Amy Haddad, Ph.D, MSN, MFA, FAAN, is a nurse, ethicist and poet who taught in the health sciences at Creighton University in Omaha, NE from 1988-2018, where she also held the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences.

Her poetry and short stories have been published in the American Journal of Nursing, Janus Head, Journal of Medical Humanities, Touch, Bellevue Literary Review, Persimmon Tree, Annals of Internal Medicine, Aji Magazine, DASH, Oberon Poetry Magazine, and the anthologies Between the Heart Beats and Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa and Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio.

She is the winner of the Annals of Internal Medicine poetry prize for “Families Like This” for the best poem published in the journal in 2019. She won third place for the 2019 Kalanithi Writing Awards from Stanford University for her poem “Dark Rides.” Her poetry collection, “An Otherwise Healthy Woman,” will be published by Backwaters Press in the spring of 2022.

In addition, she served as Director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University from 2005 – 2018 and now holds the rank of Professor Emerita. She was selected in 2001 to be part of the Pew National Fellowship Program for Carnegie Scholars, studying the impact of patient simulations on health professional learning. She has also been a pioneer in the use of poetry, creative prose and narrative writing as approaches to teaching healthcare ethics.

DATE/TIME: April 21, 2021, 1:00pm

LOCATION: Virtual – Click here to join this event

CONTACT: Barbara Biggs, costas@ohio.edu , 740-533-4649