Research Interests
My scholarship and research explores the intersection of the arts and health. First, my research examines the use of visual art and humanities programming in medical education with special attention given to the development and evaluation of multidisciplinary curricula for health professional students, physician trainees, and other allied health professionals. These efforts focus heavily on the use of visual art to promote professional identity formation, improve communication skill, enhance empathy, improve tolerance for ambiguity, explore bias, examine health equity and social justice, foster resilience, mitigate burnout, and hone other skills required for a successful career in clinical medicine. This frequently involves partnership with cultural institutions, humanities scholars, and museum educators. Secondly, my scholarship explores the historical and contemporaneous health-related messaging that the arts communicate to medical professionals and the lay public. This work is seated within the fields of health literacy and health humanities.