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Stephanie Adler Yuan

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Stephanie Adler Yuan is a Lecturer and Practicum Lead in the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University, where she teaches narrative medicine workshop facilitation and mentors students. Since completing her Master’s in narrative medicine in 2015, she has designed and facilitated narrative medicine workshops for patients, families, clinicians, and health professions students at institutions including NYU Langone-Brooklyn, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Maimonides Medical Center, and Mount Auburn Hospital. Her work focuses on how engaging with narrative can inform and improve relationships and experiences of care.

 

In addition to her teaching, Stephanie is the founder and principle of Narrative in Practice, an advisory firm that designs and delivers narrative medicine programs and education for healthcare, academic, and nonprofit organizations. Previously, Stephanie was VP of Engagement at Planetree, a global nonprofit that partners with healthcare organizations to advance person-centered care, and Director of Programs at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, where she led efforts to support interprofessional teams in addressing workplace stress, promoting empathy, and building healing organizational cultures.

 

She is a co-author, with Cara Coleman and Drs. Katie Huth and Lucas Bruton, of “Understanding Complex Care Through Narrative Medicine: A Qualitative Study,” published in Pediatrics (2025), and with Dr. Danielle Spencer of “Critical Conversations: A 360º Clinical Portrait,” published in Esopus (2015). Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree in French literature from Tufts University and an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia.

Melanie Brooks
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Melanie Brooks is the author of the books A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All (Vine Leaves Press, 2023) and Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art From Trauma (Beacon Press, 2017). She teaches creative nonfiction in the M.F.A. programs at Bay Path University and Western Connecticut State University and professional writing at Northeastern University. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast writing program and a Certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She has had numerous interviews and essays on topics ranging from loss and grief to parenting and aging published in The Boston Globe, HuffPost, The Globe and Mail, Yankee, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, Ms. Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, and other notable publications. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, two children (when they are home from adult lives away), and two Labs.

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