Hedy S. Wald, PhD is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program. Dr. Wald has been honored with Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards, served as a Fulbright Scholar in medical education for the Ben Gurion University of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine in Israel, and is a Gold Humanism Foundation Harvard-Macy Scholar. She serves as a Commissioner for the international Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust. Dr. Wald presents invited keynotes, plenaries, and experiential workshops for faculty retreats, trainee sessions, and international conferences on promoting resilience, wellbeing, and flourishing in health professions education and practice as well as on "Legacy of medicine during the Holocaust and its contemporary relevance" (for morally resilient history-informed professional identity formation), some of her research interests. She presents internationally on reflective writing-enhanced reflection to support professional identity formation in health professions education and has published widely on this, including guest editing a collection of articles for an Academic Medicine theme issue on Professional Identity Formation. Frameworks for assessing reflection and for guiding faculty in crafting quality written feedback to students’ reflective narratives which Dr. Wald helped develop are currently in use worldwide within health professions education. Her creative writing, reviews, and poetry have appeared in literary and medical journals as well as medical education blogs. Her work has been cited in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, CNN Opinion, and Jerusalem Post.
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| Marmon S, Schwartz D, Wald HS. "A disingenuous one-sided challenge on the Hamas–Israel conflict." The Lancet, 2024. |
| Roth S, Wald HS, Spence NZ, Oratz R, Schwartz DM. "Hypocrisy of moral imperatives in the Israel-Hamas war." The Lancet, vol. 403, no. 10436, 2024, pp. 1542. |
| Reis SP, Wald HS. "The Hamas massacre of Oct 7, 2023, and its aftermath, medical crimes, and the Lancet commission report on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust." Israel journal of health policy research, vol. 13, no. 1, 2024, pp. 19. |
| Hedy S. Wald, PhD and Steven Roth, MD, FARVO. "The Moral Imperative of Countering Antisemitism in US Medicine - A Way Forward." 2024. |
| Kruse JA, Wald HS. "Legacy of the Role of Medicine and Nursing in the Holocaust: An Educational Intervention to Support Nursing Student Professional Identity Formation and Ethical Conduct." Nursing education perspectives, vol. 44, no. 3, 2023, pp. 169-171. |
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Riesen MS, Kiessling C, Tauschel D, Wald HS.
"Where my responsibility lies”: Reflecting on medicine during the Holocaust to support personal and professional identity formation in health professions education." GMS J Med Educ, vol. 40, no. 2, 2023, pp. Doc24 (20230417).
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| Wald HS, Monteverde S. "COVID-19 era healthcare ethics education: Cultivating educational and moral resilience." Nursing ethics, vol. 28, no. 1, 2021, pp. 58-65. |
| Wald, HS, Mandelbaum, DE. "Holocaust and Medicine Legacy for Child Neurology Education and Practice: Contemporary Relevance of a Dark History." vol. Epub ahead of print, 2021. |
| Wald HS, Mandelbaum DE. "Holocaust and Medicine Legacy for Child Neurology Education and Practice: Contemporary Relevance of a Dark History." Pediatric Neurology, vol. 117, 2021, pp. 27-28. |
| Wald, HS. "COVID-19 Trilogy in 17 (Haiku)." reflectivemeded.org, 2020. |
| Gallin S, Chelouche T, Reis S, Wald HS, Wynia M. "Cultivating awareness of the Holocaust in medicine." The Lancet, vol. 395, no. 10221, 2020, pp. 333-334. |
| Tauschel D, Selg P, Edelhäuser F, Witowski A, Wald HS. "Cultivating awareness of the Holocaust in medicine." The Lancet, vol. 395, no. 10221, 2020, pp. 334. |
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Wald, HS and Bursch, B.
"Faculty Resilience Videos – An Innovation within Residency Resilience Skills Programs at Two Institutions." International Journal of Innovative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (IJITLHE), vol. 1, no. 1, 2020, pp. 16-24.
