The Charles E. Cheever, Jr. Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics invites you to attend the

2025 Ewing Halsell Distinguished Lecture

presented by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD.

Monday, August 18, 2025, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Holly Auditorium at UT Health San Antonio.

7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio

The Charles E. Cheever, Jr. Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics invites you to hear “Storytelling in Medicine: The Passion and the Peril” by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD.

Caring for patients is never easy. In addition to being swamped by medical intricacies, medical professionals often find that they are submerged in their patients stories. This can be exhilarating or painful or both. But like patients, healthcare workers need stories. Why, after all, do so many of our medical journals publish stories in their otherwise statistically significant pages? To be skilled clinicians, we must be able to interpret our patients metaphors. If we insist on thinking concretely, we’ll miss out on the many layers of meaning…and maybe miss the diagnosis too.

About the Speaker

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is one of the foremost voices in the medical world today, shining an unflinching light on the realities of healthcare and speaking passionately about the doctor patient relationship.

She writes about medicine and the doctor-patient connection. Her writing appears in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Atlantic, as well as the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Danielle Ofri is a founder and Editor-in-Chief of Bellevue Literary Review, the first literary journal to arise from a medical setting, now an award-winning, independent nonprofit literary arts organization. She is a primary care internist at Bellevue Hospital and a clinical professor of medicine at NYU.

Her lectures to medical and general audiences are renowned for her use of dramatic stories (and avoidance of PowerPoint). Her essays have been selected for Best American Essays (twice) and Best American Science Writing, by Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks, and Susan Orlean .

Continuing Medical Education:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.