Class of 2025, it was a blast teaching you this year and celebrating your personal milestones and light bulb moments across master’s and PhD programs!

There are lots of smart people out there just like you – here’s how you can stand out, based on science! I am SO excited to lead the University of Chicago and the Institute of Translational Medicine’s new certificate in Science Communication brought to you by the Office of Master’s Education!

Connecting the public with researchers? Heck, yes! MC-ed this fun event and helped the scientist speakers distill their work in powerful stories to engage folks from all backgrounds.

Video highlights: Faculty, PhD students, and the entire Washington University in St. Louis community dove into science communication sessions addressing everything from the science of storytelling to social media to giving a talk that doesn’t put people to sleep!

SO MUCH FUN connecting dots and translating skills across seemingly unrelated fields, and it has sparked big results for those in medicine and research. Fun fact: I’m a licensed private detective at Vantius, a

When a neurosurgeon resident says your sci comm courses are the best thing she could have done for herself out of all her years of education, it brings some happy tears to your eyes.

We laughed. We cried. We cheered everyone on through interactive exercises and more!

When physician researchers start telling their lab teams to create social media videos, you know the importance of science communications has been absorbed!

“A patient asked me if I read this book that says doctors lie…how do I respond to something like that?” – Real question from a real participant in our science communication training for University of Chicago residents and fellows on addressing misinformation.

While I was honored to MC this launch event celebrating $51 million from the National Institutes of Health, the real magic here was the collaboration across six top academic medical centers and health systems – dare we say, business competitors – to come together and work on something bigger than all of us.

Thrilled to be launching the science communications track of the new Master's in Biomedical Sciences. Applications just opened! Let’s learn together! Learn more and apply here!

The 19th Annual Austrian Research and Innovation Talk is coming up Saturday, Sept. 17, and I’m thrilled to be a panelist talking about science communication and misinformation with some wonderful colleagues from top universities!

More exciting news – I’ll be speaking at The Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Conference!

There are people, stories, and projects that stay with you a lifetime. This is one.

Kim is the only living person born without the sense of touch or pain. And something we all share may be the reason she not only survived – but thrived.

Exciting news –  I’ll be speaking at the HIMSS Global Health Conference this spring!

It’s all about The Power of Storytelling and Making Your Audience the Hero

Super excited and honored to speak at two global conferences this spring!

My new goal: See the world through the eyes of my rescue dog, Stella.

Every quarter in our UChicago Science Communications course, we kick off the first class with a “write” of passage.