Hedy Wald

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About Hedy Wald

Hedy S. Wald, PhD is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine; Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Commissioner, Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust. Dr. Wald has been recognized with Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards, served as a Fulbright Scholar (medical education) for Ben Gurion University of Health Sciences, Israel, and is a Gold Humanism Foundation Harvard-Macy Scholar. Dr. Wald has been a Visiting Professor at over 100 healthcare professions schools and healthcare organizations world-wide, presenting on reflective writing-enhanced reflection supporting professional identity formation, promoting resilience, wellbeing, and vitality in healthcare professions education and practice, and Holocaust and Medicine in health professions education. Dr. Wald publishes and presents on her family cancer caregiver experience, including for the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Medicine, Washington, DC. Her creative writing, reviews, and poetry have appeared in literary and medical journals and her work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Medical Independent (Ireland), and Jerusalem Post. Follow her on Twitter:@hedy_wald “Mind/Body/Spirit of MedEd”