Lisa Gruenberg, MD, MFA

Lisa Gruenberg MD, FACOG, MFA is an Ob Gyn, medical educator and writer affiliated with the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital and with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Denver. She received her MD from Albany Medical College, her MFA from Lesley University and her Advanced Certificate in Health Professions Education from Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. She has volunteered globally in Liberia, Bangladesh, South Africa, Rwanda, and Mexico. She completed a Fulbright Senior Specialist project through the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2015. She has taught Anatomy, Histology, OSCE, Introduction to Social Medicine and Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. She is currently a volunteer physician through the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Metrowest Free Medical Program, and the University of Colorado-Anschutz. She runs education and writing workshops at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She has lectured on the ethics of short-term international service. Her essays have been published in Ploughshares, The Intima, a Journal of Narrative Medicine and Michigan Quarterly Review. She was awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for fiction in 2012 for her short story, Keiskamma. Her second-generation Holocaust memoir, My City of Dreams, was published in 2019.