso Brown Amy Caruso Brown is an assistant professor of bioethics and humanities and a pediatric oncologist at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Read her piece, “E.B.” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426536174977-QPCQ7GXYE4CJ1YRKBODU/Awan%2C+Sara++SPR+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Sara Awan Sara Awan makes images and writes. Her paintings are in private and public collections and can be seen online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/awan-sara. Awan's background is in law, social science, social research, and fine art, particularly as it relates to children and the family. She is starting an MA in Visual Communication in Bath where she lives with her son and their miniature dachshund. Her artwork "Twins in Yellow Hats" appears in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426535554225-FMRGI7QPF6LV5140JVT0/Cantrell%2C+Kathryn.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Kathryn A. Cantrell Kathryn A. Cantrell, MA, CCLS is a certified child life specialist and doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Read her piece, “Disclosure Day” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426536064295-QYQK31J65DOLYDDL3XQC/BUTLER%2C+MARCIA++SPRING+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Marcia Butler Marcia Butler worked as a professional oboist for twenty-five years in New York City. After retiring from music in 2008, she now has a successful interior design firm. Read her piece, "Cancer Diva," in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426536131730-TY6GJOJ5IC8RVA3CZFMW/Baker%2C+Sara++SPRING+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Sara Baker Sara Baker is a fiction writer and poet, whose own journey with chronic illness led her to create the Woven Dialog Workshops, writing classes that aid in facilitating the healing process. Read her pieces, “The Sun in Cannes” and “What Do The Dying Want?” in the Spring 2015 Intima and at Word Medicine, saratbaker.wordpress.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426536037160-EEIQU7BHN1DZ4L75Z8KA/Baggott%2C+Hannah+SPRING+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Hannah Baggott Hannah Baggott is a Nashville, TN native pursuing an MFA in poetry at Oregon State University. She has recently been awarded the 2015 Bellevue Literary Review Marcia and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry. Read “Dear Stephanie, It Made Sense” in the Spring 2015 Intima and at www.hannahbaggott.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426537912725-I9FI31LS6JQW0VHSE3O2/HANSELL%2C+ANDREA+SPRING+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Andrea Hansell Andrea Hansell, who has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, earned a creative writing certificate at Princeton University and has published work in Lilith and The Ann Arbor News. Read her piece, “The Dragonslayer” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426543127385-I5IXT948I5ZKYJBKESJ7/JAHN%2C+KAREN+SPRING+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Karen Jahn A retired professor of English, Dr. Karen Jahn earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in writing creative nonfiction. She is revising her memoir, Surrender Blues. Read her piece, “My Heart is in My Hands” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426543127630-4C988NABH48UNFOCBV8E/Greenberg%2C+Samantha+SPRING+2015.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Samantha Greenberg Samantha Greenberg earned a dual B.A. in English and Psychology from Muhlenberg College. She runs an academic consulting business in Northern New Jersey. Read her piece, “The Phone” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1427235689318-3J1BWBRO9AG8Q75IOEG3/HALE%2C+RANDY.jpg Contributors SPRING 2015 - Randy Hale Randy Hale is a retired oncology social worker. She has worked in the field for 15+ years at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Gilda's Club in New York, Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, and has seen patients in private practice. Read her piece, “Again” in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/intimafall2015studio-art-syndrome daily 0.75 2015-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1441126157429-B3ANCG0NOB8JCE7YKVZD/IntimaFall2015Syndrome Syndrome Syndrome. Cara O'Regan. Oil on canvas. Fall 2015 Intima https://www.theintima.org/studio-art-2 daily 0.75 2017-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426966604728-HL2CVF338TX36WHGJXFD/Twins+in+Yellow+Hats+.jpg Studio Art Spring 2015 - TWINS IN YELLOW HATS | Sara Awan Sara Awan makes images and writes. Her paintings are in private and public collections and can be seen online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/awan-sara. Awan's background is in law, social science, social research, and fine art, particularly as it relates to children and the family. She is starting an MA in Visual Communication in Bath where she lives with her son and their miniature dachshund. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426966230884-12RD91A4A7Q5FQJG507H/Aids+Clinic+.jpg Studio Art Spring 2015 - AIDS CLINIC | Mohamed Osman Mohamed Osman is a board certified family physician and an accomplished artist from Africa. He is affiliated with South Eastern Hospital in North Carolina. His artwork, "Visual Hallucination: Art and Medicine" also appears in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1426966545449-XYZ9SKN9JU4O0VD7VGNL/Visual+Hallucination+Art+and+Medicine.jpg Studio Art Spring 2015 - VISUAL HALLUCINATION: ART AND MEDICINE | Mohamed Osman Mohamed Osman is a board certified family physician and an accomplished artist from Africa. He is affiliated with South Eastern Hospital in North Carolina. Another work, "Aids Clinic" also appears in the Spring 2015 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/fiction daily 0.75 2025-11-01 https://www.theintima.org/intima-archives-non-fiction-1 daily 0.75 2025-10-11 https://www.theintima.org/fall2015-intima-nervous-by-ahmed-salahudeen daily 0.75 2015-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1441224552785-ZUSPW0D8MC0UL61MLH4S/image-asset.jpeg Nervous by Ahmed Salahudeen Nervous. Ahmed Salahudeen. Acrylic on canvas. Fall 2015 Intima https://www.theintima.org/fall-2015-contributors daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442060559843-7IOA2ATFZI0SGQ17X019/Adler%2C+Elizabeth.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Elizabeth Adler Elie Adler is a 4th year medical student at Mount Sinai, currently taking a scholarly year at UCSF to do a fellowship in integrative medicine. Adler writes as a way to process her clinical and personal experiences. She believes that emotions play a major role in health and healing, and strives to be a present, open and empathetic care provider—qualities she believes are strengthened by her writing practice. She is interested in internal medicine and integrative approaches to health. Read her poem, "Pathways" in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442003525587-O9T4N167WZ3M1NW6T6MQ/Allen%2C+L.N..jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - L.N. Allen L.N. Allen is a writer whose most recent poems can be found in Anglican Theological Review, Christianity and Literature, and Afternoon Light. She is currently preparing for publication a manuscript tentatively titled "Be Always Coming Home." Read her poem, "Comma" in the Fall 2015 Intima. Photo by Lawrence Russ   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442062036496-3LOBERJC5UUBBWMYNGG7/Andersen%2C+Betsy.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Betsy Andersen Betsy Andersen is Founding Executive Director of Museo Eduardo Carrillo, an online museum (www.museoeduardocarrillo.org). In that role she served as Executive Producer for the award-winning documentary, “Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement”; she also curates online exhibits, develops educational programs that feature contemporary Chicano/a artists, and assists in the development of an upcoming traveling retrospective of Carrillo’s art. Andersen paints and draws in Santa Cruz, California. She received her BA from University of California, Santa Cruz in 1978, and as co- founder of the Mural Collaborative Woven Stories, Woven Lives with Betty Lou Sturm, her work with community groups making murals gained national recognition through Join Hands Day in early 2003. See her artwork, “My Father’s Blood Draw Kit” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442062386626-PHCPLXWJABLWYFUSLP49/Archibald%2C+Mandy.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Mandy Archibald Mandy Archibald (@Mandy_Archibald) is a Registered Nurse, visual artist, and PhDCandidate in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. Since 2007 she has been practicing as a pediatric nurse in the surgery and oncology units at the Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta. In her PhD research, Archibald merged the arts and sciences to develop digital, patient-driven, arts and research-based educational materials for parents of children with asthma. Her research interests involve health communications and knowledge translation in child and maternal health, approaches to understanding and addressing the health literacy and educational needs of under-served populations, and mixed methods and arts-based research approaches. She is an advocate for coming at things differently, and foresees artistry, innovation, and creativity as increasingly integral to the health and research enterprises. See her artwork, "Living in Between" in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442058834917-LIQOEJNVCTVZ1U65HPOB/Avery%2C+Ellis.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Ellis Avery Ellis Avery, the author of two novels, a memoir, and a book of poetry, is the only writer to have received the American Library Association Stonewall Award for Fiction twice. Her novels, The Last Nude (Riverhead 2012) and The Teahouse Fire (Riverhead 2006) have also received Lambda, Ohioana, and Golden Crown awards, and her work has been translated into six languages. Avery edits an urban observations column for Public Books, works one-on-one with writers as a manuscript consultant, and teaches fiction writing at Columbia University. Read her work, “What She Left Me” in the Fall 2015 Intima and www.ellisavery.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442060369532-MV1THO80ZO51M97LM167/Baker%2C+Sara.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Sara Backer Sara Backer is a New Hampshire writer whose poems appear this year in So to Speak, Crannóg (Ireland), Gargoyle, New Welsh Reader (UK), Rust + Moth, and many others. Her writing has been honored with fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artist Program and Norton Island Artist Residency Program. Her chapbook Bicycle Lotus won the 2015 Turtle Island Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from FootHills Press. Follow her on Twitter at BackerSara or on sarabacker.com. Read her poem, “Needle” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442061778830-USMULZM55ROKWQBRHZOA/Brenneman%2C+April.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - April Brenneman April Brenneman has lived with her husband in Tigard, Oregon for over 30 years where she has home educated and raised her five children. Since the diagnosis of cancer in her youngest child in 2004, she has been on a personal and spiritual quest to understand her son’s medical journey. The trauma of childhood cancer and the chronic physical and emotional issues of survivorship, for herself as well as her family, led her to the process of writing, blogging and creating art by utilizing her son’s x-rays. These natural therapies serve to bring awareness, healing and wholeness back to her life. In her spare time, she hikes and climbs mountains in her beloved Pacific Northwest. See her artwork, “Lament 1: A Passionate Expression of Grief or Sorrow” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442056878330-Z0MCZGG1MF70FDA9OGV4/Brown%2C+Jeffrey.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Jeffrey Brown Jeffrey Brown teaches as a Clinical Professor at New York Medical College and at Weill Cornell. He has written three published books and many papers, articles, and book chapters. Before residency training, he served in Vietnam as a combat Army doctor where he was awarded a Bronze Star for Valor. Caring for sick and injured children in local villages resulted in his eventual career choice to become a pediatrician. Brown recently retired after forty years of full-time practice in Westchester County NY and has been active in improving the healthcare that veterans receive from community physicians. He also lectures on how moral injuries from wartime experiences affect soldiers following their return to civilian life. Read his work, “The Moral Matrix of Wartime Medicine,” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442058692072-TSM1UTCFXYQRONGBP3C7/Cunningham%2C+Tim.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Tim Cunningham Tim Cunningham is an emergency pediatric nurse who worked at an Ebola Treatment Unit in Sierra Leone from December 2014-February 2016. He is pursuing a doctorate degree in public health at the Mailman School of Public Health investigating ways to quantify laughter and the benefits of artistic psychosocial interventions in humanitarian settings. Cunningham runs marathons barefoot to fundraise for his favorite non-profit organization, Clowns Without Borders. Read his work, “The Sunshine Chairs” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442065196405-XL04R8M9S6A14W1XBWNI/DiLeonardo%2C+Olivia.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Olivia DiLeonardo Olivia DiLeonardo is a medical librarian at Nemours Children’s Hospital and an instructor at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando, Florida, where she teaches narrative medicine to students and faculty. Read her work, “Morning” in the Fall 2015 Intima.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442059610353-158BCXDB47EWYTMLB7QR/Dunn%2C+Lisa+Kerr.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Lisa Kerr Lisa Kerr Dunn is an associate professor of writing and humanities at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she is a faculty member in the Writing Center and serves as chair of the University Humanities Committee. A scholar of American literature and a creative writer, she has published numerous works as Lisa Kerr, including an illness-themed poetry chapbook titled Read between the Sheets. Most recently, she edited an anthology titled Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe, which will be published by Kent State University Press in 2016. Read her poem, “Borrowed Car” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442057494297-VXJ8WIBC4WV0FR4M9Q20/Geisser%2C+Michael.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Michael Geisser Michael Fredrick Geisser writes in Warren, Rhode Island, in the tiny enclave of Touissetthat overlooks the Kickemuit River. He lives there with his wife, Anna, and their wonder Westy, Kosmo. Geisser writes non-fiction, fiction, and personal essays. His work has been published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Sliver of Stone, Monkeybicycle, the Journal of Microliterature, Flash Fiction Magazine, Grub Street Daily, and the book, Befriending Death: Over 100 Essays on Living and Dying. Read his work, “Night Trip” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442056566397-XYR610JD8RJQWUKJ6KP5/Georgeson%2C+Mari.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Mari Georgeson Mari Georgeson, who is a Chicago, native, lives in New York City where she is currently working as a Public Health Educator. She strongly believes the relationship between patient and provider can be one of healing for both parties. Georgeson also writes fiction, and likes to spend her free time salsa dancing, or shushing down the highest mountain she can find. Read her work, “The Identification,” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442061212202-3GOPNPX68ZFNUV4VP8SR/Gorlin%2C+Deborah.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Deborah Gorlin Deborah Gorlin has published in a wide range of journals including Poetry, Antioch Review, American Poetry Review, Seneca Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, Bomb, Connecticut Review, Women’s Review of Books, New England Review, and Best Spiritual Writing 2000. Her second poetry collection, The Life of the Garment, won the 2014 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, Bauhan Publishing. In l996, she won the White Pine Poetry Press Prize for her first book of poems, Bodily Course. Gorlin holds an MFA from the University of California/Irvine. Since 1991, she has taught writing at Hampshire College, where she serves as co-director of the Writing Program. She is currently a poetry editor at The Massachusetts Review. Read her poem, “Out in the Open” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442058362535-R8LTJRAY1BB7GCKXUIFU/Ito%2C+Susan.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Susan Ito Susan Ito is author of the mini-memoir, The Mouse Room. She co-edited the anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. She is a creative nonfiction editor at Literary Mama, and her work has appeared in Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, The Bellevue Literary Review, Making More Waves and elsewhere. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the United States. She writes and teaches at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, at Bay Path University and Mills College. Her website is http://susanito.com. Read her work, “Rounds” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442001184931-FA347G0KQ57ACUHPDEGK/Kelly%2C+Lori+Duin.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Lori Duin Kelly Lori Duin Kelly is Professor Emeritus of English at Carroll University, with a special interest in the intersection of gender and medical issues in the 19th century. Read her paper, "The Full Measure of Cheerfulness: Mary Ely, Weir Mitchell, and Victorian Views on Treating Melancholia" in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442059180299-9L141PULJ7CM6SL1LNE3/Lands%2C+Ronald.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Ron Lands Ron Lands is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee where he teaches and practices hematology. Prior to his partial retirement, he practiced medical oncology and hematology near the community where he grew up, and has experienced both the privilege and burden of treating friends, acquaintances and a few relatives. His writing is drawn from that experience, and often deals with poor, uneducated people and how they grapple with matters of life and death. At the age of 50, he pursued an MFA at Queen’s University of Charlotte to better tell their story. He continues to practice because of his love for the biology in medicine and the stories that make ithuman. Read his poem, “The Appointment” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442059920602-IMK6EW0KWFWXZ28HOYLA/McKetta%2C+Elisabeth.png Contributors FALL 2015 - Elisabeth Sharp McKetta Elisabeth Sharp McKetta teaches writing for Harvard Extension School and is the founder of Poetry for Strangers and the author of two books, The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers and The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell. Her PhD (Univ. Texas 2009) focused on the intersections between fairy tales and autobiography. This is her second piece published in the Intima; her first piece ("A Bird in the Hand") was co-written with her college roommate Dr. Yo-El Ju. McKetta lives in Boise with her family. Read her poem, “The Faithful” in the Fall 2015 Intima. www.elisabethsharpmcketta.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442000716323-JCRC3ZTG02S49SLU7P99/McArthur%2C+David.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - David McArthur Colonel David McArthur trained as a Psychiatric Nurse and has post-graduate qualifications in Acute Care, ITU and Operating Theatre nursing. He commissioned in the Territorial Army in 1983 and deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was the Commanding Officer of Field Hospital Camp Bastion during 2010. Read his piece, " A Special Book Kept for the Purpose." Writing Patient Diaries: A Century of Skill in the Silence, from the Great War to Afghanistan and Beyond" in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442003145396-POM3JIE7GGCT2PTNZKRG/Mayhew%2C+Elizabeth.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Emily Mayhew Emily Mayhew is Historian in Residence in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, where she works with the clinicians and scientists of the Centre for Blast Injury Studies. Read her piece, "A Special Book Kept for the Purpose." Writing Patient Diaries: A Century of Skill in the Silence, from the Great War to Afghanistan and Beyond" in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442003838611-3M7C5AKUZEGLCCIH0M79/Mercurio%2C+Jeremiah.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Jeremiah Mercurio Jeremiah Mercurio is a writer, scholar, and librarian who holds a PhD in English literature from the University of St Andrews (Scotland), as well as masters degrees in creative writing and library science. He serves as a research & instruction librarian and visiting assistant professor of writing at Haverford College. Mercurio has published stories and poems in various journals and has research interest in cognitive narratology and fin-de-siècle British literary culture. He is currently completing a monograph on literary doodling in the manuscripts, notebooks, and personal libraries of 19th- and 20th-century British authors. Read his story, “The Archivist” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442059760436-S8BA40NOC82NBIAMD7HH/Michelson%2C+Joan.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Joan Michelson Joan Michelson is a writer whose publications include Toward the Heliopause (Poetic Matrix Publishers, USA, 2011), poems, fiction, and essays in British Council anthologies, New Writing, volumes 3, 4, 14, ‘Prognosis,’ The American Journal of Nursing, 2012, ‘The Next Week,’ The Best of Bellevue anthology. ‘Muslim Girl’ won the Hamish Canham Prize from the Poetry Society of England, 2012, ‘Daxon Fraser’ first prize, Torriano International Competition, 2014, ‘Stories," first prize, the Bristol Poetry Competition, 2015. ‘Eva Borrisov’ is from ‘Bloomvale,’ a sequence set in a Home for Assisted Living and giving a glimpse into individual lives within the aging ailing spirited community. Former Head of Creative Writing, University of Woverhampton, Michelson teaches creative writing to Medical Students at Kings College, University of London. Read her poem, “Eva Borrisov” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442056353677-AE56WZ3J5LL05IDF2O6M/Morgan%2C+Alli.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Alli Morgan Alli Morgan is an MD/PhD student whose research is focused on the challenges of attending to chronic disease conditions. Morgan works as an Emergency Medical Technician and as a patient advocate. Her work also appears in the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine’s Blood and Thunder. Read her work, "Extended Bodies" in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442055971837-9O015UAK9PLDRLYLCB0S/Muldoon%2C+Tim.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Tim Muldoon Tim Muldoon, MS, is a fourth-year medical student at the University of California, Irvine, Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC). He spent the past year studying the history of community health activism at Columbia University's Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health. Read his story, "Stone Free" in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442064816498-CKOP3VDDJ1LRPX967EEJ/Nanda%2C+Pranav.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Pranav Nanda Pranav Nanda is a third year medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He previously studied mathematics at Stanford University and psychology and education at the University of Cambridge. Read his work, “Suffer Little Children” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442061411164-IVHG98VT2WBN64UU7AJF/Nicoll%2C+Taryn.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Taryn Möller Nicoll Taryn Möller Nicoll (BFA (Hons), Otis College of Art and Design ’12) is a South African-born artist who works with doctors, scientists and patients to depict physiological/emotional transformations experienced during pregnancy, reconstructive surgery, neurodegenerative disease, cancer and more. Taryn is an Instructor of Fine Art at Louisiana State University, Artist in Residence at Louisiana State University Neuroscience Center of Excellence, and a guest lecturer at universities throughout the United States, Germany and South Africa. See her artwork, “Knockout Genes” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442062942951-WJF2HPN0ZAZSUVARO200/ORegan%2C+Cara.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Cara Gael O’Regan Cara Gael O’Regan is an artist, health advocate, and freelance marketing professional with two decades of lived experience with complex chronic illness. She understands from first hand knowledge the importance of the patient experience, and wants to give them a voice in the conversations about healthcare that so rarely include actual sick people. She has been working on a podcast about chronic illness and disability called In Sickness + In Health, which will be launching in October (insicknesspod.com and on social media @insicknesspod). O’Regan tweets about life and living with chronic illness @bimpse, and you can find her work on bimpse.com. See her artwork, “Syndrome” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442057061335-DUBS6ESIBE9YPG2I4TUH/Paccione%2C+Charles.png Contributors FALL 2015 - Charles Paccione Charles Ethan Paccione has always been interested in the strong bidirectional communication between the mind and the body. He performed contemplative neuroscience research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he took part in studies using meditation to express cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes in toddlers. In New York he developed the Contemplative Therapy for Cancer Care program for cancer patients suffering from anxiety and depression at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has published several articles in various neuroscience journals and in April of 2013 gave a TEDx Talk titled Mindful Medicine about his research and work with patients. Paccione, M.S., Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, is studying for his second Masters Degree in the Spirituality Mind-Body Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University´s Teachers College. Read his work, “Narrative Mindfulness” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442060855627-8847369XBIGZN2ZHVE85/Qi%2C+JENNY.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Jenny Qi Jenny Qi is getting her PhD in Biomedical Science at UC San Francisco. Her essays and poems have been published in various journals, including The Atlantic, Huffington Post, and Off the Coast. She is finishing her first chapbook. Read her poem, “Writing Elegies Like Robert Hass” in the Fall 2015 Intima and more about Qi at www.jqiwriter.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442003945317-OS9V85VEJC6FE92CU0CI/Roth%2C+Jessie.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Jessie Roth Jessie Roth is a creative writer, photographer, and, most recently, an academic interested in the intersection of art and science as narrative. In May 2015, she earned her B.A. in Narrative Psychology at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with a double minor in Child-Adolescent Mental Health Studies and Creative Writing. While at NYU, Jessie transcribed her lived experience concerning mental health into an academic narrative as a means of making sense out of what was happening to her, giving weight to the phrase “the personal is political.” She believes in the power of narrative as a therapeutic device, and most of her work examines the ways in which storytelling can be used to enhance psychology research and clinical practice. Read her story, “I See Sky” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442066109861-JYC0MTGK4101CIIMK316/Salahudeen%2C+Ahmed+.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Ahmed Salahudeen Ahmed Salahudeen was born in Abu Dhabi to an Indian father and Lebanese mother. His family moved to Minnesota when he was a child and subsequently to Jackson, Mississippi when he was about six years old. He completed his undergraduate degree at Tulane University and attended medical school at Texas Tech University. He is currently a third year Internal Medicine resident at the University of Houston Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. See his artwork, "Nervous" in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442058217007-4RKYF80DE3QE9R2722F6/Schillinger%2C+Dean.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Dean Schillinger Dean Schillinger, M.D. has authored a number of short stories, one of which was featured in the AMA’s compilation of best short stories, A Piece of My Mind. He is UCSF Professor of Medicine and primary care physician at San Francisco General Hospital. Schillinger serves as Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and directs the Health Communications Program and served as Chief of the Diabetes Control Program for California from 2008-13. He contributed to IOM Reports on Health Literacy and Attributes of Health Literate Organizations and was honored with awards from the Institute for Healthcare Advancement Research Award, National Patient Safety Foundation, and APHA for his contributions to public health communication. He co-created a youth-led diabetes prevention social media campaign, The Bigger Picture, http://thebiggerpicture.org/. Read his work, “The Quixotic Pursuit of Quality” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442057703676-X3FKZ44ZQ4ZFAQNREK0I/Shalev%2C+Daniel.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Daniel Shalev Daniel Shalev is a native New Yorker and a first year resident in psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. His interests include palliative care and medical humanities. He has a particular interest in physician writers and narratives of caregiving. Read his work, “Night River” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442058998861-D62SYQOD1LH7812GQR3H/Smallwood%2C+Carol.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Carol Smallwood Carol Smallwood's most recent books include Divining the Prime Meridian (WordTech Communications, 2015); Women, Work, and the Web (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); Writing After Retirement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014); Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Picket Fences (Lamar University Press, 2014). Carol has founded and supports humane societies. Read her poem, “Acoustic Tiles” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442066284316-7GE55TBVUUH6EQWOJ8W3/Starr%2C+Deborah.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Deborah Starr Deborah Starr, M.S., Narrative Medicine, Columbia University is a licensed therapist in California, with a dynamic background in psychology and neuroscience. Her dissertation and early work was with eating disorders, having most recently spent ten years in litigation consulting. Her Narrative Medicinestudy has led her to focus on contemporary end-of-life issues and death in our culture. Watch her video, “Plain Talk” in the Fall 2015 Intima.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442058064193-ER5DEDBREBZTYKISUQBQ/Swenson%2C+Kate.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Kate Swenson Kate Swenson is a recent graduate of Oregon State University’s Honors College, where she completed a degree in Philosophy with a Certificate in Medical Humanities. A native of Portland, Oregon, Swenson also completed a creative thesis in the realm of Narrative Medicine, from which “On Schedule” is excerpted. Her areas of particular interest are adolescent and female health, phenomenology and embodiment, and narrative bioethics. Swenson fulfilled the prerequisites for medical school, but is as of yet unsure whether medical school is in her future. She was one of two Oregon State students who attended the Symposium in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University during June 2014, a program that deeply affected and inspired Kate’s work, and opened her up to the world of Narrative Medicine. She currently lives in Colorado, and is contemplating the next chapter of her life. Read her work, “On Schedule” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442065297230-D5AMOFG9N5FZF832QW7X/Waters%2C+Dan.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Daniel Waters Daniel Waters is a native of Southern New Jersey and has been cardiothoracic surgeon practicing at Mercy Medical Center in Iowa for over 25 years. He is a 1982 graduate of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey/School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his specialty training at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, in 1989. Waters had his first story published as a 3rd year medical student and has had a number of short stories and essays published since then, as well authoring two small books of surgical advice. Still in full-time practice, he is currently pursuing graduate studies in Narrative Medicine at Lenoir-Rhyne University, Asheville, NC. Read his work, “’Meaningfull’” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1442060053686-VCLB5GJPGPIPD9VUWF94/White%2C+Joanna.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Joanna White Joanna White, a music professor, returned to an early love of creative writing after performing on a concert with a poet, and is particularly grateful for the medical humanities dialog. She studies with Robert Fanning, Darrin Doyle, and Jeffrey Bean, and has works appearing or forthcoming in The Examined Life Journal, Ars Medica, Pulse, Cape Rock, The MacGuffin, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Milo Review, Poetalk, Hummingbird, Temenos, KYSO Flash, Chest Journal, Medical Literary Messenger, Minerva Rising, and Naugatuck River Review, among others. She lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan with her husband and has a daughter and son in college. Read her poem, “The Nacirema” in the Fall 2015 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1441364885794-3SV55QO7O7QMJ4IFCWK1/Willberg%2C+Kriota.jpg Contributors FALL 2015 - Kriota Willberg Kriota Willberg focuses on the intersection between body sciences and creative practice through graphic narratives, such as Friction 5, which appears in this issue of Intima, as well as her self-care comics for artists ((NO) PAIN!, First Aid for Drawing Injuries), a mini-comic series called Pathology Laffs, and thecinematologist.blogspot.com, which examines medical themes through the lens of Hollywood films. Willberg is a massage therapist working in the Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. KriotaWelt.blogspot.com https://www.theintima.org/studio-art daily 0.75 2017-09-20 https://www.theintima.org/knockout-genes daily 0.75 2015-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1441234588192-QOG3096C7CE656W6B3TC/IntimaFall2015-Knockout-Genes-Taryn+Moller+Nicoll Knockout Genes Knockout Genes. Taryn Möller Nicoll. Ink and watercolor on paper. Fall 2015 Intima https://www.theintima.org/editors daily 0.75 2026-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1767635197719-WAMVJZ1RBX3SWKJ52MEN/2%2BDonna%2BBulseco%2BPhoto%2Bcredit%2B%2BKyle%2BEricksen.jpg The Editors - Donna Bulseco, Editor in Chief Donna Bulseco is a journalist and editor who holds graduate degrees in English from Brown University and in narrative medicine from Columbia University, completing her MS in 2014. Through the years, she has published work in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, InStyle, Self, and The Purist. As editor-in-chief of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, she works with an editorial board of clinicians, educators, and writers, who review and select from over one thousand submissions a year to produce the journal. In Spring 2026, Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine, a new anthology of work culled from the Intima Archives and edited by Donna Bulseco will publish on March 24th. Photo by Kyle Ericksen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1738326037567-N948BGQW3BZMMEBP7VDS/Yi%2C+Grace.jpg The Editors - GRACE YI GRACE YI, MSPH is a fourth-year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Originally from Cleveland, she graduated from Yale University with BA degrees in Cognitive Science and the History of Public Health and Medicine and subsequently earned an MSPH degree in Sexual and Reproductive Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is passionate about the role of storytelling, writing and creative expression in medicine and community health. In medical school, she was Co-Editor-in-Chief of The BEAT, the journal for literary and artistic expression at UCLA and is a co-coordinator of the 2025 Night of Storytelling through the Gold Humanism Honor Society at DGSOM. Her written work was presented at the 2024 TEDxUCLASalon talk: “Humanizing Those Who Heal.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1628478062932-DDB8BNN8I55E8YSHJK5E/Walker%2C+Daly+Photo+by+Sally+Carpenter.jpg The Editors - DALY WALKER Daly Walker MD is retired from a general surgery practice in Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University Medical school and served his residency at the University of Wisconsin. He served as a battalion surgeon in the Vietnam War. A fiction writer, his stories have appeared in numerous literary publication including The Atlantic. “Resuscitation,” (Fall 2020 Intima) appears in the anthology Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medicine (The Experiment, 2026). Author photo: Sally Carpenter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1551536305150-1ATJHXNS5D546S7ATEV7/Joseph+Eveld.jpg The Editors - JOSEPH EVELD Joseph Eveld, M.S., M.F.A., is the Program Manager for the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and a graduate of the Narrative Medicine Master’s program. As an adolescent he survived over two years of treatment for an aggressive form of bone cancer, turning to writing as a means to cope with this experience. Eveld subsequently focused his studies in Narrative Medicine on how creative writing can be used to improve health outcomes for patients of terminal and chronic illness. He completed his M.F.A. in Fiction at the Creative Writing program at Boston University and has been a finalist for Glimmer Train Magazine’s Short Story Award for New Writers. His poem “Cisplatin at 11:15” appeared in the Spring 2014 Intima. Eveld is currently working on his first novel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1614175685761-DLLHKW169PILDJ3EJPIQ/Massoudi%2C+Natasha+2021.jpg The Editors - NATASHA MASSOUDI NATASHA MASSOUDI is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at USF who continues to work with girls' and womens' mental health across the lifespan. She completed her MD at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine and a MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine. She is passionate about humanism in medicine, the link between psychiatry and narrative medicine and reducing stigma related to mental health. She joined the Editorial Board of Intima in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1647178687158-CYRVY71HF16KFMUPVETJ/Elizabeth%2BSpradley.jpg The Editors - ELIZABETH SPRADLEY Elizabeth Spradley is an associate professor of communication at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she also coordinates the communication studies program and basic courses. Elizabeth completed her Ph.D. in health communication at Texas A&M University in fall 2013 and focuses her research on autoethnography, crisis communication, health storytelling, identity, instructional communication and pedagogy, narrative medicine, and work from home. Recent publications in include journal articles in The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and Journal of Leadership, Accountability, and Ethics, and book chapters on pandemic communication, work from home, humor in healthcare, and storying clinical encounters. She is the 2021-2022 recipient of the Jim Towns Endowed Mentoring Professorship award and seeks to invest in students, colleagues, and the community through mentorship. As a wife and mother of four, she is passionate about being a MotherScholar and spending time with her family whether that be cheering at a soccer game, watching a family movie or gardening together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1645561584520-E86PCI7A8Q12VPAYKIDE/Rachel+Prince+Editor+Intima+Journal.jpeg The Editors - RACHEL PRINCE Rachel Prince is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she studied Psychology/Neuroscience and Creative Writing with a focus on trauma and resilience. She is passionate about the role storytelling and personal narrative play in medicine and is the founder of The Heart of Medicine, a medical humanities magazine that allows pre-med/pre-health students across the U.S. to collaborate and contribute their creative work. She enjoys writing poetry and short stories as well as composing music for the piano, and her work has been published in Overachiever magazine, mOthertongue, and UMass Jabberwocky. Prince, who is a Poetry Editor of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine works as an ophthalmic technician and hopes to combine her interests in writing and healthcare to pursue a career as a physician. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1677937977888-3DROH6D2MP2DW375MOGL/Olivia+Davies+Intima+editor.jpeg The Editors - OLIVIA DAVIES Olivia Davies is a current resident physician in Harvard’s Combined Dermatology Program. She completed her undergraduate degree in Medical Microbiology/Immunology and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Medical Doctorate at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). During her time in medical school she founded the MCW Common Read Program and served as a poetry editor for the Kern Institute’s Weekly Transformational Times. Her graphic perspective, “Needlestick” was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine and her piece “Can I Drink Coffee” was published in Character & Caring: A Pandemic Year in Medical Education. When she’s not working, she’s enjoying a cortado at a local coffee shop, working on a crossword, or making a cheeseboard for friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1641051903971-NT7EUGYKPU5LVTS5EHO9/De%2Bla%2BCruz%252C%2BMario.jpg The Editors - MARIO DE LA CRUZ Mario de la Cruz is one of the Founding Editors of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. As an Associate Director for the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University's Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, de la Cruz is involved in the development of programmatic advancements and innovative teaching strategies for their Master's of Science in Narrative Medicine program. He lectures at Columbia University, CUNY School of Medicine and Sarah Lawrence College on illness and disability narratives, social justice in healthcare, narrative in population health and graphic medicine. His previous work includes the development and oversight of HIV/AIDS prevention programs and sexual health education programs for both healthcare institutions and non-profit organizations, with an emphasis on supporting under-resourced youth groups. Mario de la Cruz is also a contributing author to the book The Uncharted Path from Clinic-Based to Community-Based Research. Currently, his work is focused on visual, oral and performance-based narratives as vehicles for empowering marginalized voices and identities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1770671031005-AIUMBOIHDIBVDNTPS3PD/Trisha%2BPaul%2BContributor%2BWHERE%2BIT%2BHURTS.jpg The Editors TRISHA PAUL is a pediatric oncologist, palliative care physician, and writer at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from NYU, and her writing has been published in numerous anthologies, medical journals like JAMA, and more. She completed her undergraduate degree in English and medical school education at the University of Michigan. She published a book based on her thesis, Chronicling Childhood Cancer: A Collection of Personal Stories by Children and Teens with Cancer, and was the editor-in-chief of a medical student essay compendium entitled Iatrogenesis: Essays on Becoming a Physician. After pediatric residency at the University of Minnesota, she completed combined training in pediatric hematology/oncology and palliative care at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Paul studies the impact of writing and storytelling for patients, families, and clinicians and teaches about creative writing in healthcare. Her essay Stroppy Sevens was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize and appears in Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine (The Experiment, 2026). She joined the Intima editorial board in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1645563611666-NIVR0GPHDCGJ3B1YUAZJ/Campbell%2C+Bruce2.png The Editors - BRUCE H. CAMPBELL Bruce H. Campbell, MD FACS completed an otolaryngology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and a head and neck cancer surgery fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center before returning to MCW where he has spent his entire career. He completed Columbia University’s Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine in 2019. In addition to his clinical practice and research, he facilitates narrative medicine and writing experiences for students and residents. Campbell has published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and humor in a variety of journals, including JAMA, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Examined Life Journal and Creative Wisconsin. His collection of essays, A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity and Grace, was published in 2021. He is the co-editor of Character and Caring: A Pandemic Year in Medical Education. His short story “Old Scrubs” appears in the anthology Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medicine (The Experiment, 2026). