In this Mindworks in Conversation episode, Broadway performer, voice coach, and standardized patient Mary Illes explores the intersection of performance art and medical education. Drawing from her experience on stage and in clinical simulation, Illes reflects on how artistic skills such as voice, physical presence, emotional authenticity, and improvisation can help medical students become more aware, responsive, and human-centered in patient encounters.

In this Mindworks in Conversation episode, nurse leader, executive coach, and healthcare educator Jeannine Acantilado explores the powerful role storytelling plays in healthcare, leadership, and emotional well-being.

Is nature the ultimate "reset button" for the human brain? In this episode of Mindworks in Conversation, we sit down with neurologist and author James Bashford, MRCP, PhD, to discuss his groundbreaking work, Nature Within: How the Natural World Shapes Our Minds, Bodies & Health.

Dr. Peter Orton’s career has spanned Hollywood, Harvard, IBM, and public health. Through it all runs a single through line: storytelling as a tool for connection, learning, and impact.

We sit down with artist and advocate Caitlin Mesiano for a deeply personal account of her journey as a person born with a cleft lip and palate.

Accomplished author Melanie Brooks, known for her books A Hard Silence and Writing Hard Stories, sits down with Tony Errichetti for a thoughtful conversation on writing memoirs about trauma, grief, and real-life experience.

When a young patient blamed himself for a devastating injury, Clare Kelley stepped in to reframe the narrative, showing how health literacy and human-centered communication can directly impact healing.

In this episode of Mindworks in Conversation, Tony Errichetti speaks with photographer and filmmaker Corinne May Botz about her latest work, Milk Factory, exploring the realities of pumping and working motherhood.

Narrative Mindworks speaks with Tara Geer about carrying forward her mother’s groundbreaking work in visual thinking, using art to help people see, connect, and make meaning together.