International Health Humanities Network Membership

I have been a social worker and educator for the past twenty two years and have worked in the areas of mental health, violence and trauma, and reproductive healthcare. I have a keen interest in the use of the arts and narrative in professional education and practice and have done advanced narrative medicine training. My PhD dissertation (completed 2013) is an autoethnographic narrative analysis of practitioner writing.

I have published in the areas of counseling discourse, personal narrative in professional practice, the use of applied theatre in promoting interprofessional care, poetry as qualitative inquiry, poetry in social work ethics education and the role of visual arts in reflective practice.