Narrative Medicine with Lisa Weinert featuring Judith Hannan

Published: June 20, 2016, 2:26 p.m.

b'Judith Hannan is the author of Motherhood Exaggerated (CavanKerry Press, 2012), her memoir of discovery and transformation during her daughter\\u2019s cancer treatment and her transition into survival. Ms. Hannan\\u2019s essays have appeared in such publications as Woman\\u2019s Day, Opera News, The Huffington Post, The Healing Muse, ZYZZYVA, Twins Magazine, and The Martha\\u2019s Vineyard Gazette. She teaches writing about personal experience to homeless mothers and at-risk adolescents as well as to medical students, and is a judge of the annual essay contest sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism-in-Medicine. She is also a frequent speaker medical professionals for whom she seeks reveal the hidden parts of patient\\u2019s stories. Ms. Hannan has a long history of involvement in children\\u2019s education, health and welfare. She served as Director of Development of the 92nd Street Y and then for the Children\\u2019s Museum of Manhattan. She now serves on the board of the Museum, Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, as well as on three boards affiliated with the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York\\u2014the Adolescent Health Center (where she now serves as President of the Advisory Board), the Children\\u2019s Center Foundation, and Global Health. Ms. Hannan speaks frequently on the subject of narrative medicine.'