Insights, Highlights & Mindworks Chats

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Mindworks in Conversation featuring Amelia Wallace, President-Elect of ASPE

Join Tony Errichetti, PhD, as he speaks with Amelia Wallace, President-Elect of ASPE and a leader in simulation-based education. Amelia shares how her background in opera, cognitive theory, and simulation fuels her approach to training Standardized Patients (SPs) as active participants and perceptive observers—not just passive actors.

Mindworks in Conversation featuring Shannon Ivey, MFA

Mindworks in Conversation featuring Shannon Ivey, MFA

This conversation with Shannon Ivey, MFA, centers on her experience as a cancer survivor, solo parent, and storyteller—focusing on how humor, narrative, and self-advocacy shaped her medical journey. 

Mindworks in Conversation featuring Cathy Smith, PhD | The Importance of Simulation Standards in Healthcare Education

In this Mindworks in Conversation episode, Cathy Smith, PhD, shares lessons from her decades of work in simulation-based healthcare education—specifically around training and standardizing simulated participants (SPs).

Storytime Meets Story Care: How Advocate Children’s Hospital and Chicago Libraries Are Advancing Pediatric Literacy

“Reading is a Right,” that’s the idea at the heart of a pioneering partnership between Advocate Children’s Hospital (ACH) and Chicago-area suburban libraries.

RX, a Poem: How One Doctor Prescribed Listening, Empathy—and a Poem

RX, a Poem: How One Doctor Prescribed Listening, Empathy—and a Poem

When Tracie LaNier, a social worker in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Advocate Health, lost her brother, Clayton Henderson, 64, in an unexpected death earlier this year, support came from a source she hadn’t anticipated: the members of the hospital system’s Narrative Medicine program team.

Mindworks Chat - Can Empathy Be Taught? Featuring Andre Lijoy, MD and Elizabeth Tracey, MS

Mindworks Chat - Can Empathy Be Taught? Featuring Andre Lijoi, MD and Elizabeth Tracey, MS

In this Mindworks in Conversation, family physician Dr. Andre Lijoi and Johns Hopkins chaplain and medical journalist Elizabeth Tracey explore an enduring question in medicine: Is empathy something we’re born with - or something clinicians must intentionally cultivate?

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