Vidya Viswanathan is an attending pediatrician and clinical assistant professor of Pediatrics at the CHOP Primary Care campus practice. She attended Harvard College and received her medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed residency at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She was the founder of Doctors Who Create, which fostered creativity in medicine through online community and an in-person conference. She writes narrative essays on medicine and life for lay press and medical journals, and is foraying into fiction as well. You can read her work at www.vidyaviswanathan.com