Personal profile

Biography

Dr. Megan Milota is an Associate Professor of Narrative Medicine at the Julius Center Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands. Since 2017, she has been integrating narrative medicine into the medical and paramedical training programs in Utrecht.

Megan is also an ambassador for the New Utrecht School, a platform that facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue, collaboration, and creative exploration between the (bio)medical sciences and humanities. The New Utrecht School is also one of the accelerators in the UMCU's Connecting Worlds 2020-2025 strategy.

Research interests

Narrative medicine, an emerging field at the intersection of literature and medicine, is based on the premise that the academic study of narratives, both literary and personal, will help healthcare workers hone their listening and observation skills, stimulate their empathic abilities, foster enduring critical and creative self-reflective practices. Megan has built a narrative medicine program at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) that has become a hub for innovative research, teaching, and collaboration. 

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External positions

lid raad van toezicht - adviesgeven aan bestuursleden, vergaderen 4x per jaar - Stichting Art of Caring

1 May 202431 Dec 3999

lid bestuur - bijeenkomsten bijwonen voor stichting, activiteiten uitvoeren voor stichting (lezingen, workshops) - Junction.Care

1 Jan 202231 Dec 3999

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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