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How Future Healers Stay Human

Written by Chris Green

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Clinical CareEducation
Pepper Mason and Emily Lu working together on a painting.

Students Turn to Art for Connection, Identity and Relief in High-Pressure Environment Long before she became a medical student, Emily Lu learned to understand people by drawing their faces. Growing up near Nashville after immigrating with her family from China, she found portrait drawing a way to form connections that transcended language or cultural barriers.… Read More

Let Go: Researcher Adapts to Stresses of Life Through Yoga

Written by Peggy Reisser

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Clinical CareEducation
Dr. Colleen Jonsson sits cross-legged on a yoga mat in a studio.

On one of the first sunny days last spring, virologist Colleen Jonsson, PhD, sat outside her office building at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, face up to the sun. “You have to get your sun,” she says to a passerby. The Harriet S. Van Vleet Chair of Excellence in Virology in the Department of… Read More