Basic Information

Name: Amy Zelenski
Title: Associate Professor and Director of Education Innovation and Scholarship
Institution: University of Wisconsin – Madison
Discipline: Education
Years of experience: 15

Description

Three keywords describing expertise and interest:

1. Empathy
2. Medical Education
3. Medical Improv

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

I have expertise to studying empathy interventions in healthcare, using medical improv techniques, embedding education in randomized clinical trials, and teaching skills for shared decision making (Best Case/Worst Case).

Brief biography:

Amy Zelenski 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, teaching, and self-awareness skills to medical professionals and trainees. Her research focuses on teaching physicians how to engage in empathic behaviors with their patients, learners, and interprofessional colleagues to enhance collaboration and shared decision-making; and how building skill in empathic behavior can increase the quality of teaching and patient care while decreasing clinician burnout and personal distress.