SCOPE: Stories, Narrative Medicine, and Patient Health in Pediatrics, Adolescents, and Adults - Using stories to inform and influence health

This SCOPE session focused on the topic of 'Stories, Narrative Medicine, and Patient Health in Pediatrics, Adolescents, and Adults: Using stories to inform and influence health', and was presented as a virtual, fireside chat and panel discussion with 3 HMS alumni discussing the importance of language to avoid stigma and promote understanding through stories.

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Resources:

  • Link to a PDF of the Resilient project, as presented in book format:

https://www.abhmass.org/images/publications/download_publications/Resilient-Event-Book.pdf 

  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement Campaign:

Change the Narrative Challenge

  • JAMA: A Piece of My Mind

  • The Labor of Storytelling, by Megan Ann Brandeland, MD (Brandeland MA. The Labor of Story Telling. JAMA. 2022;327(10):925–926. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.2355)

 

More about the moderator and panelists:

Daniela Puorto, MSed, BSN, RN

Daniela Puorto is completing her Masters of Science in Nursing at MGH Institute of Health Professions to become a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in the Primary Care setting. She will graduate in May of 2022. She has an extensive background in working with the pediatric population, which originated in the field of education and co-authoring and co-presenting nationally on Suicide Safety in Schools. Prior to starting her journey into nursing, she would travel both locally and nationally to train schools, healthcare systems, and community settings on suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. She currently serves as the Primary Liaison for HMS Chapter of Intend Health Strategies (née Primary Care Progress) Student Action Network. She has been a member of HMS Center for Primary Care’s SLC since the Fall of 2020. In addition to her time dedicated to school, work, and leadership activities, she works on her passion for climate change education as it pertains to healthcare and the pediatric population.

Galina Gheihman, MD
Galina Gheihman is a PGY-3 adult neurology resident in the Mass General Brigham Neurology Program in Boston, MA. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Galina attended the University of Toronto for her undergraduate studies, majoring in neurosciences and psychology. She earned her medical degree at Harvard Medical School. She is a former member and co-leader of the Center for Primary Care's Student Leadership Committee. In this role, Galina was a co-creator of the Boston RESILIENT project, a student-led photojournalism exhibit that utilized narrative medicine to bring awareness to and fight stigma in Boston's opioid epidemic. Galina has wide clinical, research, and educational interests including narrative medicine, leadership and resilience training, quality improvement and person-centered care, and designing, implementing, and evaluating medical education interventions. She loves to mentor, teach, and share her enthusiasm for medicine and neurology with others. In 2021, she joined the editorial committee for the Resident & Fellows Section of the journal Neurology, where she has helped to promote trainee writing and education. When not at the hospital, Galina can often be found listening to a podcast or audiobook while out for a long walk. Her favorite place to be is anywhere outdoors! 

Katherine Redfield Chan, MD
Katherine Redfield Chan is a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Anesthesia department. She earned her M.D. Magna Cum Laude at Harvard Medical School in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. She is also a collaborator in several active drug design projects in Dr. Pamela Silver’s Lab in the Synthetic Biology department at HMS. She is supported in this role through the mentorship of Jeffrey Way, PhD. Her current research focuses on engineering targeted protein-based therapeutics. She received her B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT.

Constance Wu, MD
Constance Wu is a physician at University of California San Francisco in the Internal Medicine program. She graduated from Pomona College as a chemistry major, earned an MPhil in biological science at the University of Cambridge in biological science, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Her interest is in oncology and her research in medical school was on metastatic melanoma in the lab of Leonard Zon. Outside of medicine, she is interested in art and drawing, as well as tennis.