Curious Conversations with Special Guest Dr. Urmi Ashar - Season 2/Episode 14

20/09/2023 16 min Temporada 2 Episodio 14

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, we’re continuing our pattern of inquiry with active members of the HSD community. Our special guest is Dr. Urmi Ashar.

Dr. Ashar is a physician who empowers medical students with the critical skills to be leaders in their profession, communities, and the Public Health spheres. She crafts unique experiential learning opportunities for the students so they can recognize their innate leadership potential and impact public health by improving Social Determinants of Health and catalyzing the current healthcare system through the practice of Adaptive Leadership and tools from the Systems Thinking and Complexity Sciences toolkits.

Dr. Ashar asserts that effective leadership in healthcare and public health, involves utilizing social influence and advocacy to anticipate and act on health challenges for a positive outcome. She also believes that practicing leadership with cultural humility in pursuit of excellence in empathic patient care, humanism, accountability, and altruism is a core tenet of professionalism for a physician practicing in service of humanity.

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