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Director, Initiative in Narrative, Medicine & Writing; Ctr. for Health Ethics, Arts & Humanities, Medical Ethics, University of Utah Health Sciences
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Writer-in-Residence, Huntsman Cancer Institute
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Associate Professor (Lecturer), Internal Medicine
Presentations
- Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2014, "Dying Bodies as Kairotic Sites for Suturing Rhetorical Strategies of Silence and Material Rhetoric.".
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Accepted, 09/2013.
- National Communication Association, November 2013, "So Let's Talk Theory: Picking Up the Narrative Thread in Health Communication Conversations.".
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Accepted, 03/2013.
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 2013, "Why Doctors Listen When This Sick Girl Speaks!: A Cystic Fibrosis Patient Performs Narrative Repair on Medicine's Cultural Myths of Dying.".
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 10/2013.
- Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, September 2013, "Physicians' personal Narratives of End-of-Life Encounters: A New Genre of Medical Discourse".
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 09/2013.
- Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2013, "The Rhetorical Power of Silence in End-of-Life Conversations".
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 03/2013.
- National Communication Association, October 2011, "From Dazzling Color to Disturbing Sounds: How the Disability Memoirs of Stephen Kuusisto Create Cultural Dissonance".
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 11/2011.
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 2011, "Narrative as Boundary Object: When Private Experiences Become Public Domain, They Generate new Conversations about End-of-Life Care for Elderly Patients".
Poster,
Presented, 10/2011.
- Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, October 2010, "Success of 'Failing to Thrive': How a Physician's Personal Narrative Crosses the Cultural Divide".
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 10/2010.
- Annual Conference of the Society for Transplant Social Workers, September 2005, Plenary Address: "The Healing Art of Poetry: Transplant Teens' Writing Creates New Bridges between Patients and Providers".
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 10/2005.
Publications
- Susan J. Sample (2021). Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors: Miracle-Like. (pp. 127). Emerald Publishing.
Published, 03/2021.
- Susan J. Sample (2021). Vacant Won't Leave Me. Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Published, 03/2021.
- Susan J. Sample (2020). Remains. Journal of the American Medical Association.
Published, 08/2020.
- Susan Sample (2019). Some Unsayable Blue. (pp. 34). Finishing Line Press.
Published, 07/2019.
- Susan J. Sample & A. Peterkin and P. Brett-MacLean, Editors (2016). The Scavenger Hunt: Writing about Medicine's Unmapped Territory. (pp. 290-292). Kent State University Press.
Published, 03/2016.
- "Medicine and Society: "Vulnerability in Physicians' Narratives." Virtual Mentor (American Medical Association), 13.7.
Published, 07/2011.
- Terrible Grace: Poems. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2011.
Published, 11/2011.
- "Prioritizing Teamwork: Promoting Process and Product Effectiveness in the Freshman Engineering Design Course," American Society for Engineering Education Conference Proceedings (AC210:860).
Published, 06/2010.