Dr. Smith is an intern at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Following internship, she will join the dermatology residency program at University of California, Davis. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Prior to medical school, she worked in the private sector, first as a strategy analyst at Deloitte Consulting and then as a data associate at ZocDoc. She is passionate about applying design thinking to optimize clinical care and research as well as to innovate new approaches to physician well-being. Her hobbies include trying to keep orchids alive, very amateur wine tasting, and chasing her dog Bleecker around the parks of New York.

What we cover

• What is design thinking?


• How can design thinking be applied to residents as they approach well-being initiatives or other projects?


• Common misconceptions about making changes at the program level 

To connect w/Dr. Smith

• Email her psmith0314[at]Gmail[dot]com

Next steps:

Dig around the internet to check the pulse on conversations around design thinking in health care and consider applications to your clinical care and personal well-being as a physician. 

1. Background on design thinking from Ideo Website and HBR article.


2. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on design thinking and physician wellbeing 


3. Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health found here. 


4. UCSF's adoption found here. 


5. AAFP's view found here.  


6. Prescribe Design website found here  


7. Doctor as a Designer/Joyce Lee work found here. 

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