about
harini sridhar, ms is a dancer, art model, improv performer, writer, psychiatry resident at yale, and lecturer in columbia university’s narrative medicine program. her scholarly and creative work explores the intersection of psychiatry, phenomenology, narrative, and embodiment. she was awarded the dr. marc amaya north carolina child and adolescent psychiatry award for her mental health advocacy and essay on heideggerian thrownness in psychiatry.
previously, she received her md from the university of north carolina at chapel hill, master’s in narrative medicine from columbia university and her bachelor’s in biology from duke university. between school, she worked as an applied behavior analysis therapist for children with autism and cofounded we are saath, a south asian mental health nonprofit.
her experiences led her to find the beauty of psychiatry and of story in diagnosis and treatment. she is excited to help patients with chronic conditions as they navigate illness, embodiment, and their world.
creative and scholarly projects
faculty instructor for close reading and creative writing (NMED5120)
- seminar course for 14 professional students focused on examining literary elements of a text - plot, time, space, metaphor, narrative strategies, mood - and their role in distilling the meaning of a story and their implications in medicine
phenomenology of identity: narrative medicine in the care of eating disorders
- narrative medicine workshop series for patients and providers at a residential eating disorder treatment center
fleishman is in trouble: on sadness, irrealis moods, and existential choice in psychiatry
- an exploration of the ways the narrowing of choices available to us leads to sadness and melancholia, particularly in the contexts of psychiatry and palliative care
the forest and the trees: a narrative medicine curriculum by residents for residents
- qualitative research project on the impacts of narrative medicine on pediatrics residents
bridging narrative medicine facilitation theory and practice
- guest lecturer for narrative medicine practicum course (NMED5110) at columbia university
narrative medicine didactics
- workshops for child and adolescent fellows at unc, pm&r residents at columbia, medical students at ucla, undergraduates at yale, nurses at nyu
everyone I love is disabled
- poetry exhibit at the helen beiser md art gallery at aacap
let's talk about periods
- menstrual cycle storybook for children with autism
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