Anna Reisman is a doctor, writer, and professor. She is on faculty at Yale School of Medicine, and sees primary care patients and teaches medical and nurse practitioner residents at VA Connecticut.

She directs the Yale Medical School Program for Humanities in Medicine, co-directs the Program for Art in Public Spaces, and was the director of the Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop for 20 years. In addition, Reisman co-founded VA Writes, a national online reflective writing workshop series for VA staff.

She has published personal essays and other writing in a wide variety of outlets, including reported articles in Slate, clinical cases in Discover, and narrative nonfiction essays in the Atlantic, New York Times, New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Health Affairs, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere. She co-edited Telephone Medicine: A Guide for the Practicing Clinician (ACP 2002). She was a Public Voices fellow with the Op-Ed Project and her writing has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Dr. Reisman is currently working on a memoir in essays about the medical, cultural, and historical implications of intellectual disability through the prism of her sister, who had tuberous sclerosis.

Reisman has a BA in English from Yale College, completed Columbia’s pre-med post-bacc program, and received an MD from New York University. She plays flute in the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra and in a New Haven-based klezmer group, the Nu Haven Kapelye.