The NYU Langone Center for Empathy in Medicine
Embedding Empathy as a Fundamental Priority within Medical Institutions
Mission
The mission of the NYU Langone Center for Empathy in Medicine within the Institute for Innovations in Medical Education is to champion patient-centered care by developing, implementing and studying innovative curricula focused on empathy. By prioritizing empathy, we aim to transform health professionals' education to better serve patients and improve health outcomes.
Goals
The Center's goals are to develop a workforce of expert educators who can teach and assess empathy, establish a robust research program to evaluate the impact of these efforts, and define best practices in empathy education within an academic health center. The Center works in close partnership with The Empathy Project.
THE EMPATHY FELLOWSHIP
The empathy fellowship aims to develop a cadre of medical educators who are leaders in empathy curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and nationally. Fellows will focus on designing programs to teach and assess empathy in order to improve patient care delivery, outcomes, and provider wellness.
Susan E. Cohen, MD, FAAHPM
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Isabelle Le Leannec, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Kelley A. Groves, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Ariane Lewis, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
Department of Neurosurgery
Christopher E. Kelly, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Urology
LEADERSHIP
Dr. Jennifer Adams, Director, Center for Empathy in Medicine
Jennifer G. Adams, MD, is the inaugural director of the NYU Langone Center for Empathy in Medicine, working to develop a comprehensive strategy to deliver, evaluate, and assess the impact of empathy education at NYU Langone, and also spearhead collaborations to define key education and clinical topics to be addressed and explore emerging technologies to evolve and maximize programming. Dr. Adams is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, associate program director of the internal medicine residency, director of the primary care residency tracks, and a preceptor and attending physician at Gouverneur Health.
Dr. Colleen Gillespie, Evaluation Director, Center for Empathy in Medicine
Colleen Gillespie, PhD, is the Director of the Division of Education Quality within the Institute for Innovations in Medical Education and the Director of Evaluation for the Program in Medical Education Innovations and Research at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Gillespie received her PhD from NYU. She focuses on improving education and training and building the evidence base for medical education through curriculum and outcomes-focused evaluation. Her program of research broadly encompasses understanding the influences of health professionals’ communication, interpersonal, meta-cognitive and collaborative skills in effectively educating, activating and caring for patients. Dr. Gillespie is particularly excited about measuring the development and application of empathy skills within NYU’s world class clinical skills assessment program and supporting efforts to demonstrate the impact of the practice of empathy.