Cultivating the Patient-Doctor Connection to Improve Health Care with Christine Ko

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Christine J. Ko, MD, is a Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at Yale University. She is an advocate of connection between practitioner and patient and recently published a book on the subject, How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection: Using Psychology to Optimize Healthcare Interactions. She also is interested in novel methods of democratizing medical knowledge and is working on a visual app that gamifies skin cancer recognition.

Dreams:

1. Dreams of patients getting better care, being listened to, and getting their diagnoses when they need it. Help doctors and patients connect on a human level.
2. Create a Visual Recognition App to help people see what is cancer and what isn’t cancer.
3. Create a picture book of a boy who has cochlear implants
4. Wants her kids to develop a passion

How you can Help:

1. Introduce her to Abby Wonbak

Favorite Book, Movie, or Podcast:

1. Favorite Book is Thinking Fast and Slow. The undoing project by Michael Lewis. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

Contact them at:

Email: Christine.ko@yale.edu