About Me
I am an assistant professor in the Department of PA Studies at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where I direct a course in relationship-centered communication, medical humanities and ethics. As a board-certified physician assistant, my clinical interests include malignant hematology and cellular therapy. I also serve on the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Clinical Ethics Committee.
As the co-chair of the Story, Health, & Healing Initiative at the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute, I co-create and deliver programming in narrative medicine across the university and the broader Winston-Salem community. Additionally, I co-direct the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Narrative Medicine Certificate Program.
My area of curriculum development and scholarship includes the roles of literature, arts and the humanities in the development of clinicians as whole persons. I serve as the department editor for medical humanities at the Journal of the American Academy of PAs.
I received my Master of Science degree in physician assistant studies at Wake Forest University and a Master of Science degree in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida.