Tamara Salih is a physician and poet based in the west coast of Canada with her partner and four children. She is interested in how power shapes identity, in speaking about and from marginalization and the interior world of medicine.

Jacquelyn Elise Fitzgerald is a medical student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, involved in clinical and surgical outcomes research and community-based patient care, with interests in medical humanities and reflective writing.

Samuel Weisenthal, PhD, MD, MS explores the humanistic implications of statistical frameworks for medical decision-making through essays, poetry, and visual art. He aims to facilitate the application of evidence to medicine in a way that is both rigorous and patient-centered.

Eric Dessner is an ophthalmologist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder and CEO of www.medmic.com

Nary Sun is a registered nurse based in Sunnyvale, California.

Written by Maryam Tariq MD