Below is the list of all seniors registered for the programme and any junior paired with them (up to a maximum of three per senior).

Basic Information

Name: Amy Zelenski
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

Description

Three keywords describing expertise and interest:

1. empathy
2. medical improv

Description of field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

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

Brief biography:

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.