Rana Awdish

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Rana Awdish
Born
Michigan, United States
Alma materWayne State University School of Medicine
Known forStudies on lung diseases
Awards2017 Press Ganey Physician of the Year
2017 Schwartz Center’s National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award
Scientific career
Fields Pulmonology
Institutions Henry Ford Hospital
Wayne State University School of Medicine

Rana Awdish is an American critical care physician, pulmonologist, author and medical director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program of Henry Ford Hospital. [1] [2] [3] She is best known for her critically acclaimed, bestselling book In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope. [4]

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Biography

Awdish was born in Michigan. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Awdish received a Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) from the Wayne State University Medical School in 2002 where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, after which she moved to the New York to complete her training at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan. [5] Subsequently, she joined the Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. [6] [7]

After suffering from a sudden critical illness in 2008, Awdish began advocating for connected care for patient experience and physicians to prevent burnout and moral distress. She is a sought-after public speaker, delivering inspirational keynote addresses to groups ranging from professional medical societies, to members of Congress, to organizations combatting homelessness. She lectures to physicians, hospital leadership and medical schools around the country. [8] In 2012, she started a communication program CLEAR conversation in the Henry Ford Hospital, training the medical residents, fellows and faculty in communication skills for improving conversations. [9] [10] Her book, In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope, is an LA Times Bestseller and has been featured in the Washington Post, NPR, The Today Show, The Times Literary Supplement. [11] [12] [13] The book has been translated into multiple other languages.

In 2020, the podcast This American Life documented the COVID pandemic in Detroit in an episode entitled The Reprieve, using Awdish's audio diary of Henry Ford Hospital employees' experience during that time. Her narrative non-fiction essays have been published in The Examined Life Journal, Intima, CHEST and The New England Journal of Medicine. She has written editorials for The Harvard Business Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Washington Post and The Detroit Free Press. Her essay The Shape of the Shore was awarded a Sydney by the New York Times and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  

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