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| Wald HS. "Letter to the Editor: Editorial: What is Narrative Medicine, and Why Should We Use it in Orthopaedic Practice?." Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®, vol. 478, no. 2, 2020, pp. 445. |
| Wald HS. "Optimizing resilience and wellbeing for healthcare professions trainees and healthcare professionals during public health crises - Practical tips for an 'integrative resilience' approach." Medical Teacher, 2020, pp. 1-12. |
| Wald HS. "Response to: Response to: Persistent influence of a narrative educational program on physician attitudes regarding patient care." Medical Teacher, 2020, pp. 1. |
| Wald, HS. "So Close Yet So Far." RHiME, 2020. |
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"Uncovid." vol. 27, no. 5, 2020, pp. e526.
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| Wald HS. "UNCOVID-A 55-Word Story." Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), vol. 27, no. 5, 2020, pp. 526. |
| Wald, Hedy S. "Helping My Husband Live and Die." JAMA Neurology, vol. 76, no. 4, 2019, pp. 396. |
| Wald, Hedy S., Anthony, David, White, Jordan, Reis, Shmuel, Esquibel, Angela. "Interactive reflective writing-enhanced reflection and professional identity formation in medical education - in reply to (1) Hichem Bouayed, Samiullah Dost, and Tanzeel Hussian and (2) Alexander Morgan, James Moore and Alexander Duff." Medical Teacher, vol. 41, no. 2, 2019, pp. 236-237. |
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Toll E, Alkureishi M, Lee W, Babbott S, Bain P, Beasley J, Frankel R, Loveys A, Hersh, B, Wald HS, Woods S, Borkan J, Curry R, Hilliard R, Morrow J, Pearce C, Reis S, Sinsky C, Dilermando J, Libby R.
"Protecting Healing Relationships as the Electronic Health Record Advances in Medicine – Report From an International Conference." 2019.
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| Toll ET, Alkureishi MA, Lee WW, Babbott SF, Bain PA, Beasley JW, Frankel RM, Loveys AA, Wald HS, Woods SS, Hersh WR. "Protecting healing relationships in the age of electronic health records: report from an international conference." JAMIA Open, vol. 2, no. 3, 2019, pp. 282-290. |
| Reis, Shmuel P., Wald, Hedy S., Weindling, Paul. "The Holocaust, medicine and becoming a physician: the crucial role of education." Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, vol. 8, no. 1, 2019. |
| Wald HS. "#historymatters: The Role of the Medical Profession in the Holocaust as a Case in Point." Academic Medicine, vol. 93, no. 8, 2018, pp. 1102. |
| Wald, Hedy S., White, Jordan, Reis, Shmuel P., Esquibel, Angela Y., Anthony, David. "Grappling with complexity: Medical students’ reflective writings about challenging patient encounters as a window into professional identity formation." Medical Teacher, vol. 41, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1-9. |
| Wald HS. "Hearing the Patient Voice: Patients as Educators in Medical Education." Academic Medicine, vol. 93, no. 10, 2018, pp. 1421. |
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"Hearing the Patient Voice: Patients as Educators in Medical Education." Academic Medicine, vol. 93, no. 10, 2018, pp. 1421.
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| Wald, HS and Weiss, B. "Making it “More Real”: Using Personal Narrative in Faculty Feedback to a Medical Student’s Reflective Writing – An Illustrative Exemplar." MedEdPublish, 2018, pp. https://www.mededpublish.org/manuscripts/1832. |
| Hedy S. Wald, Jonathan McFarland, Irina Markovina. "Medical Humanities in Medical Education and Practice." Medical Teacher, vol. 23Aug2018, no. Epub ahead of print, 2018. |
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"After the Loss of a Patient: Reflection and Connection Through Prose. http://bit.ly/2m5TLy7 reflectivemeded.org." 2017.
