The Abnormal Becomes Normal: Facing Human Suffering in Clinical Medicine

Please register to attend: https://trentcenter.duke.edu/boyarsky Dr. Naomi Rosenberg, Assistant Dean for Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, will deliver the 2026 Boyarsky Lecture on Thursday, March 5th, 5:30 pm in the Trent Semans Great Hall. A highly respected physician, educator and writer, Dr. Rosenberg earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Temple. In addition to her clinical work as an attending physician, she has been at the forefront of integrating narrative medicine into Temple University's Katz School of Medicine curriculum. As Director of the Narrative Medicine Program since 2022, she has led a groundbreaking narrative-based curriculum and certificate program that has become a model for medical education. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.