So you have a story to tell? Getting started as a physician writer
Tue, Jan 27
|Zoom
Physicians at all stages of training often approach me after talks or via email with a common question: I think I have some stories to tell, but I don't know how to get started. From first-year medical students to the most experienced clinicians, physician storytellers can play a powerful role, bri
Time & Location
Jan 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Zoom
About the Event
Speaker:
Mara Gordon, MD (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Core Faculty, the Edward D. Viner Center for Humanism in Medicine Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Attending Physician, Cooper Family Medicine at the Kroc Center
Bio:
Dr. Mara Gordon is an assistant professor of family medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, where she serves as a core faculty member of the Edward D Viner Center for Humanism and co-directs the narrative medicine program.
She started writing professionally while a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, placing essays in publications like the New York Times and the Atlantic.
She currently is a regular contributor to NPR, where she writes their "Real Talk With a Doc" column. She also writes the Substack newsletter "Your Doctor Friend." She is at work on a book about diet culture in medicine, forthcoming in 2027 from Putnam.