she currently directs the narrative medicine curriculum for columbia medical school and teaches literature, narrative ethics, and life-telling, both in the medical center and to students in the narrative medicine master's degree program. she has published and lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, on the ways in which narrative training helps to increase empathy and reflection in health professionals and students. her literary scholarship focuses on the novels and tales of henry james. her research projects center on the outcomes of training health care professionals in narrative competence and the development of narrative clinical routines to increase the capacity for clinical recognition in medical practice.