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1753962133658-RR9JJ2VN2MMKCXUCTS31/Priya%2BAmin.png The Editors - PRIYA AMIN Priya Amin is a medical student at Harvard Medical School and a graduate of Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program. Her academic interests center on palliative care and oncology, with a focus on how narrative can illuminate the lived experience of serious illness. Prior to medical school, she worked in educational media with organizations such as PBS NOVA and later contributed medical writing and animations to ABC News during the COVID-19 pandemic. Priya is also an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her work has been recognized by the Association of Medical Humanities (2023 Creative Writing Prize, International Annual Conference), the Columbia University Film Showcase (2020 Finalist, A Trip to Pleasure Island, TX), and the Health Humanities Consortium. Her poetry has appeared in the Brown Journal of Medical Humanities (2024), and she is currently an editor for both the Harvard Medical School Student Review and In Vivo, HMS’s medical humanities magazine. She is currently directing a longform documentary exploring themes of health, history, and human resilience across international settings. Through both research and storytelling, she aims to amplify overlooked voices and reimagine the role of narrative in medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598037812186-JEGHOSJV2WORW1QSW0IK/Priscilla%2BMainardi%2BIntima%2Beditor.jpg The Editors - PRISCILLA MAINARDI Priscilla Mainardi, a registered nurse, attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned her MFA degree in creative writing from Rutgers University. Her work appears in numerous journals, including Pulse - Voices from the Heart of Medicine, the Examined Life Journal, and BioStories. She teaches English Composition at Rutgers in Newark, New Jersey and has served on the editorial board of Intima since 2015. Her short story “Pretending Not to Know” (Spring 2014 Intima) appears in the anthology Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medicine (The Experiment, 2026). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539386599726-ZRVBOL5N1YBU6NB7BN1N/Gandhi_Malini_Photo.jpg The Editors - MALINI GANDHI Malini Gandhi is a second year medical student at Harvard Medical School. She is deeply passionate about literature / creative writing and the role of narrative, dialogue, and storytelling in medicine. Gandhi graduated with a degree in biology from Yale University in 2017, where she served as a Literary Editor for the Yale Literary Magazine and was a finalist at the Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest. At Harvard Medical School, she co-leads the HMS Medical Humanities Student Group and is involved with the narrative medicine project "My Life My Story." Her poetry has appeared in JAMA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1738325722884-4E2Y1WFKLUO62FLNFN2N/Li%252C%2BSophia.jpg The Editors - SOPHIA LI SOPHIA LI is a first-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Yale University in 2024 with a double major in English and Molecular Biology. She is passionate about using storytelling as a way to connect, to question and to explore the illness experience. Li has served as Managing Editor of the Yale Scientific Magazine, the nation’s oldest collegiate science publication and is currently a Managing Editor for In Vivo, Harvard Medical School’s narrative medicine journal. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in journals such as Spires, Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities, and Cambridge Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1770672413424-GGXQ8W6UBEICEAU4T784/Angelica+Receirdo+contributor+to+WHERE+IT+HURTS.jpeg The Editors - ANGELICA RECIERDO ANGELICA RECIERDO is a poet, health writer, and editor. She is the author of the chapbook One Last Ripe Life (Bottlecap Press, 2024). Recierdo is pursuing her MFA in creative writing at Dominican University of California and is a fellow in journalism and health impact at the University of Toronto. She holds an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University and a B.S. in Nursing from Northeastern University. She was awarded a Global Health Corps fellowship and was on the editorial team at Doximity, the largest online medical professional network in the U.S. Her essay “Coming Out of the Medical Closet” (Spring 2014 Intima) appears in Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539386530265-LTKGU72WFXNUOQEVW1J5/BRANDON+SULTAN+INTIMA+JOURNAL+OF+NARRATIVE+MEDICINE.jpg The Editors - BRANDON SULTAN Brandon Sultan is a medical student at the Howard University College of Medicine. He has Master’s Degrees in Narrative Medicine and in Bioethics, both from of Columbia University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering and Political Science from Tufts University. He is co-author of the piece “Team-Building Skills and Enhancing Competencies in Health-Care Professions,” featured in the book Keeping Reflections Fresh: A Practical Guide for Clinical Educators. He is inspired by his father, a Venezuelan Doctor who spent 40 years practicing medicine in inner-city communities. Brandon spent 10 years along with his mother caring for his grandmother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. He intends to honor their legacy and pursue his passion of a career in medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1627228888605-T2GIF8DABV18HJ6ERRQA/Roxana%2527s%2Bpicture.jpg The Editors - ROXANA DELBENE Roxana Delbene obtained a Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. She conducted ethnographic research in a public hospital specialized in infectious diseases, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her experience analyzing the interactions between doctors and patients with HIV/AIDS infection had a great impact on her and it motivated her to pursue a MS in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Currently, she is completing a second doctoral degree in Medical and Health Humanities at Drew University. She is interested in examining how patients with contested illnesses claim credibility in writing their memoirs. She has published scholarly articles in Communication & Medicine, Sociolinguistic Studies, Spanish in Context, Critical Inquiry in Languages Studies, the Lamar Journal of Humanities, and the Intima, as well as chapters in book collections. She teaches Spanish and a course of her design titled Narrative, Health, and Illness at The College of New Jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1723686498987-6UBVVLHZBRO42XMYUPHW/Eve%2BMakoff%2B-%2BPoetry%2Beditor%2B-%2Bintima.jpg The Editors - EVE MAKOFF EVE MAKOFF graduated from Columbia University with a masters degree in English in 1989. She received her MD from Brown University in 1995 and completed post-graduate training in internal medicine and nephrology at Cedars-Sinai. She took her hospice and palliative boards in 2012 and since then has served as a palliative care physician and medical director. She currently is the regional medical director for AltaMed PACE, which provides wrap- around care for low-income elderly patients. Makoff has published personal and medically- themed essays in Journal of Palliative Medicine, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, CMAJ, Brown Journal of Medical Humanities, Pulse, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Manifest-Station and others. She has a forthcoming piece in Narrative and is co-editor of a narrative medicine guidebook for use in health education that will be published by Taylor and Francis in 2025. She received her MS in Narrative Medicine in May 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1738327714994-G87RX7TISHHUSX7Z0SNH/Li%2C+Jennifer.jpg The Editors - JENNIFER LI JENNIFER LI, who completed both medical school and residency training at Emory, is an academic hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Li graduated with a BA in English literature from Emory University and was on the founding editorial board of an arts organization and literary magazine on campus. In medical school, she was an editor for the online journal in-Training, that provides a platform for medical students and was part of the managing editors and resident advisory board focused on diversity called Mosaic in Medicine. Li has always been passionate about storytelling and the relatability of the human condition, especially in the context of medicine. Aside from medicine, she enjoys playing piano and tennis, attending indie concerts, watching sad art films, consuming Asian American media and spending too much time in coffee shops. Her essay "Remembrance" appeared in the Fall 2022 Intima; her poem "The Spaces Between" (Spring 2021 Intima) appears in the anthology Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medicine (The Experiment, 2026).. Li joined the editorial board of Intima in 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1645633537916-75HR31VPOHLVVBUJH6CT/Zahra%2BKhan%2BIntima%2Beditor.jpg The Editors - Zahra H. Khan Zahra H. Khan, MS, is a freelance editor and a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, where she also serves as co-chair of the University Seminar on Narrative, Health, and Social Justice. Since 2015, Khan has taught with community-based education programs supporting adult learners and incarcerated youth in the New York/New Jersey area. Her writing, research and community engagement emerges at the intersection of abolition, healing justice, and liberation pedagogy, and is largely informed by grassroots, QTBIPOC organizing work. Khan's work has appeared in The Lancet, Literature and Medicine, Journal of Medical Ethics, and AMA Journal of Ethics, among other venues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1598007904083-J3PZZ760GDU3BA7W6FXE/Vivian+Lam+Editor%2C+Intima.jpg The Editors - VIVIAN LAM: On Hiatus VIVIAN LAM is the assistant health and medicine editor for non-profit media outlet The Conversation. They previously worked as a clinical researcher in thoracic and geriatric oncology and dermatology at University of California, San Francisco. They completed their undergraduate degree in Human Biology and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. They are captivated by palliative and end-of-life care, death and dying, and medical anthropology. They believe that critical theory and narrative can unveil alternative modalities of care and ways of being. They also enjoy distance running, staring vacantly into the distance, and warbling in the shower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1645619336787-3WT8I3ZT1RQGPKVTZAXL/Sina%2BForoutanjazi%2BIntima%2Beditor.jpg The Editors - Sina Foroutanjazi On Hiatus Sina Foroutanjazi is at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He received his bachelor’s in science in chemistry and biology from UMass Boston, where he taught and conducted research in chemistry for several years. He was born and raised in Tehran and immigrated to the United States when he was a teenager. He is named after Ibn Sina, the famous Persian physician and polymath, whose books in medicine, law, and philosophy were taught across Europe and the Middle East for centuries. Foroutanjazi has developed a passion for medicine, education, and humanities, and has felt a great sense of satisfaction in teaching and mentoring students through their medical career. He loves to read and write poetry in Persian and English whenever he gets a chance, and hopes to use his passion for medicine and poetry to better care for his patients and mentor his students. On hiatus 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1567442704347-1OLYUPFHR8POTQAUAFAQ/Ruth+Case2.jpg The Editors - RUTH MARKS CASE On Hiatus Ruth Marks Case is a first-year resident in psychiatry at Stanford Health Care. She completed her undergraduate degree in French and Human Biology and her medical school education at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in Stanford Medicine. She is passionate about using storytelling as an engine for empathy in the clinical encounter and medical education. 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Campbell Managing Editor EDITOR: Non-Fiction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1677937977888-3DROH6D2MP2DW375MOGL/Olivia+Davies+Intima+editor.jpeg The Editors - Make it stand out Olivia Davies EDITOR: Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/031f78ca-ef7e-4218-8cfd-440a3fcb24b6/De+la+Cruz%2C+Mario.JPG The Editors - Make it stand out Mario de la Cruz Creative Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1627228597661-VE3VNV5K5O1OI86YZW4T/Roxana%27s+picture.jpg The Editors - Make it stand out Roxana Delbene EDITOR: Academic, Field Notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1551536623754-CQGGF116VQ62D6CBV4B1/Joseph%2BEveld.jpg The Editors Joseph Eveld EDITOR: Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520638700234-NJS351QP3M8LRXLODROY/Gandhi%2C+Malini.jpg The Editors Malini Gandhi EDITOR: Poetry, Field Notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1645633537916-75HR31VPOHLVVBUJH6CT/Zahra%2BKhan%2BIntima%2Beditor.jpg The Editors - Make it stand out Zahra H. 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Scott Pearson "Entry Points" A. Scott Pearson is an associate professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University. As a member of Vanderbilt’s Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, he is interested in how the patient’s narrative forms the foundation of the doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Pearson is involved in education across the university and teaches an undergraduate course on narrative medicine within the College of Arts and Science. He is author of the novels, Rupture and Public Anatomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475273442658-AVP4E3EIUGWOX4ZS2GCL/YANG%2C+NANCY.JPG Contributors Fall 2016 - Nancy Yang "In This Chamber Most Sacred" and "Through the History of Your Arches" Nancy Yang is a second year medical student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She's been painting and drawing for as long as she can remember, and it's still the best way she knows how to express herself. In human anatomy, she often sees architectural structures that exhibit the simultaneous strength and fragility of the body, and the depth of what it holds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475180355177-3ZNORGMU25HEDRMKVJCB/Berry%2C+Philip.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Philip Berry "Semantics in the Elevator" Philip Berry is a consultant hepatologist working in London, UK. Outside his specialty, he writes regularly on medical ethics, patient-physician relationships and the psychology of medical decision-making. His blog 'Illusions of Autonomy' has been running for 3 years and has attracted over 50,000 readers. Dr. Berry also writes mainstream and speculative fiction. His writing activities can be explored at www.philberrycreative.wordpress.com and on Twitter @philaberry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475273251496-0DVAQILQ7J4Q9U7M337Y/Millett%2C+Cristin.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Cristin Millett "Obstetrical Phantom" Cristin Millett is an artist whose investigations of medicine and its history are integral to her artistic process. Her research stems from her childhood growing up in a medical household where discussions, most often at the dinner table, focused on the human body: its diseases, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments. Millett is an Associate Professor of Art and an Embedded Faculty Researcher in the Arts and Design Research Incubator at The Pennsylvania State University. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at the Villa Strozzi in Florence, the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. Learn more about the artist at www.cristin-millett.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475410622058-5BJLSIFUVZE53IUJMPNF/Jonathan-Katz_4200-Print.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Jonathan Katz "Hematopapyrus and Other Medical Jargon" Jonathan Katz is a medical student at the University of Miami. He is particularly interested in web-development, literature, and data science. See more of his work on JonathanKatz.me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475180414777-MSAYOZXQM9CBSXQHID5E/Godfrey%2C+Bradeigh.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Bradeigh Godfrey "Life, Death and Betta Fish" Bradeigh Godfrey is an Assistant Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Utah. She divides her time between clinical practice, research, and teaching. She also enjoys creative writing, and this is her first publication of short fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475180373009-RLM0SDAXF8PHK0VRFQ1M/Carly+Bergey.PNG Contributors Fall 2016 - Carly Bergey "Palpate: To Examine by Touch" Carly Bergey is a speech-language pathologist, singer and writer working primarily with people experiencing voice problems. She has helped to pioneer multidisciplinary voice clinics alongside stellar Ear, Nose and Throat physicians at National Jewish Health in Denver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475275626731-4P5EQUKJVL9FPHYBUSJ1/Svoronos%2C+Dennis.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Dennis Svoronos "Adjusted Schedule" and "When All You Have is a Hammer" Dennis Svoronos is a Boston-based sculptor whose body of work has surrounded his diagnosis of terminal brain cancer in 2009. His sculpture explores the conundrums of living life when faced with a difficult diagnosis. Seven years after his brain cancer diagnosis, he continues to work. Through his kinetic and interactive sculptural works, Svoronos ponders the problems he and others face as life-long patients, conveying both the horror and humor of the place between chronically ill and unexpectedly well. His latest work encompasses thousands of replicated medications, as well as eerie gadgets and animatronics. As a patient himself, Svoronos uses his work to create a safe space to discuss and debate issues affecting the most vulnerable. ‘Grey Matters’ a solo show examining the ethics of treatment is at the Boston Sculptors Gallery from October 12-November 13, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475277407922-77ZXJPGGB8HVVUCNQ31L/Gregory%2C+Blake.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Blake Gregory "Breath Sounds" Blake Gregory, M.D. is a primary care physician and the Associate Medical Director the Adult Medicine Clinic at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California. Gregory, who is a core faculty member for the Internal Medicine residency training program at Highland, works closely with residents in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. She has dedicated her career to serving vulnerable populations, from her time as Chief Resident at San Francisco General Hospital to her current position with the county hospital in Oakland and believes in the power of writing to process the joys and hardships of practicing medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475275669133-0Y5B692TWCI9Z9K436ZT/ROSATO%2C+MELISSA.JPG Contributors Fall 2016 - Melissa Rosato "This Story" Melissa Rosato lives in her hometown of Philadelphia with her son Benjamin. By day, she is a mild-mannered family physician providing primary care to adults and children. By night, she is a writer. She writes non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, and once even published a poem a long time ago. She is very grateful that Intima will be home for her first essay publication. Writing, and spending time with writers, are the times when she feels most at home – except, of course, when she is actually at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475277867610-F6ALIJPRMDZMCNDB1910/shwed%2C+ally.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Ally Shwed "Crisis Averted in Infinite Lives" Ally Shwed is a cartoonist and writer, originally from New Jersey. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art & Design and has worked with BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, and IDW Publishing. Currently, Shwed is a professor of sequential art, scriptwriting, and art direction at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Querétaro, Mexico, and is co-founder of Little Red Bird Media, a visual arts studio specializing in alternative comics and graphic design. Upcoming projects include an art book of daily sketches of cats, called Cats on Cats on Cats; she is also editing Blocked, a comic anthology about online dating experiences, due out Summer 2017. See more work at allyshwed.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475180396569-NQJ64HR59R2K5A0GAH44/Dan+Waters+3462+5x7.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Daniel Waters "Ask Your Doctor" Daniel James Waters, DO is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Iowa. He earned a Graduate Certificate in Narrative Medicine from Lenoir-Rhyne University(Asheville, NC) in May 2016 and is a Candidate in the Master of Arts in Writing Program at the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative, also at LRU. First published as a medical student in 1980, Dr. Waters has published a number of short stories and essays including three JAMA “A Piece of My Mind” selections, two of which were chosen for JAMA’s two hardback “Best Of” anthologies. He completed his Cardiac Surgery training at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1989 and has practiced at Mercy Medical Center – North Iowa for over 25 years. He and his wife Pamela reside in Clear Lake, Iowa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475180729091-Z5JXISLF8MNQNW8J7C43/A+Taylor+McMahon%2C+Angela+Cooke-Jackson+and+Dana+Mendes.jpeg Contributors Fall 2016 - Taylor McMahon, Angela Cooke Jackson and Dana Mendes "A Three-Stranded Cord Is Not Quickly Broken" Taylor McMahon, a recent graduate of Emerson College majored in Communication Disorders and minored in Health Communications. Her interests in storytelling and community engagement intersect with her passions as an actor and dancer. Angela Cooke Jackson, an Associate Professor at Emerson College in Boston, is a health communication and behavioral science specialist. She uses a interdisciplinary approach to investigate the intersections of health literacy, behavior changes and social media among high-risk youth and women of color. Dana Mendes, a first-year student at Assumption College, is pursuing Secondary Education and Visual Arts. She is also a member of Assumption’s field hockey team. After her lengthy hospitalization and bone marrow transplant from her sister Bianca, she was given a clean bill of health in Summer 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475274631600-ZMKRIPDD9E2OLNAMO4EK/Tsai%2C+Jennifer.png Contributors Fall 2016 - Jennifer Tsai "Tidepools" Jennifer Tsai is a third year medical student at Alpert Medical School. She graduated from Brown University with a double concentration in Ethnic Studies and Health & Human Biology. She is always excited to explore and practice Narrative Medicine, and is currently a student in the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration with a particular interest in the intersections of race, medicine, and society. Tsai is involved in health disparities and healthcare for the underserved curricula as well as diversity and inclusion measures at AMS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475274968850-UC09O0F9Q76U8SH8ZCFP/Taylor-Troutman%2C+Andrew.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Andrew Taylor-Troutman "I Know Queen Elizabeth" Andrew Taylor-Troutman is a writer whose most recent book is a novel titled Earning Innocence in homage to a line from Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. Taylor-Troutman holds Masters Degrees from Union Presbyterian Seminary and the University of Virginia Charlottesville, and also serves as pastor of New Dublin Presbyterian Church, a congregation founded in 1769 in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475274864603-VD0HWDJRZSNXKIZFTDDY/Taing%2C+Lilly+.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Lilly Taing "Being Disabled" Lilly Taing is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California and is currently a Fulbright grantee in Sweden exploring the effects of estrogen on the neurobiological regulation of food reward behavior. Taing hopes to eventually become a physician, working with the community to address health and health disparities through social activism, art narrative and research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475277617357-8FBTXJ2NS4BJNCLG59AJ/Paik%2C+Jodi.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Jodi Paik "The Room" Jodi Paik lives with her husband, two children, and two cats in a small town on the California coast, just a few miles south of the famous Mavericks surf break. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in various journals. She holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, and is currently at work on a memoir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475180471992-6RE1NATPDXRVC4HU7U8G/John+C+Mannone.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - John C. Mannone "Old Men" John C. Mannone is a writer who has published in the New England Journal ofMedicine, Inscape Literary Journal, Acentos Review, Windhover, Artemis, Still, TownCreek Poetry, Poetica Magazine, Arc-24, Artemis, Drunk Monkeys, Raven Chronicles,Pedestal and Baltimore Review. He has been awarded a 2016 Weymouth writing residency and has two literary poetry collections, including one on disability, DisabledMonsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press, December 2015) to be featured in Nashville’s 2016Southern Festival of Books. A three-time Pushcart nominee, Mannone won numerous awards, such as the 2015 Joy Margrave award for creative nonfiction and the 2015 Tennessee Mountain Writers Award in poetry. He edits poetry for Silver Blade and Abyss & Apex and is a college professor of physics in east Tennessee. For more about his work, visit http://jcmannone.wordpress.com.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475293158502-E061XL0OA2M1L8JVE3YH/Malekan%2C+Talia.png Contributors Fall 2016 - Talia Malekan "X-Ray Releve," "Progressive Regeneration" and "Below the Smoky Surface" Talia Malekan is currently a sophomore at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her passion for creation an interest in the humanitarian aspect of practicing medicine inspires her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475274567242-L3SI9U9DG0R5567W6YW7/Weeks%2C+Kaja+.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Kaja Weeks "Changeling and the Baroness" Kaja Weeks is a clinic-based Developmental Music Educator with training in early intervention (Floortime/DIR) and a classically-trained singer who has designed the approach, The Relational Voice, to use with children on the autism spectrum. She is a graduate of the 3-year program, New Directions for Writing of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis (Washington, DC). Her creative writing has been published in The Potomac Review (nominee, Pushcart Prize), The New Directions Journal, Fickle Muses: Journal of Mythic Poetry and Fiction and forthcoming in Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities. Her scholarly works appear in journals and presentations in the United States and Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475274145528-5ME53731C94WIGE8CRWQ/Whitmore%2C+Kirsty.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Kirsty Whitmore "Fear and Freedom" Kirsty Whitmore is a second-year medical student at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. Prior to pursuing a career in medicine, she trained as an intensive care nurse and paramedic. She seeks to explore and better understand the patient and clinician experience through story and narrative. Whitmore, who is interested in the role of reflective writing in the personal and professional development of future clinicians, was the joint winner of the Balint Society of Australia and New Zealand Student Reflective Writing Prize in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475180328061-FUIYOCNTDE8OW3RFRNFD/Aytes%2C+LaurelFriedman.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Laurel Friedman Aytes "This Time Nothing: An autoethnographic visual illness narrative" Laurel Friedman Aytes received her PhD from the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego in 2016. Her scholarly research interrogates concepts of disease, illness and disability as social formations as much as biological fact. Her dissertation analyzes the ways global tuberculosis control frameworks support rigid interpretations of health and illness that enshrine individual, curative treatment as the singular weapon in confronting the pandemic. She brings together ethnographic observation of local public health practices in Southern California with research on global tuberculosis control efforts to provide a multidimensional analysis of tuberculosis as a global pandemic with diverse regional effects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475543740776-QLIL3EU5ZJ7W7Q6OGR5S/DUKESS%2C+KAREN.jpeg Contributors Fall 2016 - Karen Dukess "Day 1 of Dying" Karen Dukess has been a tour guide in the former Soviet Union, a newspaper reporter at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and the founding features editor of The Moscow Times in Russia. She has written book reviews for USAToday and blogged about raising teen-aged boys at theblunderyears.com and the Huffington Post. She has performed her writing at Writers Read in Chelsea and is a member of the Terzo Piano writer's group. She is a speechwriter at the UN Development Programme and lives in Pelham, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475273326854-X3XGIEWCSVMRRLH3R1KR/Perilli%2C+PAUL.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Paul Perilli "The Next Best Day" Paul Perilli is a writer whose work has appeared in bioStories, The Transnational, Hektoen International, The Satirist and Coldnoon, and is forthcoming in Litro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475272838090-O93JQL2HFED6ZB58ERC0/Khan%2C+Nashwa+CONTRIBUTOR%27S+PHOTO+Nashwa+Khan.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Nashwa Khan "Cancer Memories in Narrative Strategy: Are Our Stories as Important as Our Breasts?" " Nashwa Khan is writer in Toronto, whose work has been published in Vice, Rewire, This Magazine, JStor Daily, and The New York Times. She is a graduate associate with the York Centre for Asian Research and The Tubman Institute and is enrolled in the Masters of Environmental Studies at York University with areas of concentration focused on narrative medicine, community and public health, as well as refugee and forced migration studies. Khan is an avid storyteller and a lover of medical humanities and public health education. Her Twitter handle is @nashwakay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475274124333-QCDM329CVDVW5RBSWLM7/Woods+Nash.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Woods Nash "Sovereign and Severe" Woods Nash teaches in the Honors College at the University of Houston for the program in Medicine and Society. He’s also affiliated with UT’s McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics and teaches in the McGovern Medical School. He’s published articles on Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy, and David Foster Wallace. His poems, while mostly failing to appear, have been seen in JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of Medical Humanities. But none of that would tell you anything about his affections for soccer, Kentucky bourbon, and Nick Drake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475278183723-8DOALRUQDR5RHKH5ER0Q/get-attachment+%283%29.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Paul Rousseau "The Color Purple" Paul Rousseau is a hospice and palliative medicine physician/writer in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been writing for over thirty years, in part to tell the untold stories of patients, in part to assuage the sorrow of the loss of his wife. His writing has appeared in Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Blood and Thunder, The Healing Muse, and other medical and literary journals, but he believes that "putting words to paper," whether published or not, is the most important part of his writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475275777745-GS9D62KSSYSEV5X2PE9M/Sazzman%2C+Ellen.JPG Contributors Fall 2016 - Ellen Sazzman "Under Morning Sun in a Cloudless Sky" Ellen Sazzman has recently been published in Moment, Comstock Review, Beltway Quarterly, Common Ground, CALYX, and Poetica, among others. She was a winner of the 2016 Moving Words Poetry Competition and a finalist in the 2010 Split This Rock poetry contest. Sazzman, who is is a mother, grandmother, and retired lawyer living in Maryland, received Northern Virginia Review’s 2012 outstanding poetry award, a Pushcart nomination from Bloodroot Literary Magazine, and honorable mentions in the Anna Rosenberg poetry contest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475180436924-DOVA7PDER0ZJ2U7SMAY0/Goss%2C+Kelly.JPG Contributors Fall 2016 - Kelly Goss "Storytelling, Illness and Carl Jung's Active Imagination: A Conversation with Dr. Rita Charon of Narrative Medicine" Kelly Goss is a second-year master's student in the General Psychology program at New York University who will graduate May 2017. She also earned her B.A. in Global Liberal Studies at NYU. Kelly’s passion for individual’s narratives of life experiences began as a high school journalist and creative writer. As an undergraduate, she became fascinated with Carl Jung’s archetypes and process of active imagination, which led her to pursue a career in Clinical Psychology. As a graduate student, she is interested in research centered on narratives of trauma and illness, parent and child relationships, family dynamics and multi-cultural issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475278958856-ZHJF9A0PLGYVJRHDE8CR/safford%2C+sarah.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Sarah Safford "A Cute Kidney Failure" Sarah Safford is a lyricist and an educator, recently retired from NYC Department of Education. She has a Masters in Public Health and is an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Throughout her career she has created performances, songs, and most recently poetry, with health-related themes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475279164820-TS8S5GG31YOR7UFY3070/Michelson%2C+Joan.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Joan Michelson "Tandem" Joan Michelson is a writer whose publications include Toward the Heliopause, Poetic Matrix Publishers, CA, 2011, writing in British Council and Arts Council England anthologies of New Writing. The poem, ‘Prognosis’, The American Journal of Nursing, 2012: ‘The Next Week’, The Best of Bellevue, Tenth Anniversary anthology. ‘Muslim Girl’ won the Hamish Canham Prize from the Poetry Society of England, 2012; ‘Daxon Fraser’, won first prize, Torriano International Competition, 2014. ‘Stories,’ won first prize, the Bristol Poetry Competition, 2015. ‘Bloomvale Home’, poems about an Assistant Living Home, published by Original Books, UK, 2016. It credits ‘Intima’ for first publication of ‘Eva Borrisov’. Former Head of Creative Writing, University of Woverhampton, Joan teaches creative writing to Medical Students at Kings College, University of London. An American, she lives in England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475179699819-8O9KEKHPHKV4RDTV3D9S/Tanchanco%2C+Rod.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Rod Tanchanco "A Billion Heartbeats" Rod Tanchanco is an internist and a Principal Investigator at PRA Health Sciences, working on early phase clinical trials. His interest predominantly revolves around little-known personal stories behind significant events in the history of medicine. His work has been published in Time.com, The Atlantic, The History News Network, Medical Economics, and Intima. He blogs at rodtanchanco.wordpress.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475279472399-Q40UMGULKAC97V48A8V7/Adler%2C+Sara.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Sara Adler "Birds of Prayer" and "Berry Picking" Sara O’Donnell Adler is a rabbi and works as a hospital chaplain at The University of Michigan Health System. Her poetry has appeared in Poetica Magazine, The Bear River Review, The Journal of Jewish Spiritual Care and is forthcoming in The Broadkill Review. She lives with her family in Ann Arbor, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475279693100-21KYO0JGUCZ9XW5AORDZ/Gou%2C+Ting.JPG Contributors Fall 2016 - Ting Gou "Family As Six Scenes" and "Vanishing Point" Ting Gou is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School, interested in psychiatry and the relationship between memory and identity. Her first chapbook, The Other House, was selected for the Delphi Poetry Series at Blue Lyra Press and was published in 2016. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart three times and appear in the Bellevue Literary Review, Best of the Net 2014, decomP, Ghost Ocean Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, r.kv.r.y., Superstition Review, and Word Riot. Her poems also appear in JAMA, Chest, Anesthesiology, Medical Humanities, and elsewhere. She is a poetry reader for The Examined Life, a literary magazine published by The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475279906072-T535B0TP1HIOH4BPVXS0/Vinsel%2C+Anne.png Contributors Fall 2016 - Anne Vinsel "Tense" Anne Vinsel is a residency program troubleshooter/surgical photographer at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She received first place in poetry in the Utah Original Writing Competition, and her writing has been published in Glimmer Train, COG, Pulse, Rubor, and 15 Bytes. A prose piece was one of three finalists in a text-to-(claymation) film competition judged by Lemony Snicket, and she has photographed a book on breast cancer surgery and reconstruction. Her interests include playing the violin, painting, working on a novel about the medical advantages of aging, and playing with her pit bull, Dr. Jackson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475280277741-Q5Q76ZBDODS9V8X07C3H/Amor%2C+Eugenia.JPG Contributors Fall 2016 - Eugenia Amor "Gray Matter" Eugenia Amor is a third-year student of Medicine Degree at Valladolid University (Spain). Amor believes in the importance of arts to create something original while connecting them with medical topics. Amor took part in the Project "Equipo MNCARS" at Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid) and during the immerses herself in literature and theater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475282178789-24YN0LEQ1KY1W0CEPG0W/Striplin%2C+Megan.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Megan Striplin "The Use of Narrative Practices by Expatriate Health Care Providers treating Ebola Patients in Western Africa from 2013 to 2016" Megan Striplin holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Washington and a Masters Degree in Public Health from the Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health at Columbia University. Her research interests include infectious disease and global child health in the context of health systems strengthening and social justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475282299407-27EH4KUS6W7VWW867115/Catallozzi%2C+Marina.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Marina Catallozzi "The Use of Narrative Practices by Expatriate Health Care Providers treating Ebola Patients in Western Africa from 2013 to 2016" Marina Catallozzi, MD, MSCE, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Catallozzi is board certified in both Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Catallozzi is the Director of Pediatric Medical Education and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, co-leader of the Sexuality, Sexual and Reproductive Health Certificate and the Director of the General Public Health Program at the Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Catallozzi has extensive expertise in the field of qualitative research, currently teaching qualitative research methodology at Mailman. Her current research interests include relationship choices of adolescent females, adolescent relationship violence, and clinical preventive services for adolescents. Dr. Catallozzi uses a strengths-based approach to adolescent patient care, programming and research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475282613709-86G9E252IER0OITN5X4I/Cunningham%2C+Tim+copy.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Tim Cunningham "Two Minutes" and "The Use of Narrative Practices by Expatriate Health Care Providers treating Ebola Patients in Western Africa from 2013 to 2016" Tim Cunningham is an assistant professor with a joint appointment at the schools of Nursing and Theatre at the University of Virginia. He is a pediatric emergency nurse and clown who performs with the organization Clowns Without Borders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475278657617-M57DSL4OAISX4SQRQAX5/Malawista+pic.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Kerry Malawista "Finding the Words Kerry Leddy Malawista is a writer and training psychoanalyst in Potomac, MD and co-chair of New Directions in Writing. She is permanent faculty at the Contemporary Freudian Society and has taught at George Washington University Psychology Doctoral Program, VCU and Smith College School of Social Work. Her personal essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines and literary journals including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Zone 3, Washingtonian Magazine, and The Account Magazine. She is the co-author of “Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories” (2011, Columbia University Press), co-author of Who’s Behind the Couch (Karnac Books, 2017) and editor and author, The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (2013, CUP) and other scholarly chapters and articles. She is a contributor to The Huffington Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1475293493381-BLZB9FWEAXJTDSV4Y4PK/Anderson%2C+Janice.jpg Contributors Fall 2016 - Janice Anderson "Reap What We Sow" Janice M. Anderson, MD, is the Associate Director for Forbes Family Medicine Residency Program, where she has coordinated the obstetric and gynecology curriculum for 25 years. She is also the Medical Director of a freestanding birth center, the Midwife Center for Birth and Women's Health, located in downtown Pittsburgh. In addition, she tends to the medical needs of incarcerated pregnant women at the Allegheny County Jail. In 2013, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University where her focus was on emotional trauma. She has also written How to Move in One Direction While Flying in Another, published in Hippocampus Magazine and nominated for Pushcart Prize: http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2012/11/how-to-move-in-one-direction-while-flying-in-another-by-janice-anderson/#disqus_thread. https://www.theintima.org/submit-a-book-review daily 0.75 2025-01-24 https://www.theintima.org/contributors-1 daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1736726204285-DPDPG2GUWSF7A66EB7VK/Hirthler%252C%2BMaureen.jpg Contributors - Maureen Hirthler MAUREEN HIRTHLER is a retired physician who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She as on the editorial board of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine for many years. Her writing has been published in Creative Nonfiction, the International Journal of Whole PersonCare, the Examined Life Journal and others. Hirthler was Managing Editor of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1736726123995-C5CQTHQGMW8EZHFTQPDL/Asif%252C%2BSaljooq%2B-%2BEditor%2BIntima%2BJournal.jpg Contributors - Saljooq M. Asif SALJOOQ M. ASIF is a medical student at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is also a Lecturer in the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, where his scholarship focuses on the broader health humanities in relation to narrative ethics, racial justice, popular culture and more. His work has appeared in a wide range of outlets, including Literature and Medicine and Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. Asif holds a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science from Boston College, where he was a member of the College of Arts & Sciences Honors Program and double majored in Biology and English. His academic essay “‘Don’t be a warrior. Be a doctor’: Healing and Love After Wartime Trauma” appeared in the Spring 2016 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1723688085084-7ZF7WYS5R36RRTTDHY1B/Screenshot+2024-08-14+at+10.13.