What is the Writers' Workshop?

The Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop is an annual two-day intensive writing workshop for Yale residents in internal medicine and other specialities.

Anna B. Reisman and Lisa Sanders lead the workshop. Dr. Reisman is Associate Professor in the Yale Department of Internal Medicine. She is a general internist and sees patients through the home-based primary care program at VA Connecticut Healthcare System.

She co-edited Telephone Medicine: A Guide for the Practicing Physician (ACP, 2002). Her writing credits include Discover Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Health Affairs, Hastings Center Report, Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics, and the New Haven Advocate.

Lisa Sanders, MD, joined the Writers’ Workshop faculty in 2009. Dr. Sanders is Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. She writes the Diagnosis column for the New York Times Magazine and is the technical advisor to the popular television show, House, M.D. She is the author of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, a New York Times Book Review bestseller.

Asghar Rastegar, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director of the International Health Program, founded the workshop in 2003 and co-directed with Anna Reisman until 2009.

Stephen Huot, MD, Professor of Medicine, Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program Director and Associate Chair, Education and Academic Affairs, currently co-directs the workshop.