GRJ Forum Lecturer: Nicole Piemonte, PhD
Title: Cultivating the Habits at the Heart of Patient Care: Compassion, Vulnerability, and Imagination
Nicole Piemonte is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and a faculty member in the Department of Medical Humanities at Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix Regional Campus. She also holds the Peekie Nash Carpenter Endowed Chair in Medicine at Creighton University. Nicole received her PhD in Medical Humanities from The University of Texas Medical Branch where she studied continental philosophy, medical ethics, literature and medicine, and medical pedagogy. Her current teaching and research focus on incorporating the humanities into medical education in order to cultivate future physicians who are attuned to suffering, mortality, vulnerability, and social justice. Her first book, Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice, was published in January 2018 with The MIT Press, and her second book with The MIT Press, Death and Dying, will be released in September 2021.
Ignite talks:
- Chad Jackson, PT, DPT, EdD – Director, Professional Practice Education, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio TX
- Natalie Weeks O’Neal, PT, DPT – Program Director, PTA program, Pima Medical Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Sarah Blanton, PT, DPT – faculty and Editor in Chief, J Humanities in Rehab, Emory university, Atlanta, GA
Panelists:
- Gail Jensen, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FNAP, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
- Bruce Greenfield, PT, MPT, PhD, OCS, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
- Steven Chesbro, PT, PhD, Vice President of Education, APTA