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| Wald HS. "Another Perspective on A Patient's Perspective." Academic Medicine, vol. 92, no. 3, 2017, pp. 277. |
| Haramati A, Cotton S, Padmore JS, Wald HS, Weissinger PA. "Response to: The cost of caring." Medical Teacher, vol. 39, no. 6, 2017, pp. 671-672. |
| Aviad Haramati, Sian Cotton, Jamie S Padmore, Hedy S Wald, Peggy A Weissinger. "Strategies to Promote Resilience, Empathy and Well-being in the Health Professions: Insights from the 2015 CENTILE Conference." Medical Teacher, vol. 39, no. 2, 2017, pp. 118-119. |
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"Becoming Zusha: Reflecting on Potential in Medical Education and Practice
https://reflectivemeded.org/2016/03/09/becoming-zusha-reflecting/." reflectivemeded.org, 2016.
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| Gersht, Ori. "Big Bang." Academic Medicine, vol. 91, no. 7, 2016, pp. 952. |
| Wald HS. "Commentary on Big Bang." Academic Medicine, vol. 91, no. 7, 2016, pp. 953. |
| Wald HS. "In Reply to Ventres and Rosenberg." Academic Medicine, vol. 91, no. 3, 2016, pp. 288-9. |
| "Primary Care "Provider" and Professional Identity." JAMA, 2016. |
| Wald HS. "Primary Care "Provider" and Professional Identity." JAMA, vol. 316, no. 13, 2016, pp. 1411. |
| Wald, Hedy S., Haramati, Aviad, Bachner, Yaacov G., Urkin, Jacob. "Promoting resiliency for interprofessional faculty and senior medical students: Outcomes of a workshop using mind-body medicine and interactive reflective writing." Medical Teacher, vol. 38, no. 5, 2016, pp. 525-528. |
| Wald HS, Haramati A, Bachner YG, Urkin J. "Promoting resiliency for interprofessional faculty and senior medical students: Outcomes of a workshop using mind-body medicine and interactive reflective writing." Medical Teacher, vol. 38, no. 5, 2016, pp. 525-8. |
| "Sunrise in Gagliato." Current Oncology, vol. 23, no. 5, 2016. |
| Wald HS. "Sunrise in Gagliato." Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), vol. 23, no. 5, 2016, pp. e523-e525. |
| Reis, Shmuel P., Wald, Hedy S. "Contemplating Medicine During the Third Reich." Academic Medicine, vol. 90, no. 6, 2015, pp. 770-773. |
| Reis SP, Wald HS. "Contemplating medicine during the Third Reich: scaffolding professional identity formation for medical students." Academic Medicine, vol. 90, no. 6, 2015, pp. 770-3. |
| Wald, Hedy S. "Fragile." J GEN INTERN MED, vol. 30, no. 7, 2015, pp. 1041-1041. |
| Wald, Hedy S. "Professional Identity (Trans)Formation in Medical Education." Academic Medicine, vol. 90, no. 6, 2015, pp. 701-706. |
| Wald HS. "Professional identity (trans)formation in medical education: reflection, relationship, resilience." Academic Medicine, vol. 90, no. 6, 2015, pp. 701-6. |
| Wald, Hedy S., Anthony, David, Hutchinson, Tom A., Liben, Stephen, Smilovitch, Mark, Donato, Anthony A. "Professional Identity Formation in Medical Education for Humanistic, Resilient Physicians." Academic Medicine, vol. 90, no. 6, 2015, pp. 753-760. |
| Wald HS, Anthony D, Hutchinson TA, Liben S, Smilovitch M, Donato AA. "Professional identity formation in medical education for humanistic, resilient physicians: pedagogic strategies for bridging theory to practice." Academic Medicine, vol. 90, no. 6, 2015, pp. 753-760. |
| "Refining a Definition of Reflection for the Being and Doing the Work of a Physician." Medical Teacher, 2015. |
| Wald HS. "Refining a definition of reflection for the being as well as doing the work of a physician." Medical Teacher, 2015, pp. 1-4. |
| Sharpless, Joanna, Baldwin, Nell, Cook, Robert, Kofman, Aaron, Morley-Fletcher, Alessio, Slotkin, Rebecca, Wald, Hedy S. "The Becoming: Students' Reflection on the Process of Professional Identity Formation in Medical Education." Academic Medicine, vol. 90, no. 6, 2015, pp. 713-717. |
