For Physicians & Allied Health Professionals

You’ve made it through. Now comes the harder question: what kind of clinician do you want to be?

Technical excellence is not enough — most of us already know that. The questions that remain are about how we communicate, how we lead, how we treat the people we train, and whether the culture we inherited is the one we want to pass on. This site is for surgeons, physicians, and allied health professionals who are still asking those questions.

Heather, arm around a CT technologist colleague, in the reading room
On communication

Listening as a clinical skill

The case for communication in surgery, and on every care team, is not about being “nice” — it’s about better decisions, stronger trust, and outcomes that matter. These essays and research make that case precisely.

Surgery & Palliative Care What palliative care contributes across surgical practice, for everyone on the team, including part-time pathways to formal training for surgeons already established in their careers. Surgical Palliative Care Exchange Teaching resources on surgery and serious illness, including a section for palliative care clinicians who aren’t surgeons. Surgical Palliative Care: Healing Beyond the Operating Room On what it means to keep the patient’s goals at the center — even when, especially when, the path forward is uncertain. The Writing Essays on presence, decision-making, and the human architecture of surgical care.
On culture and leadership

The culture we’re building, whether we intend to or not

Every interaction with a trainee, every response to a complication, every conversation in the locker room — these are culture. These projects try to make that visible.

#UnmaskMedicine A growing conversation about what medicine asks of those inside it — and what it might look like if we built it with more intention. #ILookLikeASurgeon The movement that began a global conversation about representation. What it taught us about culture, and what remains unfinished. Mental Health in Medicine What our credentialing forms ask, what we model when a colleague is struggling, and how to respond when we’re worried about one.
The research

The data behind the conversations

Peer-reviewed work on surgical identity, social media in medicine, health equity, and geriatric trauma — with the key ideas surfaced from each.

Research Publications Four intersecting areas of scholarship — each beginning as a clinical question and growing into something larger.
Working together

Speaking and collaboration

If you’re interested in working together — bringing these conversations into your program, department, or institution — I’d be glad to talk.

Schedule an exploratory call A short conversation to see whether and how we might work together. Get in touch For speaking engagements, collaborations, or simply a conversation — reach out directly.
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