Rana Awdish, MD FCCP FACP is the author of In Shock, a critically-acclaimed, bestselling memoir based on her own critical illness. An intensive care physician and associate professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, she completed her medical degree at Wayne State in 2002 where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society, her residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York, and her fellowship training at Henry Ford Hospital where she serves as the current Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program. She also serves as Medical Director of Care Experience for the entire Health System, where she has sought to integrate Narrative Medicine practice into the curriculum for faculty and residents. She believes in the power of art to heal and creates both visual art and written essays to process her experiences. She is not brave enough to attempt poetry.
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