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Contributors - Timothy J. Barreiro TIMOTHY J. BARREIRO, DO, MPH, FCCP, FACP, FACOI, is Professor of Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Medical University (Rootstown) and Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (Athens) and faculty at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA. Currently multidisciplinary team director for complex pulmonary diseases at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, he completed residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and specialty training in pulmonary, critical care and sleep at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. After serving as Health Disparities Scholar at USDHHS, PHS, NIH, he completed his MPH at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health and has served as a Governor’s Commissioner at the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, as well as CMS appointee on the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) committee. Founding member of the task force commissioned by the American Osteopathic Association Committee of Equity and Advancement with American College of Osteopathic Interns, and author of numerous publications over several decades his foci remains to care for the underserved and to educate and mentor medical students and residents. He is a certificate graduate of the Columbia University Narrative Medicine program and teaches reflective practice at NEOMED and via a hospital-based narrative medicine program for faculty, residents and medical students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520031350054-6SG63TJ73IOZGLJG9ZI6/Anjana+Bala.png Contributors - Anjana Bala ANJANA BALA is a second year PhD student in Medical Anthropology at the joint UCSF/UC Berkeley program. She holds a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and a MSc in Medical Anthropology from University College London. Outside of academia, she is an avid dancer. Bala was a Managing Editor of the Intima from 2012-2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1612028438617-6YVJ1IKQCXDWRV2P5190/Bonnie+McDougall+Olson.jpg Contributors - Bonnie McDougall Olson BONNIE MCDOUGALL OLSON, MDiv, MFA, MS is an ordained United Church of Christ minister who has served both in the local church setting as well as the clinical setting. She received her clinical training in pastoral education and supervision at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and holds an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. For the last ten years, Rev. Olson served as the Protestant chaplain to inpatients at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, where she instituted and led writing groups for clients, published an in-house journal of their writing and trained various staff in narrative group work. Ms. Olson has also presented her work to the Department of Veteran's Affairs and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. Her narrative work with the severely mentally ill was featured in The New York Times by Sam Freedman and in Vision, an online publication for the National Catholic Chaplain's Association. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/4f35ffab-a7bc-427b-9e50-dbe15cb82fb0/Maida+Broudo.jpg Contributors - Maida Broudo MAIDA BROUDO, RTT, MA, works as an Interventional Radiology Oncology Navigator at MassGeneral Brigham Salem Hospital, where she helps patients and families navigate their way through a new cancer diagnosis and helps them obtain the biopsy needed know the pathological findings and direct them to proper oncologists. Having worked in oncology her whole adult life, Broudo has developed a keen sense of what patients are feeling on their journey. Through her love of writing, Broudo earned a master’s degree in journalism at Harvard University, where she was encouraged and inspired by her advisor, Jeneen Interlandi, The New York Times writer and editorial board member. Interlandi’s honest portrayal of her father’s mental illness was game-changing in the field of narrative medicine. For six years, Broudo taught “Patient Doctor-1” at Harvard Medical School, helping first-year medical students learn how to meet their patients, obtain a complete medical history, and get to know them. Her passion is helping to bridge the chasm that often exists in patients and practitioners alike. Broudo has worked as a radiation therapist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Mass General Hospital and the National Cancer Institute. She lives in Beverly Farms with her husband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520033005141-HIUYY2L80NX7TONK39Z1/Zohar+Lederman.png Contributors - Zohar Lederman ZOHAR LEDERMAN is a medical doctor and a bioethics PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore. He has published stories and theater/book reviews in Pulse and The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, as well as articles in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and bioethical journals such as the Journal of Medical Ethics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1701789558494-X83FTKJE494EKPPYTFAV/Hill%2C+Anita.jpg Contributors - Anita Hill Anita Hill is an actor, singer, and music teacher from Xenia, Ohio. She received her BFA in Acting from Wright State University in 2014. Anita has spent the last 10 years singing her way through New York City, from the subway platform to the recording studio. Anita’s debut album, “The Bedroom Series” is available wherever music is sold and streamed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520032707590-EE44FM136P91J13N6MZD/Sara+Kohrt.jpeg Contributors - Sara Kohrt SARA KOHRT is a graduate of the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University and has been part of the team of Health Policy researchers at Mayo Clinic for a decade. She seeks any intersection of art and science, and whatever magic may come from the crossover. She can usually be found in the gap between audience and stage with a camera in her hand, caught somewhere between witness and participant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1767638375932-4K8MSE07QK8R9XF1MG0R/Intima%2BSquare%2BLogo.jpg Contributors - Holly Schecter HOLLY SCHECHTER teaches English and Writing at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. She graduated from McGill University with a degree in English Literature and holds an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has previously served on the board of the Friends of Mount Sinai Hospital. Schechter's work can be found in Seventeen and Pregnantish, and her essay "Genealogy" appeared in the Fall 2014 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520031061641-SA0KTSNRMZD32L885LHN/Amir+Tarsha+-+Intima+bio+photo.png Contributors - Amir Tarsha AMIR A. TARSHA is Syrian-American writer and resident psychiatrist at Northwestern University. His fiction was recently anthologized in the Best Small Fictions 2016. His short stories have also appeared in American Chordata and The Chicago Tribune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520030876520-HYRZ2339Y499QHLVF2H8/Annie+Xiao-1%281%29.png Contributors - Annie Xiao ANNIE XIAO is a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan in Biochemistry and Gender & Health. Annie is interested in exploring the unique doctor-patient relationship, medical ethics, and narrative medicine themes of illness identity and agency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520030908945-4DAS8T5LXTS0UI9N2LRV/Screenshot+2017-01-28+10.02.05.png Contributors - Elizabeth Lanphier ELIZABETH LANPHIER is a doctoral student specializing in moral and political philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her research is particularly focused on health and medical ethics, global rights, the intersection of literature and philosophy, and feminist and critical methodologies. Before moving to Nashville, she studied literature and history at New York University and received her MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. For nearly ten years she worked in global public health and humanitarian aid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1723689000185-IOLIH85SC3TTD1FT1JHD/Joanna+Sommer.png Contributors - Joanna Sommer Joanna Sommer graduated from James Madison University with a degree in journalism and minors in English and creative writing. There, she worked as a staff writer and copy editor for The Breeze. Enamored of story editing, she interned with Hidden River Arts, where she edited contest submissions and copyedited manuscripts. Sommer also worked as a content coordinator for Swedesboro-Woolwich Neighbors. Inspired by her experience, Sommer cofounded Proust, a lifestyle magazine at JMU, where she worked as the managing editor. After completing the Columbia Publishing Course in 2022, Sommer will pursue a career in editorial work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520030148232-8NYBWX46X7JOO8ZGKOBW/AUBRIE+ANN+.png Contributors - Aubrie-Ann Jones AUBRIE-ANN JONES is a graduate of the Master’s Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She holds an MFA in Fiction from The New School, and a BA in Anthropology from Fordham University. Aubrie has taught at NYU Langone Medical Center, Rutgers University, and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is interested in exploring the intersection between healthcare and technology, and is working toward standardizing narrative medicine practice in medical education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1520030393013-XLZ9VA2RX7GBEAR7LO1N/Elena+Bio+Image.jpg Contributors - Elena DeBre ELENA DEBRE is a high school junior at Marlborough School in Los Angeles. As an Honors Research student, Elena conducts research at the USC Creative Media and Behavioral Health Center, where she studies the way interactive storytelling technology and virtual reality can improve public health. In addition to contributing to Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Elena founded a science newsletter entitled Marlborough Matter(s) at her school as a way to combine her love of writing and science. 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Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/frankenstein daily 0.75 2020-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1506908550209-NYXT20UMU11HNGRF7O3C/Willberg_DNR_frankenstein.jpg Frankenstein © DNR by Kriota Willberg. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/studio-art-fall-2017 daily 0.75 2017-10-14 https://www.theintima.org/neurological-exam-1 daily 0.75 2017-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1506892295743-OTK8IZ78GFPEQ4T02EAH/Neurological_exam.jpg Neurological Exam Neurological Exam by Eugenia G. Amor. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/fatu-kekula-liberia daily 0.75 2017-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1506938416012-043FCWGON41ML971V3RL/Fatu_Kekula_Liberia.jpg Fatu Kekula: Liberia Fatu Kekula: Liberia by Adriana Garriga-Lopez. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/anatomy-of-the-vogue daily 0.75 2017-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507022275411-1G1RRIPXZ2PLE1SMKQKV/Anatomy_of_the_Vogue_coloredpencil.JPG Anatomy of the Vogue Anatomy of the Vogue by Meagan Wu. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/gravity-of-this-moment daily 0.75 2017-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1506937102625-15AYDCGYAUJDBIBJY5OB/Gravity_of_This_Moment.JPG Gravity of This Moment Gravity of This Moment by Phoebe Cheng. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/anatomical-landscape-i-ii daily 0.75 2017-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507264592430-SKPGHXFSX6EQIE3WSQGX/Anatomical_Landscapes_I_-_Desert_Moon.jpg Anatomical Landscape I & II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507264629369-P14XMLSVMTW58A4BXERG/ALI_-_Desert_Moon_-_Labeled.jpg Anatomical Landscape I & II Anatomical Landscapes I & II by Ivana Viani. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/the-surgical-stage daily 0.75 2017-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507025827734-KZF1D03A8AHCFT2E69G4/TheSurgicalStage_24x18_oil+by+Meagan+Wu.JPG The Surgical Stage The Surgical Stage by Meagan Wu. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/the-power-of-touch daily 0.75 2017-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507023844528-AV5YSHR3UWDEK331EZZY/The+PowerOfTouch+by+MeaganWu.JPG The Power of Touch The Power of Touch by Meagan Wu. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/contributors-fall-2017 daily 0.75 2019-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378764771-7K35Q0SWFEU6CC5X2QTY/Adamson%2C+Christopher.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Christopher Adamson "Ode on a Styrofoam Cup" Christopher Adamson is a sociologist and a fiction writer. His essay, “Existential and clinical uncertainty in the medical encounter: an idiographic account of an illness trajectory defined by inflammatory bowel disease and avascular necrosis,” was published in the Sociology of Health and Illness (Volume 19, March 1997). He is also the author of a novella, The Road to Jewel Beach (Exile Editions, 2004). His short stories appear in Ontario Review, Exile Literary Quarterly and Hart House Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507379702829-GVRX3NW13Z8S0GQX8GSU/Eugenia+G.+Amor.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Eugenia G. Amor "Neurological Exam" Eugenia G. Amor is currently enrolled in her fourth year of Medicine at the University of Valladolid (Spain). While she has decided to follow a career in sciences, she believes in the importance of the arts and is passionate about incorporating them into medicine. Back in 2014, she was involved in the project "Equipo MNCARS" at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. Her artwork “Gray Matter” appeared in the Fall 2016 Intima. Find out more about her work as an illustrator on her blog, https://stmkblog.wordpress.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378784093-A9D18VADQNA31MZ1AWN6/Aronoff+Mikki+.png Contributors Fall 2017 - Mikki Aronoff "I Was Satisfied With Silence" Mikki Aronoff is a New Mexico poet who has published in on-line and print journals. She worked many years in pediatric and adult hematology-oncology as a patient services manager and with creative arts therapies. Now retired, her passions are playing with words and advocating for animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378801913-50AV0LKBVSYL94DCGY8P/Aziz%2C+kany.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Kany Aziz "Bad Lungs" Kany Aziz is a third-year Internal Medicine and Pediatric resident at West Virginia University. She is originally from Florida where she completed medical school at Florida State University. Aziz hopes to one day work for an international health organization and complete a Palliative Care Fellowship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378822208-2WPYQ9TYSTNDNINQTEAR/Brenneman%2C+Patricia.JPG Contributors Fall 2017 - Patricia Brenneman "My Mudflats" Patricia Brenneman is a spiritual director, offering spiritual guidance in the Jungian tradition. She specializes in grief and loss, and facilitates groups that make use of sandplay as a contemplative, expressive practice to explore grief as sacred territory. She is a graduate of a two-year program at the Chicago Jung Institute, and is currently in her third year of the Christine Center's Spiritual Deepening for Global Transformation program. Patricia is a two-time cancer survivor, at ages 27 and 52, and lives in Minneapolis. She has used writing and collage over the years to explore body and illness, nature and landscape, dreams and meditation, approaching with reverence image as soul expression. Patricia can be reached through her website, www.patriciaspiritualdirection.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378847271-4YDMYFZ9VD5XVRXBOXZP/Cheng%2C+Phoebe.png Contributors Fall 2017 - Phoebe Cheng "Gravity of This Moment" Phoebe Cheng is a medical student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver Fraser Medical Program, in the class of 2018. Before entering medicine, she completed a B.Sc. in Biology at UBC with a minor in Arts. Through her visual and literary art creations, she reflects on life’s heartfelt moments, inspirational lessons, and memorable journeys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378869076-1GH5IF21L2VO52DJXYZ9/Cincotta%2C+Janet.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Janet Cincotta "The Pull of Gravity" Janet Cincotta, MD, is a graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical Center. Dr Cincotta is a published author and physician with over thirty years of experience in family medicine. She is a contributor to Empower—Women’s Stories of Breakthrough, Discovery and Triumph, and her short stories have appeared in The Storyteller Magazine, US Catholic, Central PA Magazine, and the 2016 Writers Digest anthology, Show Me Your Shorts. She is a member of Pennwriters, a statewide association of writers from Pennsylvania and around the country, and she publishes a weekly blog titled “storytelling~the healing path” at www.thenarrativepath.blogspot.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378893271-5EGPH3ZH1T9S1MVAB4VB/Cronin%2C+Melissa.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Melissa Cronin "After" Melissa Cronin’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post, Narratively Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and literary journals such as Saranac Review, River Teeth Journal, Under the Gum Tree, and Brevity. Her writing has received special mention in Hunger Mountain Journal, and she is a recipient of a merit grant from the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently completing a memoir. Melissa holds a BS in Nursing from Boston University and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. melissacronin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378908240-VFKWCIJXYOGNVGBMGKMG/Das%2C+Lala+Tanmoy.JPG Contributors Fall 2017 - Lala Tanmoy Das "Intro to Physicianship" Lala Tanmoy Das is a full-time healthcare and pharmaceutical consultant. He resides in New York City and is an enthusiast of short form poetry. His poems have appeared in several journals including Thought Catalog, Allegro and Chelsea Station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378927304-WQCK87RSHWMME68PYX2M/Debelis%2C+Dylan+Doyle.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Dylan D. Debelis "Just in Case" Dylan D. Debelis is a founding editor of Pelorus Press, publisher, poet, and performer based out of New York City. He is an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister and serves as a hospital chaplain. Dylan has poetry published or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, [TAB] Literary Review, [apt] Poetry Review, and others. His first full-length book of poetry entitled 'The Garage? Just Torch It' is out now through Vine Leaves Press and was a Hoffer Award Finalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507377602501-QZAKW84NVC70ILPXIB48/Drobner%2C+Jake.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Jake Drobner "Doors, Walls, Barriers and How We Break Them Down" Jake Drobner is a recent graduate of Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in Neuroscience & Behavior. He is currently working at a fine dining restaurant in New York City while he applies to medical school. Outside of writing and reading about Narrative Medicine, he enjoys snowboarding, crossword puzzles, and anything Scandinavian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507377611792-WZCIJZW5WIPVP5RND52M/Dunn%2C+Lisa+Kerr.JPG Contributors Fall 2017 - Lisa Kerr Dunn "Self Portrait as an Anatomy Lab Cadaver" Lisa Kerr Dunn is a Professor in the Writing Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she is also Director of the new Office of Humanities. She edited the collection Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe and is the author of a new young readers' chapter book, Dreaming with Animals: Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen Gardens. She is at work on a poetry collection about her experiences as a cervical cancer survivor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507377619197-0HKMU2U6C88UBJ594I7U/Ensign%2C+Josephine.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Josephine Ensign "Witness: On Telling" Josephine Ensign is professor of nursing at the University of Washington in Seattle where she teaches health policy, community health, and health humanities. She received her BA from Oberlin College, her masters in nursing from the Medical College of Virginia, and her doctorate in public health from Johns Hopkins University. Ensign has worked as a family nurse practitioner and health services researcher for the past three decades, focusing on primary health care for homeless adolescents and adults in the U.S., as well as in Thailand, Venezuela, and New Zealand. She is the author of numerous academic and narrative medicine journal articles, as well as the narrative policy book Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507473675175-5A82NN5M0UB8RCIXI6G3/Fels%2C+Molly.png Contributors Fall 2017 - Molly Fels "Buried, Somewhere" Molly Fels is a fourth year medical student. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Circle Show, Thirteen Ways, and the Icarus Anthology and has been the recipient of an honorable mention in the William Carlos Williams medical student poetry competition. She is interested in the study and experience of memory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507377675660-0WAYGWQJG3NPN6FG3SZ7/Fyfe%2C+William.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - William Fyfe "Disequilibrium" and "No Times for Tears Today" Bill Fyfe is a fourth year medical student at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2009 with a degree in government and subsequently served as a deck watch officer aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter MIDGETT in Seattle. He plans to pursue a career in emergency medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507377620035-6WR2RY3BUYDG4CLM9EUE/Garriga-Lopez%2C+Adriana+.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Adriana Garriga-Lopez "Fatu Kekula: Liberia" Adriana Garriga-Lopez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. She is also a poet, muralist, and soprano. Adriana’s research focuses on epidemics as events that make visible the workings of colonial power, race, gender, and sexuality in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. She painted this portrait of Fatu Kekula after reading a newspaper article detailing how the young student nursed 3 of her infected family members back to health during the 2014-15 outbreak of Ebola in Liberia using very limited means. In the portrait, she is wearing a black plastic bag on her head, exam gloves, and a facemask. These were some of the protective measures she used while caring for the sick. The canvas is available for purchase from the artist. All proceeds from the sale will be donated directly to Fatu Kekula herself as she pursues graduate education in nursing. Interested parties contact agarriga@kzoo.edu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378693043-DDX8ATPJG7G4HB00H51S/Hartmark-Hill-Jennifer+Faculty+Photo+-+FINAL.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Jen Hartmark-Hill "Dear Patient" Jen Hartmark-Hill is a Family Medicine physician, medical educator and research mentor. She is the director for the Narrative Medicine & Health Humanities Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507377641583-WZHCARC3E97T34RL3YAM/Harvey%2C+Rohini.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Rohini Harvey "C18.9: Malignant Neoplasm of Colon, Unspecified" Rohini Harvey studied anthropology at Amherst College and attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Now a hospital-based doctor practicing internal medicine and pediatrics in Western Massachusetts, she was unexpectedly diagnosed with a serious illness, which forced her to straddle the line between physician and patient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507513614100-NVUDVLK8VCGM5YQWXAR8/Hathaway%2C+Kirk.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Kirk Hathway "Chemistry Of Prognosis" Kirk Hathaway, graduate of the Master’s Playwriting Program at San Francisco State University, is a previous recipient of a Showcase Writers Scholarship and Showcase Theatre Award with works produced in California and Ohio, and in collaboration with The Lancaster Chorale, Grammy Award Composer Robert Page, and a protégé of the late Marcel Marceau. He is a recipient of grants from Poets & Writers, the Ohio Humanities Council, and CATCO. Hathaway taught college writing and literature for over 20 years. After being left for dead in a head-on collision, Hathaway retreated from playwriting for more intimate voices in poetry. His most recent poems are published in Peacock Journal, Steam Ticket Journal, Circle Show, Allegro & Adagio, with prose in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507377642756-U07KJPRIKMP9LKTP5KQU/Hincapie%2C+AT.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Andrew Hincapie "Symptoms (Multiple Schlerosis) Andrew Hincapie received an MFA from Texas State University, where he was co-editor of Front Porch Journal and Southwestern American Literature. His work has been featured or is forthcoming in Yes Yes Books’ Vinyl Poetry, The New Guard Review, Opossum, and The Written River, and he was a finalist for the 2017 Knightville Poetry Prize. He lives in Colorado with his wife and his dog, Rocko. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507377643933-4KSJTVFCHXR0I9XYSY27/Howard%2C+David.jpeg Contributors Fall 2017 - David Howard "Choices" Andrew Hincapie received an MFA from Texas State University, where he was co-editor of Front Porch Journal and Southwestern American Literature. His work has been featured or is forthcoming in Yes Yes Books’ Vinyl Poetry, The New Guard Review, Opossum, and The Written River, and he was a finalist for the 2017 Knightville Poetry Prize. He lives in Colorado with his wife and his dog, Rocko. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507473727364-HKV1DCCDRRV4D9BY8OY2/Kelly%2C+Sheila.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Sheila Kelly "Breathe" "She Waits" Sheila Kelly writes poems and plays and leads writing workshops in libraries, community centers, art galleries, and most recently, at the University of Pittsburgh’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She trusts the special magic of generative writing in groups; writing together as a kind of deep play that energizes and connects writers as human beings and as artists. A retired psychotherapist, Sheila has faith in the healing qualities of undefended speech that poetry brings and she believes making art is a birthright and not a luxury. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies, most recently in The Comstock Review, Paterson Literary Review and Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Sheila lives in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh with her husband, two cats and two chickens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378164530-4JOLPC5HSTKLPPXYXCDX/Klatzker%2C+Catherine.jpeg Contributors Fall 2017 - Catherine Klatzker "Order" Catherine Klatzker is a writer and RN in Los Angeles, California, retired after twenty-two years in pediatric intensive care. Her essay “Al Chet” was 2014 nonfiction winner in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature. Klatzker’s work has appeared in Intima, Fall 2013 “Range of Vision” & Spring 2015 “What We See When We See Each Other”; Emrys Journal; Lime Hawk Literary Journal; The Examined Life Literary Journal, and the anthologies Same Time Next Week, and Parts Unbound, both in 2015. Her book-in-progress was shortlisted for the 2015 Mary Roberts Rinehart Nonfiction Prize from Stillhouse Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378196742-RZO3ZH3UVCPHQQ3122XN/Kroneman%2C+Olaf+.JPG Contributors Fall 2017 - Olaf Kroneman "Fighting to Heal" Olaf Kroneman graduated from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine with an MD. Dr. Kroneman interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, then attended the University of Virginia to complete a residency in internal medicine. He completed a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His work has appeared in literary magazines. My story, “Fight Night,” won the Winning Writers Sports Fiction and Essay Contest, and “The Recidivist,” won the Writer’s Digest short story contest. His essay “Detroit Golden Gloves” was selected as Editor’s Choice by inscape, honoring the top nonfiction piece. In 2010, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for the story, “A Battlefield Decision.” OlafKroneman.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378165417-8FJPCVMV3N4Z6LDVN08Q/Lukinson+photo.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Sara Lukinson "Into the Arms of Strangers" Sara Lukinson is a three-time Emmy award winning writer and documentary filmmaker best known for her biographical films of artists, including the films she produced for the “Kennedy Center Honors” for thirty years. Her work has been featured on network specials, PBS and HBO. She’s written for many national cultural events including New York City’s annual 9/11 Ceremonies at Ground Zero and edited “September Morning,” a collection of the poetry she used in the 9/ll Ceremonies. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Nexttribe. She will be teaching a course at NYU in reading autobiography, what she calls, inside the heart and soul of another. She lives in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378167578-V2OFDJ4XSWCES6KIE2ON/Mannone%2C+John+C.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - John C. Mannone "Bathing My Mother" John C. Mannone has work in Blue Fifth Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Peacock Journal, Gyroscope Review, Baltimore Review, Pedestal, Pirene's Fountain and others. He’s the recipient of the 2017 Jean Ritchie Fellowship in Appalachian literature and two Weymouth writing residencies. He has three poetry collections: Apocalypse (Alban Lake Publishing) won 3rd place for the 2017 Elgin Book Award; Disabled Monsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press) featured at the 2016 Southern Festival of Books; Flux Lines (Celtic Cat Publishing). He’s been awarded the 2017 HWA Scholarship, two Joy Margrave Awards for Nonfiction, and nominated for Pushcart, Rhysling, and Best of the Net awards. He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex, Silver Blade, and Liquid Imagination. He’s a professor of physics near Knoxville, TN. http://jcmannone.wordpress.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507806748112-RM4H0XHZJQ72Q5LZA8XS/Oakner%2C+Larry.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Larry Oakner "Falling" "For My Father" and "Life After Prednisone" Larry Oakner is a poet whose poems have appeared recently in Tricycle: Buddhist News, PROVOKR.com, The Shambhala Times, The Jewish Literary Review, Lost Coast Review, Home Planet News and Mystic Nebula. Earlier, his work appeared in Mobius, Long Island Quarterly, CCAR Journal, Jewish Spectator, Kerem, SPSM&H, MARILYN, He is also the author of a chapbook, Sitting Still, and his essays on poets Jack Spicer and William Carlos Williams appeared in Manroot and Thoth: Graduate Studies in English (Syracuse University). Oakner has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from UCLA, and works as a branding consultant in New York city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378172184-IZRZ2I0ZYBXOKB5IX650/Peterson%2C+Kendra.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Kendra Peterson "The 'Difficult' Patient" Kendra Peterson, MD is a neurologist in Palo Alto, California, and a member of the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507473671531-Z60ZP7BC8CEMHUO6MPFC/Rancy%2C+Schneider+K.png Contributors Fall 2017 - Schneider K. Rancy "Parsonage-Turner: Pathologic Study" Schneider K. Rancy is a Haitian-American graduate of Columbia University, where he studied English and Comparative Literature and Biology. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Columbia New Poetry, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Ars Medica, and Apogee. He is a medical student in New York City. His editor-reviewed articles on nerve and wrist reconstruction have been published in the Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume), the Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), and the Journal of Wrist Surgery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378172577-C3YTBKOUOFN0LXRM5T6K/Reid%2C+Anna.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Anna Reid "No Pain No Gain" Anna Reid is a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Claudius Speaks, My Itchy Travel Feet, Nashville Fit, Cold Creek Review and others. She is currently working on a memoir, Prone to Wander: How Solo Travel Changed My World. Reid lives with her husband, Jason, in Nashville. www.annareid.me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507474483893-VPOFN4WTH7ZUME6PZNS9/Rubin%2C+Geoffrey.png Contributors Fall 2017 - Geoffrey Rubin "Diving in the OR" Geoffrey Rubin went to medical school, internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Columbia University. Previous narratives and poems have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Cardiology, Chest, Adelaide, The Healing Muse, and Blood and Thunder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378177959-ZAVZZRNED9JNBXPRULDM/Seneviratne%2C+Martin.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Martin Seneviratne "Bruits" Martin Seneviratne, MD, is currently the Digital Health Fellow at Stanford Medicine X and a Master’s candidate in biomedical informatics at Stanford University. Dr. Martin is an Australian physician who completed his undergraduate (Physics) and medical school at the University of Sydney, followed by a residency in internal medicine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378178674-737KRD0QZVP1CIPSNIM4/Sheltz-Kempf%2C+Sydney.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Sydney Sheltz-Kempf "NSCLC" Sydney Sheltz-Kempf is a Medical Technologist at Covance Central Laboratory Services where she performs genotyping assays and companion diagnostic testing. Her previous work in Literary Darwinist criticism as applied to "The Count of Monte Cristo" was published in Purdue University's Journal of Undergraduate Research in 2015. An aspiring PhD student, she has presented her research on Segregation Distortion’s role in spermatogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster at Butler University's Undergraduate Research Conference in 2016. A previous poetry chapbook (which also serves as her memoir) is scheduled to be published by The Poet's Haven in Spring 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507475785889-2SHGHEMUU4JE92Y4SPJZ/Intima+logo+PNG.png Contributors Fall 2017 - Alina Siddiqui "Breathing In Hospice" Alina Siddiqui is a senior at Barnard College studying neuroscience and race & ethnicity. She is interested in the intersection of medicine and racial and social equity, and is passionate about using art as an agent of change and a promoter of wellness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378180375-KAUS8KOC1SNXNX4XXFCY/Skelley%2C+Billie+Holladay+.jpeg Contributors Fall 2017 - Billie Holladay Skelley "d.IF.ferent" Billie Holladay Skelley earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, she provided postoperative care for cardiothoracic surgery patients. She also taught nursing students and worked in curriculum development. Now retired from nursing, she enjoys writing. Her work has appeared in several magazines, journals, and anthologies in print and online—including Heart & Lung: The Journal of Critical Care, American Journal of Nursing, Missouri Nurse, Today’s Caregiver Magazine, PreMedLife, Harvard Magazine, Well Versed, Almanac for Farmers & City Folk, Space Review, American Aviation Historical Society Journal, VietNow National Magazine, and Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors. An award-winning author, she also has written books for children and teens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507513710333-BC66LHZT68GGQBTSN2L1/Stidham%2C+Greg.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Greg Stidham "New Epileptic" "Hanging Out With The Boys at General Hospital" "Doctoring in Nicaragua" Greg Stidham is a retired pediatric intensivist (ICU physician) currently living in Kingston, Ontario, with his wife Pam and their two foundling "canine kids." Dr. Stidham's passion for medicine had yielded in retirement to his other lifelong passion, literature and creative writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378196853-CYEOEYVAN1Q2ZATXUY80/Szajnberg%2C+Nathan+MD.JPG Contributors Fall 2017 - Nathan Moses Szajnberg "A Limp And A Death At Eagle Butte Reservation" Nathan Moses Szajnberg, MD graduated from the University of Chicago College and Medical School, where he studied with Saul Bellow (Joyce and Conrad) among many others. He has written three books on development (Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem; Sheba and Solomon’s Return: Ethiopian Children in Israel; and Lives Across Time (with Henry Massie) and edited a book on Bruno Bettelheim’s work (Educating the Emotions). His novel, JerusaLand: an Insignificant Death, will be published this fall. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife Yikun, Natti, Didi (and soon to be, Uri). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378604715-FLU2B92AO3OH9WLEUT5Y/Tahvildari%2C+Ali.png Contributors Fall 2017 - Ali Tahvildari "The Long Ride" Ali M.Tahvildari, MD, is a radiologist at the VA Palo Alto and an affiliated Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also serves as Associate Program Director of the Radiology residency program. He is a member of the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford and enjoys writing fiction and poetry.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378595619-YPFPL3CKSFKL9W33COPY/Thangarasa%2CTharshika+jpg.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Tharshika Thangarasa "Specimen A" Tharshika Thangarasa is currently a daughter, sister, friend, amateur artist and third year medical student at the University of Ottawa. She completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She has an insatiable hunger for knowledge and a love of trying new things. She hopes to travel more, inspire others and positively influence the lives of many as a future physician. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378598462-JTJW3T033V1JN3XEJYFO/Valinoti%2C+Eileen.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Eileen Valinoti "Plague Season: A Memoir" Eileen Valinoti BSN, M.A. is retired after a varied career in oncology, nursing education and school nursing. Her essays have appeared in the following journals: "Hospital Corners" in Pulse, "First Day on the Wards" in ARS MEDICA, "A Mysterious Illness" and "Accident" in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, "Medication Nurse" in Blood and Thunder, "Night Duty" in The Healing Muse, and "The Cancer Unit" in Confrontation. Several pieces were included in the following anthologies: "First Day on the Wards" in Body and Soul: Narratives of Healingfrom ARS MEDICA, "A Silent Woman" in Meditations on Hope and "Hospital Corners" in Pulse- Voices from the Heart of Medicine: Editors' Picks: A Third Anthology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507806295489-Q2VLQOIB4VPZXVAUZW76/Van+Der+Merwe%2C+Amelia.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Amelia van der Merwe Dr. Amelia van der Merwe has worked in the area of violence and its psychological consequences since 1999. Her research has focused on community violence, intimate partner violence, and ritual abuse and its effects on psychological outcomes. She has worked at the University of Cape Town (SA), the Policy Research Bureau (UK), the Human Sciences Research Council (SA) and the University of Stellenbosch (SA) in both research and teaching capacities. She has published four books, the most recent, "Shattered but Unbroken: Voices of Triumph and Testimony". She has also written many book chapters and journal articles on the effects of violence and abuse, specifically on child and adolescent emotional and developmental outcomes. She is currently doing post-doctoral research at the University of Stellenbosch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378632545-CNSEPWN3LLXXX97D1FSE/Viani%2C+Ivana.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Ivana Viani "Anatomical Landscape I & II: Desert Moon" Ivana Viani is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, applying for residency in psychiatry. Her visual artwork combines photographic and graphic design elements to create unique visions of the interplay of medical science with the worlds both witnessed and imagined. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378607790-80KJ4Z4SV3EITHYMNG6L/Wellman%2C+Hannah.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Hannah Wellman "Robes The Color Of Saffron" Hannah Wellman is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is currently interviewing for residency positions in the field of Child Neurology. Hannah graduated from Colorado College with a BA in Molecular Biology and a minor in English Literature. She is particularly interested in the opportunity to enhance medical practice through integration with the arts and humanities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378612709-ISWQZCVVCM2R0RMDQ3PS/White%2C+Laura+Anne.JPG Contributors Fall 2017 - Laura Anne White "Speak" Laura Anne White works as a registered nurse on an inpatient adult oncology and hospice unit at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas. Her writing and artwork have been featured in Hektoen and Recovering the Self. She lives in Minnesota with her plants and bicycle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378620481-ULIV8RL4ZZHGGYJFJU8X/Wickless%2C+Heather.PNG Contributors Fall 2017 - Heather Wickless "The Syphilid" Heather Wickless is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She is interested in medical education, the relationship between art and medicine, and the role of art in the early development of dermatology as a medical specialty. This painting "The Syphilid" is inspired by this relationship: it is a composite of wallpaper patterns from the 1800’s superimposed on an image of a patient affected by syphilis from the same time period. Dr. Wickless authors a blog “save the moulages” dedicated to dermatologic history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378622376-WBC08I92JUXC48DSEOHO/Willberg_K_headshot.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Kriota Willberg "Frankenstein" Kriota Willberg uses comics, needlework, historical studies, bioethics, and her experiences as a massage therapist and health science educator to explore body/science narratives. Her minicomics series include Pictorial Anatomy and Pathology Laffs. In April 2018 Uncivilized Books will publish her injury care and prevention for cartoonists manual, Draw Stronger. Her comics appear in: SubCultures, and Awsome Possum 3, 4PANEL, Strumpet 5, Comics for Choice; the up-coming Graphic Canon; as well as the journals Intima and Broken Pencil. Willberg is the inaugural Artist In Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library. For more: KriotaWelt.blogspot.com.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507378624287-CJKI7JWBV66AKI8GFHJY/Wu%2C+Meagan.jpg Contributors Fall 2017 - Megan Wu "Anatomy of the Vogue" "The Power of Touch" "The Surgical Stage" Meagan Wu is an undergraduate at Stanford University majoring in Art Practice and minoring in Biology with premedical studies. In addition to portraiture and figure drawing, she is interested in clinical anatomy and the intersection of art and medicine. Meagan believes that exploration of the human body and its distortions in figure and space shows how physical abnormalities and illness should not just be tied to disease and death, but viewed as a process of self-dissection. Meagan’s artwork has been exhibited at the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Art Gallery, and the Gunn Foyer Gallery of McMurtry, as well published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. In her free time, she enjoys photography, travel, and playing the cello. https://www.theintima.org/speak daily 0.75 2017-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1507285479643-QL096Z7BAPGMU8QZMLCK/Speak+by+Laura+Anne+White.JPG Speak Speak by Laura Anne White. Fall 2017 Intima https://www.theintima.org/inner-fortitude daily 0.75 2018-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1526321790749-7ZIFXNTT88GUHO9ZE8VC/image-asset.jpeg Inner Fortitude Inner Fortitude by Ronald Walker. Spring 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/aqua-vitae daily 0.75 2018-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1526244796295-IU8BAFUDMQX6SV968048/Aqua_vitae_Ansel_Oommen.jpg Aqua Vitae Aqua Vitae by Ansel Oommen. Spring 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/bodies daily 0.75 2018-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1526249475744-FOXI8EF6HJ29S8WFIRK7/Bodies+by+Raina+Greifer+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpg Bodies Bodies by Raina Greifer. Spring 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/histologic daily 0.75 2018-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1526251549469-VN9I865X8BI1KDI3JBUH/Histologic+by+Anna+Martin+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpg Histologic Histologic by Anna Martin. 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Spring 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/they-tell-me-its-normal-grief daily 0.75 2018-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1526324751789-QZTO18WV9VMG3Q3UUYYF/They+Tell+Me+It%27s+Normal+Grief+by+Makoto+Ogawa+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpeg They Tell Me It's Normal Grief They Tell Me It's Normal Grief by Makoto Ogawa. Spring 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/md-in-progress daily 0.75 2018-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1526326589483-VXTYW4WD2G6XDQYCP6FA/MD+In+Progress+Annie+Zhu+%28artist%29+and+Reha+Kumar+%28author%29+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpg MD (In Progress) MD (In Progress) by Reha Kumar (author) and Annie Zhu (artist). Spring 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/inside daily 0.75 2018-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1526330392030-IX8SP3J5VNHHK1L42MU5/Inside+by+Ryan+Brewster+SPRING+2018+INTIMA.jpg Inside Inside by Ryan Brewster. 