| Sharpless J, Baldwin N, Cook R, Kofman A, Morley-Fletcher A, Slotkin R, Wald HS. "The becoming: students' reflections on the process of professional identity formation in medical education." Academic Medicine, vol. 90, no. 6, 2015, pp. 713-7. |
| "Electronic health record training in undergraduate medical education: bridging theory to practice with curricula for empowering patient- and relationship-centered care in the computerized setting." Academic Medicine, 2014. |
| "The use of abstract paintings and narratives to foster reflective capacity in medical educators: a multinational faculty development workshop. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033026/pdf/medhum-2013-010378.pdf." Medical Humanities, 2014. |
| El-Bar N, Levy A, Wald HS, Biderman A. "Compassion fatigue, burnout and compassion satisfaction among family physicians in the Negev area - a cross-sectional study." Israel journal of health policy research, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013, pp. 31. |
| "Compassion fatigue, burnout and compassion satisfaction among family physicians in the Negev area - a cross-sectional study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765463/pdf/2045-4015-2-31.pdf." Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2013. |
| Armstrong GW, Wald HS. "Fostering reflective capacity with interactive reflective writing in medical education: Using formal analytic frameworks to guide formative feedback to students' reflective writing." Medical Teacher, vol. 35, no. 3, 2013, pp. 258. |
| George P, Dumenco L, Dollase R, Taylor JS, Wald HS, Reis SP. "Introducing technology into medical education: two pilot studies." Patient Education and Counseling, vol. 93, no. 3, 2013, pp. 522-4. |
| Wald HS, Borkan JM, Taylor JS, Anthony D, Reis SP. "Fostering and Evaluating Reflective Capacity in Medical Education: Developing the REFLECT Rubric for Assessing Reflective Writing." Academic Medicine, vol. 87, no. 1, 2012, pp. 41-50. |
| Wald HS. "Guiding our learners in reflective writing: a practical approach." Literature and medicine, vol. 29, no. 2, 2011, pp. 355-75. |
| Wald HS. "Words for the wordless." J GEN INTERN MED, vol. 26, no. 7, 2011, pp. 817-8. |
| "The Loss of My Elderly Patient": Interactive reflective writing to support medical students' rites of passage." Medical Teacher, 2010. |
| Wald HS, Reis SP, Monroe AD, Borkan JM. "'The Loss of My Elderly Patient:' Interactive reflective writing to support medical students' rites of passage." Medical Teacher, vol. 32, no. 4, 2010, pp. e178-84. |
| "A piece of my mind, Lullaby." JAMA, 2010. |
| Wald HS. "A piece of my mind. Lullaby." JAMA, vol. 304, no. 23, 2010, pp. 2570-1. |
| Reis SP, Wald HS, Monroe AD, Borkan JM. "Begin the BEGAN (The Brown Educational Guide to the Analysis of Narrative) - a framework for enhancing educational impact of faculty feedback to students' reflective writing." Patient Education and Counseling, vol. 80, no. 2, 2010, pp. 253-9. |
| "Beyond the Margins: reflective writing and development of reflective capacity in medical education https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881974/pdf/11606_2010_Article_1347.pdf." Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010. |
| Wald HS. "A piece of my mind. Separation anxiety." JAMA, vol. 302, no. 13, 2009, pp. 1403-4. |
| Wald HS. "A reflective moment." Academic Medicine, vol. 84, no. 5, 2009, pp. 633. |
| Reis SP, Wald HS. "Learning from the past: medicine and the Holocaust." The Lancet, vol. 374, no. 9684, 2009, pp. 110-1. |
| Wald HS, Davis SW, Reis SP, Monroe AD, Borkan JM. "Reflecting on reflections: enhancement of medical education curriculum with structured field notes and guided feedback." Academic Medicine, vol. 84, no. 7, 2009, pp. 830-7. |
