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Senior’s Name: Amy Zelenski
Availability: 3/3

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Title: Associate Professor and Director of Education Innovation and Scholarship
Institution: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Discipline: Education
Years of experience: 14

Teacher/Training

Learners I work with:

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Continuous Professional Development

Interests/expertise:

  • Curriculum design / development
  • Experiential teaching methods (eg role play)
  • Educational research
  • Train the trainers (faculty development)

Years I have worked in communication skills learning: 10

Research

Areas of work:

  • End-of-life / palliative care
  • Emotion
  • Curriculum development
  • Medical education
  • Patient–provider relationship

Research methods:

  • Implementation research
  • Mixed methods
  • (Quasi-)experiential designs

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. empathy
  2. medical improv

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

I use mixed methods to study educational interventions to improve relationship in healthcare.

Biography/CV:

Amy B. Zelenski, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Director of Education Innovation and Scholarship for the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Public Health at UW- Madison. She designs curriculum and teaches improv, communication, empathy, teamwork, and self-awareness skills to medical professionals. Her research focuses on teaching physicians how to engage in empathic behaviors with their patients, learners, and interprofessional colleagues; and how building skill in empathic behavior can increase the quality of patient care and decrease healthcare provider burnout and personal distress.