As a professor, I’ve witnessed the dedication and passion of my students daily, but sometimes, the most profound lessons happen outside the classroom. Recently, I had the privilege of co-leading a group of health science students on a medical mission…
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen – Leonardo da Vinci. This post is the conclusion of my overseas journey during the summer of 2019 with a team…
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,…
I hated pep-rallies in high school and I have always struggled with having a sense of team spirit. In fact, at Christmas time I find that I tend to have more in common with the Grinch than Old Saint Nick,…
At the annual HAPS meeting in 2018, I sat with a lovely group of HAPSters over dinner. The topic of mindfulness came up and we each agreed how important it was for us and for our students. Going out on…
While on a family trip to France in the summer of 2017, I discovered the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy in the Jardins des Plantes of Paris. Part of France’s National Museum of Natural History, it is a hanger-like…
For the last three summers, I have been developing and hosting a summer camp for middle school kids about medicine. They are doctors for the week, solving medical mysteries, learning about diseases, and diagnosing patients, all while learning basic anatomy…