Utah AHEC Lunch and Learn

Title of the Presentation: 

Narrative Medicine: Why We Need Tools for Working with Stories in Health Care

Presenter:

Dr. Hailey Haffey

Hailey Haffey, PhD is a Lecturer in English at Wilson College, where she also teaches courses in Healthcare and Medical Humanities. She has spent the last four years as Project Manager of the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Rural Pathway at the University of Utah, and is an affiliate of the University’s Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities. With a certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, her recent projects explore ways of using Narrative Medicine to enhance clinical practice and health care education with specific interest in rural and under-resourced health care.