| Wald HS, Reis SP, Borkan JM. "Reflection rubric development: evaluating medical students' reflective writing." Medical education, vol. 43, no. 11, 2009, pp. 1110-1. |
| Wald HS, Reis S. "A piece of my mind. Brew." JAMA, vol. 299, no. 19, 2008, pp. 2255-6. |
| Wald HS. "A piece of my mind. In the here and now." JAMA, vol. 299, no. 6, 2008, pp. 613-4. |
| Wald HS. "I've got mail." Family Medicine, vol. 40, no. 6, 2008, pp. 393-4. |
| Wald HS, Dube CE, Anthony DC. "Untangling the Web—The impact of Internet use on health care and the physician–patient relationship." Patient Education and Counseling, vol. 68, no. 3, 2007, pp. 218-24. |
Invited Grand Rounds, Keynotes, and Experiential Workshops at over 100 medical, nursing, and dental schools and healthcare organizations on topics such as:
--Fostering Reflective Capacity with Interactive Reflective Writing (supporting professional identity formation)
--Promoting Resiliency, Wellness, and Flourishing in Healthcare Professionals - A "Professional Toolkit"
--Caring for Our Patients, Our Students, Our Colleagues, Ourselves: The Power of Narrative
--Legacy of Medicine During the Holocaust and its Contemporary Relevance: A Holocaust Survivor's Daughter Teaches German Medical Students at Auschwitz
--Professional Identity (Trans)Formation: Reflection, Relationships, Resilience
-- Professional Identity Formation in a Changing World: Reflection, Relationships, Resilience for Flourishing in Medicine
| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 1987 | PhD | Yeshiva University |
| 1984 | MA | Yeshiva University |
| 1979 | BA | Clark University |
| Psychologist - Internship | VA Medical Center - Boston, MA, clinical psychology | - | |
| Neuropsychology | Boston VA/Boston University Medical Center | - |
Visiting Expert – Overseas Expert Education Programme (EOEP). Singapore February, 2025
National Healthcare Group.
Scholarship Awardee - Scholar in Residence -The Institute for the Study of July-Aug, 2024
Global Antisemitism & Policy - Oxford (ISGAP-Oxford) - Summer Institute
for Curriculum Development in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies.
St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Visiting Professor- Witten Herdecke University Faculty of Health, November, 2023
Germany
Scholar in Residence, Lincoln Square Synagogue, NY, NY. Jan 28, 2023
International Holocaust Remembrance Day presentations
Commissioner, Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Dean's Excellence in Teaching Awards - Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Fulbright Specialist Scholar -Ben Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Medicine, Israel
Gold Humanism Foundation: Harvard-Macy Scholar
Swan Annual Lecture - Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine, 2020
Writer-in-Residence – AMEE (Association for Medical Education in Europe) 2015 Annual Conference , Glasgow, Scotland
Commentator-in-Residence- Humanities in Healthcare Annual Symposium - University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2016.
Scholarship Awardee – Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine, Penn State School of Medicine: Medical Humanities: Clinical & Pedagogical Perspectives
Romanell Fellow – Academy of Professionalism in Health Care.
Awardee -Faculty Training in Mind-Body Medicine: Georgetown University School of Medicine
First Place – Inspirational Prose. “Poised at the Abyss”- 73rd Annual Writers Conference of Ocean Park, Maine
Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Clinical Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
Adjunct Professor, Oakland Beaumont School of Medicine, Oakland University School of Nursing, Rochester, MI
| Psychologist | - |
| Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program. - |
