EP 105: Designing for Creativity in Medicine | Vidya Viswanathan

What role does creativity play in the field of medicine? Vidya
Viswanathan is a writer and primary care pediatrician in
Philadelphia. She founded Doctors Who Create, a community focused
on medicine and creativity, and led the Creativity in Medicine
conference in Philadelphia in 2019. She has published longform
journalism and narrative nonfiction in outlets including The
Atlantic, Vox, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and JAMA. Vidya trained
at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for pediatrics
residency. She attended undergrad at Harvard College where she
majored in Social Studies and studied Mandarin Chinese, and spent
the year afterward on a Fulbright scholarship teaching English in
Taiwan. She did her post-bac studies after her return, and moved to
Philadelphia for medical school–and hasn’t left since. Currently,
Vidya is dabbling in fiction writing and working on a novel about
women of color in medical training. She lives in Philly with her
husband and their twin toddlers, and reads several (children’s)
books a day. Episode mentions and links:
https://vidyaviswanathan.com/ Sara Nović - Author and Educator “The
House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a
Sequel - New Yorker Blue Stoop Suzanne Koven - Letters to a Young
Female Physician Restaurant Vidya would take you to: L’anima Follow
Vidya: Twitter | LinkedIn