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  • 1.  Get to know Ann Curry: Storyteller, connector of communities, Learn Serve Lead speaker

    Posted 10-07-2020 05:06:00 PM

    Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer Ann Curry will join Learn Serve Lead 2020: The Virtual Experience next month to explore how our human impulse to categorize people can often lead us down dangerous paths.

    Curry has witnessed unfathomable conflict, oppression, and inequality during her 30-plus-year career in television. As a former network news anchor and international correspondent, she has covered topics ranging from global conflicts to humanitarian disasters. More recently, she served as executive producer of two critically acclaimed television series — We’ll Meet Again (for PBS) and Chasing the Cure (for TNT).

    Check out Curry’s insight into how harmful and divisive us-versus-them narratives can spread like viruses in her “Witnessing Humanity” TED Talk.



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    Chris Tucker
    Senior Director, Learning Delivery
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 2.  RE: Get to know Ann Curry: Storyteller, connector of communities, Learn Serve Lead speaker

    Posted 11-17-2020 12:08:00 PM
    Ann Curry is speaking right now at Learn Serve Lead! Who's tuned in? What a great session - would love to hear people's takeaways from the session.

    Ann Curry at Learn Serve Lead


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    Stephanie Weiner
    Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 3.  RE: Get to know Ann Curry: Storyteller, connector of communities, Learn Serve Lead speaker

    Posted 11-18-2020 01:56:00 PM
    You can always feel the empathy in Ann Curry's stories, including the story about Sifa (sp?) she shared yesterday.

    We should apply this straightforward advice that Ann gave to those needing to maintain empathy and perspective:
    1. Care for yourself emotionally
    2. Care for yourself physically
    3. Care for yourself mentally
    4. Care for others

    I also appreciated her analogy that "empathy is something we can grow like a muscle". If we exercise this muscle, we can make it stronger in ourselves.

    Thanks for the post!


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    Julie Youm, PhD
    Assistant Dean, Education Compliance and Quality; Director, Educational Technology
    University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
    jyoum@uci.edu
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  • 4.  RE: Get to know Ann Curry: Storyteller, connector of communities, Learn Serve Lead speaker

    Posted 11-18-2020 02:04:00 PM

    Thank you Julie for reminding us of these key points from Ann Curry and glad you enjoyed her discussion with Dr. Ku.

    1. Care for yourself emotionally
    2. Care for yourself physically
    3. Care for yourself mentally
    4. Care for others



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    Pamela Sharif
    Marketing Director
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 5.  RE: Get to know Ann Curry: Storyteller, connector of communities, Learn Serve Lead speaker

    Posted 11-18-2020 11:08:00 AM
    Ann's session was wonderful yesterday! In case anyone missed it, you can read the recap in this recently published AAMCNews article. 


    During her session, Ann urged attendees to consider how deep listening and meaningful connection serve patients - and physicians.

    Curry also reminded leaders in the audience to have compassion for their frontline workers, and urged them to provide the supports their staffs need during this traumatic time. She urged physicians to have compassion for themselves, to recognize that they are living through an extraordinarily challenging moment in history. Patients - including those who suffer greatly - deeply appreciate knowing they were cared for and not abandoned, she said.

    "Even on your last day, as you breathe your last breath, you will know that [what you did during this pandemic] mattered…. You will be remembered for what you're doing now," she said. "You will be admired."



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    Pamela Sharif
    Marketing Director
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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