To check availability on Rana Awdish and other top speakers and celebrities. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She attended Wayne State University Medical School and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Awdish completed her training at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan. Her essay The Shape of the Shore was awarded a Sydney by the New York Times and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has written editorials for The Harvard Business Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Washington Post and The Detroit Free Press. Her narrative non-fiction essays have been published in The Examined Life Journal, Intima, CHEST and The New England Journal of Medicine.

She has been inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She was named Physician of the Year by Press Ganey in 2017 for her work on improving communication and received the Critical Care Teaching Award in 2016. Awdish received the Schwartz Center’s National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award in 2017.

She also serves as Medical Director of Care Experience for the System, where she has integrated compassionate communication strategies and Narrative Medicine practice into the curriculum.ĭr. She is a sought-after public speaker, delivering inspirational keynote addresses to groups ranging from professional medical societies, to members of Congress, to organizations combatting homelessness.Ī pulmonary and critical care physician, she serves as the current Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Henry Ford Hospital. Rana Awdish is the author of 'In Shock', a critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir based on her own critical illness.

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