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Fall 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/takotsubo-cardiomyopathy-the-broken-heart-syndrome daily 0.75 2018-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539429443880-PNH5W4ZNXM1L38MHAXZR/%28c%29+Takotsubo+Cardiomyopathy+The+Broken+Heart+Syndrome+by+Rayda+Joomun.jpg Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy - The Broken Heart Syndrome ©Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy - The Broken Heart Syndrome. Rayda Joomun. Fall 2018 Intima. Pencil on paper https://www.theintima.org/my-life daily 0.75 2018-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539374657877-OIKF6OXA942S9LKUC96N/MY+LIFE+%28C%29+SAPANA+ADHIKARI+-+FALL+2018+INTIMA.jpg My Life © My Life. Sapana Adhikari. Oil on canvas. Fall 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Oil on linen. https://www.theintima.org/floral-anatomy daily 0.75 2018-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539379472128-L0YY1BFAS2KZMFNS9GAW/%28c%29+Floral+Anatomy+by+Kristen+Kelly+FALL+2018+INTIMA.jpg Floral Anatomy © Floral Anatomy. Kristen Kelly. Fall 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Acrylic on canvas https://www.theintima.org/contributors-fall-2018 daily 0.75 2019-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539432976527-3GTZWQGV75OEPMYUFV02/Adamson%2C+Christopher.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Christopher Adamson "Tata" (Poetry) Christopher Adamson is a sociologist and a fiction writer. His essay “Existential and clinical uncertainty in the medical encounter: An idiographic account of an illness trajectory defined by inflammatory bowel disease and avascular necrosis” appeared in The Sociology of Health and Illness (Volume 19, March 1997). His poem “Ode on a Styrofoam Cup” was in Intima’s Fall 2017 issue, and his blog, “The Diagnosis of Dying,” appeared in Crossroads on November 15, 2017. He is the author of a novella, The Road to Jewel Beach (Exile Editions, 2004). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539435307402-7WW3EII3D9CB0DL7TVRL/Adhikari%2C+Sapana.png Contributors Fall 2018 - Sapana Adhikari "My Life" (Studio Art) Sapana Adhikari is an Emergency Medicine physician, practicing in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Adhikari spends her days in a whirlwind of emotionally draining and unpredictable activity. To deal with the stress, she must approach each shift in a calm and methodical way. “My Life” depicts a scene in a peaceful pottery studio. Instead of 'repairing' vases, the physician 'repairs' medical emergencies: a pneumothorax, a splenic rupture, a volvulus, and a nosebleed. Although these are life-threatening problems, she stays focused and fixes each problem simultaneously. The shelves are lined with scores of other vases, each with their own medical emergency, all waiting their turn to be 'repaired.' www.sapanaadhikari.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539435361950-UZAFX2FA15EDVRM23F5R/Baller-Shepard%2C+Susan+-++author+photo+by+Tracy+M.+Shepard.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Sarah Baller-Shepard "Prayers for the Sick (Poetry) and "How A Heart Grows" (Studio Art) Susan Baller-Shepard lives and writes on the prairie. Her essays, poetry and photography have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post's 'On Faith section,' the Huffington Post, Spirituality & Health, Writer’s Digest, the Tattooed Buddha, Monasteries of the Heart, and other publications. Her poetry was featured on WGLT-FM Poetry Radio. Finishing Line Press will publish Susan’s poetry collection Doe in March 2019. As an ordained Presbyterian minister with a master of Social Work, she's presented on expressive writing techniques at the University of Iowa's Examined Life Conference, which links medicine and the arts. Baller-Shepard taught college-level religious studies and worked on international development projects in Brazil, China, and Haiti. She loves a good story and appreciates narrative medicine's approach to whole people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539435700956-PRVYL2AMHH8RA6B42NQZ/Bugg%2C+Sarah.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Sarah Bugg "A Rusted Bronze Star" (Non-Fiction) Sarah Bugg is a native Kentuckian and a fourth-year medical student at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She is pursuing residency in Medicine-Pediatrics. When not in the hospital, Bugg is most likely to be found on a nearby trail or exploring a back road on her bicycle. She loves stories and feels privileged to enter into so many of her patients’ powerful narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539435767081-L8ZLXKNU44YZY4FENJAA/Cahan%2C+Eli.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Eli Cahan "Trigger Points" (Fiction) Eli Cahan is a medical student at New York University, conducting a research year at Stanford School of Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, where he majored in business and served as columnist/editorial-board member for The Michigan Daily. At NYU, he has engaged with the medical humanities as a Rudin Fellow, editor/contributor for the Agora, founder of the “Storytelling in Medicine” seminar, and recipient of the Anthony Grieco Essay award. At Stanford, he won the Paul Kalanithi Writing award. His work has been featured in Scientific American, PBS, and STAT News. His current work addresses clinical research, economics, policy, and ethics in pediatric orthopedics. In spare moments, he eats, runs, swims, reads, kvetches (with his twin brother), and eats again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539435960166-GM7G2K51BGAZ8WDY6IAG/Callen%2C+Emma.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Emma Callen "Operation Room" (Non-Fiction) Emma Callen is a freelance writer fascinated by the relationship between history and psychology. She graduated cum laude from Colorado College, where she spent her free time writing poetry in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Callen’s love for writing first took hold as a child growing up in a close-knit cooperative community in New York. She spent her formative years exploring the woods surrounding her community, writing beneath the trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539436468611-F5UXER1A2BJVEN4LV86S/Cass%2C+William.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - William Cass "Hold Fast" (Fiction) William Cass has had over 150 short stories accepted for publication in a variety of literary magazines such as december, Briar Cliff Review, and an earlier issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Upper Hand Press plans to publish his children’s book, Sam, in April 2020. Recently, he was a finalist in short fiction and novella competitions at Glimmer Train and Black Hill Press, received a Pushcart nomination, and won writing contests at Terrain.org and The Examined Life Journal. He lives in San Diego, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539436528264-312VHZ3IC2EL0RSPLAX1/Cejas%2C+Diana+FALL+2018.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Diana Cejas "Lamentations" (Non-Fiction) Diana Cejas is pediatric neurologist. She grew up on a farm in rural North Carolina but left the area in pursuit of a medical education. She learned more than she bargained for when, during her residency, she was diagnosed with a rare cancer and then had a stroke. One thing that kept her afloat throughout illness, recovery, and residency was storytelling. She has published essays on her own patient experience in The Journal of the American Medical Association and Neurology. Her opinion pieces, creative non-fiction, and micro fiction can be found in various literary magazines and blogs. She recently completed training and returned to North Carolina to practice, to write, and to grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539436674021-SJIZNZQZY0ONWWY3PZ8B/Chainani%2C+Sanjay+.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Sanjay Chainani "Oh, God" (Poetry) Sanjay Chainani is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. His interests include medical anthropology, gastroenterology, and infectious diseases. Chainani is applying to become a Med-Peds specialist to train in caring for patients of all ages and walks of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430500305-F5ZSHLXBIDJV0ZS9B1UM/JessicaCheng.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Jessica Cheng "PICU" (Field Notes) Jessica Cheng is a pediatric resident at the University of California Davis in Sacramento, California. She is originally from Los Angeles and completed medical school at the University of California San Diego. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539436964518-8FCMSK2BJL9Q5KJGOIF9/Christensen%2C+Sarah.JPG Contributors Fall 2018 - Sarah Christensen "Faith in Nursing" (Field Notes) Sarah Christensen is a pediatric nurse and writer living in Seattle. She began her career as early as eight years old, a child patient herself, watching her own doctors and nurses practice medicine. She highly values methods of science and rituals of faith. She loves books and storytelling, her family, and animals. Christensen is a fellow with the Think-Write-Publish project, a group of writers from around the world who foster narratives of harmony between faith and science. She prefers bridges to walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539437092978-4POB8D6EVJW1H7QNVAI1/Christov%2C+Marta.png Contributors Fall 2018 - Marta Christov “Captain’s Song” and "After the CPR Starts" (Poetry) Marta Christov is a practicing nephrologist in Westchester County, as well as a research scientist studying phosphate regulation in health and disease. Christov has a particular interest in making science and medicine easier to understand for her patients and the general public. She is currently using poetry and essays to reflect on her experiences as a caregiver and a patient family member. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539437304358-0PW23F08ZYQ8O93RZ1QS/Crowe%2C+Suzanne.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Suzanne Crowe "Granny Must Grieve" (Poetry) Suzanne Crowe is a physician working in a busy children's intensive care unit in Dublin. Her interests include medical advocacy, public health and writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539437669712-JMMVWWMGI1URCR4IR82N/Davis%2C+Cortney.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Cortney Davis “Entering the Sick Room” and “It Was The Second Patient of The Day” (Poetry) Cortney Davis, a Nurse Practitioner, is the author of Taking Care of Time, winner of the Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize (Michigan State University Press, 2018). Her other poetry collections include Leopold’s Maneuvers, winner of the Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize, and Details of Flesh (Calyx Books). Her non-fiction publications include When the Nurse Becomes a Patient: A Story in Words and Images and The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing. Davis is co-editor of Learning To Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose (Kent State University Press 2018). She has received an NEA Poetry Fellowship, three CT Commission on the Arts Poetry Grants, and is an annotator for the NYU Literature and Medicine Database. www.cortneydavis.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539437710475-7N6T1OJWFTMNQSU9224K/Deady%2C+Brian.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Brian Deady “The Magic Wand” (Field Notes) Brian Deady has practiced as an emergency physician for the past 25 years at the Royal Columbian Hospital in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He and his wife have raised four children, all now young adults. During his career he has published a number of medical humanities pieces, primarily in the Canadian Medical Association Journal and the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine plus a few others in Humane Medicine, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine and The Globe and Mail. He is pleased to see his writing for the first time in Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539438418351-OIIE5UZ9X2W1ODTLCMQS/Doucet%2C+Sollette.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Sollette Doucet "Untitled" (Poetry) Sollette Doucet is a writer and artist and super-mom from Lake Charles, LA. When she's not doing those things, she's annoying her husband and three children, or making inappropriate jokes about her mental health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539438551021-3SXQZWLHDUPGVRJ02JQ9/Edison%2C+Suzanne+2018.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Suzanne Edison "Cancer Speaks in Tongues" (Poetry) Suzanne Edison MA, MFA, writes most often about the intersection of illness, healing, medicine and art. She has a child living with Juvenile Myositis. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, The Moth Eaten World. She has been awarded grants from Artist Trust; Seattle City Artists, and 4Culture of King County, Seattle. Poems are forthcoming in About Place Journal; other poetry can be found in JAMA; SWWIM, What Rough Beast, Bombay Gin, The Naugatuck River Review, The Ekphrastic Review and in several anthologies including The Healing Art of Writing, Volume One. She is a board member of the Cure JM Foundation and teaches writing workshops at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Richard Hugo House in Seattle. www.seedison.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539438678889-I6YWHXAT1C1FO3JXUEWI/Enich%2C+Michael.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Michael Enich "The Highway" (Field Notes) Michael Enich is an M3 at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, though next year he will be taking a momentary hiatus from his allopathic medical education to pursue an PhD in Social Work. Enich is originally from Chicago, IL and graduated from St. Olaf College with a BA in Religion in 2014. When people ask what he does outside of medicine, he usually says that he rock climbs, sings in his car, drinks coffee and makes hummus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539460918448-1ZOA8NBBBBHOY97OFKAR/Francis%2C+Lindsey.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Lindsey Francis "Ephemeral Garden" (Studio Art) Lindsey Francis graduated from Penn State University with a BFA in ceramics and a minor in psychology. From 2014 to 2015 she was the Valentine & Clark Westchester Community Foundation Emerging Artist. Currently, Francis has her studio in her home in Ossining, NY, where she frequently shows her work and collaborates with the local shops and restaurants. She is also a community art show curator, mural artist, an established Teaching Artist and the Program Manager for the national Creative Aging organization Lifetime Arts. She uses her artwork as a platform and voice for those living with chronic illness like herself www.lindseyfrancisceramics.com IG @more.than.muddy Facebook @ LindseyFrancisArt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539461033855-0FTR2AIU11TSM2HJDVBT/Franckowiak%2C+Melissa.png Contributors Fall 2018 - Melissa Franckowiak "Mena and Natalie" (Non-Fiction) Melissa Franckowiak is an MFA student and a practicing anesthesiologist in Buffalo, NY. Her short fiction recently placed in the Writer's Digest Literary Fiction Awards, and her work has appeared in Parent Co., MothersAlwaysWrite.com, Motherly, Ghost Parachute, Rio Grande Review, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, and the anthology, Children of Zeus. She writes thrillers as Melissa Crickard. Melissa carney-barked and scooped ice cream before becoming the mother of two children and the owner of a chatty Amazon parrot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539461201625-D2JYT05S3QS3W1PH2SU8/Geller%2C+Evan+FALL+2018.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Evan Geller "GSW Abdomen" (Poetry) Evan Geller is a general surgeon practicing in NY. In addition to his trauma-themed poetry, he has published a couple of novels and edited a textbook. His essays on medicine and other topics are published at theGoatRodeoBlog.com. The final novel of his award-winning trilogy, God Bless the Dead, is due out in January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539461347929-IUXAPQ9EFUK2ZEBS1E09/Gerson%2C+Merissa+Nathan.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Merissa Nathan Gerson "Listening to Lyme" (Non-Fiction) Merissa Nathan Gerson is an errant student of Narrative Medicine based on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Her writing on disability, sexuality, Judaism, and inherited trauma, appears in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Playboy, Elle and beyond, and she was the inherited trauma consultant to Amazon's hit show, Transparent. Gerson is a current ELI Talks 2018 Fellow and founded www.KenMeansYes.org, a rape prevention initiative urging clergy to speak up and out about consent. She has Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, among other problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539461526686-9LPZUTNH9AE9FKJEUPCZ/Gildrien%2C+Caitlin.JPG Contributors Fall 2018 - Caitlin Gildrien “Underground” (Poetry) Caitlin Gildrien is a writer, graphic designer and erstwhile farmer living at the foot of Vermont's Green Mountains. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hopper, Poets Reading the News, the Rise Up Review, and Alligator Juniper. You can find her at www.cattailcreative.com and @cattail_caitlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539462343088-VRE4P74E2Z1SIM5AWM1Y/Hassanzadeh%2C+Nilofar.JPG Contributors Fall 2018 - Nilofar Hassanzadeh "The Sculptor and The Scalpel" (Poetry) Nilofar Hassanzadeh is an aspiring surgeon, educator, and global health advocate dedicated to preserving a standard of humanism and humility in the practice of medicine. Hassanzadeh incorporates narratives within her medical work that have the ability to redefine care and bring forth an understanding that there is nothing neutral or finite about suffering. Her focus is to lead and empower fellow healthcare professionals and patients through education while maintaining a specific interest in addressing the global burden of surgical disease by providing access to safe and affordable surgical care to low and middle-income countries worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539461633836-96LEUV94YVN14XHHFOK7/Heydemann%2C+Harriet.JPG Contributors Fall 2018 - Harriet Heydemann "X-Ray" (Poetry) Harriet Heydemann is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University. Her work has been published in The Sun, Hippocampus, Brain, Child magazine and The Big Roundtable and is forthcoming in the anthology She’s Got This. Heydemann is working on her memoir My Daughter Doesn’t Want Me to Use Her Name. Early chapters have appeared in A Cup of Comfort for Parents of Children with Special Needs and Huffington Post. She was a featured reader in Listen to Your Mother, San Francisco, and she is alum of the juried workshops of Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Aspen Summer Words, and Writing by Writers. www.harrietheydemann.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539461883179-99W1K1O3W03K4NZGVMFY/Highberg%2C+Nels.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Nels P. Highberg “Request for a Search & Seizure Warrant in the Matter of Mr. Richard W. Shepard's Remains” (Non-Fiction) Nels P. Highberg is an Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages at the University of Hartford where he has also served as Director of the Program in Gender Studies, Interim Chair of the Department of Cinema, and Harry Jack Gray Distinguished Teaching Humanist. His academic essays have appeared in journals such as Medical Humanities Review, Feminist Formations, Feminist Teacher, and Performing Ethos. His literary work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in journals such as Concho River Review and Riding Light Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539462023621-59600QCZ71TXZM9LSMU0/Holland%2C+Carissa.JPG Contributors Fall 2018 - Carissa Holland "If the Body is: Words of Gratitude for Our Body Donors" (Field Notes) Carissa Holland is a third-year medical student at Griffith University on the Gold Coast in Australia. Prior to medicine, she completed an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Science at the Queensland University of Technology. Holland believes that the patient's narrative is a rich, layered text that allows her to better understand and learn to serve humanity. Poetry and literature have always comforted and nourished her. She hopes to weave narrative medicine into her career as a doctor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539462950321-YFK4JFS03GD6C7ECD6WY/Jacobson%2C+.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - John Jacobson "Now and Then" (Field Notes) John Jacobson lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York. His writing has appeared in Nature Writing, About Place Journal, Aji Magazine and The Curlew. His essay “Fly” was nominated for the “Best of the Net, 2018” anthology. For the past eleven years he has been a caregiver for his wife Claudia. He is working on a memoir about that experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539463199052-DGCFW65UQWA2T9LUH0YD/Joomun%2C+Rayda.JPG Contributors Fall 2018 - Rayda Joomun "Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy-The Broken Heart Syndrome" (Studio Art) Rayda Aaishah Joomun, MD grew up in Mauritius. She is a doctor, writer and artist. Dr. Joomun has obtained multiple literary awards for the Commonwealth ‘Write around the world’ competition and the 5th International Writers’ Conference in Mauritius. In her handmade drawing, she depicts Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy or The Broken Heart Syndrome, a rare, reversible condition where severe physical or emotional stress weakens/stuns the left ventricle which balloons out and takes the shape of the Japanese "Takot-subo" octopus trap for some time, impairing its normal pumping ability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539472204540-Y54RX1XQ06WI747OBKPB/Kelly%2C+Kristen.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Kristen Kelly "Floral Anatomy" (Studio Art) Kristen Kelly grew up in Broomall, Pa. She majored in Chemistry at La Salle University, graduating with distinguished honors of Maxima Cum Laude. After college, she attended medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine. Kelly is currently applying to residency for OBGYN with the hopes of working in an academic setting. In medical school, she participated in activities such as tutoring and research but also completed the Medical Humanities Scholar Program at Drexel. For her final project as a Medical Humanities Scholar, she incorporated her passions for art and medicine by painting an acrylic piece entitled, “Floral Anatomy,” inspired by works from the feminist artist Georgia O’Keeffe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430502299-S28ZUV58BEP4JDHUUPJY/Kravitz%2C+Richard.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Richard Kravitz “Black is the Color” (Poetry) Richard Kravitz is a psychiatrist at the VA Medical Center in West Haven, CT and teaches psychotherapy and clinical interviewing in the Yale Department of Psychiatry. His poems have been published in JAMA and The British Journal of Psychiatry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539472420451-BTMAJDGV04A6A6AI3IF1/Kurman%2C+Hollis.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Hollis Kurman “Oxygen” (Poetry) Hollis Kurman is contributing Editor on the Board of Barrow Street Books in NYC. Her poems (one of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize) have been published in Barrow Street, Rattle, Phoebe, the Ocean State Review, VIA (Voices in Italian Americana), and AMS (Cipher Literary Magazine). Kurman also writes poems and stories for children. Her debut picture book, Welcome 1! A Counting Book of Kindnesses (the refugee child’s journey through the lens of help offered along the way) will be published in 2020 by Otter Barry Books (UK) with an endorsement by Amnesty International. The writer, who lives in Amsterdam, has studied poetry with Sharon Olds and Daniel Hoffman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539474569487-6WWZBKG730L5VGSTFPRD/Leveen%2C+Lois.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Lois Leveen “Perfusion” (Poetry) Lois Leveen, PhD, earned degrees from Harvard University, the University of Southern California and UCLA, and was a Kienle Scholar in Medical Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine. She is the author of the novels Juliet’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bowser. Her poetry has been published in literary journals and anthologies, and inscribed on a hospital wall. Dr. Leveen has given presentations and workshops at the American Cancer Society, the Health Humanities Consortium annual conferences, the Hippocrates Poetry & Medicine Symposium, the International Conference on Physician Health, and Stanford Medicine X. She designs and leads seminars that allow medical practitioners, patients, and patients' families to connect and reflect through discussions of literature and visual art. She welcomes correspondence at Lois@humanitiesforhealth.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539472523244-TMC9FDPMW768384QNIN2/Lindsay%2C+Meg.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Meg Lindsay “Driving” and "Visible Signs"(Poetry) Meg Lindsay, who has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, was a semi-finalist in two "Discovery"/The Nation Contests and a finalist in an Inkwell competition. She has poems published in Light, Tricycle, Pivot, Salamander, Alimentum, Connecticut River Review, among others, and is also an established painter showing for decades in galleries and museums. Her chapbook about the process and emotions of painting titled A Painter’s Night Journal was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. The subject of her writing dramatically changed direction when her husband, an athlete, collapsed with bone cancer in 2016. www.meglindsayartist.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539472796239-702UICLRLRXXD8MRTU5T/Liroff%2C+Meghan.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Meghan G. Liroff “For Mary, With Love” (Fiction) Meghan G. Liroff, MD is an emergency physician working out of metro Detroit. At this early stage in her career, she is focused on becoming a good doctor, healthcare disparities, and young physician education. Her favorite book is The Velveteen Rabbit. Find more of her publications in Pulse, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine News, and FemInEm. When not at work, you can find her either in a theater, or any place under an open sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539472880236-WHBG1SJCDGIYEEF04K05/Morton%2C+Elizabeth.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Elizabeth Morton “An Inventory of Potions in Tanka” (Poetry) Elizabeth Morton is a writer who has published in New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, the UK, Canada and the USA. She was feature poet in the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017, and is included in Best Small Fictions 2016. Her first poetry collection, Wolf, was published with Mākaro Press in 2017. In 2013 she won the New Voices – Emerging Poets Competition. She is completing an MLitt at the University of Glasgow, usually in her pajamas. She likes to write about broken things, and things with teeth. www.ekmorton.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539462126150-EMB4BOT540XLTH349NQ3/Himali+photo.jpeg Contributors Fall 2018 - Himali McInnes “The Kindness of Strangers” (Non-Fiction) Himali McInnes is a general practitioner who works in a busy clinic in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city. The clinic operates in a low socio-economic suburb with patients who have high health needs. Nonetheless, it is also a place of multiple small kindnesses and rich stories. McInnes is also a constant gardener, a beekeeper and a part-time vet to her pets. She enjoys writing essays, articles, short stories, and flash fiction, and occasionally tries to write poetry. She has been published in magazines, literary journals, online and a flash fiction anthology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539473337798-DSSO06WEB1M1JOJ1U9FI/Nance%2C+Martha.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Martha Nance “Looking Through the Album” and “Why Compassion” (Non-Fiction) Martha Nance is a neurologist in Minnesota who specializes in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. She has published many scientific research articles in journals with long, scary names, but is new to literary writing. She had one essay, "What it mean(s)(t) to be a doctor" published earlier this year in Dreamers Creative Writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539473051643-Y1S5BFVG4H2MEHVC5NCU/Mulcahy%2C+Collin.png Contributors Fall 2018 - Collin Mulcahy “Scrap of a Story" (Field Notes) Collin Mulcahy is completing his training in otolaryngology at George Washington University. As a native Texan, he is an avid Houston sports fan and enjoys traveling, hiking, and a fine whiskey. He also enjoys studying works of narrative medicine and surgical history. Mulcahy lives in Washington, DC with his wife, who is also a medical resident, where he is working to pursue his dream of a career in oncologic head and neck surgery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430508091-HWK5NMJEW0IBD819531M/Newman%2C+M+Sophia.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - M. Sophia Newman "Under the Wreckage, An Ocean" (Non-Fiction) M. Sophia Newman, MPH has been a global health researcher and a global health journalist and is currently a manuscript editor for JAMA Network journals. She is an alumna of the University of Illinois, the Fulbright program, and Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma, where she earned a certificate in global mental health. See more at msophianewman.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539510581298-96ILSCWXPQ0FTXY1VPR3/Oh%2C+Sarah+Se-Jung.png Contributors Fall 2018 - Sarah Se-Jung Oh "Challenges of Introducing Narrative Medicine to South Korea: A Grounded Theory Approach" (Academic) Sarah Se-Jung Oh is a high school senior at Korea International School. Originally from Australia, she moved to South Korea about 4 years ago. As an avid bibliophile and journalist, Oh was drawn to Narrative Medicine because it encompasses her values: literature, medicine, and most importantly empathy. She decided to embark on this research topic as her AP Capstone Research project, a college level research course. This paper is her first step in her pursuit in this field. After contacting Professor Rita Charon, she had the privilege to meet her in person in June 2018 to discuss her research and path. Her number one dream today is to cultivate more experience and knowledge to construct a Narrative Medicine model for Korea. See more of her work: http://stemliterature.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430515903-4G9CQ6JH2KE8KCC502IJ/Rancy%2C+Schneider+K.png Contributors Fall 2018 - Schneider K. Rancy "Kübler-Ross” (Poetry) Schneider K. Rancy is a Haitian-American graduate of Columbia University, where he studied English and Comparative Literature and Biology. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Columbia New Poetry, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Ars Medica, Apogee, The Seventh Wave, and Moko Magazine. His novel Beyond the Baths of Stars was selected as a semi-finalist for Black Lawrence Press’s 2017 The Big Moose Prize and a finalist for the University of New Orleans’ 2017 Publishing Laboratory Contest. He is a medical student in Brooklyn, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430513478-9YZ08MU2SBQLO8221ZQ5/Rol%2C+Alida+FALL+2018+SPRING+2018JPG.JPG Contributors Fall 2018 - Alida Rol “What Was, Still Is” (Poetry) Alida Rol practiced as an OBGYN physician for many years. She holds an MFA in writing from Pacific University. Her poems and essays have won several awards and have appeared in Rhino, Passager, The Examined Life, Nasty Women Poets Anthology, and Hektoen International, among others. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430515428-QMDYE56Y2LICIX98ONTW/Ruescher%2C+Scott_by_Briget_Ganske.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Scott Ruescher “The Delivery” (Poetry) Scott Ruescher has won annual poetry prizes in recent years from Able Muse journal (2016), Poetry Quarterly (2015), and the New England Poetry Club (in both 2013 and 2014)— always with poems that are as geographically particular and sociologically focused as “The Delivery.” More such work can be found in his book, Waiting for the Light to Change, published by Prolific Press in 2017. Other recent poems have appeared in About Place, Pangyrus, Tower Journal, Solstice, and Origins Journal. He administers the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and teaches English in the Boston University Prison Education Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430517684-UN2HO5JLVYQNCJH9PZ6I/Smith%2C+Rob+McClure.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Rob McClure Smith “ICU” (Non-Fiction) Rob McClure Smith is John and Elaine Fellowes Distinguished Professor of English at Knox College. His work has appeared in many literary magazines including Chicago Quarterly Review, Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review and Manchester Review. Queen’s Ferry Press published his short fiction collection entitled The Violence in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430531066-9ZQJ5TBI5MMDLFX23EHG/Tan%2C+Irena.JPG Contributors Fall 2018 - Irena Tan “Untidy Lipstick” (Fiction) Irena Tan is a third-year internal medicine resident at Duke University Hospital. She is currently applying into hematology-oncology fellowship positions, and Tan hopes to become an oncologist focused on compassionate care of her patients. Her interests are narrative medicine, palliative care, and clinical research in oncology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430518131-ZERUWNNQQMND85MHSOF0/Taylor-McCartney%2C+Paul.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Paul Taylor-McCartney “The Handkerchief” (Poetry) Paul Taylor-McCartney is resident in the U.K. and is currently Head of Secondary Teacher Education at the University of Warwick. He has enjoyed a long and varied teaching career in the discipline of English/Theatre Studies and is following a part-time PhD in Creative Writing with Leicester University. His research interests include dystopian studies, narratology and 20th-century literary criticism. His poetry, short fiction and academic articles have appeared in a range of publications including Aesthetica, Birmingham Journal of Language and Literature and Education in Practice, (National Association for Writers in Education). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430543243-QWFNKNEHOBA8UQBSGUIQ/White%2C+Joanna.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Joanna White “Bodies Revealed Exhibition” (Poetry) Joanna White, who studied poetry with Robert Fanning and Jeffrey Bean, has works in The Examined Life Journal, Healing Muse, Hospital Drive, West Texas Poetry Review, Temenos, The MacGuffin, Measure, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Earth’s Daughters, Dunes Review, KYSO Flash Anthology No. 2, and the Poetry and Medicine column of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), among others. The music professor has performed her poems recently in Michigan, Florida, and in Iowa at the Examined Life Conference. joannawhitepoet.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430532096-MSKAFM8UNI586MXAOXRE/Wolkin%2C+Jennifer.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Jennifer Wolkin “Aphasia,” “Brain as Timepiece” and “Watching a Synesthete IRL” (Poetry). Jennifer Wolkin is a health and neuro-psychologist, speaker, mental health advocate and mindfulness-meditation practitioner. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College. Her poetry has been published/forthcoming in a number of literature journals. Her non-fiction work, translating and sharing the science of brain research and mindfulness, has been published in Thrive Global, The Huffington Post, Mindful.org, and PsychCentral among others; a compilation can be found on her blog BrainCurves.com. Wolkin is most passionate about writing at the intersection where the mind, body, brain and spirit meet, giving voice to those who have sometimes literally lost theirs by bearing witness to their pain (and resilience) through her writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539430533211-133H5KVUSL8RHYNFUF1P/Wusinich%2C+Christina.jpg Contributors Fall 2018 - Christina Wusinich "Metaphors of Regulation and Transformation: Narrating Depression Through Neuroscience and the Humanities" (Academic) Christina Wusinich is an interdisciplinary researcher pursuing the study of depression through multiple narratives. In 2016, she earned her bachelor’s at NYU’s Gallatin School, where she studied depression through philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Last May, she completed her M.S. in Neuroscience and Education at Columbia’s Teachers College, where she continued to explore neuroscientific narratives of depression. Currently, Wusinich is engaged in a range of research projects related to emotion regulation, community mental health programs, health psychology, and unsheltered homelessness. With a long-term goal of being a researcher and clinical psychologist, she is dedicated to advocating for more ethical, multi-narrative clinical practice and research. https://www.theintima.org/how-a-heart-grows daily 0.75 2018-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1539376443900-VAEKOEFAPPQ09PGQZ9NZ/%28c%29+How+a+Heart+Grows+by+Susan+Baller-Shepard+FALL+2018+INTIMA.jpg How a Heart Grows © How a Heart Grows. Susan Baller-Shepard. Fall 2018 Intima https://www.theintima.org/the-breath-series daily 0.75 2019-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1557666999533-BIT2ND0IFH9N1SKFOWFT/%C2%A9The+Breath+Series.+Marianne+Petit.jpg The Breath Series ©The Breath Series: Anatomical Flap Book. Marianne R. Petit. 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Fall 2019 Intima https://www.theintima.org/the-trauma-narrative-as-a-patient-centered-empowerment-tool-michael-lowery-wilson daily 0.75 2020-11-01 https://www.theintima.org/contributors-fall-2019-intima daily 0.75 2021-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573775481548-FFDVZSFAA69X7EMFC0JY/1%2BArnold%252C%2BMichael.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Michael Arnold POETRY: Chronic Black Excellence Michael Arnold is a Canton, Ohio native who is currently a second-year medical student at OUHCOM. He became enamored by the power of narrative medicine shortly after joining The Open Book Project on the Cleveland campus of his medical school. The radical vulnerability fundamental to putting his truths on paper has provided him with an invaluable emotional outlet while he navigates the medical field. In the future, Arnold is interested in exploring the intersection of preventative family medicine, public health and social justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573775506717-S179UKQK7LU134TLO9SK/Abeson%252C%2BElisabeth.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Elisabeth Abeson STUDIO ART: Integrative Medicine Elisabeth Abeson, a recent graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute, takes an integrative approach to treating her sero-positive erosive Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and is in remission thanks to classical Ayurveda & Allopathic Medicine. Her intention is to leverage her background in “cross-sector partnership building for sustainable development” at the United Nations (UN), Multinational Corporations (MNC) & Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) to establish lines of dialogue between sectors of society. Core to her personal mission is working in solidarity with marginalized communities including those who are suffering from illness on the level of body, mind and spirit. She is setting up a practice to offer Ayurvedic Health Counseling & Integrative Health Coaching to those with Rheumatoid Arthritis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573656979873-UG7A88QRD1XPA48R6R5B/Atlas%2C+Hope.jpeg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Hope Atlas POETRY: The Hospital Room of Understanding Hope Atlas has been putting pen to paper since the age of fifteen. Writing is her lifeline and her voice. She writes her story through poetry, quotes and memoirs. She has a master’s degree in Reading Education from Syracuse University and has worked with children through adults. For many years Atlas worked as a Bereavement volunteer. Most recently she has devoted her time as a caregiver to her aging loved ones. She has been published in the online journals, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Moon and Highland Park Poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573656988671-9GUCNE2PV82P37MOTLWZ/Bhasi%2C+Ashwini.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Ashwini Bhasi POETRY: Morning Walk with Arthritic Flare Ashwini Bhasi is a poet and visual artist from Kerala, India. Trained as a Bioinformatics analyst, she is interested in exploring the poetics of the human genome, its central dogma and the epigenetics of shame, trauma and chronic pain. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in RHINO, Room Magazine, Dunes Review, Rogue Agent, The Feminist Wire and Driftwood. She is the winner of the William J. Shaw Memorial Poetry Prize from Dunes Review and was a finalist for the 2018 Rita Dove Poetry Award. She is also a Tin House Summer workshop alumnus and the recipient of the Voices of Color fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573775589297-F6LXZLJQ2Y1IVRXC0FGD/Bracken%252C%2BRachel.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Rachel Conrad Bracken ACADEMIC: Diagnosing the "American Girl": Henry James's "Daisy Miller" as a Study in Illness Narrative Rachel Conrad Bracken is Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She received her PhD in literature from Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she was affiliated with the Centers for Critical and Cultural Theory and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. As a scholar of US literature and the health humanities, Bracken explores the intersections of literature and public health at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as contemporary speculative fiction, medical technology, and the rhetoric surrounding pediatric vaccination. Bracken’s research appears or is forthcoming in English Language Notes (ELN), Public: Art | Culture | Ideas, Big Data and Society, Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, and the collection Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations (Rutgers UP, 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573658222012-VXKYGVKN9SGC5S26CXEL/Brenna%252C%2BDwayne.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Dwayne Brenna FICTION: Respite Dwayne Brenna is the award-winning author of several books of poetry and fiction. His two books of poetry, Stealing Home and Give My Love to Rose, were published by Hagios Press in 2012 and 2015 respectively. Stealing Home, a poetic celebration of the game of baseball, was subsequently shortlisted for several Saskatchewan Book Awards, including the University of Regina Book of the Year Award. His first novel New Albion was published by Coteau Books in autumn 2016. New Albion won the 2017 Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. It is one of three English language novels shortlisted for the prestigious MM Bennetts Award for historical fiction. His short stories and poems have been published in an array of journals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573662535093-494YOP72EK0FREZNYRNB/Brewster%2C+Ryan+FALL+2019INTIMA.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Ryan Brewster STUDIO ART: The Patient is Sacred Ryan Brewster is a fourth-year medical student at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His piece explores the fleeting moments of calm before a surgical procedure. The figure lies on the OR table, bathed in light with arms splayed out like the crucifixion. This image evokes an almost religious scene and it reminds us—the patient is sacred. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776217967-1RMXC6K1V2CQVSOXPNA0/Burns%252C%2BJoe.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Joseph Burns NON-FICTION: Retrospection Series Joseph Burns is a Resident in Pediatrics at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York in New Hyde Park, NY. Burns, a native of Orlando, Florida and an alumnus of Stetson University, is a 2019 graduate of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University in Miami. He is passionate about the arts and community engagement; his interests include congenital heart disease and American Indian Health. He hopes to pursue a career in pediatric cardiology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776234409-LR8FN65U5R60289MZM3U/Carter%252C%2BAlbert%2BHoward%2B.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Albert Howard Carter III FIELD NOTES: The Cookie Intervention Albert Howard Carter, III, is faculty affiliate, Trent Center, Duke University. He has worked in the literature and medicine/health area for over 30 years. His latest book is In Peril: All People, All Life, Our Earth; In Prospect: Better Healthcare and Medicine (UCMedicalHumanitiesPress.com). Others include Clowns and Jokers Can Heal Us: Comedy and Medicine; Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey, and First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab. Carter, who taught literature at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Fla., for many years, has been a pastoral care volunteer in an ER/Trauma Center also a licensed massage therapist and certified Qigong healer working with cancer patients. He and his wife now live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776395936-1987DXMMOB2LDE59L5TM/Cass%252C%2BWilliam.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - William Cass FICTION: Gentle Breezes William Cass has had over 190 short stories accepted for publication in a variety of literary magazines such as december, Briar Cliff Review, and Zone 3. Recently, he was a finalist in short fiction and novella competitions at Glimmer Train and Black Hill Press, received a couple of Pushcart nominations, and won writing contests at Terrain.org and The Examined Life Journal. He lives in San Diego, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657005143-VXF10B1HG4JT8BL2AW3U/Crowder%2C+Charlotte.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Charlotte Crowder FIELD NOTES: In the Pink Charlotte Crowder lives and writes on the coast of Maine. An accredited editor by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences with a master’s degree in public health, she is a medical writer by day. Publications in which her short stories have appeared include among others American Writers Review, Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors, The Maine Review, and Brilliant Flash Fiction. Forthcoming are short stories in Dirigo Dreams Anthology (City View Press, Fall 2019) and Anthology 2, Dreamers Creative Writing (Winter 2020). Her first picture book, A Fine Orange Bucket, was released by North Country Press in June 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776382491-TKRUQRFOAYDHJ0CW1YNL/Cunningham%252C%2BTIM.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Tim Cunningham NON-FICTION: Sulieman Tim Cunningham has been an actor, clown, nurse and assistant professor. Currently he is a nurse administrator for Emory Healthcare. The lessons Cunningham learned while working with people infected by Ebola virus continue to inform his current practice while also haunting him when he reflects on the global disparities of health. @timcunninghamrn www.agoodkite.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776408227-WXZX3PLTMMB2XVKV83YP/Desmond%252C%2BJane.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Jane Desmond POETRY: Veterinary Lessons Jane Desmond is a poet and scholar who writes about the intersections between veterinary medicine and human medicine, as well as our relations with non-human animals. A Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she also holds an affiliate faculty appointment at the College of Veterinary Medicine, and is the author of several academic books, including Displaying Death and Animating Life (U. of Chicago Press, 2016). Her poetry has appeared in Persimmon Tree in the U.S. and in Words for the Wild in the U.K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776420933-7QJQDDLZMAZF2QLDPYTH/Dimsdale%252C%2BNancy.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Nancy Dimsdale POETRY: What's Left of My Friend with Emphysema Nancy Dimsdale lives in San Diego. Her poems have been published in Magee Park Poets Anthology, A Year in Ink Anthology, San Diego Poetry Annual, Paterson Literary Review, and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657016606-5BXUYOGN64KFJ86K34FP/DiRenzo%2C+Rossana.png Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Rossana Di Renzo ACADEMIC: Embraced by Words: Narratives and Metaphors of Illness in the Communication between People with Spinal Cord Injury, Caregivers and Health Professionals Rossana Di Renzo, educator and trainer, lives and works in Bologna. Di Renzo was the former coordinator of placements for health profession trainees and contact person of the relationship with the Universities at the Bologna AUSL (Public Health Services). Her interest has always been narrative and applied narrative medicine, which she uses in different fields: in training courses for health professionals, in the degree course in Nursing at the University of Bologna and in research. She currently collaborates to introduce narrative medicine for research in collaboration with Associations of people with chronic diseases. Recently, as external expert, she concluded the research for “The audacity of fragility: Patients with Spinal Cord Injury caregivers and professionals meet each other through narrative medicine” at Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute of Imola. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573690871733-PA6MB8EZZUVQCXHMRI7M/Dubin%2C+Minna.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Minna Dubin NON-FICTION: Sensory Processing Disorder Minna Dubin is a writer, public artist, and performer in the Bay Area. She writes essays, monologues, and lists about growing up, identity, and motherhood. Minna’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Parents Magazine, MUTHA Magazine, the Forward, Akashic Books’ Terrible Tuesdays, and various literary magazines and anthologies. Her literary public art has been on exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library, The Museum of Motherhood, and The Mom Egg Review. She is the recipient of an artist enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and has received writing residencies at InCahoots, the Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Hopscotch House, and Lacawac Sanctuary and Biological Field Station in the Pocono Mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573775650716-SRRFJH07XJ6Y2LD6LIXC/Eisenberg%252C%2BAndrea.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Andrea Eisenberg FIELD NOTES: Willing to Die Andrea Eisenberg is an OB/GYN in the Metro Detroit area. Through her years in practice, she has shared in countless stories of joy, sadness, resilience, and hope. She has found story-telling has helped to enrich her experiences with her patients. She has been published in Intima, The Examined Life, and Pulse, the Voice of the Heart of Medicine. In addition, she has begun a narrative medicine program with the ob/gyn residents at Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital. She blogs at www.secretlifeofobgyn.com and has been a guest blogger on KevinMD and Doximity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657023503-MLE8S6FAS7URGY8KO7YH/English%2C+Laura.png Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Laura English NON-FICTION: Cradle and All Laura English posts a blog called Eat More Life (https://eatmorelife.weebly.com), a healing space for women living with anorexia. On Sunday afternoons, she teaches writing to people from all walks of life. A chapbook, Graves Too Small to Be Red (Finishing Line Press) was published last year. She lives in Lancaster County, PA, with her husband and four sons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657025474-8PB3EXRXGONAT5OJP0PX/Fields%2C+Lauren.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Lauren Fields POETRY: Learning Pronunciation Lauren Fields is currently a third-year medical student at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She has been writing ever since she was little, and poetry has been an important part of her journey to, and through, medical school. Her poems have been published in Blackberry: a magazine, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, WATER Literary and Arts Magazine, Reflexions Literary and Fine Arts Journal of CUIMC, and The Morningside Monocle of Columbia Law School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573775709200-SAOMU049KP06F2AFE129/Gambill%252C%2BLauren.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Lauren Gambill FIELD NOTES: Brandon’s Last Doctor Lauren Gambill, MD MPA is a pediatrician who practices hospital medicine in Austin, Texas. She is a passionate advocate for equity in healthcare. She spends her time taking care of sick kids, fighting for better health policy, writing, and wrangling an opinionated toddler. Find her on Twitter @renkate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657060464-LG4YQULL0WG58TO016WR/Giebenhain%2C+K.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Katy Giebenhain POETRY: Swedish Fish Rescues Katy Giebenhain is the author of Sharps Cabaret (Mercer University Press). She is part of the monthly Narrative Medicine group at WellSpan York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in The Healing Muse, The National Academy of Medicine's Expressions of Clinician Well-Being online gallery (Athena, Dialing), The Arkansas Review, The Glasgow Review of Books, The Examined Life and elsewhere. She co-hosts the coffeehouse poetry series "Upstairs at the Ragged Edge" and works at Carroll Community College. Her MPhil in creative writing is from University of South Wales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776010383-3OQTDU4SJOCTZZLNZF41/Glass%252C%2BNancy%2BL.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Nancy Glass FIELD NOTES: What did La Abuela See? Nancy Glass has had a long and satisfying career taking care of children, practicing—at various times—pediatric critical care medicine, pediatric anesthesia and pain medicine, and palliative care. Currently she works as a pediatric hospice physician at Houston Hospice. In 2015, Dr. Glass began the Master’s in Liberal Studies program at Rice University, with the goal of becoming a better writer so that she could tell her hospice stories. She is now working on a collection of these hospice stories.To deal with the emotional stresses and burdens of hospice care, Dr. Glass knits incessantly, enjoys bird photography, and listens to classical music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1618832069294-4Z3LC1P83JZCQNP5PPWE/Goetz%2C+Teddy.jpeg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Teddy G. Goetz POETRY: CFTR Teddy G. Goetz (he/him or they/them) is a psychiatry resident at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to earning his MD at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, he studied biochemistry and gender studies at Yale, conducting research on a wide spectrum of biologically- and socially-determined aspects of gender-based health disparities, including earning his MS developing the first animal model of gender-affirming hormone therapy. His current focuses include mixed-methods research on LGBTQ mental health, as well as narrative medicine and physician advocacy. More about his scholarly and artistic work can be found at teddygoetz.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657074522-HQG1A4UTERBTHGYBFPCF/Gurley-Green%2C+Sarah.jpeg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Sarah Gurley-Green NON-FICTION: The Unwanted Familiar Sarah Gurley-Green, PhD, is a professor at Salem State University, researches, a writer, and a researcher in a variety of health and illness subjects. gurleygreen.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776184049-MOG5LFQ3EHQ6ABCCCESC/Hameedi%252C%2BUsman.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Usman Hameedi POETRY: Heirloom Usman Hameedi is a Pakistani-American scientist and poet. Since 2008, he has competed in and coached for collegiate, national, and international level poetry slams. Most recently, he was ranked 15th at the 2019 Individual World Poetry Slam and was invited to open the Final Stage Slam. He has been featured on Upworthy, Huffington Post, and the Story Collider: Storytelling for Scientists podcast. In addition to his spoken word background, Hameedi has contributed to academic and industry laboratories with an array of research focuses, including protein crystallography, mitochondrial dynamics, cancer cell metabolism, and drug discovery. Of all the things he has done, he is most proud of inspiring others to dream big and see the greatness within themselves! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573783969876-JH6F09H7EE2630XOTAVX/Holdren%2C+Sarah.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Sarah Holdren FIELD NOTES: Food is Love Sarah Holdren graduated from Elon University in 2018 with a degree in anthropology and public health. After graduation, she spent a year in Finland as a Fulbright U.S. Student Grantee conducting qualitative research in the neonatal intensive care unit. Her time spent talking with American and Finnish mothers of preterm infants serves as the inspiration for much of her writing. She is now a student and National Science Foundation graduate research fellow at Columbia University in the Narrative Medicine program, and aspires to become a physician-scholar practicing at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573776658418-BNDKG9ZD8F2EC6HXM3DQ/Kamel%252C%2BTeya.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Teya Kamel STUDIO ART: Self Portrait 1: The Reveal Teya Kamel is a nurse educator and yoga instructor at Carlow University in Pittsburgh. As an artist, she values self-expression through a variety of methods as a way of exploring emotions associated with being a health care provider and cancer survivor. About Self Portrait 1 The Reveal (acrylic paint), Kamel writes: “Intoxicated by chemotherapy and transformed through radical surgery; stripped bare, vanity vanished. Scanning lifestyle and environment as opportunity for renewal; a tabula rasa.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657085824-49A721Q1I3KJ1XYIC5BN/Karri%2C+Padmavathi.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Padmavathi Karri FIELD NOTES : Stuck Padmavathi Karri, known as V, is a student at McGovern Medical School. She is currently on a research and service focused gap year between her third and fourth year of medical school. V has a background in social work and is curious about many things including how social justice interweaves itself into medicine and how race and gender influence perception and health care. This curiosity sometimes manifests as literary scribbling and dialogue with others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657086243-G6OSSZE9E04TBZJSH7I8/Kerlin%2C+Emily.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Emily Kerlin POETRY: Outpatient Procedure Emily Kerlin studied Creative Writing while attending Antioch College. She has been teaching the difference between “chicken” and “kitchen” to English Language Learners in public schools for the last 10 years. She lives in Urbana, Illinois with her husband, four teenagers and a geriatric brown dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573781013524-5TNRDCGQXB0F2F724A7R/Lutchins%252C%2BLaurie.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Laurie Kutchins NON-FICTION: Like a God Chained to a Colossal Rock Laurie Kutchins has three published books of poetry including The Night Path which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry and received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA Editions. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals including The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Orion. The essay appearing in Intima is excerpted from a completed memoir “Let the Dark River Pass,” currently seeking a publisher. She teaches creative writing at James Madison University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573780867115-ITQ4LU2T8M2HAF0XA3HA/La%252BPorta%25252C%252BTina.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Tina La Porta STUDIO ART: Side Effects Tina La Porta is an artist diagnosed with Schizophrenia. She was introduced to art therapy during a stay in the hospital while living in New York City. Since then her artwork has focused on how she interprets her mental illness. Ms. La Porta’s use of medications revolve around her grappling with their side effects, “Pills are like wallpaper-- they cover up the symptoms but they are not a cure.” says La Porta. “For me, they completely replace psychotherapy.” In addition to her visual art, Ms. La Porta has also made a series of sound works based on her experiences of hearing voices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573781324019-VS2DSRD7V3FHGT0CQI1H/McManus%252C%2BShanda.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Shanda McManus NON-FICTION: Learning to be Real Shanda McManus is a family medicine physician with an interest in narrative medicine. She believes that knowing our stories and our patient’s stories make us better doctors and people. Dr. McManus is currently a student at Project Write Now in Red Bank, NJ where she is working on a memoir. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and five children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657089417-9R57KIE0CEK4893PHP8X/McMurren%2C+Chase.jpeg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Chase Everett McMurren POETRY: Brooching Chase Everett McMurren, MD, is a queer, Métis physician with an interest in supporting healthy living and dying. He is the physician lead for the home visiting program at Taddle Creek Family Health Team where he provides care-at-home for long-living elders who are homebound due to their infirmities. Dr. McMurren, an assessor and clinical supervisor for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and a Lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, is also a psychotherapist and the medical director of the Al and Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre at Toronto Western Hospital. With a focus on nourishment, Dr. McMurren is currently studying music thanatology (playing the harp as a mode of healing), and training as a Medicine Man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573783618532-C83NQW9B1PSO6C06LEPM/Intima+logo.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Thomas Mampalam POETRY: The List Thomas Mampalam is a neurosurgeon in private practice in Northern California. Dr. Mampalam writes poetry informed by his medical, immigration, and family experiences. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the journal Neurology, The Healing Muse, The Avalon Literary Review, California Quarterly, and The Cortland Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573781720642-DGQ5AZG9BJ9T66RL2PD2/Millan%252C%2BJustin.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Justin Millan NON-FICTION: Accumulations Justin Millan is a writer and registered nurse working in long-term acute care in New England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573781964276-IY4QS2LIUMD0ZBYS93KB/Millard%252C%2BVictoria.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Victoria Millard NON FICTION: Lessons from My Mother Victoria Millard writes essays, humor and poetry, and is working on a memoir about her life as a stage and hospital clown. Her writing has appeared in Humor Times and Sow's Ear Poetry Review. Forthcoming in Halfway Down the Stairs is her article about placing second in the Ladies’ Chicken Calling Contest at the Iowa State Fair. Victoria lives in Seattle with her psychiatrist husband, and is proud to be the silliest mother and grandmother on the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782065216-V05O3QCP5MKFAC1OOV45/Paul_Trisha.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Trisha Paul FIELD NOTES: Stroppy Sevens Trisha K. Paul, MD is a resident physician in pediatrics who aspires to be a pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician. “Stroppy Sevens” is a story she shared at the first annual metro-wide Story Slam, a live storytelling event for residents/fellows in Minneapolis, MN. She is an Intima editor passionate about narrative medicine, ethics, dancing barefoot, and anything made of cork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782089404-664E2DCVQTLT1PCT2WD2/Randall%252C%2BMichele%2BParker.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Michele Parker Randall POETRY: An Explanation of Sorts Michele Parker Randall is the author of Museum of Everyday Life (Kelsay Books 2015). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Nimrod International Journal, Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Stetson University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1575244592369-HU3TEAPSF86O9MHU4GWR/Roley%252C%2BBrian.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Brian Ascalon Roley POETRY: Caregiving Brian Ascalon Roley is a writer and professor. His books include American Son: A Novel (W.W. Norton), which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Book, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist, and winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Prose Book Award, among other honors, and has been taught widely. His fiction, literary essays and poetry have appeared in numerous journals and in anthologies published by Norton, Penguin and elsewhere, including several bestselling books in the Philippines. His collection, The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal (Northwestern University Press) appeared in April 2016. Roley has received fellowships and awards from the University of Cambridge, Cornell University, the Ohio Arts Council, Djerassi, Ragdale, and the VCCA. He is currently Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. More info at www.brianroley.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782250658-3QAPWQQ93IEZ7MDN0J3F/Scott%252C%2BAriel.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Ariel Scott NON-FICTION: Carlie’s Crack Pipe Ariel Scott is a family medicine physician at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine where she practices as a hospitalist, primary care physician, and specialty care physician for adults with intellectual and developmental disability. She was involved in the Columbia Narrative Medicine Online Certificate Program and co-teaches a Writing & Healing elective for 4th year medical students as well as reflective writing course for pre-med students. She was involved in the Columbia Narrative Medicine Online Certificate Program and looks forward to furthering her own study of narrative medicine in the near future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573657111567-AEV4CBTG8TVW7Z9ZWSUU/Shannon%2C+Logan.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Logan M. Shannon NON-FICTION: The Gold Standard Logan M. Shannon has a BFA in Studio Art with a minor in English from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently writing a memoir about her experience as a living liver donor and is generally trying to convince everyone she meets that the liver is, by far, the best organ. Shannon lives in New Hampshire with her husband, and their prolific sourdough starter, Seymour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782378418-7DLLLTDX5SFZY3Q928BC/Soehl%252C%2BElizabeth.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Elizabeth Soehl STUDIO ART: Transplant Elizabeth Soehl is a self-taught artist who uses art as a medium for expressing herself at her core. She has struggled with bipolar disorder since her teens, and her goal is to find ways of helping others who face mental illness. Soehl is empathetic, caring and always looking for a new way to "create." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782422547-W8ODUWC9DGKIJLWMMW6E/Stella%252C%2BJennifer.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Jennifer Stella POETRY: First Page Jennifer Stella is a writer and a doctor, as well as a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Cameroon. She completed her MFA in poetry at Brooklyn College while in medical school in San Francisco and subsequent internal medicine residency in New York City. Writing has appeared in Omniverse, Calyx, Tupelo Quarterly, the Dusie Blog, Eleven Eleven, Der Grief, Pharos, and others. Two chapbooks of her writing have been published: Your Lapidarium Feels Wrought (2016, Ugly Duckling Presse) and Letters We're Allowed (2019, above/ground press). Stella was recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo with Doctors without Borders as an HIV/TB physician. She currently works in the TB clinic of the Department of Public Health in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782849421-EVZE0UNKUXD9BQ3U6ADW/Stidham%252C%2BGreg.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Greg Stidham POETRY: The Lock Greg Stidham is a retired pediatric intensivist (ICU physician) currently living in Kingston, Ontario, with his wife Pam and their two foundling "canine kids." Stidham’s passion for medicine has yielded in retirement to his other lifelong passions—literature and creative writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782861745-3C8INQELJUSRQHVBTNGR/Swain%252C%2BAmanda%2BFinegold.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Amanda Finegold Swain FIELD NOTES: Hand Holding Amanda Finegold Swain is a family medicine physician who has worked in student health at the University of Pennsylvania for over a decade. She finds inspiration for her writing in reflecting on her own years as a student, as well through the interactions with the challenging and fascinating students she treats. A native New Yorker whose parents both pursued creative careers, Amanda chose a decidedly alternate path in medicine. Happily, she has found plenty of creativity in medicine and that writing is a wonderful tool to understand both her own and her patients’ lives. She is also excited to be developing a humanities, arts and medicine curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782880703-ESFPC06E5KVPLKI6WZ7C/Valinoti%252C%2BEileen%2BSPRING%2B2018.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Eileen Valinoti NON-FICTION The Insulin Unit 1954: A Memoir Eileen Valinoti, BSN, M.A. is retired after a varied career in oncology, nursing education and school nursing, Valinoti.is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in literary magazines such as Confrontation, in Parents and Glamour and The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1573782889857-G1IKA6NXBJ5NKJ5VM8PS/Vimercati%252C%2BMarilena.jpg Contributors Fall 2019 Intima - Marilena Vimercati ACADEMIC: Embraced by Words: Narratives and Metaphors of Illness in the Communication between People with Spinal Cord Injury, Caregivers and Health Professionals Marilena Vimercati lives and works in Milan. Vimercati is the former teacher of sociology, currently collaborates with Fondazione ISMU – Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity—an independent scientific body—to carry out projects focusing on interaction between migration processes and training paths. She has research skills in the social and educational field, in using narrative methodologies in the different contexts in which she worked/works (students’ and professionals’ placements in European countries, and currently with migrants). She is also involved in training for trainers focused on inclusion. Recently, as external expert, she concluded the research for“ The audacity of fragility: patients with Spinal Cord Injury caregivers and professionals meet each other through narrative medicine” at Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute of Imola. https://www.theintima.org/mirella-annette-leddy daily 0.75 2025-10-31 https://www.theintima.org/i-am-hamm-austin-valido daily 0.75 2025-10-31 https://www.theintima.org/when-i-grow-up-layla-joudeh daily 0.75 2025-10-31 https://www.theintima.org/fall-2025-homepage daily 1.0 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/43a94829-f53e-41a3-ae95-82936b28cf22/Where+It+Hurts+Cover+%282%29.jpg FALL 2025 HOMEPAGE - Find moments of reflection with our inspiring new anthology Intima has published stories for over a decade, and we’re happy to share good news: Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine, an anthology of essays, short stories and poetry culled from our archives, launches on March 24th, 2026. Narrative Medicine founder Rita Charon wrote the stirring foreword to the collection. The work in WIH, like the ones in our issue, beckon with quiet gravity. We would be honored if you pre-order Where It Hurts. It’s essential reading for anyone committed to caregiving, empathy, health care and vocation. Each chapter reflects on an emotion we—everyone—experiences in our everyday lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ecc79fc3-e398-41d9-a4fc-b285e5eccf28/%C2%A9+The+Window+by+Esha+Sawant+FALL+2025+INTIMA.jpg FALL 2025 HOMEPAGE - Make it stand out © The Window by Esha Sawan. Acrylic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/cced7b2a-832d-4946-a8a7-953762ace9de/%C2%A9+Departure+%26+Return+by+Madison+Zhao+FALL+2025+INTIMA.jpg FALL 2025 HOMEPAGE - Make it stand out © Departure & Return: Visualizing Ethical Tensions in Geriatric Care by Madison Zhao. 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Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/healing daily 0.75 2020-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1588852174370-FT6L01WVSQ9QT6IPNWV6/%C2%A9+Healing+by+Wesley+Usher+Spring+2020+Intima+A+Journal+of+Narrative+Medicine.png Healing © Healing by Wesley Usher Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/contributors-spring-2020-intima daily 0.75 2020-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034780984-MT98FFUHGGH0ZBD1ZRGY/Adhikari%252C%2BSapana.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Sapana Adhikari STUDIO ART: Covid's Agony, Opium's Hold and What Lies Beneath Sapana Adhikari, MD is a practicing Emergency Medicine physician in Charlotte, NC. Her artistic goal is to document the human experience from her unique perspective, as a physician. Dr. Adhikari wants her viewers to get a glimpse into her world, her thoughts and her opinions, relating to health, disease and the human body. She hopes to share the beauty of the emotional highs and devastating lows that make up the human experience and share her small contribution to it. Her artwork has been shown in The National Academy of Medicine permanent online gallery, the Frederic Jameson Gallery at Duke University, in a previous Intima issue and several private collections. She has also donated her art to the charity Musa Masala, to raise money for the Wongchu Sherpa Memorial hospital near Everest base camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034873583-8LZUFYY4C3PXHBS7TQZ8/Boswell%252CAriel%252CJPG.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Ariel Boswell POETRY: Late Night Ariel Bugosh Boswell is a nurse and writer who lives in Rochester, Minnesota. She strongly believes poetry can help to heal the body, mind and soul. Boswell has worked as a nurse at Mayo Clinic since 2012 as an inpatient float nurse and in outpatient primary care. She has facilitated Literature and Medicine sessions at Mayo Clinic to encourage reflection and writing since 2017. She is a registered nurse with a BA in Anthropology from Davidson College and BSN from Minnesota State University. She spends her free time with her husband Chris Boswell, their two young children and their dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589035046002-9HPYFPZJWS9MBQ6IE82Y/Bui%252C%2BBrina.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Brina Bui STUDIO ART: Just Laundry Brina Bui is graduating from McGovern Medical School this May, and she will start her pediatric residency at UT Southwestern in June. Her piece explores two simple articles of clothing: a white coat and a patient gown. The juxtaposition of the fabrics emphasizes the stark contrast between doctors and patients, but the intertwined nature of the clothes explores the blurred line between the two groups. These garments both create and illustrate a power differential that can shatter when doctors become patients themselves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034225859-JAVM7M1YDYVMKXSOAR0I/Carini%2C+Simona.jpeg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Simona Carini POETRY: I Ask My Friend How She Feels: Her Response Simona Carini writes nonfiction and poetry and has been published in various venues, in print and online. Born in Perugia, Italy, a graduate of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan, Italy) and of Mills College (Oakland, CA), Carini lives in Northern California with her husband and works as an academic researcher in Medical Information Science. See more of her work at simonacarini.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034231225-KHBQKCIHC2DBHTNVPL0S/Chong%2C+Nancy.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Nancy Chong FIELD NOTES: Over the Hot Air Balloons Nancy Chong is the Development Associate at Visual AIDS, the only arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. She is also a New York State Department of Health-certified emergency department advocate of the Mount Sinai Hospital's Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034273114-SMNV55RVNMZISM9ED3FL/Coret%2C+Michal.jpeg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Michal Coret POETRY: No Expiration Michal Coret is a medical student at the University of Toronto. She writes poetry, short fiction and plays about medical encounters and experiences in medical school. Her creative work and research has appeared in Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine and The Muse magazine. She is passionate about qualitative research in medical humanities, empathy and education. She is the co-director of ArtBeat at the University of Toronto, which strives to bring the humanities to medical students in a meaningful and engaging way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034267545-4TJAI0NXKYHBDCC9LF80/Davala%2C+Spoorthi.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Spoorthi Davala STUDIO ART: Expectation vs. Reality Spoorthi Davala is a fourth-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine and received her BA in Medical Science and Minor in Visual Arts from Boston University. She was the 2016-17 Artist-in-Residence for Boston Medical Center where she organized individual and group art lessons to help improve the motor functions of patients with neurodegenerative disease. As a medical student, she served as co-president for the service club Art S.P.A.C.E. (Supporting People And Creating Empowerment) and has written articles highlighting the importance of creativity for the website Doctors Who Create. Spoorthi continues to explore the intersection of art and medicine through different mediums including painting, drawing and animation. Find more of her work at spoorthidavala.myportfolio.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589035727986-5PCQ9W4J6NJJ4L0CM5L4/Delamerced%252C%2BAnna.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Anna Delamerced POETRY: Evening Music Anna Delamerced is a medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She received funding through the Bray Medical Humanities Fellowship to pursue a year-long project, focusing on poetry for kids in the hospital. Her works have been published in KevinMD, Medscape, Abaton, Plexus, Murmur, Cornerstone and in-Training. She is passionate about listening to people tell their stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589035501103-M88MEZGP33A5LPAJ8CYR/Festa%252C%2BJulia.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Julia Festa FIELD NOTES: Newton's Cradle Julia Festa is a fourth-year medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Festa, who graduated from Princeton University in 2014 with a degree in Sociology and Gender Studies, will be applying to Pediatric residencies in the fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589035802663-9VHUFT3AO6RN92V3KJPD/Fleishman%252C%2BRachel.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Rachel Fleishman FIELD NOTES: Bubbles Rachel Fleishman is a neonatologist practicing in Philadelphia who studied creative writing as an undergraduate student. She writes about her experiences caring for infants, often exploring the intersection of her own provider grief and the grief of parents whose infants require extraordinary care. She is honored to have her essays appear in publications such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Literary Mama and Hektoen International’s Journal of Medical Humanities. She is a wife and the mother of two boys who haven’t decided yet what they think about her descriptions of their antics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589035818137-TPAVX70VC369ECYFBNR7/Forman%252C%2BDiane.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Diane Forman NON-FICTION: Holding My Breath Diane Forman is a writer and educator. After a long career as writing tutor and educational consultant, Forman is working on a series of essays and a memoir. Additionally, she leads adult writing groups and retreats on the north shore of Boston. Forman, who holds a BS in English and Education from Northwestern University, and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is an AWA affiliate, trained and certified to lead workshops in the AWA (Amherst Artists and Writers) method. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589037804898-8VVEAWSQBB91MSLWNCQE/Gaby%252C%2BNina.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Nina Gaby FIELD NOTES: Yours Nina Gaby is a writer, visual artist and advanced practice nurse who specializes in addiction and psychiatry. Gaby has worked with words, clay and people for five decades. Her essays, fiction, prose poetry and articles have been published widely, most recently in Psychiatric Times, The Rumpus, McSweeney's, and The Brevity Blog. She was chosen as runner-up in Quarter-After-Eight's Robert DeMott Short Prose Contest and in The Diagram. Her artwork is held in the Smithsonian, Arizona State University and Rochester Institute of Technology. Her anthology “Dumped: Stories of Women Unfriending Women” was published in 2015. She exhibits her mixed media widely in the Northeast and maintains a clinical practice in psychiatry. In addition to a Master's degree in Psych-Mental Health nursing, Gaby holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, offers trainings, workshops, and has taught at several universities. Find out more about her work at ninagaby.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589038818231-RU947407PPXB51KSA9HT/Gelo%2525252C%25252BFlorence.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Florence Gelo FIELD NOTES: Cigarettes, Coffee, Cookies and a Good Rest Florence Gelo is faculty at Drexel University, College of Medicine in Philadelphia. She has over twenty-five years’ experience working with patients receiving palliative care as a former hospital and hospice chaplain. She uses the visual arts as a teaching tool to enhance clinical skills. She has published numerous articles in professional journals about illness, death and dying. Her most recent project used images of narrative paintings to assist hospice patients to speak about the day-to-day realities of living while dying. Work on “Cigarettes, Coffee, Cookies and a Good Rest” was funded by the Foundation for Spirituality and Medicine in Baldwin, MD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589038698904-DCZHNQ0SREA1ZIIA7UN8/German%252C%2BKaren%2BLea%2Bpng.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Karen Lea Germain NON-FICTION: Weight Karen Lea Germain is a Los Angeles native who recently relocated to Colorado with her British husband and two spoiled cats. She graduated from the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program and is working on her first novel. While at UCLA, her novel was nominated for The James Kirkwood Literary Prize, an award for outstanding works-in-progress. Germain spent over a decade in the theme park industry and several years working in behavioral research at a local zoo. Among other projects, she has spent over 2000 hours observing flamingos. Flamingos are no longer her favorite birds. Find more of her work at alwayspackedforadventure.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034322051-R0BF5NFUHN84V5102ZJZ/Giwa-amu%2C+Ohirenua.jpeg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Ohirenua Giwa-amu STUDIO ART: Man versus Nature versus Man Ohirenua Giwa-amu is a Nigerian born artist looking to normalize blackness and survive the COVID-19 outbreak. Giwa-Amu is a 2D artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation and Interactive technology from the Savannah College Of Art And Design (SCAD). Her graduating thesis film "The Stick" is featured in the sixth season of PBS & KQED television series “Film School Shorts.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589039535986-406QMWYHFSAQBEE8M8SK/Dustin+Grinnell.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Dustin Grinnell FICTION: The Healing Book Dustin Grinnell is a writer based in Boston. His fiction and creative nonfiction combines medicine and the humanities and has appeared in Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, Hektoen International and Ars Medica. Grinnell, who is the author of the sci-fi novels, The Genius Dilemma and Without Limits, holds an MFA in creative writing from Pine Manor College, an MS in physiology from Penn State, and a BA in psychobiology from Wheaton College (MA). He works as a staff writer for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589038682853-L2BNTUKTEZ3ZRC184PY6/Grossman-Kahn%252C%2BRebecca.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Rebecca Grossman-Kahn FIELD NOTES: Confined Rebecca Grossman-Kahn MD is a resident physician in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her interest in medical humanities has led her to The Examined Life conference in Iowa City, to a workshop in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, and to tell a live story at the annual Twin Cities resident story slam. Her professional interests include medical education, clinical ethics and humanism in medicine. When not at the hospital, she can be found listening to samba music and touring historic houses. Her Field Notes essay “Confined” was written during the initial weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034298876-9NSKVMNZA1CGDWU6CKH8/Harvin%2C+Sarah.JPG Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Sarah Harvin POETRY: My Favorite Patient Sarah J. Harvin is a student at Columbia University, earning a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine. She owes her renewed interest in writing and poetry to the program and to the encouragement of faculty members and classmates. Prior to Narrative Medicine, Harvin studied psychology and critical race theory; her focus was on the intersection of race, gender, and access to healthcare. Her professional experience thus far has ranged from working in higher education (residential life and housing) to working in a hospital as a patient care assistant. Harvin is applying to medical school this spring and her hobbies include exploring NYC coffee shops, sailing and re-reading the Harry Potter series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034333193-2PT9OEEKGWXLRK00L413/Jacobs%2C+Lisa.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Lisa Jacobs FIELD NOTES: Doctoring and Disobedience and NON-FICTION: The Judge Shrank My Penis Lisa Jacobs, MD, MBA is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist in Menlo Park, CA. She is the Assistant Director of The Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford and the Editor at Large of the Pegasus Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589040674349-7OBAD6SCISOCH1PUC0OY/Knio%252C%2BLaila.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Laila Knio NON-FICTION: We Knew Her In Death Laila Knio is a fourth-year medical student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She recently completed her third year of medical school at a satellite campus in the mountains of North Carolina, where she participated in a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship Program and began learning how to play her dream instrument—the cello. She holds an infinite curiosity towards people—anyone, really—and believes stories are a powerful mode of healing. She anticipates pursuing a career as an adolescent psychiatrist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034375175-8IWIKQXHGR0JBA708JT4/Kostro_Katrina+photo.jpeg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Katrina Kostro POETRY: E.R. Prophet, Night Shift/Spring 2020 and Family Meeting: Medical Student Meets Patient's Daughter Katrina Kostro, MD, graduated from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons in Spring 2020, and was selected into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She will begin psychiatry residency training at NYU/Bellevue. She received her BA in art history from Barnard College. Before medical school, she became a certified yoga instructor and has taught multiple yoga/meditation workshops for students, physicians, patients, and caregivers. Her poems have appeared in BigCityLit, Mezzo Cammin, Reflexions: The Literary & Fine Arts Journal of CUIMC, and she was an award-winner in NEOMED’s 35th William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition. Katrina strives to combine yoga, meditation, poetry and art into her practice of clinical healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589041161087-TVMYJ1THJFTCDNLZHD3Y/Lalley%2C+Adam.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Adam Lalley NON-FICTION: And Not To Be Adam Lalley is a graduate of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and an incoming Emergency Medicine resident at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. He is a winner of the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award, hosted by Baylor College of Medicine, and the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition hosted by Northeast Ohio Medical University. His short fiction, poetry and non-fiction have been featured in Narrateur: Reflections on Caring, the Journal of Medical Humanities and The Eagle and the Wren Reading Series. He was a finalist in the 2020 NYACP Story Slam and is working on a book-length work of non-fiction about how patients find meaning in illness. Learn more about his work at adamlalley.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034381197-WK07A3X87NKY11S272HL/Lanphier%2C+Elizabeth.jpeg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Elizabeth Lanphier POETRY: Haglund’s Deformity Elizabeth Lanphier is a social and political philosopher and medical ethicist. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University, an MS degree in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, and was an Ethics Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She joins the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Ethics Center faculty in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034397239-GP3YYSFI2BT1G23TX5B3/Lawrence%2C+Katharine.