Health Humanities

Renée’s passion is bringing literature and the arts to health. She has been writing about and studying literature and medicine since the 1990s, beginning with an examination of women’s autobiographical writing about eating disorders. She focuses on using literature to support the work of practicing physicians and other health-care and public health professionals. Currently, she is the Health Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine program, where she is piloting integration of a literature and medicine program into the residency curriculum.

I’ll be working with surgeons at the annual quality conference of the University of Michigan Center for Health Innovation and Research this fall. I would be thrilled to include Torrance Memorial in that expansion!