25^ذ June 2026 – 9-10am CST/CDT (USA) |  3-4pm BST (UK)

This webinar is for anyone who is currently using improv to teach and/or who is interested in using improv to teach.

We will engage in improv games that help us practice teamwork skills and discuss how we might apply these games in our own teaching. We will leave time for attendees to lead some games too! Come have some fun while learning a new teaching technique.

After this webinar you will be able to:

• List 3 reasons why you might use improv to teach teamwork and;
• Apply one new improv-based activity to your teaching.

COURSE FACILITATORS

Ankit Mehta MD, FACP, SFHM – University of Minnesota/HealthPartners

Ankit Mehta is an internist/hospitalist with HealthPartners and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School. Mehta has a keen interest in the intersection of arts, humanities, and medicine.

He co-created a communication and empathy course and also directs a “medical improv” course at UMN. He has chaired the research committee for the Medical Improv Collaborative (MIC). He is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Patient Experience. He has been a part of the planning committee as creative arts/narrative medicine chair for the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) in 2021 and 2023. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal IMprint, an internal medicine department journal at HealthPartners.

He is an illustrator and passionate about the use of graphic medicine in medical education. His graphic works have been published in various journals, books/cover designs, LA Times and magazines.

Shannon Hanson, PhD, MPH – Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Shannon Hanson is the Director of NICU Psychosocial Services at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Levine Children’s Brenner Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston Salem, NC.

She is committed to fostering empathy, compassion and good communication across the continuum of physician training as a facilitator in the Medicine and Patients in Society course for 1^شارع and 2^nd year medical students, as the Assistant Program Director for Pediatric Resident Wellness and the Assistant Program Director for Neonatology Fellowship Wellness and Professionalism.

She has been a passionate advocate for medical improv in healthcare since taking Katie Watson’s Medical Improv Train-the-Trainer Curriculum in 2018. She joined the Medical Improv Collaborative (MIC) in 2020 and has been on the Steering Committee since 2021.

She is a Founding Officer and Member of EACH Improv in Health Professions Education SIG

Anne Graff LaDisa, PharmD, BCPS – Concordia University Wisconsin

Dr. LaDisa is a Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Concordia University Wisconsin School of Pharmacy and a practicing acute care clinical pharmacist at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is also a sketch and improvisation performer who has been using applied improvisation to teach communication and teamwork skills to health professions students since 2016. Dr. LaDisa conducts research on applied improvisation as a pedagogy and has presented nationally on its impact in health professions education. She has been a member of the Medical Improv Collaborative (MIC) and MIC’s Research Ensemble since 2021 and is co-founder and officer of EACH’s Improvisation in Health Professions Education Special Interest Group.

Sarah Shepherd PhD – University of Manchester

Dr. Shepherd is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester.

Amy Zelenski – University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

This webinar is open to EACH members and non-members.

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