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Katharine Lawrence POETRY: Where Are You, Mary Oliver? Katharine Lawrence is an internal medicine physician living and working in New York City. Her writing and poetry has been featured in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine AM Rounds, in-House and KevinMD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034415316-8GU964XYE6F49ADAXU1G/LeBaron%2C+Samuel.jpeg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Samuel LeBaron FICTION: Bling Samuel LeBaron was born in Canada and completed his medical school training there. He earned a PhD in clinical psychology from Michigan State University. Now living in California, he is a Stanford Professor Emeritus with a long career as a family physician and clinical psychologist. His career has included research on management of pain in children and adolescents in cancer; primary care for children and adults; adult and pediatric hospice; and active engagement in medical education. Although he has published extensively in academic journals regarding pain and dying among children as well as adults, he has only recently turned to creative writing. He recently completed a memoir, “Ordinary Deaths.” In his experience, our stories make us more mindful and appreciative of ourselves and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1590241394791-HZD8JKWOP3QW2XK5LMPC/Leibowitz%252C%2BDelilah.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Delilah Leibowitz POETRY: I Picture You Here, But You're There Delilah Leibowitz is pursuing a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She holds a B.A. in Health and the Human Sciences from the University of Southern California. In addition to her professional interests in the intersection of the sciences and humanities, she enjoys writing, poetry, and literature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034407296-L8KA2U8QRZ9EQIVTNMS6/Li%2C+Grace.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Grace Li FIELD NOTES: Imaginary Rooms Grace Li is a graduate of Duke University, where she studied biology and creative writing, and is currently in medical school at Stanford. Her short fiction has been recognized by The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest and Stanford's Paul Kalanithi Writing Award, and has been published in Hyphen magazine. To learn more about her work, visit gracedli.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589125244187-P8F7LJR2ZT1R6WDG3CJZ/McNiel%252C%2BKatie.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Katie McNiel POETRY: Home Visit Katie McNiel is a third-year medical student at Dell Medical School in her hometown of Austin, Texas. Since childhood, she has used creative writing as an outlet for processing the world around her. From writing songs for her guitar to editing her college literary magazine, McNiel has allowed this work to guide her. McNiel plans to pursue residency training in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics with the goal of providing equity-focused primary care across the lifespan. When she is not writing or studying, she enjoys cuddling with her dogs and watching “Gilmore Girls” on repeat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589125353154-G4W1BL5Z99MJD93PXJU5/Millan%252C%2BJustin.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Justin Millan NON-FICTION: Polycroma Justin Millan is a writer and registered nurse working in long-term acute care in New England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589125473823-F56HV9CFZFDIY44TR4XY/Millstein%252C%2BJeffrey.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Jeffrey Millstein FIELD NOTES: Remembrance Jeffrey Millstein, MD is a general internist and writer. Dr. Millstein serves as associate medical director for Patient Experience at Regional Practices of Penn Medicine, where he leads initiatives for clinicians and staff to help improve patient centered communication skills. He is a clinical preceptor for students at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and is working on developing new humanities curricula for medical students. You can find him @millstej on Twitter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589125597949-S6OT1ASF3RB2UR327W66/Oakner%252C%2BLarry.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Larry Oakner POETRY: Slippage Larry Oakner has published two books of poems, SEX LOVE RELIGION (Blind Tattoo Press, 2018) and The 614th Commandment, the latter under his pseudonym, Eleazar Baruch (Blind Tattoo Press, 2019), along with a chapbook, Sitting Still. His poems will be forthcoming in The Oddville Press and WINK. Oakner’s poems have appeared in Tricycle: Buddhist News, Lost Coast Review,The Jewish Literary Review, Kerem, Home Planet News and The Long Island Quarterly, among others. He received his M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California at Los Angeles. Oakner is co-editor of The Poem Shop, an open online poetry website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589125749260-TPR0TCNPQ1I7F6TPSJOQ/Payne%252C%2BSamuel.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Samuel Payne FIELD NOTES: Gratitude Samuel Payne is a second-year medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He received a BS in chemical and biological engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he found community and support in an engineering humanities program. He looks to create similar spaces within the world of health care and foster narrative thinking in his communities to follow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589039424751-MKAT8RIOIG9UGSAG5AAK/Pearson%252C%2BScott.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Scott Pearson FIELD NOTES: A Bundle of Leaves Scott Pearson is a cancer surgeon and medical educator. A Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, he teaches anatomy and the importance of the patient’s narrative in giving care. Pearson is a former Fellow at The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and is the author of the novels, Rupture and Public Anatomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034446595-8OHLH0M5MIRK1JHOQQR0/Preston-Hsu%2C+Elisabeth.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Elisabeth Preston-Hsu STUDIO ART: Gordian Knot Elisabeth Preston-Hsu is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician in clinical practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She has had work appear in Glassworks magazine, Hektoen International and received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's Short Story Awards for New Writers in March/April 2019. Her photograph "Gordian Knot" happened organically: a busy clinic day and a stethoscope thrown onto her desk. A glance at its twisted knot of tubing reminded her how difficult it can be for patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers alike to navigate, be cared for and work in the American healthcare system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589126407813-XXJH1NDFE4DQAUHJV4YX/Ramano%252C%2BPablo.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Pablo Romano NON-FICTION: Baby’s Story Pablo Romano is a third-year medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine interested in psychiatry and neuroscience. He grew up between the suburbs of Los Angeles and Guadalajara, Mexico and studied Cognitive Science at Occidental College. He was the 2019 honorable mention of the Irvin David Yalom, MD Literary Award for an essay exploring themes of death and education. At Stanford, Pablo created a recurring storytelling series called Talk Rx, where students at the medical school are given speaker coaching and a platform to tell their stories, live and in front of an audience of peers. In his free time, he’s likely engaged in conversation with anyone who will listen or catering to Sunny, his recently-adopted ten-year-old five-pound chihuahua. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589126483664-8NRMZRB9VWA85UD3JFBZ/Sato%252C%2BHui-Wen.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Hui-wen Sato NON-FICTION: Best Brother Hui-wen Sato practices as a pediatric ICU nurse in Los Angeles. She blogs regularly for the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) in Off the Charts. Her writing has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work as well as the Reflections column for AJN. In September 2017, she delivered a TEDxTalk titled "How Grief Can Enable Nurses to Endure," and she has been featured as a keynote speaker at numerous national nursing conferences. She is pursuing her Certification in Narrative Medicine through Columbia University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children and two ornery tortoises. Learn more about her work at http://heartofnursing.blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589126718166-67NIN5WLIMOT992ABQTJ/Schlegel%252C%2BSarah.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Sarah Schlegel POETRY: The Sick Room Sarah Schlegel is a pediatric resident at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. She has been passionate about literature and creative writing since childhood and first became involved with narrative medicine as a medical student at Stanford Medical School. She is thankful for the chance she had to participate in workshops, creative writing classes, and writing retreats at Stanford and looks forward to continuing to write as a physician. She has published in university literary journals at Stanford Medical School and Harvard University and in the Boston Globe. She is deeply grateful for the years she had with her compassionate and courageous grandparents, who inspired her poem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589126790661-C5BA29PKWAGHUIUUICSV/Scott%252C%2BAriel.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Ariel Scott NON-FICTION: Karma, Love, Air Ariel Scott is a family medicine physician at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine where she practices as a hospitalist, primary care physician and specialty care physician for adults with intellectual and developmental disability. She was involved in the Columbia Narrative Medicine Online Certificate Program and co-teaches a Writing & Healing elective for fourth-year medical students as well as a reflective writing course for pre-med students. She looks forward to furthering her own study of narrative medicine in the near future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034462543-1CG59H9UJLKAACGGLH2A/Taylor-Troutman%2C+Andrew.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Andrew Taylor-Troutman FICTION: Good as New Andrew Taylor-Troutman is the author of four books, most recently Gently Between the Words: Essays and Poems. Taylor-Troutman, who earned a graduate certificate in Narrative Healthcare from Lenoir-Rhyne University, serves as pastor of Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church in North Carolina. He and his wife, also an ordained minister, parent three children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589127292421-NS2Y4T712WVUR7W39WSN/Teitelbaum%2C+Jordan.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Jordan Teitelbaum POETRY: The Donna Summer Operation: A Slam Poem Jordan Teitelbaum, D.O. is an Otolaryngologist / Head & Neck Surgeon with subspecialty training in Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery. He was born and raised in Chicago and majored in English at the University of Michigan prior to completing medical school in Harlem, NYC, ENT residency at Ohio University, and fellowship at Duke University. He is grateful for the opportunity to express his medical and surgical experiences through writing. He also truly appreciates the opportunity to interact with others’ work and thus maintain a persistent connection to his roots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034479922-FW2WHLOA0OM8EOM9R9TG/Usher%2C+Wesley.png Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Wesley Usher STUDIO ART: Healing Wesley Usher is a writer and visual artist with a license in professional counseling. Her related past projects include New York art exhibitions of solo and group works by artists living with disability and a series of murals for the acute care areas of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She has also designed and developed collective narrative group work for the inpatient psychiatric setting. Since 2006 Usher has explored the implications of technology on feminine self-narrative and wellness, including four multi-media projects that explore relationships between technology, language, power and voice. (The Cassandra Code, The Cambridge Key, The story of e and Riddlespeak.) She holds graduate degrees in Applied Psychology and Narrative Medicine from New York University and Columbia University and is pursuing post-graduate studies in Drawing and Painting at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design. Most recently her artwork has been published in The Round (Brown University), The After Happy Hour Review (Pittsburgh) and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589127165059-OZIITZS3IA0KEB7ZK6EP/Uthayakumar%252C%2BArany%2B.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Arany Uthayakumar POETRY: Trendelenburg Arany Uthayakumar is a first-year medical student at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Long Island, NY. She is gradually finding her feet as a New Yorker and identifies very loudly as a Californian native in the meantime. Her identity has been intricately shaped by the Bay Area's fine educational communities: UC Berkeley for her undergraduate education, and the Pegasus Physician Writers of Stanford School of Medicine for her journey and discovery of self as an aspiring physician-writer. She has been working on a novel about the resilience of displaced Tamil civilians in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's genocide, and daydreams about writing when she should be poring over anatomy and histology textbooks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589127919142-XS58K0CZ6X8MNXTABVUR/Valinoti%252C%2BEileen%2BSPRING%2B2020.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Eileen Valinoti NON-FICTION: A Hard Case Eileen Valinoti, BSN, M.A. has had a varied career in oncology, nursing education and nursing, Valinoti is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Confrontation, Parents, Glamour and The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1622404808345-9HEW1WEYNSTU09KKQYA9/LOGO+Intima.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Rhiannon Weber POETRY: Heal Rhiannon Weber wrote her first poem when she was nine years old. She went on to earn her BA in print journalism and has held writing roles on all ends of the spectrum, from editing to closed captioning. Her poetry has appeared in Obsessed with Pipework, Blue Collar Review, The Storyteller, Iodine Poetry Journal, POEM, and The Orchard Street Press. She hopes that one day her acceptance letter pile will reach higher heights than her rejection letter pile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589127574189-0AKYUQYSEPG7ZS7VP5ZW/Wilson%252C%2BSophia.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Sophia Wilson POETRY: Don't Leave Sophia Wilson lives with her primary care physician husband and their three children in Otago, New Zealand. She has a background in arts, medicine and psychiatry. Her recent poetry/prose can be found in StylusLit, Not Very Quiet, Ars Medica, Hektoen International, Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ), Corpus and elsewhere. In 2019 the manuscript for her first children’s novel, ‘The Guardian of Whale Mountain’ was selected in the top ten for the Green Stories Competition (UK). She was shortlisted in a number of poetry competitions including the Takahē Monica Taylor Prize, was a finalist in the 2019 Robert Burns Poetry Competition and was winner of the 2020 International Writers Workshop Flash Fiction Competition. She is the recipient of a 2020 Creative New Zealand grant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589040876609-C1L7C5KMTY3ZFWVPZOPN/James%2BWyshynski%2B2.jpg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - James Wyshynski POETRY: Night Four: What They Ask, What I Hear James Wyshynski is a former editor of the Black Warrior Review. His poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Terminus, River Styx, Stoneboat, Interim, Nimrod, The Cortland Review, Barrow Street, The Cincinnati Review, Vallum and are forthcoming in the Northern New England Review and others. His chapbook, Visiting Hours, from which his poem is taken, is in search of publisher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1589034500891-14VWRHWM92NH7T3NDDPH/Yuan%2C+Emily.jpeg Contributors Spring 2020 Intima - Yan Emily Yuan STUDIO ART: Differential Diagnosis Yan Emily Yuan, MD, MSc is a 2014 graduate of the Master of Science program in Narrative Medicine. She is an internal medicine resident physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and will be starting her endocrinology fellowship at the same institution in July 2020. 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Fall 2020 Intima. https://www.theintima.org/rechargebyviralishah daily 0.75 2020-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603741665913-EH3D1JFR0LHPJDAWOLQO/%C2%A9+Recharge+by+Virali+Shah+Fall+2020+Intima.jpg Recharge by Virali Shah © Recharge. Virali Shah. Fall 2020 Intima https://www.theintima.org/inside-anxiety-and-depression-william-doan daily 0.75 2020-10-28 https://www.theintima.org/calavera-by-christopher-schifeling daily 0.75 2020-10-28 https://www.theintima.org/contributors-fall-2020-intima daily 0.75 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895620105-LFB1GVR1BC8H58BM6LH8/Abou-Hamde%252C%2BYara.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Yara Abou-Hamde POETRY "How the Emergency Shift Will Go" Yara Abou-Hamde is a resident physician in family medicine at the University of Ottawa. She is passionate about stories and finds in poetry a particular connectedness. Her poem “How the Emergency Shift Will Go” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895506711-BKA1G4JHX8G7G076OM4P/Awdish%2C+Rana.png Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Rana Awdish NON-FICTION “The Shape of the Shore” Rana Awdish is the author of In Shock, a critically-acclaimed, bestselling memoir based on her own critical illness. A pulmonary and critical care physician, she serves as the current Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Henry Ford Hospital. She also serves as Medical Director of Care Experience for the System, where she has sought to integrate Narrative Medicine practice into the curriculum. She believes in the power of art to heal and creates both visual art and narrative non-fiction essays. She has been inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and the Gold Humanism Society. Her work has been published in The Examined Life Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine and The Harvard Business Review. Her non-fiction essay “The Shape of the Shore” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895509053-ND8L8LB1TU12K9MJHC1N/Berry%2C+Philip.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Philip Berry FIELD NOTES “Black Tango” Philip Berry is a London based gastroenterologist and hepatologist. He writes frequently on medical ethics, end of life care and the challenges encountered while trying to deliver good care. His work can be explored on his blog at www.illusionsofautonomy.wordpress.com or @philaberry. His Field Notes essay “Black Tango” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895695580-GNLYTNNF4HL161A66JXN/Bowles%252C%2BK%2BJohnson.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - K. Johnson Bowles STUDIO ART “Insomnia Dreams in the Moonlight” K. Johnson Bowles has exhibited in more than 80 solo and group exhibitions nationally. Feature articles, essays, and reviews of her work have appeared in more than 30 publications including Sculpture, SPOT, Surface Design Journal, and The Washington Post. She is the recipient of fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, Houston Center for Photography, the Visual Studies Workshop, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received her MFA in photography and painting from Ohio University and BFA in painting from Boston University. Her artwork “Insomnia Dreams in the Moonlight” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895720893-PC4O4GZJM4TL719OZ0H8/Brockmeyer%252C%2BMikayla.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Mikayla Brockmeyer NON-FICTION “Turbulent Undertow” Mikayla Brockmeyer is a first year osteopathic medical student at Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa. She began working as a hospitalist scribe in 2018, while she was enrolled in the Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences program at Des Moines University. She successfully defended her thesis in 2019 and spent her gap year scribing full time. This is her first time showcasing her storytelling abilities in a public arena. Her non-fiction essay “Turbulent Undertow” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895511651-G7MA2WTGARRENRRRTZ3Y/Burghardt%2CDeborah.jpeg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Deborah Burghardt NON-FICTION “Grounded” Deborah Burghardt writes creative nonfiction after directing Women and Gender Studies at Clarion University. "Spared" was anthologized in Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine. Her essays have appeared online at Globejotting.com and in literary journals, including The Sun, The Watershed Journal and The Bridge Literary Arts Journal. She lives in Fort Myers, Florida, and enjoys summers and autumns in Clarion, Pennsylvania. Her essay “Grounded” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603896069361-R640CNA4K350WO4H6EC2/Carr%252C%2BBrent.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Brent Carr STUDIO ART “Little Isolated Bird” Brent Carr is a physician/ psychiatrist on faculty at the University of Florida, College of Medicine. Artist and philosopher, he is an advocate of teaching and encouragement of student involvement in the arts and humanities. He encourages medical students to deepen their understanding of the art of medicine to foster a deeper empathy and rapport with their patients, and that the practice of medicine becomes richer through exploration and a willful consideration of the human condition. He notes: “This photograph taken in May was captured on an early morning hike in Florida wetlands on a path that is often well-trodden, yet now eerily quiet from restrictions on public gatherings during the pandemic.” His photograph “Little Isolated Bird” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606175118741-PQ2QGVGJYAQWBMLBXFK4/Chittari%252C%2BSupraja%2B.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Supraja Chittari MULTIMEDIA Bhairavi's Anger: Exploring Physician Recovery from Alcoholism Through Kuchipudi Dance Supraja Chittari began training in Kuchipudi from age nine with Ms. Mallika Ramprasad, and later with Ms.Anuradha Nehru and Mr. Kishore Mosalikanti at Kalanidhi Dance and performed her solo debut recital in July 2014. Chittari founded the first competitive classical dance team, Aradhya, at the University of Virginia and choreographed Smaranam and Ekam on terrorism and humanity respectively. Currently, Chittari is a PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill in Chemistry and continues to pursue her work blending her passion for dance, science, and social justice. She is the choreographer of this piece as an Aseemkala CORE Fellow. Her multimedia video “Bhairavi's Anger: Exploring Physician Recovery from Alcoholism Through Kuchipudi Dance” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603896857649-45K8NBATM2X2XFZ6WM74/Christy%2C+Alicia.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Alicia Christy STUDIO ART “COVID Tears” Alicia Christy is a watercolor artist who uses the proceeds of her work to support groups dedicated to social justice issues, such as Black Lives Matter, veteran advocacy, and homelessness. Dr. Christy is board certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility and obstetrics and gynecology and her work has been published as the cover art for the inaugural issue of Fertility and Sterility Science, and the cover art for Academic Medicine. Her work has also been published in Seminars for Reproductive Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America. Her artwork “COVID Tears” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603897595003-DKN6I9O51Q7FAKQOBQR2/Corcoran%252C%2BColleen.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Colleen Corcoran FIELD NOTES “What My Dying Father Taught Me” Colleen Corcoran practices in the field of Traditional East Asian Medicine at the University of Kentucky Integrative Medicine & Health. Prior to being in medicine, she had been in the arts with a BA in English Literature. “My heart is in combining it all to honor the human spirit and the story the body tells,” says Corcoran. Her Field Notes essay “What My Dying Father Taught Me” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603897025596-LSQ5BNAI4LDDYYZYXEJI/Cox-Joseph%252C%2BTerry.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Terry Cox-Joseph POETRY “The Good Thing About Almost Dying” Terry Cox-Joseph is president of the Poetry Society of Virginia. She is a former newspaper reporter and editor, was the coordinator for the annual Christopher Newport University Writers' Conference and Contest for ten years. She has been published in Northern Virginia Review, Allegro, Chiron Review, and Red River Review among others. Her first poetry chapbook, Between Then and Now, was published by Finishing Line Press. A graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design, she displays and sells her watercolors and acrylics at shows, galleries and shops. Her poem “The Good Thing About Almost Dying” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1604005048058-HKCT3RJXCM3JPVTXEYLJ/Danzig%2C+Ayala.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Ayala Danzig NON-FICTION “The Invisible Beast: COVID Psychiatric ED” Ayala Danzig is a fourth year resident physician in the department of general psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. Her writing has recently appeared in Nautilus and the Psychiatric Times. She can be found on Twitter at @AyalaDanzig. Her non-fiction essay “The Invisible Beast: COVID Psychiatric ED” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603897120461-C7QSTLUN20BS3A84S8EO/Darivemula%252C%2BShilpa.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Shilpa Darivemula FIELD NOTES “Kali Narrative: Creativity in Crisis” NON-FICTION “A Reflection on the Intersection of Dance and Surgery” Shilpa Darivemula is a resident physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Founder/Former Creative Director of the Aseemkala Initiative, an organization dedicated to blending traditional arts with health justice for women of color. Darivemula began training in Kuchipudi at the Academy of Kuchipudi Dance at the age of eight and performed her solo debut recital—her Rangapravesham—in 2011 at the Kalanidhi Dance school. She served as AMWA Artist-in-Residence in 2016, a 2013 Thomas Watson Fellow, a 2018 Kean ASTMH fellow, and currently is the co-director of the AMWA Dance and Theater Arts Task Force. She continues to perform medical narratives, conduct research and address health equity through dance with the Aseemkala Initiative. The non-fiction essay she co-authored with Roshni Prakash titled “Performing My First Caesarean: A Reflection on the Intersection of Dance and Surgery” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. She also co-authored a Field Notes “Kali Narrative: Creativity in Crisis” with Tanvi Gandhi in the FALL 2020 issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606328563646-AE4EPU6QFZ978IU7Z1G7/Davidow%2C+Jonathan.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Jonathan Davidow NON-FICTION "Broken Silence" Jonathan Davidow is a third-year medical student, experiencing clinical medicine for the first time against the backdrop of the pandemic. He began his medical education after 10 years in non-profits and health technology, driven to connect deeper with the patient and their experience. Davidow is passionate about using both data and story to change how we see, understand, and ultimately deliver health and healthcare in society. His non-fiction essay “Broken Silence” appears in the FALL 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603919187043-N8Z73E1VY3JAET2RBGOW/Doan%252C%2BWilliam.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - William Doan MULTIMEDIA: VIDEO “Inside Anxiety and Depression” William Doan, PhD is a past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a Fellow in the College of Fellows of The American Theatre. Doan has co-authored three books and several plays. He has created solo performance projects at a variety of venues across the United States and abroad. Current work includes a new performance piece, Frozen In The Toilet Paper Aisle of Life, part of a larger project, The Anxiety Project, which includes multiple short graphic narratives published in the Annals of Internal Medicine/Graphic Medicine. He is a Professor of Theatre in the College of Arts and Architecture and Artist-in-Residence for the College of Nursing at The Pennsylvania State University. Doan served as the Penn State Laureate for 2019-2020. His multimedia piece “Inside Anxiety and Depression” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://inhaleexhaledraw.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603919480236-V5915W0R26Y1A09LY8UQ/Dyer%252C%2BMichelle.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Michelle Dyer POETRY “Breast Lump” Michelle Dyer is a teacher and poet in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico and a Master’s in English Education from Arizona State University. A lifelong poet and writer, she was recently published in Snapdragon: A Journal for Art and Healing. Her enduring interests include psychology, therapy, spirituality, memory, learning, and how poetry informs, intersects with, and expands these disciplines. Her poem “Breast Lump” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603919571625-N7KIY0FG47SSKE0G1SKE/Edison_Suzanne_001F_Schenker.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Suzanne Edison POETRY “Here, ellipses” Suzanne Edison, MA, MFA. Her recent chapbook, The Body Lives Its Undoing, was published in 2018. Poetry can be found in Michigan Quarterly Review; JAMA; Whale Road Review; The Naugatuck River Review; Scoundrel Time; Mom Egg Review; Persimmon Tree; SWWIM; Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine; The Ekphrastic Review and forthcoming in Passager. She lives in Seattle, is a 2019 Hedgebrook alum and teaches at Richard Hugo House. Her poem “Here, ellipses” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1604150061043-CI1OXKDC7Q398XDLUPNJ/FITZGERALD%2C+Brenna.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Brenna Fitzgerald STUDIO ART “I Am Moments” Brenna Fitzgerald is a writer, editor, collage artist and creativity coach. She holds an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction and an M.A. in film and media studies. Fitzgerald has published written work in a variety of literary magazines including Creative Nonfiction, Stone Canoe and Ars Medica. She teaches meditation and finds inspiration in nature. Find her on Instagram @brenbrain and at habitsofwellbeing.com. Her artwork “I Am Moments” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603921827718-LII460EQXEZ83FH22H3Z/Ghandi%252C%2BTanvi.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Tanvi Gandhi FIELD NOTES “Kali Narrative: Creativity in Crisis” Tanvi Gandhi has a doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine, and practices as a Licensed Acupuncturist in CT and NY. Her background is in Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics from UCLA, and did her research internship at the National Institutes of Health. She is the founder of Shiva-Shakti Acupuncture and Ayurveda and considers herself a bridge between ancient healing wisdom and modern integrative medicine. Dr. Gandhi has her private practice and also a Wellness Consultant for Transitional Living Program at Silver Hill Hospital. She is also a part-time faculty for Integrative and Holistic Health at the Graduate Institute and is continuing her professional training in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She is passionate about infusing creative methods to facilitate wellness and currently a fellow at the AseemKala initiative. The Field Notes “Kali Narrative: Creativity in Crisis” she co-authored with Shilpa Darivemula appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1604088136808-S3ZGH7FUBW2PJ9ISDM0X/Ginsburg%252C%2BDaniel.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Daniel Ginsburg POETRY “Triage” Daniel Ginsburg earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from American University. His poetry has been published in The Northern Virginia Review (Vol. 34, Spring 2020) and American Literary Magazine (Spring 2017). His poem “Black Snake Coiled in My Black Leather Sofa” is forthcoming in the 2020 issue of Gargoyle Magazine (Vol. 73), while his poem “Multiplier” will appear in The American Journal of Poetry (Vol. 10) on New Year’s Day, 2021. His English translations of Hebrew poetry by Israeli poet Shira Stav were published in Pleiades: Literature in Context (Vol. 37, Issue 1, Winter 2016). He lives in Potomac, Maryland. Discover more about his work @danielhginsburg on Instagram His poem “Triage” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603922102635-8XPVOS4M71NE2ZUOUU6T/Grobler-Tanner%252C%2BCaroline%2B2020.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Caroline Grobler-Tanner NON-FICTION “Here and Now” Caroline Grobler-Tanner grew up in the UK. A graduate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she has worked in global public health emergencies for over twenty-five years. She also teaches yoga for healing trauma. Her essays and short stories have been published in various blogs and journals including Motherwell, Litro, HerStry, Women on Writing, and Flash Fiction Magazine. She is a recent winner in the Writer’s Digest Annual Competition. Caroline lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and works in her local community during COVID. Find her on Instagram @carolinegtanner Her non-fiction essay “Here and Now” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603921959903-41RNR2DB4JMFGOD0ZU8P/Haberman%252C%2BCara.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Cara Haberman NON-FICTION “Being Seen” POETRY “Paper Armor” Cara Haberman is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Wake Forest School of Medicine. She was involved in the work of narrative medicine as a medical student and is slowly making her way back after a long hiatus. Her poetry has previously been published in Lifelines. Her non-fiction work “Being Seen” and her poem “Paper Armor” appear in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603922921216-BPMMKI3YZ0WHR6NSUG35/Hammerschick%252C%2BMark%2B.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Mark Hammerschick POETRY “Last Breath” Mark Hammerschick writes poetry and fiction. He holds a BA in English from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and a BS and MBA. He is a lifelong resident of the Chicago area and currently lives on the north shore; his professional career has been in digital strategy and online consulting. His current work will be published in The Metaworker, Vext Magazine, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, The Fictional Café, Wingless Dreamer, Trolley Magazine, Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine and The Write Launch, Scarlet Leaf Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Carcinogenic Poetry, The Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Change Seven, Panoplyzine , Borrowed Solace, Muse Pie Press Shot Glass Journal, The Rockvale Review and Oregon Poetry Association. His poem “Last Breath” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603922951734-1ZJV4PARY2MYAEQI66LR/Holm%252C%2BMarie-Elisabeth.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Marie-Elisabeth Lei Holm ACADEMIC "TEMPORALITY, READER RECOGNITION AND LITERARY CONSOLATION: A Reading of Paul Kalanithi’s 'When Breath Becomes Air' with Narrative Medicine" Marie-Elisabeth Lei Holm earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020 while working at the center Uses of Literature. The Social Dimensions of Literature led by Professor Rita Felski. Her dissertation examines aesthetic and political forms of recognition and asks how literary works might enable social acknowledgment around issues of marginalization and the politics of identity. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. Her paper “TEMPORALITY, READER RECOGNITION AND LITERARY CONSOLATION: A Reading of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air with Narrative Medicine” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603922971915-3QL4AOSLNV793GBRXP5P/Hunter%252C%2BGary.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Gary Hunter NON-FICTION “John in the Rain” Gary Hunter lives in Northern Ireland and is a medically retired journalist. He has a Master's degree in Creative Writing and is currently working on a PhD at Queen's University Belfast. His non-fiction essay “John in the Rain” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895524397-HZR5SBNNQ8E6HUOVA977/Kieu%2CViolet+author+profile+VIetnam.jpeg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Violet Kieu POETRY “Medical Elective in Vietnam” Violet Kieu is a fertility doctor and writer from Melbourne, Australia, who writes memoir about medicine and motherhood. This author photo was taken during a medical elective in Saigon, Vietnam. Her essays have appeared in Womankind, Peril, Pulse, Cha, Complete Sentence and Hektoen International. Kieu has won a Boroondara Literary Award 2001 and placed for both the Marjorie Barnard Award for Short Story 2009 and the Alan Russell Award for Memoir 2020. She has been awarded mentorships from ACT Writers’ HARDCOPY2019 and the Australian Society of Authors 2019. Her poem “Medical Elective in Vietnam” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924062978-B4EXL90SRRBHLLH4M8TU/Klatzker%252C%2BCatherine.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Catherine Klatzker FIELD NOTES “Unexpected” Catherine Klatzker is a writer and RN in Los Angeles, California, retired from twenty-two years in pediatric intensive care. Klatzker’s work appears in mental health anthologies from In Fact Books and from Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective, as well as a range of other publications including Intima Fall 2013 “Range of Vision,” Spring 2015 “What We See When We See Each Other,” and Fall 2017 “Order”; and most recently in Atticus Review and Please See Me. Her memoir You Will Never Be Normal is forthcoming from Stillhouse Press in May 2021. Her Field Notes essay “Unexpected” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895526484-GSWVNQGA2X2Q3XV4QDFG/Krohn%2C+Douglas.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Douglas Krohn NON-FICTION “Never Tell a Truth” Douglas Krohn, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College in Valhalla and a member of the Department of Pediatrics in CareMount Medical Group, a clinical affiliate of The Massachusetts General Hospital headquartered in Chappaqua, NY. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Westchester Literary Review, The Einstein Quarterly Journal of Biology and Medicine, Travel + Leisure Family, and the Scarsdale Inquirer. His non-fiction essay “Never Tell a Truth” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924148002-WL4QS5MUUS63HAZ5103R/Kukafka%252C%2BVarsha.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Varsha Kukafka POETRY Crying Uncle” and “We Almost Lost You” Varsha Kukafka is a writer whose work appeared in AGNI Online, Salamander, The American Journal of Poetry, Philadelphia Stories, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ibbetson Street and other journals and in limited edition letterpress broadsides with her visual art. She has read at the Boston Poetry Festival and other venues. She served as an assistant district attorney for twenty years and was a licensed practical nurse. Her poems “Crying Uncle” and “We Almost Lost You” appear in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924191094-DSFR5L6C5DYVK8CG1UNG/Lahti%252C%2BElizabeth.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Elizabeth Lahti ACADEMIC “Narrative in Times of Transition: A novel curriculum during COVID-19” CO-AUTHORS: Taylor N. Anderson, Alexandria L. Dyer, Megan M. Emad, Grace I. Judd, Brett Lewis, Douglas Rice, Alison Schlueter and Taylor Vega Elizabeth Lahti is a teaching hospitalist and Director of Narrative Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. She teaches reflective practice and narrative medicine to interprofessional students, residents, and faculty with an interest on identity formation through story. She is co-founder and president of the nonprofit Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative, an organization dedicated to bringing health professionals, patients, caregivers, and artists together to better understand the multiple perspectives of health and illness through narrative. Her work has been featured in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. “Narrative in Times of Transition: A novel curriculum during COVID-19,” which she co-authored with fourth-year medical students Taylor N. Anderson, Alexandria L. Dyer, Megan M. Emad, Grace I. Judd, Brett Lewis, Douglas Rice, Alison Schlueter, and Taylor Vega, appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603966435730-QRHEWLFL48NX4ANFSM9K/Lalley%2C+Adam.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Adam Lalley POETRY “To a Body Donor” Adam Lalley MD is an Emergency Medicine resident at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and a graduate of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is a winner of the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award, hosted by Baylor College of Medicine, and the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition, hosted by Northeast Ohio Medical University. His short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have been featured in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Narrateur: Reflections on Caring, the Journal of Medical Humanities and The Eagle and the Wren Reading Series. He was a finalist in the 2020 NYACP Story Slam and is working on a book-length work of non-fiction about how patients find meaning in illness. Learn more about his work at adamlalley.com and @AdamLalley on Twitter. His poem “To a Body Donor” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924171577-8R748I7RDPKOB8CECWMN/Lewis%252C%2BSteven.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Steven Lewis POETRY “The Good News About Almost Dying” Steven Lewis is a former Mentor at SUNY-Empire State College, longtime member of the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute faculty, and longtime freelancer. His work has been published widely, from the notable to the beyond obscure, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, Ploughshares, Narratively, Spirituality & Health, Road Apple Review, The Rosicrucian Digest, and a biblically long list of parenting publications (7 kids, 16 grandkids). He is a Contributing Writer at Talking Writing Magazine and Senior Editor/Literary Ombudsman for the spoken word venue Read650. His book list includes Zen and the Art of Fatherhood, Fear and Loathing of Boca Raton,If I Die Before You Wake (poems), three recent novels, Take This, a generational sequel, Loving Violet, and A Hard Rain, all from Codhill Press. A new novel, The Lights Around the Shore, will be published in 2021 by Moonshine Cove. His poem “The Good News About Almost Dying” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895529121-XCFG8RCXOYG1FG0PTM1D/Lund%2C+Michael.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Michael Lund FICTION “Bees” Michael Lund, a native of Rolla, Missouri, lives and writes in Virginia. He is the author of At Home and Away, a Route 66 novel series that chronicles an American family during times of peace and war from 1915 to 2015; he has also published a number of short stories related to military experience. A US Army veteran, he directs a free writing program for military, veterans, and family members that is healing for both authors and audience (http://homeandabroadva.com). He gets excellent healthcare at the The Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. His short story “Bees” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895559319-4SBDFGL752IQDIFX0GV1/Macfarlane%2C+Katherine.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Katherine Macfarlane FIELD NOTES “So Sorry to Bother You, But I Might Die If You Don’t Wear a Mask” Katherine Macfarlane writes about chronic illness and navigating the U.S. healthcare system. Her essay “Flying Into Jerusalem,” about finding out that having Rheumatoid Arthritis would keep her from having children, was anthologized in Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine. Her essays have appeared in BUST, Ms., Hairpin, Huffington Post, xojane, Northwestern Magazine, Foliate Oak, Tenemos and NolaVie. When she’s not writing about harrowing healthcare experiences, she teaches Civil Procedure and Civil Rights Litigation at the University of Idaho College of Law. Katherine received her B.A. from Northwestern University and her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She was born in Toronto, and grew up shuffling between Kalamazoo, Michigan and Rome, Italy. Katherine lives in Boise with her dog Cooper. Follow her @KatAMacfarlane.Her Field Notes essay “So Sorry to Bother You, But I Might Die If You Don’t Wear a Mask” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895559437-SJ63CEX92F0XW2P4BM8T/Mahan%2C+Cathleen.jpeg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Cathleen Mahan STUDIO ART “Vulnerability” Cathleen Mahan retired this year from a career as a Registered Nurse for four decades. "The horror of the last month of work was like nothing I had ever experienced. The expectation of professional altruism- as our PPE was being taken away was astounding. This assemblage sculpture was made as a way to channel the uncertainty and fear of this time." Her artwork “Vulnerability” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603967221235-0G8JI8EX00EIJ1WZXWEN/Mainardi%252C%2BPriscilla%2B2020%2Bphoto.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Priscilla Mainardi NON-FICTION “To Melinda” Priscilla Mainardi, a registered nurse, attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned her MFA degree in creative writing from Rutgers University. Her work appears in numerous journals, including Pulse - Voices from the Heart of Medicine, the Examined Life Journal, and BioStories. She teaches English Composition at Rutgers in Newark, New Jersey and has served on the editorial board of Intima since 2015. Her non-fiction essay “To Melinda” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895561378-S7CS5HV72FQ18KM15HS8/Marx%2C+Sal.png Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Sal Marx STUDIO ART “(The Invisible) Starry Night” and “Disability Is” Sal Marx is a multimedia artist who works to illuminate patient experiences with chronic disease. They hope to use storytelling to empower patients and promote health justice and equity in the biomedical sphere. Marx is a graduate student in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University. They live with AS (ankylosing spondylitis), an invisible, underrepresented chronic disease. Often in limbo, betwixt and between sick and healthy, they believe art is a tool to cope and to communicate illness narratives. Their artwork “(The Invisible) Starry Night” and “Disability Is” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603967569109-PJGF225MAN63B9I8SWNZ/Michelson%252C%2BJoan.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Joan Michelson POETRY “Monument” Joan Michelson is a poet whose poetry book publications include The Family Kitchen (2018), The Finishing Line Press, KY, USA, Landing Stage (2017), SPM Publishers, UK, and Bloomvale Home (2016), an Original Plus Chapbook, UK. She initiated and for many years was in charge of the Creative Writing Programme at the University of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England. She currently teaches creative writing to medical students at Kings College, University of London. Originally from Boston, MA, she lives in London. Two of her poems, ‘The Psychotherapist’ and ‘Tandem’ have been published in previous issues of Intima. Her poem “Monument” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895561547-BIZ06J8MB9RZZCG0J8XX/Mogrovejo%2C+Brandon.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Brandon Mogrovejo STUDIO ART “COVID Hero” Brandon Mogrovejo is a first-generation Latino physician training in pediatrics. He makes comics with diverse, underrepresented characters in his spare time. He was born in a working class family to an Ecuadorian father and an Italian-American mother. Before becoming the first in his family to go to medical school at the Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Dr. Mogrevo attended college at Fordham University where he double-majored in African & African-American Studies and Biology, and minored in Theology. He is a very proud New Yorker who lives in his favorite borough, the Bronx, with his beautiful, ever-entertaining wife. His prior work includes a comic book on Type 1 Diabetes entitled “Liz Unity & Her Somatic Adventures,” which can be viewed at his Instagram @BrandMDrawings. His artwork “COVID Hero” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895562406-1HHD9M5Y17MD54AP1BUC/Myers%2C+Kirsten.jpeg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Kirsten Myers POETRY “Hands” Kirsten Myers is a medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine campus in Spokane, Washington. She received her BA in Health and Societies at the University of Pennsylvania after a personal illness diagnosis at seventeen inspired her to look critically at health care. Hearing the stories of migrant farmworkers as an AmeriCorps volunteer inspired her to pursue medicine. She is the 2020 winner of the The William H. Greene, M.D. Poetry Prize and The Spokane Medical Humanities Committee Essay Contest. To her, "writing takes the distance away." Her poem “Hands” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895562512-CKQXCOUB2L0QOBLKC8G8/Newcombe%2C+Elle.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Elle Maureen Newcome STUDIO ART “Minneapolis 2020” Elle Maureen Newcome is a medical student at the University of Minnesota. Prior to medical school she worked as a cycling tour leader nationally and internationally. Elle studied Spanish Language & Literature and Poverty Studies at the University of Notre Dame and its Center for Social Concerns. Elle is passionate about addressing health disparities through medicine. In her free time, she enjoys painting, cross country skiing, and spending time dancing or adventuring with friends and family. Her artwork “Minneapolis 2020” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603967893203-8LKDKK0G2MH20NSHP91H/O%2527Brien%252C%2BJennifer.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Jennifer O’Brien STUDIO ART “Alone and Untouched” Jennifer O’Brien has been a management consultant to physicians, served as CEO for two large medical practices and held administrative positions in three academic medical centers. O’Brien earned a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a Master’s in the Science or Organization Development from Loyola University – Chicago. She has authored 45 practice management articles in professional publications and peer reviewed journals. The art journal she kept as a form selfcare during her late husband's 22-month illness was published by Et Alia Press as The Hospice Doctor's Widow: A Journal in February 2020. Jennifer O'Brien lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she continues to create art, is an advocate for dialogue about end of life, and still misses her beloved Bob. Her artwork “Alone and Untouched” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895563616-IPHL2RM8S4NQDOUYCHF9/Perez%2C+Nathalie.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Nathalie Perez STUDIO ART “A Healer’s Hands” Nathalie Perez is a second-year medical student at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University in Miami, FL. She has loved drawing ever since she discovered she could tell a story without saying a word. Before starting medical school, she worked as a middle school science teacher. She is currently interested in family medicine and hopes to pursue a career in which her love of art, teaching, and medicine can come together. Her artwork “A Healer’s Hands” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895568603-OC8NKVYCZ6HBWFX0HLTU/Prakash%2C+Roshni.PNG Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Roshni Prakash NON-FICTION “Performing My First Caesarean: A Reflection on the Intersection of Dance and Surgery” Roshni Prakash is a fourth year medical student at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Her interests include global, digital, and women's health, with a strong foundation in classical Indian dance. She is currently the co-director of the AMWA Dance and Theater Arts Task Force. The non-fiction essay she co-authored with Shilpa Darivemula titled “Performing My First Caesarean: A Reflection on the Intersection of Dance and Surgery” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603969225919-H2EZEVHOFXDR2NLKACT4/Quan%252C%2BMandy.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Mandy Quan STUDIO ART “The Pandemic Puzzle” Mandy Quan is a recent graduate of Rice University with a background in sociocultural anthropology and the medical humanities. She is interested in emotional and embodied experience, or the "excess" part of human life that often evades capture by medical technologies. With training in ethnographic methods, she is interested in the social interactions and meaning making that facilitate our understandings of suffering and healing. She is a deep believer in the power of storytelling and is excited to be exploring narrative through creative mediums. Her artwork “The Pandemic Puzzle” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603968276297-AXV5UXOU9E0JUWJRY19M/Ramesh%252C%2BSunidhi%2B.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Sunidhi Ramesh NON-FICTION “3:43 AM” Sunidhi Ramesh is an MD Candidate at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Emory University in 2018 with degrees in sociology and neuroscience and is the managing editor of "The Neuroethics Blog." She has also served as the education co-director for the Philadelphia Human Rights Clinic. Ramesh’s writing has been featured in Stroke and Vascular Neurology, Retina Today, and the American Journal of Neuroradiology. She authored the Winning Essay in the 2019 International Neuroethics Society Essay Competition and has written chapters on neuroethics and neurotechnology in various textbooks. Ramesh works on research spanning neurology and neurosurgery, particularly focused on perceptions of invasive brain surgery, intra-arterial chemotherapy, and the implementation of tele-stroke protocols in hospital emergency rooms. Her non-fiction essay “3:43 AM” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895571221-02ZYF6K9X5IL1CBNL5TW/Rehrmann%2C+Alexis.jpeg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Alexis Rehrmann POETRY “Essential” Alexis Rehrmann is a writer and editor whose journalism and digital work has appeared in publications including The New York Times and Portland Monthly magazine. A member of the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative, and a staff member at the Lewis & Clark College Center for Community and Global Health, Rehrmann has pursued the connection between story and healing throughout her creative life. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family and began playing with poetic forms in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In “Essential,” she tries to put words around the sudden loss of public and professional persona that non-essential workers are experiencing in quarantine. The short stanzas are essential now that she’s home with her six-year-old son… all of the time. Her poem “Essential” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603969276872-2UB6V5MZ2063IEBR2VU7/Reichenbach%252C%2BRachel.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Rachel Reichenbach ACADEMIC “Creating Space for Narratives in Breakdown to Speak: Death, Liminality, and An Ethical Re-Imagining of Narrative Medicine” Rachel Reichenbach is a community organizer and scholar whose interests lie at the intersections of narrative theory and applied ethics. A Stanford University graduate in Comparative Literature, Reichenbach utilized her honors thesis, “The Ethics of International Community Service: Narrative, Philosophy, and Education as Solutions,” to create the theoretical foundation for her recent, praxis-focused research project in Vietnam, as a Fulbright Scholar. An incoming medical student at the University of Arizona School of Medicine - Phoenix, she intends to help reform and re-imagine healthcare ethics, and is particularly committed to creating space for queer and trans patients who continue to be systematically excluded from and made vulnerable by the healthcare system as it stands. Her paper “Creating Space for Narratives in Breakdown to Speak: Death, Liminality, and An Ethical Re-Imagining of Narrative Medicine” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603968502247-F6MFTFE1UWQYG4N7D8WI/Rizvi%252C%2BAli.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Ali Rizvi NON-FICTION “Untarnished” Ali Rizvi was born and raised in Pakistan. After completing medical school, he came to the United States for medical training and has lived here for the past 30 years. Most of his career has been spent in academic medicine - patient care, teaching, research, and administration. He is currently affiliated with Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta in the practice of Endocrinology. Rizvi likes to run, hike, read, write and travel in his spare time. His non-fiction essay “Untarnished” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606176547474-EGX7WCJGBWIIHTO6WJFD/Natalia+Romano+Spica+pic.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Natalia Romano Spica ACADEMIC “Even from afar, to you so close”: Meditations on Narrative Medicine Virtual Group Sessions in Italian during the COVID-19 Pandemic" Natalia Romano Spica is a medical student at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. Raised between the US, Italy and Russia, she has a background in Classics and Medical Humanities. She is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia's Narrative Medicine Master's Program. Her scholarly interests include integration of social justice and humanities in medical education curricula, and fostering community building and interprofessional teamwork through narrative medicine. Romano Spica is the co-author of “Even from afar, to you so close”: Meditations on Narrative Medicine Virtual Group Sessions in Italian during the COVID-19 pandemic" with Carly Slater and others in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603969559257-1LPCWYT3HYDS2MIO5E4Y/Romo%252C%2BNoe.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Noé D. Romo FIELD NOTES “Running on COVID Time” Noé D. Romo is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of the Pediatrics Inpatient Service at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi in The Bronx, New York. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, he led the effort to convert the Pediatrics inpatient service into a young adult COVID-19 service. He is also a long distance runner who ran Division I cross country and track and field in college and now runs marathons competitively. His Field Notes essay “Running on COVID Time” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603969630325-6FEWCFRKX54T3ULG02K4/Sablaban%252C%2BIbrahim.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Ibrahim Sablaban NON-FICTION “When Suicide Speaks Arabic” Ibrahim Sablaban is an inpatient psychiatrist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. A second generation American and son of Palestinian refugees, he takes a keen interest in minority mental health, culture bound syndromes and healthcare disparities across American urban centers. He sits on the Michigan Psychiatric Society’s Legislative and Policy Committee and in particular, is a proponent of medication assisted treatment for substance use disorders and the de-stigmatization of buprenorphine and methadone in the Arab and Muslim American communities. A life-long writer, he has a growing fascination with the study and exploration of acculturative stress in both immigrant and refugee populations given the turmoil abroad. His non-fiction essay “When Suicide Speaks Arabic” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603969959690-THNOP8T9Y3JMLFMT67YQ/Schifeling%2C+Christopher.jpeg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Christopher Hamblin Schifeling MULTIMEDIA: VIDEO “Calavera” Christopher Hamblin Schifeling is a geriatric and palliative care physician in Denver. His creative work has been featured in JAMA and Annals of Internal Medicine. His multimedia piece “Calavera” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895576196-88SLKH7O6NUNPT2QYFJM/Schram%2C+Galen.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Galen Schram FICTION “Dislocation” Galen Schram is a hospital-based physical therapist at NYU Langone Health in New York City. He has worked with patients across several departments including pediatrics and emergency medicine and currently specializes in cancer rehab. From March to May of this year he was redeployed to work exclusively with patients hospitalized with the novel coronavirus. He graduated with his Doctor of Physical Therapy from Columbia University in 2013. One of his favorite courses during graduate school was an introduction to Narrative Medicine. At present he is enrolled in Columbia’s Narrative Medicine Certification program. For Schram, writing stories has always been both exciting and therapeutic. He has ambitions to publish a novel. He lives in Queens with his partner, an occupational therapist and frontline worker. His short story “Dislocation” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895577754-34YS2ZJXU0QUWQZNO1O8/Schwolsky%2C+Elena.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Elena Schwolsky FICTION “Window on the World” Elena Schwolsky, RN, MPH, is a nurse, health educator, activist, and writer who spent a decade as a pediatric nurse at the height of the AIDS epidemic. She has trained AIDS educators in Cuba and Tanzania and teaches community health workers in New York City. Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba was published by She Writes Press in 2019 and her and her work appears in the anthologies The Healer’s Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief (Carver College of Medicine, 2020), and Reflections on Nursing: 80 inspiring stories on the art and science of nursing. Schwolsky is the recipient of a writing award from the Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund and is proud to be recognized as the madrina (godmother) of Proyecto Memorias, the Cuban AIDS Quilt project. Her short story “Window on the World” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895579448-I9HLGALU10SY54BRPV6K/Shah%2C+Virali.jpeg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Virali Shah STUDIO ART “Recharge” and FIELD NOTES “The New Hangman” Virali Shah, MBA is a medical student at Albany Medical College in Upstate New York. Early into her medical training, Virali discovered how art, including visual and literary forms, was a powerful tool to externalize complex emotions, depict abstract ideas related to medicine, and create awareness of important issues surrounding healthcare. She is trained in oil and acrylic painting and was a docent at a memorial art gallery for four years. Currently, Virali is leading an intersectional project on narrative medicine, dance, and health equity at her school to research the benefits of arts training in medical education. She is featured in the Doctors Who Create “Creativity in Medicine” Podcast and is a contributing writer for the published, peer-reviewed book “Diary of a Med Student.” Her artwork “Recharge” and Field Notes essay “The New Hangman” appear in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1606184901081-E0RPBJTBTW60EAO2A835/Slater%252C%2BCarly.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Carly Slater ACADEMIC “Even from afar, to you so close”: Meditations on Narrative Medicine Virtual Group Sessions in Italian during the COVID-19 Pandemic" Carly Slater is a third-year medical student at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA, and a graduate of the Narrative Medicine Master's Degree Program at Columbia University. Slater also has a Master's Degree in Italian Literary Studies from Middlebury College and a Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Studies from Columbia University. She has taught narrative medicine workshops across the US and in Italy. Her research interests include narrative medicine in interprofessional education, pediatric narrative medicine education, child development, and Italian and Spanish literature. Slater co-authored “Even from afar, to you so close”: Meditations on Narrative Medicine Virtual Group Sessions in Italian during the COVID-19 pandemic" with Natalia Romano Spica and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895580796-7SD4FK5LZLWOHTVK4SRY/Smith%2C+Nancy.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Nancy Smith POETRY “When Patients Die” Nancy Smith is a retired Registered Nurse. Though she moved through the many domains of hospital nursing, most of her work took place in an Intensive Care Unit. Her co-workers noticed that she would place small strips of paper with poems by various authors on her locker from time to time along with the pictures of her family. She is a mother and grandmother. She and her husband live in rural Maryland where she maintains a part-time acupuncture practice. Her poem “When Patients Die” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924272345-GYTZBVPD62IFFSJI2C7Q/Tremblay%252C%2BCassia.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Cassia Tremblay POETRY “In That Regard” Cassia Tremblay is a fourth-year medical student at the University of British Columbia. She believes words can capture both beautiful and challenging moments. Studying medicine while living in 'Beautiful British Columbia' has provided ample opportunities for both. Her poem “In That Regard” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1604068645948-0TSAF2F9FKVQRJELXC63/Van+Doren%2C+Vanessa.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Vanessa Van Doren NON-FICTION "The Right Choice" Vanessa Van Doren is a current internal medicine resident physician in Georgia. She started her career as a primatologist but eventually found her way to clinical medicine. She plans to pursue an infectious disease fellowship with a focus on HIV. She lives in Atlanta with her husband Dan and their cat Beau. Her non-fiction essay “The Right Choice” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924326566-4GZTNKO3O7913NMY15U5/Vlasic%252C%2BKajsa.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Kajsa Vlasic FIELD NOTES “I Miss Touching My Patients” Kajsa Vlasic is a pediatric resident physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who studied English as an undergraduate student. She completed her bachelor’s degree and medical degree at the University of Utah. While in medical school she helped publish an annual medical arts and humanities journal. Now as a resident she works to create greater opportunity for reflective writing as a means of promoting resiliency for medical trainees. She holds a firm belief that storytelling is an integral part of the healthcare experience. Clinically, she is passionate about supporting maternal-newborn care and pediatric emergency services in low-resource settings. She is an avid skier, runner and backpacker and loves spending post-call days listening to live music and exploring her city's vibrant art scene. Her Field Notes “I Miss Touching My Patients” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603971207822-PO2ANSV3CBCQ49496MSO/Walker%252C%2BDaly.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Daly Walker FICTION “Resuscitation” Daly Walker is a retired surgeon. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary publications including The Sewanee Review, The Louisville Review, The Southampton Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, The Saturday Evening Post and The Atlantic Monthly. His work has been shortlisted for Best American Short Stories, a Pushcart Prize, and an O’Henry award. His collection of stories, Surgeon Stories, was published by Fleur-de-lis Press. A second collection of his stories is soon to be released. He divides his time between Boca Grande, Florida and Quechee, Vermont. He teaches a fiction writer’s workshop at Dartmouth College in Osher@Dartmouth’s summer program. His short story “Resuscitation” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603971382793-M5GX9DTPYX9BF2JDS65B/Weinberg%2C+Kenneth.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Kenneth Weinberg NON-FICTION “Schmeckle Down” Kenneth Weinberg is a longtime ER and Urgent Care doctor, registered cannabis MD, health care activist. His non-fiction essay “Schmeckle Down” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603918207959-D1796Z4MJKBO2HYHE8CX/White%252C%2BLaura-Anne.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Laura-Anne White STUDIO ART “Grip” Laura-Anne White is a registered nurse who works primarily with adult cancer patients. At present, she resides in California, and has worked previously in Minnesota and New York. Art and writing serve as a healthy outlet and source of joy for her. She created this piece in April, while working on an inpatient Covid-19+ cancer unit in New York City. Artist's statement: "We are living in times of change - the only way forward is together." Find her on Instagram @lawhite_art or visit her website. All proceeds from the sale of prints of “Grip” go to Black Women's Health Imperative https://bwhi.org/our-story/. Her artwork “Grip” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603971914227-226HQC154CSUW9W7Y5C9/Whitney%252C%2BRondalyn.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Rondalyn Whitney NON-FICTION “Are You the Wife? Narrating a Week of Loss” Rondalyn Whitney is an associate professor in the Division of Human Performance at West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine. Her scholarship focuses on the use of writing as a health-practice with emphasis on promoting maternal and child health. She is currently completing a certificate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, has authored 7 books, is widely published in the profession of occupational therapy and her poetry has appeared in several journals including Yankee. She is the wife of the late William Whitney and writes each day as a way to process the loss of her favorite configuration of matter. Her non-fiction essay “Are You the Wife? Narrating a Week of Loss” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924286113-PHH0Q2OUCJQA5J71ACJG/Willberg%252C%2BKriota.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Kriota Willberg STUDIO ART “Gratitude” Kriota Willberg makes comics about the body sciences, medical history, and bioethics. Her book, Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists and Visual Artists, is published by Uncivilized Books. Other comics have appeared in: 4PANEL.ca, Spiral Bound (Medium.com), SubCultures, Comics For Choice, The Graphic Canon, and Strumpet 5, among others. Her comic Silver Wire was nominated for a 2019 Ignatz Award and is included in the BCALA and ALA Black Lives Matter Reading List. In 2017 Willberg was the inaugural Artist In Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Now, she’s the Artist in Residence in The Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she teaches graphic medicine and drawing. Visit https://birdcage-bottom-books.myshopify.com/collections/vendors?q=Kriota%20Willberg for her graphic medicine minicomics collection, including the new Cadaver Diaries, a sketchbook-memoir about the influence of cadaver studies on her life as an artist and massage therapist. https://birdcage-bottom-books.myshopify.com/products/cadaver-diaries Her artwork “Gratitude” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603924305922-JUR22C0EL737TU4S65JL/Wilson%252C%2BMichael%2BLowery%2B.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Michael Lowery Wilson ACADEMIC “The Trauma Narrative as a Patient-Centered Empowerment Tool” Michael Lowery Wilson is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg in Germany. He holds a PhD from the University of Turku in Finland which was awarded for research on pediatric traumatic brain injury. As a cross-discipline researcher in anthropology, epidemiology and global health, his work has focused on injuries as problems of public health importance. He has published widely in the public health literature on topics ranging from adolescent suicide, to pediatric burns and other external causes of mortality. His current research interests lie in the development and deployment of large scale experimental studies for injury and violence prevention in community-based settings. His paper “The Trauma Narrative as a Patient-Centered Empowerment Tool” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603972330154-EXDKRPMO8W9YYZB0YF57/Wilson%252C%2BSophia.jpg Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Sophia Wilson POETRY “Homing Signals” Sophia Wilson is a writer whose poetry or short fiction recently appeared in Love in the Time of COVID (A chronicle of a pandemic), Flash Frontier (Matariki), Australian Poetry Anthology, Intima, Landfall, Ars Medica, Not-Very-Quiet, StylusLit, Hektoen International, Corpus and elsewhere. Her writing has been recognised in various national and international competitions. She is based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her poem “Homing Signals” appears in the Fall 2020 Intima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1603895591549-9NHRCZELVUFFKD0IPKSM/Yama%2C+Cecile.JPG Contributors Fall 2020 Intima - Cecile Yama FIELD NOTES “Growths” Cecile Yama is a pediatric resident in the Bronx, where she lives and thrives with her partner and her two dogs. She is interested in how to make medicine more equitable and human by fostering interdisciplinary practices. She investigates the effects of urban green spaces and housing on health, and enjoys engaging with the build environment. She is the co-founder of Garden Stories, a digital community gardening experiment, born during the Coronavirus pandemic in a multi-story building in the Bronx. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633900642946-P7D2J7UC4EYTQHA72XSW/7_Access.jpg How Will We Use Our Hands | Arielle Moss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633901604200-14LD7CVOLAUXARTFJI0Y/9_Patience_and_Understanding.jpg How Will We Use Our Hands | Arielle Moss - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633901935793-4VD6W0CW2NQ68UK1P8UY/10_Stay_Determined.jpg How Will We Use Our Hands | Arielle Moss - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/blue-pajama-series-rachel-wyman daily 0.75 2021-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983060589-GZRHSNXX6KBGP5XWUVEE/Blue+Pajama+Series+Crowd+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.JPG Blue Pajama Series | Rachel Wyman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983051115-1BZX6UCFY5PZH28KZ2FP/Blue+Pajama+Series+-+Train+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.JPG Blue Pajama Series | Rachel Wyman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983056211-DV7FZ8798EM8SSSYG0NV/Blue+Pajama+Series+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.jpg Blue Pajama Series | Rachel Wyman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983066470-03YNDYQ2N2YEUYM7KR65/Blue+Pajama+Series+Walking+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.jpg Blue Pajama Series | Rachel Wyman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633983029213-6ZON9O27SU58V8GQ4KVC/Blue+Pajama+Series+-+Flight+by+Rachel+Wyman+Fall+2021+Intima.JPG Blue Pajama Series | Rachel Wyman https://www.theintima.org/healthcare-is-a-right-benjamin-fleet daily 0.75 2021-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633917551748-O8A8HMYLEEJHD3OONMDN/%C2%A9+Impacted+by+Benjamin+Fleet+FALL+2021+Intima.jpg Healthcare is a Right | Benjamin Fleet - 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The overall hue and expression is dark because, although the physician means well, based on the dialogue, his immediate response was to provide reassurance based on the facts and figures instead of asking questions about what the diagnosis could actually mean to the patient. All the physician did was to brush it off by saying “This is common, don’t worry.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633989707658-R2KIEZEY9AUDR82U8ZXX/%C2%A9+If+Only+2+by+Julie+Hwang+Fall+2021+Intima.png If Only | Julie Hwang In the second image, the smaller pictures symbolize attempts at finding a “cure.” The mosaic includes a scene from a clinical case study meeting, the operating room, a medical conference and imagery of fellows and residents making rounds at the inpatient unit. However, in the first image, the patient is anxious and confused, with medical jargon, complex procedures and talk of medical research overwhelming her. The two pictures indicate how medicine can often be intimidating for patients when the sole focus and what is communicated to the patient is the scientific knowledge and skills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633989752370-L3TBGWSIBYXELL35MW6B/%C2%A9+If+Only+3+by+Julie+Hwang+Fall+2021+Intima.png If Only | Julie Hwang The image to the right is a little less somber in terms of the hue because it is taking a step towards integrating care into medical treatment. The old photographs represent information available to the physician from the very first encounter. The physician knew my grandmother’s basic family history of her sister's death. As she was about to explain to him her concerns related to her sister’s death and the procedure, he cut her off and went into the medical details of the procedure instead. Because he didn’t give her time to express her concerns, he never found out about why she was afraid: not because of the procedure itself but her trauma associated with contrast dye and CT scans. This highlights how oftentimes, the patient-physician dialogue stops short because the physician interrupts the patient. In fact, several studies show that doctors cut off a patient after eight seconds, on average, when the patient is telling their story. When zoomed out from the smaller squares, my grandmother is still a confused and apprehensive patient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1633989758012-A8V2CBLMDU7CFSS869NY/%C2%A9+If+Only+4+by+Julie+Hwang+Fall+2021+Intima.png If Only | Julie Hwang The final image, the first one to have a lighter feel, is the one that captures the idea of curing the disease and caring for the person. 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Briseida Mema Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/experiences-from-the-front-line-michael-evans daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://www.theintima.org/a-narrative-reconsidered-the-psychoanalytic-method-in-wg-sebalds-austerlitz-robert-c-abrams daily 0.75 2022-05-12 https://www.theintima.org/blackbox-warning-hope-kramer daily 0.75 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/eda06c38-54c2-4502-9152-44d93dc1bc6c/%C2%A9+Blackbox+Warning+by+Hope+Kramer.jpg Blackbox Warning | Hope Kramer - Make it stand out © Blackbox Warning. Hope Kramer. Spring 2022 Intima Acrylic on canvas https://www.theintima.org/booster-vaccines-to-the-rescue-sujal-manohar daily 0.75 2022-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/9c74a5c3-e5dc-4cf5-9b39-9c6cdda8ec46/%C2%A9+Booster+Vaccines+to+the+Rescue+by+Sujal+Manohar+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Booster Vaccines to the Rescue | Sujal Manohar - Make it stand out © Booster Vaccines to the Rescue Sujal Manohar Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/facing-a-new-diagnosis-gavisha-waidyaratne daily 0.75 2022-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652050865961-6SFPCRLS8G8UQ49NU6TP/%C2%A9+Facing+a+New+Diagnosis+-+Gavisha+Waidyaratne+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Facing a New Diagnosis | Gavisha Waidyaratne I made this piece in my M4 year as part of a course on "Health, Spirituality, and Religion" in the Spring of 2021. During this course, I spent a lot of time thinking about the intersections of health and religion that I had witnessed in my patient experiences, particularly when it came to new diagnoses. This sculpture was created as a result of these memories, as well as in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652050798768-I7ASBE86UILXMYCRXQUH/%C2%A9+Facing+a+New+Diagnosis2+-+Gavisha+Waidyaratne+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Facing a New Diagnosis | Gavisha Waidyaratne The text reads as follows: "What will happen to me? I feel lost. I'm not ready. Can you pray for me? How much time do I have? Why has God abandoned me? What did I do to deserve this? Why is this happening to me? I don't believe in God. What will happen to me? I don't know why. What is my purpose? What is the meaning of life? Will I die? I have so much left to live for. Why?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652051049130-HT1UHJ6YAF2Z87HND0Z2/%C2%A9+Facing+a+New+Diagnosis3+-+Gavisha+Waidyaratne+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Facing a New Diagnosis | Gavisha Waidyaratne This piece is made of clay, red glass bugle beads, acrylic paint, and wood. The dimensions are roughly 6"x4"x4" https://www.theintima.org/dna-expressions-krista-dominguez-salazar daily 0.75 2022-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/75d7d4fc-cbde-41c1-b1e5-6ba0855617d0/%C2%A9+DNA+Expressions+Krista+Dominguez-Salazar+Spring+2022+Intima.jpeg DNA Expressions | Krista Dominguez-Salazar - Make it stand out © DNA Expressions Krista Dominguez-Salazar Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/covid-tribute-posters-soren-glassing daily 0.75 2022-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652123096031-1XSBVYO88E4MEYJ5L6HH/%C2%A9+COVID+Tribute+Posters+by+Soren+Glassing+Spring+2022+Intima.png COVID Tribute Posters | Soren Glassing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652123100476-WXP87UOISUEKD7XTX0PT/%C2%A9+COVID+Tribute+Posters+Soren+Glassing+Spring+2022+Intima.png COVID Tribute Posters | Soren Glassing © COVID Tribute Posters Soren Glassing Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/art-of-being-here-kirilee-west daily 0.75 2022-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652132068378-IFIWMWPRT7QSZAKRGX7M/%C2%A9+Art+of+Being+Here+1234pm+by+Kirilee+West+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Art of Being Here | Kirilee West - 12:34pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652132041529-006W4Q1SWEB6NX3SFS89/%C2%A9+Art+of+Being+Here++705am+by+Kirilee+West+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Art of Being Here | Kirilee West - 7:05am https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652132043118-9YJXHFQUELU58V0MJC7X/%C2%A9+Art+of+Being+Here+1156am+by+Kirilee+West+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Art of Being Here | Kirilee West - 11:56am https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652132067136-RX6ONJMCWB99FXCSFNYI/%C2%A9+Art+of+Being+Here+201pm+by+Kirilee+West+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Art of Being Here | Kirilee West - 2:01pm https://www.theintima.org/the-impact-of-war-on-mental-health-claire-lawrence daily 0.75 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652216303961-32FO5O9XAWXIANYE1BIL/%C2%A9+The+War+Outside+Claire+Lawrence+Spring+2022+Intima.jpeg The Impact of War on Mental Health | Claire Lawrence - The War Outside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652216314691-RRTUS6CO4K2QJDG52LT8/%C2%A9+The+War+Inside++Claire+Lawrence+Spring+2022+Intima.jpeg The Impact of War on Mental Health | Claire Lawrence - The War Inside https://www.theintima.org/labor-n-delivery-mariana-ndrio daily 0.75 2022-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/bd7c67ae-ef79-4ce4-91fe-4ff09ea4592b/%C2%A9+Labor+N+Delivery.Mariana+Ndrio+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Labor N' Delivery | Mariana Ndrio - Make it stand out © Labor ’N Delivery by Mariana Ndrio Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/my-mothers-mri-tony-errichetti daily 0.75 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/320df58e-58fc-4931-bc28-2ccfcd1bb382/%C2%A9+My+Mother%27s+MRI+Tony+Errichetti+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg My Mother's MRI | Tony Errichetti - Make it stand out © My Mother's MRI: Brain-Mind Dataset. Tony Errichetti Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/the-ugly-placenta-emilia-white daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/70314472-2221-4739-b889-80a98d3e1921/%C2%A9+The+Ugly+Placenta+-+Emilia+White+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg The Ugly Placenta | Emilia White - Make it stand out © The Ugly Placenta. Emilia White Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/pediatric-neuro-oncology-waiting-room-rachel-mindrup daily 0.75 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/441fb6c9-5b85-4825-be74-8ff19e8cdac3/%C2%A9+Pediatric+Neuro-Oncology+Waiting+Room+-Rachel+Mindrup+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Waiting Room | Rachel Mindrup - Make it stand out © Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Waiting Room. Rachel Mindrup Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/pillar-of-light-jacqueline-pflaumcarlson daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ab0d07a6-5f4d-460a-871a-36818f12a637/%C2%A9+Pillar+of+Light+Jacqueline+Pflaum-CarlsonSpring+2022+Intima.jpeg Pillar of Light | Jacqueline Pflaum-Carlson - Make it stand out © Pillar of Light Jacqueline Pflaum-Carlson Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/the-garden-julia-michie-bruckner daily 0.75 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/284bfecf-10b2-4323-9410-87b5c0cf258b/%C2%A9+The+Garden+by+Julia+Michie+Bruckner+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG The Garden | Julia Michie Bruckner - Make it stand out © The Garden by Julia Michie Bruckner Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/protecting-what-matters-sarah-smith daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/ce47b2ea-b27b-4b7c-ac98-8843cbf56c2d/%C2%A9+Protecting+What+Matters+-+Sarah+Smith+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Protecting What Matters | Sarah Smith - Make it stand out © Protecting What Matters. Sarah Smith Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/remnant-tia-forsman daily 0.75 2022-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652301982251-VNY6S41GEHW56GD6W015/%C2%A9+Remnant+2+by+Tia+Forsman+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Remnant | Tia Forsman My work—in particular these recent watercolors (the 'Remnant' series)—is a response to my experiences throughout the past three years in medical school. As an artist, I found myself drawn to all the images included in my lectures, and then on the wards I found myself even more deeply drawn to the radiology reading rooms throughout the hospital. I became interested in how radiographs serve as distilled moments of a human narrative, an illness experience in greyscale. It felt both incredibly elegant but also painfully brief to me. So I turned to my studio to investigate my personal relationship to these images. I wanted to turn off the "objective" answers we often look for in medical images I was being trained to find as a medical student and instead turn on a more emotional response to the grey shapes and shadows that I collected from the wards. Each piece's composition references actual images I saw of my patients. I focused on shapes and transparencies that interested me, choosing to lean into abstraction as a way to acknowledge the depth and what I perceived as an "uncapturability" of everything in a medical narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652301982902-CAKK03O0Y0G0L56AZPDS/%C2%A9+Remnant+1+by+Tia+Forsman+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Remnant | Tia Forsman I am applying to radiology residencies and know my future career will involve shifting constantly between the objective, medical evidence in images and the emotional, subjective nature of what an image means to a patient in their illness journey. A CT scan, MRI or chest X-ray can be a punctuating event for any patient, and I use my art practice to remind myself of that intimate moment of clarity (one I personally experienced when a close family member of mine was unexpectedly hospitalized during my second year of medical school and all of my family's hopes seemed to hinge on the results of a single brain MRI). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652301983615-9INMQO9IREYQKN88A7OM/%C2%A9+Remnant+6+by+Tia+Forsman+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg Remnant | Tia Forsman These pieces all speak to the focus of the Intima journal in that they aim to introduce tenderness, uncertainty and empathy to the medical radiologic image, an object in medicine that is usually otherwise seen as cold and clinical. I am interested in the grey areas, the overlaps and the blurry edges that continually humble me both as a future physician and an artist. © Remnant Series by Tia Forsman Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/the-rhythm-that-binds-us-viswanath-veesh-swamy daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1b7fc01e-d578-4c4d-a01f-3e03cd5039d2/%C2%A9+The+Rhythm+That+Binds+Us+by+Veesh+Swamy+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG The Rhythm That Binds Us | Viswanath 'Veesh' Swamy - Make it stand out © The Rhythm That Binds Us. Viswanath ‘Veesh’ Swamy Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/this-pain-disproportion-adela-wu daily 0.75 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/f6960155-8329-420d-9c5f-ecdd7d476841/%C2%A9+%28this%29+Pain%2C+%28dis%29Proportion+Adela+Wu+Spring+2022+Intima.jpg This Pain DisProportion | Adela Wu - Make it stand out © (this) Pain, (dis)Proportion. Adela Wu Spring 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/treasures-disguised-as-negatives-gurganious daily 0.75 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652496443179-TWCSRNU1EPGMM9PXS19Y/%C2%A9+Treasures+Disguised+as+Negatives+Gurganious+1+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG Treasures Disguised as Negatives | Gurganious Our Grandfather Donald Yates was a mysterious man to us grandchildren and what we recognized growing up, was that in many ways he was just as much a mystery to our parents, his children as well. He was a creative and handyman, working as an architect and once upon a time owning a jewelry-making business. He often built us beautiful wooden gifts for Christmas, many of which we still have and treasure to this day. These were small glimpses into who he was, how he saw the world, what he valued, how he expressed himself. If you could look past the precisely stained and carved wood, you could see how he had spent days, weeks, months on making something priceless and one of a kind just for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652496039560-QR4GKNPM6CKW72BIPW59/Treasures+Disguised+as+Negatives+3+Gurganious+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG Treasures Disguised as Negatives | Gurganious The pictures we recovered showed even more of this, many that showed him tooling leather on his hospital bed and his pictures of himself or the world behind him in the bathroom mirror. These photos felt like one last gift from him. It was especially meaningful to digitize these and share them with our family, his children, so they too could get this intimate look into his life, before any of us even existed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652496444420-1JIAFPIW0O1V2FR1U5W5/%C2%A9+Treasures+Disguised+as+Negatives+Gurganious+7+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG Treasures Disguised as Negatives | Gurganious Photos taken by our Grandfather, a Navy Sailor, who spent 1946 and subsequent years in the VA hospital battling Tuberculosis. Photos were taken with an Argus C3 camera with Llford HP2 Film. A glimpse into the not so distant past shows just how much healthcare has evolved and yet, remained the same. The environment may appear different, but the people are still people, still humans in need of care, compassion, community and laughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652496037574-5ZDPPYHUBO2SS8MMF8O3/Treasures+Disguised+as+Negatives+6+Gurganious+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG Treasures Disguised as Negatives | Gurganious Imagine as healthcare providers if we took the time to know our patients in these ways, beyond their diagnosis, lab results or vital signs. If we knew how they expressed themselves, how they saw life, how they interpreted and showed love or feelings. These photos show a time when hospitals looked very different than what we have today. Large open wards of beds, side by side, where patients and staff basically lived in the same world and could more authentically share in these moments and know one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652496040900-UPEEHAL6P8YFPX9TFY0J/Treasures+Disguised+as+Negatives+4++Gurganious+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG Treasures Disguised as Negatives | Gurganious Our environment has certainly changed but the people, the patients and those who care for them, we would argue that not so much has changed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652496038032-MIOP5PDJ3KI4CRPLXFKQ/Treasures+Disguised+as+Negatives+5+Gurganious+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG Treasures Disguised as Negatives | Gurganious Look past what you see or hear at first pass and you may just stumble upon something hidden in plain sight. That is where the treasure lay. Show Less. https://www.theintima.org/the-students-white-coat-mohamed-sylla daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652500088229-TORB99SH4BQWLGQHM6C9/%C2%A9+The+Student%27s+...