She has been nominated for the Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award by her peers. She was named Henry Ford Hospital’s Critical Care Teacher of the Year in 2016. She was awarded the Speak-Up Hero Award in 2014 for her work establishing a workshop based program called CLEAR (Connect, Listen, Emphasize, Align, Respect), which trains faculty and trainees in relationship-based communication skills utilizing improvisational actors. She lectures to physicians, health care leaders, and medical schools across the country. Awdish’s mandate is to improve the patient experience across the system and speak on patient advocacy at health care venues nationally.Īfter suffering a sudden critical illness herself, she has special interest in improving empathy through connection and communication. She was also recently named Medical Director of Care Experience for the entire Health System. She completed her medical degree in 2002 at Wayne State, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical 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 is a critical care physician and faculty member of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. Rana Awdish, MD, FCCP is the author of In Shock, a memoir based on her own critical illness.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |