Alisha Kaplan is a poet, educator, and narrative medicine practitioner. Using the arts, she works with health professionals and patients to reinvigorate medicine with care and humanity. Alisha has an MFA in Poetry from New York University and an MSc in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She teaches Health Humanities at the University of Toronto and creative writing with the Writers Collective of Canada. Alisha is a recipient of a Post-Graduate Fellowship in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University and the Hippocrates Prize in Poetry and Medicine. Her book, Qorbanot, won the Gerald Lampert Award from the League of Canadian Poets.