+Reflex+Hammer++Mohamed+Sylla+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG The Student’s White Coat | Mohamed Sylla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652500088591-S43DCRRWWUO7X8JJV8T7/%C2%A9+The+Student%27s+Stethoscope+Mohamed+Sylla+Spring+2022+Intima.JPG The Student’s White Coat | Mohamed Sylla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1652500089069-WXWR91YGCLDCX6L9K6QL/%C2%A9+The+Student%27s+White+Coat+Mohamed+Sylla+Spring+2022+Intima+.JPG The Student’s White Coat | Mohamed Sylla https://www.theintima.org/medical-reparations-shivani-jain daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://www.theintima.org/the-humming-wire-faith-galliano-desai daily 0.75 2025-10-31 https://www.theintima.org/medical-student-as-playwright-dramatizing-imelda-beckman-larimer daily 0.75 2022-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/e732e64c-24fd-494d-adbd-cdbdd851fba7/Screen+Shot+2022-11-12+at+5.54.22+PM.png Medical Student as Playwright: Dramatizing Imelda | Beckman Larimer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theintima.org/eleven-days-carmencita-balagtas daily 0.75 2022-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/57622fc0-f430-4761-a8bf-54cb56a7d3a9/%C2%A9+Eleven+Days+Carmencita+Balagtas+FALL+2022+Intima.jpg Eleven Days Carmencita Balagtas - Make it stand out © Eleven Days by Carmencita Balagtas.. Acrylic on canvas. Fall 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/studio-art-fall-2022-1 daily 0.75 2022-11-11 https://www.theintima.org/body-as-tool-jonathan-tijerina daily 0.75 2022-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/d7809740-5e7b-4117-b5f4-636ef44bde5f/%C2%A9+Body+As+Tool+Jonathan+Tijerina+Fall+2022+Intima.JPG Body as Tool | Jonathan Tijerina - Make it stand out © Body As Tool by Jonathan Tijerina. Graphite on paper. Fall 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/capacious-savita-rani-fall-2022-intima daily 0.75 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/b41b560c-2686-4025-8b79-decb85cb5552/%C2%A9+Capacious+Savita+Rani+Fall+2022+Intima.jpg Capacious Savita Rani Fall 2022 Intima - Make it stand out © Capacious by Savita Rani. Pen and ink. Fall 2022 Intima https://www.theintima.org/common-thread-medha-cherabuddi daily 0.75 2022-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/8f3c80aa-39b7-47ed-8af9-31f16c51d496/%C2%A9+The+Common+Thread+by+Medha+Cherabuddi+Fall+2022+Intima.jpg Common Thread Medha Cherabuddi - Make it stand out © The Common Thread by Medha Cherabuddi. Acrylic. https://www.theintima.org/untouchable-azhar-alhashim-fall-2022-intima daily 0.75 2022-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/5470cd2a-4bb8-4838-9892-807331c347e3/%C2%A9+Untouchable+by+Azhar+Alhashim+Fall+2022+Intima.jpg Untouchable Azhar Alhashim Fall 2022 Intima - Make it stand out © Untouchable by Azhar Alhashim. Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36in https://www.theintima.org/mothered-megan-gerber-fall-2022-intima daily 0.75 2022-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/b3f04de8-b182-4247-b438-7f57cfa531b3/%C2%A9+M-OTHERED+by+Megan+Gerber+Fall+2022+Intima.jpg M-OTHERED Megan Gerber Fall 2022 Intima - Make it stand out © M-OTHERED by Megan Gerber Fall 2022 Intima. Acrylic, mixed media collage on board https://www.theintima.org/my-mothers-last-bed-meg-lindsay-fall-2022-intima daily 0.75 2022-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/62422458-c160-40fa-b097-ae8a27c74d18/%C2%A9+My+Mothers+Last+Bed+Meg+Lindsay+Fall+2022+Intima.jpeg My Mother's Last Bed Meg Lindsay Fall 2022 Intima - Make it stand out © My Mothers Last Bed. Meg Lindsay. 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Marker and ink on paper https://www.theintima.org/portraits-of-recovery-guarav-datta daily 0.75 2023-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1687173670122-FM8G5QVZ941NY526GB4P/%C2%A9+Portrait+of+Recovery+1+Gaurav+Datta+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Portraits of Recovery | Guarav Datta A service user (foreground) talks to a social worker (background) during a counseling session in a drug de-addiction center in Kashmir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1687173670209-KGCCN789A20SSCJJ0IIX/%C2%A9+Portrait+of+Recovery+2+Gaurav+Datta+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Portraits of Recovery | Guarav Datta Staff at one of the drug de-addiction centers in Kashmir, responsible for providing physical activity sessions and in general maintenance of the center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1687173670966-IRYNK7EXOHB740T5A2PI/%C2%A9+Portrait+of+Recovery+3+Gaurav+Datta+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Portraits of Recovery | Guarav Datta Two psychologists and a service user (center) pose for a portrait at one of the drug de-addiction centers in Kashmir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1687173671151-RZ9IQLFL7JWDU2CYCYJN/%C2%A9+Portrait+of+Recovery+4+Gaurav+Datta+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Portraits of Recovery | Guarav Datta A service user stands for a portrait at one of the drug deaddiction centers in Kashmir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1687173671916-80MRP1VKLFYEF2RY9Q21/%C2%A9+Portrait+of+Recovery+5+Gaurav+Datta+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Portraits of Recovery | Guarav Datta Inside one of the drug deaddiction centers in Kashmir. 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While the plant’s medicinal properties were likely known of for centuries, they were first published about in the late 1700’s to treat congestive heart failure, known in those times as ‘dropsy. Norn S, Kruse PR. Hjerteglykosider: Fraoldtiden over Witherings digitalis til endogen glykosider [Cardiac glycosides: From ancient history through Withering’s foxglove to endogenous cardiac glycosides]. Dan Medicinhist Arbog. 2004. 119-32. Danish. PMID: 15685783. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685199602222-9NCEVGKHJCMTFE3IM3XC/%C2%A9+Tracing+Our+Roots+2+Camellia+Sonja+Eagle+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Tracing Our Roots | Sonja Eagle - Tracing Our Roots: Camellia Camellia sinensis. The medication Theophylline was first extracted from the tea leaves of C. sinensis in the late 1800’s. It was initially used as a diuretic, and then later discovered as and converted into an asthma/COPD treatment. Wettengel R. Theophyllin–Rückblick, Standortbestimmung und Ausblick [Theophylline–past present and future]. Arzneimittelforschung. 1998. 48(5A):535-9. German. PMID: 9676340. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1685199602187-3EWML61428H4BXXEKALF/%C2%A9+Tracing+Our+Roots+3+Cinchona+Sonja+Eagle+Spring+2023+Intima.jpg Tracing Our Roots | Sonja Eagle - Tracing Our Roots: Cinchona Cinchona ledgeriana. Quinine (and quinidine) was originally isolated from this tree’s bark and used to treat malaria from as early as the 1600’s. It used to be referred to as the “Jesuits’ bark,” “cardinal's bark,” or “sacred bark.” In the first several hundred years of its discovery, the plant was ground up and often drunk in wine. Achan J, Talisuna AO, Erhart A, Yeka A, Tibenderana JK, Baliraine FN, Rosenthal PJ, D’Alessandro U. Quinine. An old anti-malarial drug in a modern world: role in the treatment of malaria. Malar J. 2011. 10:144. 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Anand aspires to become a surgeon, driven by a commitment to uniting technical precision with the human side of healing. Her experiences with surgery as a child shaped her fascination with the role of the surgeon as both healer and guide. She has conducted research in protein biochemistry and translational neuroscience, but finds equal meaning in exploring medicine through art. Working primarily in charcoal, Anand uses visual storytelling to reflect on resilience, care, and the patient experience. She believes art reveals dimensions of medicine often unseen in data and clinical notes, and hopes to carry that perspective into her future as a surgeon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944733792-707TMXB2RKKIL3H8F2OQ/Bagga%2C+Ira.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Ira Bagga STUDIO ART: Anatomy of a Healing Touch Ira Bagga is a junior at Arizona College Prep High School with a passion for the arts and the sciences. Bagga discovered an interest in visual art in elementary school and has since used it as a way to explore self-expression, cultural identity, and storytelling. Bagga is deeply interested in health and medicine, with a focus on building bridges between science and creativity to increase awareness and empathy and using creative expression as a way to inspire dialogue and community impact. Her local initiative, the Athena Project, brings arts to underserved places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944734058-GVRORNIC9LBOJBC7V4DA/Bebensee%2C+Ann+Photo+by+Gigi+Kraus.JPG CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Ann Bebensee NON-FICTION: Edna Ann Bebensee is a retired neurologist and writer. Her work appears on The Keepthings. She lives in California with her husband and Bernese Mountain Dog. Photo by Gigi Kraus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944735914-RSRHEJZMWIRMQV9J766O/Bock%2C+Jonathan.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Jonathan Bock FIELD NOTES: Never Smoker Jonathan Bock is a third-year medical student at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Originally from small-town Kansas, Bock studied philosophy and biochemistry as an undergraduate. His eventual medical specialty is undetermined, but he hopes to use his educational background to incorporate the power of storytelling and the varied contributions of the world's great thinkers into his future practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944735805-07QYY5VAPYWIR081RBZP/Brownstein%2C+Dena.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Dena Brownstein NON-FICTION: Response Time Dena Brownstein is a retired pediatric emergency physician, mother of two adults, writer and community activist. Family, career and aging are the topics that inform her forays in creative non-fiction. Brownstein lives in the Pacific Northwest, and splits her time between Seattle and Lopez Island in the Salish Sea. Both landscapes feed her soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944737481-RLRV1UWXI1IPTIJRMOOH/Burke%2C+DeMarcus.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - DeMarcus Burke POETRY: Not One of Us DeMarcus Burke is a second-year medical student at the University of Michigan, where he is pursuing the Humanities Path of Excellence. He holds a degree in philosophy from Morehouse College. His creative work draws on themes of family, memory, and the emotional dimensions of caregiving. In 2025, Burke was named a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared in Auxocardia and is forthcoming in Rattle. He writes to honor the stories that often go unheard in medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944737437-SHCEQLY8CKK3W6LMEMBW/Buschman%2C+Wayan.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Wayan Buschman STUDIO ART: Open Window Wayan Buschman lives on the high plains of Colorado. She is captivated by desolate landscapes, old-time banjo music, and hand-drawn animation. During a five-year interim of worsening chronic pain, later revealed to be Lyme Disease, she discovered the field of narrative medicine. The genre helped her better understand her own condition, through the experiences of others. See more of her work at wayan buschman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761954700630-1K0M2J7B0YIQ4DQ52DEB/Canonico%2C+Matthew.png CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Matthew Canonico FIELD NOTES: Just Like Me Matthew Canonico is from Nashville, Tennessee. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Canonico is passionate about the narrative and humanistic aspects of medicine. His recent diagnosis of type 1 diabetes has provided him a unique and deeply personal perspective on the patient experience. Canonico is pursuing a career in internal medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944740044-NVZD935N6TF4EAG59U91/Chang%2C+Ellen.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Ellen Chang MULTIMEDIA: The Dinner Table Ellen Chang is a researcher and storyteller who graduated from Harvard Medical School’s Media, Medicine, and Health program. She studied Biology of Global Health at Georgetown University and has worked at Stanford University and Massachusetts General Hospital. Chang’s writing and research center on mental health, illness narratives, and the lived experiences of immigrant communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944739082-3HSIQAQD8O5MDLEMK2UE/Chaudhuri%2C+++Shaoli+.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Shaoli Chaudhuri FICTION: Pronounced Shaoli Chaudhuri is an internist based in the South. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Lily, and narrative medicine journals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944742772-CF6X1NJ0ZJ7IKEU00WZ8/Galliano+Desai%2C+Faith.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Faith Galliano Desai FIELD NOTES: The Humming Wire Faith Galliano Desai is a psychologist and writer whose work explores the intersections of emotion, the nervous system, trauma, and the body’s innate capacity for healing. Galliano Desai brings a background in holistic approaches to wellness and a deep curiosity about how stories move through us as energy. Her essays often weave lived experience with reflections on grief, anxiety, and the ways the body expresses what the mind cannot. She is at work on a collection of essays that trace the movement of feeling from wound to restoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944741163-O4ATCKJX2JIU02HWVGHH/Dun-Roseman%2C+Rebecca.png CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Rebecca Dun-Roseman STUDIO ART: Radices Nostras Rebecca Dun-Roseman is a first-year medical student at Northeast Ohio Medical University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944741656-FYQGV39RX6V9TYJ7HDQ3/Efroymson%2C+Rebecca.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Rebecca Efroymson FIELD NOTES: Press On Rebecca Efroymson, a writer of creative nonfiction, is based in Asheville, North Carolina. She lives a double life, clinging to her federal environmental science career, with its wonderful people, in these challenging times. Her lovely kids have fledged, leaving more room for writing. She has been in the care of physicians and physical therapists on many occasions, and a side benefit has been lots of material for literary pieces. Efroymson incorporates science in much of her work. She received the Leslie Garrett Award for Literary Fiction from the Knoxville Writer’s Guild. She grew up in Philadelphia and its suburbs and has a BA in biology and English from La Salle University and an MS and PhD in environmental toxicology from Cornell University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944742227-N1MBRUQSZOZLUAN256DE/Fathi%2C+Homa+.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Homa Fathi ACADEMIC: Towards Biopsychosocial Approaches in Healthcare: Postgraduate Dentistry Students' Experience of Transformative Education Homa Fathi is a doctoral researcher at the faculty of dental medicine and oral health sciences at McGill University. Her scholarly work focuses on improving access to oral healthcare for people with disabilities, advancing decolonization in dentistry and promoting social dentistry as a framework for addressing health inequities. She also engages in projects that integrate biopsychosocial and narrative approaches into dental education, exploring how transformative learning, storytelling and reflective practice can foster empathy and patient-centered care. Trained as a general dentist, Fathi brings clinical experience to her academic work, bridging theory and practice. She is committed to developing more inclusive, humanistic, and socially responsive models of dental care that recognize and address the social determinants influencing oral health outcomes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761954304204-RZBK1QSIMSR5R4119COL/Fisher%2C+Valk.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Valk Fisher FIELD NOTES: Diary of a Plunge Year Valk Fisher writes non-fiction, poetry and children's books, often on the subject of body. She runs writing-for-wellbeing workshops and is a PhD researcher at the University of Lisbon in writing-for-wellbeing applications in narrative medicine. She is finishing a memoir on illness, motherhood and care. More work can be found at valkfisher.com and the Broken Body Love Letters Project, an initiative that invites first-hand narrative of life with long-term illness/disability or follow @bbodyloveletters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944743329-1XPDOZ02AFO04CK8G1QQ/Gilligan%2C+Laura.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Laura Gilligan POETRY: TWO AM Laura Gilligan is a third-year pediatric resident in San Diego, California, planning to specialize in gastroenterology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944744159-2598WJ9NXT3WHHS15K1J/Glaser%2C++Johanna+.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Johanna (Hana) Glaser STUDIO ART: Womb Johanna (Hana) Glaser is a palliative care physician. She studied philosophy at Pomona College, moved to Ghana to help establish a women’s leadership development nonprofit, and worked as a family planning assistant at Planned Parenthood in Oregon. Glaser also took time off during medical school at UCSF to conduct research about end-of-life care for underserved women in the Bay Area and to complete an introductory training in Buddhist chaplaincy. She went on to complete internal medicine residency at UCSF and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at Stanford. Outside of medicine she loves quality time with friends and family, screen-free days with a paintbrush, long hikes near cold alpine lakes and her two wily kittens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944744572-OH0KCW7WQUKRX3H2BDEI/Gordon%2C+Moshe.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Moshe Gordon FICTION: Sweet Dreams Moshe Gordon is a second-year medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944752318-ZUPUUILOP87AOWZ31GR4/Gurm%2C++Zoya+.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Zoya Gurm POETRY: Mental Status Sonnet Zoya Gurm is a poet and resident physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Verse II, Clearline magazine, and zines from Flower Press, Minto Press, and Room Project. Her debut chapbook is Antiparallel in the River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944753615-JG4KQVOS2R86VEG5H9IS/Keller+Johnson%2C+Alyse.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Alyse Keller Johnson ACADEMIC: Humor as (Narrative) Medicine: An Autoethnographic Study of Familial Multiple Sclerosis Alyse Keller Johnson, PhD, is a writer and associate professor of communication studies at CUNY Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY. Her work lives at the intersection of story and embodiment, exploring how narrative can create spaces of healing, connection, and reflection. Much of her inspiration comes from her own and her family’s experiences with illness and disability, particularly multiple sclerosis, and from her own journey of learning to hold grief through storytelling. She facilitates workshops that invite others to share their own narratives of health and illness. More about her projects, performances and writing can be found at www.alysekellerjohnson.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944752267-AVNUDQKGID0WRB6YP4JG/Joudeh%2C+Layla+.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Layla Joudeh FIELD NOTES: When I Grow Up Layla Joudeh is a Syrian-American obstetrician-gynecology resident at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She leans on writing and reading to help her process the ups and downs of her medical career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944753891-10VOE6AXREDNZORME9YM/Kenkare%2C+Pallavi.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Pallavi Kenkare FIELD NOTES: The Strike Pallavi Kenkare is a third-year medical student at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. She graduated from Cornell University in 2021, where she served as opinion editor for the Cornell Daily Sun. Before medical school, she worked as a journalist for CNET and ZDNET. She hails from Atlanta, Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944754813-ZR5P3CR4VN6PY13HKBP3/Kim%2CSolomon.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Solomon Kim POETRY: What Everyone Knows Solomon Kim is a fourth-year medical student at California Northstate University College of Medicine, currently completing a research year. Kim's writing explores healthcare disparities and patient advocacy, drawing from personal experiences with the medical system. His work seeks to give voice to marginalized patients, particularly those experiencing homelessness and mental illness. Kim is interested in psychiatry and narrative medicine as tools for systemic change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1763681124734-HJGLWPHRG9HJOYEEAKWD/Kingstone%2C+Lisa.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Lisa Simone Kingstone NON-FICTION: Angel Lounge Lisa Simone Kingstone is the author of Fading Out Black and White, which was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed. A 2025 Rockower award winner for excellence in personal essay, her work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, Shooter Literary Magazine, PW, Hadassah Magazine, Patterns of Prejudice, Lilith, The Linden Review, and Months to Years. A former literature professor at King’s College London, Kingstone lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761947471269-699NH5J7N0XZWHA0EPFH/Kunju%252C%2BAidan.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Aidan Kunju FIELD NOTES: And Do You Have Any Children? Aidan Kunju is a third-year medical student at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His academic interests bridge neurology, ethics, and the medical humanities, with work spanning clinical research on Parkinson’s disease, narrative medicine, and the ethics of emerging technologies. Kunju was a recipient of the Paul Kalanithi Writing Award 2023 for his poetry. Beyond medicine, he engages in creative writing and the visual arts as ways of reflecting on patient care and the human condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944755912-OMV0T71N92T8HUMKXL8M/LeComte%2C+Serge.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Serge Lecomte STUDIO ART: Bulimia, I Am Not a Prince Serge Lecomte was born in Belgium in 1946. He came to the States where he spent his teens in South Philly and then Brooklyn. After graduating from Tilden H. S. he joined the Medical Corps in the Air Force. He earned an MA and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Russian Literature with a minor in French Literature. He worked as a Green Beret language instructor at Fort Bragg, NC from 1975-78. In 1988 he received a B.A. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Spanish literature. He worked as a language teacher at the University of Alaska (1978-1997). He worked as a house builder, pipe-fitter, orderly in a hospital, gardener, landscaper, driller for an assaying company, bartender and painter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761948166125-RLX2VSEUKBZKIPR480TZ/Intima+logo.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Oscar Kopljar FICTION: Rot Oscar Kopljar is an Oxford educated poet and translator with a deep interest in grief, suffering, and the ways in which we endure them. He lives alone deep in a swampy forest in Sweden, where he spends his days rewilding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944756310-PCEZP5ZXXGI8BCBZOZM2/Leddy%2C+Annette.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Annette Leddy FICTION: Mirella Annette Leddy is a fiction writer and author of the novel Earth Still. Leddy, who is also an oral historian for artist foundations, held the position of New York Collector for the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. She has published essays and reviews on artists connected to Surrealism, Futurism, or Conceptual Art, and co-authored Farewell to Surrealism: the Dyn Circle in Mexico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944757861-17TLI5999G07DO8VI3UA/Lee%2C++Elli+Youngeun+.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Elli Youngeun Lee STUDIO ART: Seeds of Life Elli Youngeun Lee is a painter and third-year medical student at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in visual arts in 2022. Lee gleans inspiration from her daily life and on her clinical rotations, hoping to put onto canvas the fleeting but poignant moments of the mundane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944757526-HGD5WCW80X5FGTMCZSVM/Liu%2C+Elaine+.png CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Elaine Liu POETRY: Love and Other Small Miracles Elaine Liu is a homo sapiens who draws inspiration from her experiences living on both sides of the Pacific, often drawing on her experiences as an EMT, hospice worker, ER scribe and aspiring physician. Her poetry has appeared in EPOCH, Tendon, Stone Poetry Quarterly, Bellingham Review and Folio. She is forever grieving the souls lost in Unit 731. POETRY: How To Tell If You're in a Ghost Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944759440-K1445NVEUHPMXFCE7W9I/Manohar%2C+Sujal.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Sujal Manohar STUDIO ART: Genetic Diagnostic Funnel Sujal Manohar lives and thrives at the intersection of the arts and sciences. Manohar has designed collaborative murals in health care settings, taught art to individuals with intellectual disabilities, and led art gallery tours for adults with dementia. She holds degrees in neuroscience and visual arts from Duke University and an MD from Baylor College of Medicine. She is a neurology resident at the University of Pennsylvania. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944759521-7OYPI7FZDR99L772PUIJ/Mcdonald%2C+Mariana.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Mariana Mcdonald FICTION: The Vent Mariana Mcdonald (she, her, they) is a poet, writer, public health scientist, and activist. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Crab Orchard Review, Ceasefire Now!, Sargasso, Antología de la Poesía Viequense, About Place Journal, and Anthology of Southern Poets: Georgia. She co-authored Dominga Rescues the Flag about Puerto Rican heroine Dominga de la Cruz. She was named a Black Earth Institute Scholar/Fellow in 2022. She lives in Atlanta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944760584-W2G48D2H8R1XUKLG3WLN/McEachern%2C+Robert+.png CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Robert McEachern NON-FICTION: Restoration Robert McEachern is a cancer advocate and writer. His work has appeared in JCO Oncology Practice, KevinMD, Blood-Cancer.org, Lymphoma News Today, Lyfebulb, The Mighty and CURE Today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944760657-DNG755QQWFCRJ5D0TDHP/Miller%2C+Cindy.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Cynthia Miller FIELD NOTES: First, Check Your Heart Rate Cynthia Miller, MD, MPH, consults for life science firms in the area of market access. She is a thought leader in the healthcare space with publications in the Medical Care Blog, Physicians Practice, and Healthcare Business Today. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband and 7-pound toy schnauzer. In addition to reading and writing, she enjoys visiting bookstores, hiking, yoga, and Pilates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944761725-KAZUDES1ONVZ62TE8FF2/Ndrio%2C+Mariana.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Mariana Ndrio STUDIO ART: Chronos—Mind and Heart Mariana Ndrio is a third-year psychiatry resident based in Connecticut. Driven by a deep curiosity about the human mind, she explores the multifaceted human psyche through various forms of artistic expression. Through her art, she aims to bridge the gap between medicine and the human experience, drawing inspiration from daily clinical encounters and inner life experiences as a physician in training. Her work has also appeared in New Physician Magazine and Pulse Voices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944762040-6VWBF6ZKRGOBIHH97DPB/Nguyen%2C+Christine.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Christine Nguyen NON-FICTION: Moving Day Christine Nguyen has performed her work live in San Francisco with Back Pocket Media and at LitCrawl Sebastopol. She won journalism awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, the Society of Professional Journalists-NorCal, and the San Francisco Press Club. She was born in Vietnam and practices medicine in San José, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944764968-O4RWNK9DA17S3IB57CL0/Palmer%2C+Madison.png CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Madison 'Sonni' Palmer NON-FICTION: What Sticks Madison 'Sonni' Palmer is a queer, mixed-race Filipinx writer who holds a BS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is studying at Stanford Medical School. She writes to heal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944764013-87HJYRF3WTV2QWIZNIQN/Patel%2C+Tulsi.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Tulsi Patel POETRY: Persephone's Cancer Tulsi Patel is an internal medicine resident at the University of California, San Diego. Born and raised in Chicago, Patel ventured to the East Coast for college and received a degree from Columbia University, where she developed an appreciation for both poetry and humanistic care. She enjoys hiking with friends, staring at art, and raising her cat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944765199-8ZGZGDN2BABO8316LM2N/Paull%2C+Mark+E.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Mark E. Paull NON-FICTION: The Day I Stopped Apologizing for Being Tired Mark E. Paull was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1967 at age eleven. He has lived through nearly six decades of diabetes care evolution, from boiled glass syringes to modern technology. In the early 1980s, he worked as a diabetes educator, helping patients and families navigate chronic illness management. Paull has completed CME-accredited training in Type 1 Diabetes care and reviews manuscripts for Diabetes Care, and works as an educator and coach. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Folklife, CHADD's Attention Magazine, The Good Men Project, Breakthrough T1D Canada, and The Times of Israel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944740372-CSMDJZ89ODV2P2SSSJU0/Dobner-Pereira%2C+Julia+.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Jules D. Pereira FIELD NOTES: Letter to My Oncologist Jules D. Pereira (she/they) writes poetry and prose and creates auto-ethnographic therapeutic theater, most recently about illness as a spiritual portal. Her clinical work and research involve integrating drama therapy with attachment-based interpersonal approaches to therapy, queering psychotherapy, and improving systems to promote trauma-informed, liberated healthcare. Pereira loves spending time with her family and extended dear ones, including their diva calico cat, Joni. They also enjoy singing, exploring the natural world, and gathering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761953905239-KI1WL3B0NYMOZA2WTLVE/Potochny%2C+Evelyn.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Evelyn M. Potochny FICTION: Undetermined Evelyn M. Potochny, DO is an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761953737283-UIZ421XV9XT3JRC65FKG/Reyes%2C+Lauren+Rose+.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Lauren Rose Reyes STUDIO ART: Our Heart Lauren Rose Reyes is a researcher, poet and bead worker, who comes from a long line of healers. At Stanford University, she studied human biology and science communication while integrating cultural knowledge into health advocacy work and cardiology research. Reyes carries her Mexican, Diné (Navajo), and Nde (Mescalero Apache) heritage with her throughout her work. Beyond pursuing a career as a physician, the creative and cultural arts are key components of her life. Culture intertwined with science is a common theme throughout her creative practice and writings. Reyes is a storyteller, cultivating awareness and understanding towards her people and others who are underserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944766228-027Y2BLAZZAYHA5JWA1U/Ripperton%2C+Rebecca.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Rebecca Ripperton FIELD NOTES: Stroke or Not Stroke Rebecca Ripperton is a neurology resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She received her medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and her undergraduate degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. Her interests include medical education, narrative medicine, the humanities, and improving care for patients in carceral settings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944766497-JCQKAX395B4G6JJAM9S7/Rockey%2C+Nathan.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Nathan Rockey NON-FICTION: Passing the Touch Nathan Rockey is a primary care physician in Colorado. He likes to read and write about medicine and is working on a nonfiction piece about his medical training. His favorite piece of writing is an unpublished poem his dad wrote called “The Last Fact.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944767360-WBW4APN2Q4WB56MBU8HY/Sawant%2C+Esha.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Esha Sawant STUDIO ART: The Window Esha Sawant is a third-year medical student at Stony Brook University. She is from New York, but completed her undergraduate education at Dalhousie University in medical sciences with a minor in Russian studies and intercultural communication. Sawant, who is passionate about art as a way to create intentional space for reflection and to capture striking moments in medicine, is also inspired by folk modes of storytelling that bring beauty into the everyday through song, dance, painting and textile work. Her artwork has appeared in the RSOM Anastomoses Journal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944768848-XPG98Y6W808ZCDHQ1USN/Sharpless%2C+Joanna.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Joanna Sharpless NON-FICTION: Perfect Joanna Sharpless is a palliative care physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who searches for healing through reading and writing. She is a graduate of the Program in Liberal Medical Education at Brown University, earning a BA in English Literature and a medical degree. Her work has appeared in Time magazine, Pulse Voices, Academic Medicine, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. She lives north of San Francisco, where she loves to enjoy tasty pastries under the redwoods with her husband and daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944768416-PB437HUF970HRCSGE03Q/Suchan%2C+Andrew.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Andrew Suchan NON-FICTION: Find Your Mosh Pit Andrew Suchan is a motility and neurogastroenterology fellow with Johns Hopkins, having just graduated residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview. He loves going to concerts, playing volleyball, discussing music, and writing narrative medicine stories about the emotional experience of work and training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944769572-FZNS6CMDB16X25012I29/Tricarico%2C+Annunziata.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Annunziata Tricarico STUDIO ART: CHEMO-od Annunziata Tricarico is a contemporary artist, curator, and marketing professional. With over 20 years of experience, she has collaborated with leading companies and agencies, including Saatchi & Saatchi, managing high-profile campaigns for global brands. Originally from Italy, she holds a Master’s degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage. After formative years in Brussels, which shaped her professional and artistic path, she has been living in Abu Dhabi since 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944770107-RHMC4HNWTNSVV512392W/Turker%2C+Ron+.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Ron Turker FICTION: Sammy's Still Screaming Ron Turker started in the ’80s as a standup comic and medical student. Through a series of nonlinear events, he became a pediatric surgeon by day and a writer by night. Thirty years of caring for kids at home and worldwide have shaped, sharpened, and ground his sensibilities into a resolute yet witty voice for healthcare change and equity in the U.S. He is the author of the award-winning satirical novel, The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious, his love letter to medicine written with a very sharp pen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944770668-LVJS7HSLBD0JTR3UZYZ3/Tuttle%2C+Rebecca.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Rebecca Tuttle FIELD NOTES: Out of Breath Rebecca Tuttle is an emergency physician and educator in Portland, Oregon. When not taking care of veterans, she spends time having adventures with her two young children. She enjoys dining out with her husband, listening to audiobooks, and competing on nationally televised game shows. She is immensely grateful for the moments of human connection that occur at the bedside, whether with hearing patient stories in the emergency department or tucking in her daughters at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944771182-9MO2S8VUB2LYP1SVH7N8/Ulin%2C+Lindsey.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Lindsey Ulin FIELD NOTES: DYING TO KNOW Lindsey Ulin is a palliative care physician and assistant professor of medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and storyteller. Her writing is featured in ABC News, Good Morning America, The Boston Globe, and STAT News. Ulin has been a guest commentator for NBC Nightly News, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Yahoo Life, and Cancer Today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944771741-QLX56FL6N0QZWFZT0P7W/Upton%2C+Elizabeth.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Elizabeth Upton ACADEMIC: *Through the Visual Art Lens: Applying the VIsual Arts to the Narrative Medicine Workshop Elizabeth Upton is a fourth-year medical student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Upton holds a MS in narrative medicine from Columbia University and a BA in fine arts from Swarthmore College. She has additional training in oil painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. *In Progress: Not yet published https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944772259-7YHJ0JTAQ2HI32OYA8PX/Valido%2C+Austin.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Austin Valido FICTION: I Am Hamm Austin Valido is a resident physician living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally from southern Florida, he was taught in primary school to evade alligators using a zig-zag maneuver, since, he remembers the reasoning explained, “They aren’t good at turns.” Experts now recommend running as straight and fast as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944772884-7N8JTASJE9Q4KCZOQKAT/Vayalumkal%2C+P.X..jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - P.X. Vayalumkal FICTION: The Slate P.X. Vayalumkal is a Canadian-born ER physician wholives with his wife and children just north of Toronto. He is an assistant clinical professor in the School of Medicine at Toronto Metropolitan University. His short story, "A Shadow in the Dark," will appear in Blood + Honey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944773367-L131CZIWBT8896XG4PL3/Woodward%2C+Angus.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Angus Woodward STUDIO ART: The Story of a Story Angus Woodward was raised by southerners in the Midwest and moved to Louisiana half a lifetime ago. His books of fiction are Down at the End of the River, Americanisation and Oily. Recent comics have appeared in the Rumpus, Shenandoah, Heavy Feather Review, the Florida Review and Slag Glass City. Woodward writes, illustrates and teaches in Baton Rouge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944774161-T6Q1PVQPWCRUBWPI78H4/Wooten%2C+Todd.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Noah Todd Wooten POETRY: Surgery Noah Todd Wooten is a poet whose work explores trauma, mental health, and survival. His poetry collection The Empty Urge documents his journey through childhood abuse, family loss, and psychiatric treatment. Wooten's work draws from his lived experience with bipolar disorder, grief, providing insightful testimony about experiences often marginalized in contemporary literature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761953422383-FMQF3OYZV1V72KK6TBMH/Yuan%2C+Victoria.jpeg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Victoria Yuan STUDIO ART: Thyroid Cocoon Victoria Yuan (she/her) is a third-year medical student and Sarnoff Fellow at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. She graduated from Stanford University, where she majored in biomedical computation, minored in classics, and produced podcasts with the Stanford Storytelling Project. With interests in data science and art, Yuan is drawn to the numbers and narratives of medicine, lending context and color to statistics through patient stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944777338-EGUFCR04REYKDFW6C15P/Zarconi%2C+Joseph.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Joseph Zarconi POETRY: American Sonnet for an Addict Joseph Zarconi is the distinguished university professor emeritus at the Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio, where he recently retired as clinical director for health humanities education. He is a retired nephrologist and active educator, Zarconi, who is co-author of two books on narrative in health care, co-authored peer-reviewed work on topics relating to medical education, narrative medical practice, narrative ethics, humanism and professionalism, cultural consciousness, close reading, and social justice. A member of the NEOMED Master Teacher Guild, Zarconi has been recognized as a Master Teacher by the American College of Physicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/1761944776583-Q4VZK7WKCHQ93KIM7TR2/Zhao%2C+Madison.jpg CONTRIBUTORS | FALL-WINTER 2025 - Madison Zhao STUDIO ART: Departure and Return: Visualizing Ethical Tensions in Geriatric Care Madison Zhao is an artist and medical illustrator whose work bridges the visual arts and the health sciences. She has illustrated multiple books with Routledge and Oxford University Press, including projects on neuroaesthetics and social-emotional learning, and has created murals and paintings for hospitals, clinics, and wellbeing centers through her organization Paint4Strength. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as the Bayou City Art Festival and featured in academic publications, and she has collaborated with physicians, researchers, and community organizations internationally to create art that supports healing, patient education, and cross-cultural dialogue. Find more of her work here. https://www.theintima.org/where-it-hurts-dispatches-from-the-emotional-frontlines-of-medicine-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bc1287e4b09cb81d8d8439/77b90c6f-1453-4a8d-aaa1-60ffdf1d5c65/Where+It+Hurts+Cover+%281%29.jpg WHERE IT HURTS: DISPATCHES FROM THE EMOTIONAL FRONTLINES OF MEDICINE - Make it stand out Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine (The Experiment, March 2026) https://www.theintima.org/store daily 0.75 2026-02-08