Imaging freedom and progress in healthcare.

Colleen is an Emergency Medicine doctor, practicing in hospitals in New York City since 2012. She completed a fellowship in medical simulation and education. Beyond her clinical work, she has been involved in administration and curriculum development for physician training programs and medical student education. She has published in medical journals on topics in medical education and simulation. More recently, she has begun to write about issues surrounding freedom in healthcare – freedom to trade, freedom to choose, freedom to innovate. We desperately need advocates for progress focused thinking in the healthcare space and Colleen hopes to harness her experience as a doctor and clinical educator to inform this advocacy.

Traveller, artist, city prepper

Colleen lives in New York City with her husband, two children, and void cat. She enjoys traveling and exploring, both at home and abroad, with her family. Colleen and her husband have been to Antarctica and ridden the trans-Siberian railroad from St. Petersburg, Russia to Beijing, China. More recently they’ve traveled through France by train with the kids. Colleen is an avid reader and an artist, focusing on colored pencil and watercolor media. She also has a bit “prepper” streak (maybe from working in Emergency Medicine for years) and sometimes dreams of moving to the country, going off grid, curating a library, planting a garden, and building a fallout shelter. But in the end, she contents herself with stocking enough canned food and water to get through a few days of a city power outage.