Susan Ball: Voices in the Band: A doctor, her patients, & how the outlook on AIDS care changed from doomed to hopeful, May 2015
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May 6, 2015 - Susan Ball, M.D., Author Assistant Director of the Bernbaum Unit, Center for Special Studies at New York Presbyterian Hospital Author of Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful (http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Band-Patients-Outlook-Politics/dp/0801453623/) Voices in the Band is discussed in New York Times Article, A World Shared With H.I.V. (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/health/a-world-shared-with-hiv.html) Dr. Ball has taken care of patients with HIV and AIDS at the Center for Special Studies at New York Presbyterian Hospital for over twenty years. She is the Assistant Director of the clinic and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University as well as Associate Professor of Public Health. Dr. Ball completed her undergraduate degree at Dartmouth and her medical degree at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. After completion of her Residency in Medicine at Upstate Medical Center she came to New York and completed a Masters in Public Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Ball joined the faculty at Cornell in 1992 and has worked as clinician, teacher and author as an HIV specialist since that time. In 2011 she completed a Master’s of Science degree in Narrative Medicine at Columbia and with the support of an NIH grant she has been working toward enhancing the curriculum at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Ball has written and spoken on HIV-related topics and also teaches, facilitates and advises courses and projects having to do with Narrative Medicine and Reflective Practice at the medical school. Her book, “Voices in the Band: A doctor, her patients and how AIDS care changed from doomed to hopeful” is published by the Cornell University Press.
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