HuMed@FWMD welcomes our guest artist Emily Silverman, MD | Creator + Host of the Nocturnists podcast Tuesday, February 21 | 6:00 – 7:00 pm.
You’re also welcome to join the follow-up discussion about the Nocturnists podcast & Shame in Medicine series from 7:00 – 8:00 pm.
Emily is an internal medicine physician at UCSF and Founder of the Nocturnists. Her writing has been supported by MacDowell and published in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, JAMA, CHEST, McSweeneys, and more. She was awarded Honoree of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ 100 List in 2020 and named by Podcast Magazine as one of the top “40 Under 40 in podcasting” for 2022. She lives with her husband and daughter in San Francisco, and tweets @ESilvermanMD.
the Nocturnists podcast is an award-winning, independent medical storytelling podcast hosted by physician Emily Silverman, which has featured the voices of 400+ clinicians in the United States and beyond. Since 2016, we’ve aired stories from our live performances, intimate audio diaries from healthcare workers, and insightful interviews with artists who tackle medical themes in their work. Through storytelling, we hope to humanize healthcare, support clinician well-being, and transform medical culture.
Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest is an award-winning 10-part documentary podcast series produced by The Nocturnists in collaboration with the Shame and Medicine project at the University of Exeter. Drawing on the stories of over 200 healthcare workers across the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond, this series explores how shame manifests in medical culture.