Nicole M. Piemonte

Nicole Piemonte, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Faculty Leadership and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix Regional Campus. Nicole received her PhD in Medical Humanities from The University of Texas Medical Branch where she studied continental philosophy, medical ethics, literature and medicine, and medical pedagogy. Her current teaching and research focus on incorporating the humanities into medical education in order to cultivate future physicians who are attuned to suffering, mortality, vulnerability, and social justice. At Creighton, she designed and the medical humanities curriculum that is embedded throughout students’ training in the School of Medicine, and she helped develop the Masters of Medical Humanities program. Her first book, Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice, was published in 2018 with The MIT Press, and her second book with The MIT Press, Death and Dying, was released in September 2021.

Nicole feels called to helping clinicians and trainees express both the pain and beauty that comes with a life in healthcare. She has been honored to share her message at universities and healthcare centers across the country and to collaborate with leaders to think of new ways forward in healthcare and healthcare education. As a trained coach, Nicole works one-on-one with clinicians who are looking to reconnect to meaning and purpose in their work, to uncover the reasons why they were drawn to be a healer in the first place, and to help them move forward in new directions, both professionally and personally.

Website: meaninginmed. com