Nancy E. Cochran, MD
Associate Professor
Nan developed (> 20 years ago) On Doctoring, the interviewing and physical diagnosis course at Geisel. She received the Schumann Fellowship in 1999 to learn and teach motivational interviewing. She has done research in how to integrate shared decision making into primary care settings and how to teach SDM communication skills to clinicians and students.
She has studied negotiation through two courses at Harvard Law School. As a faculty member and president-elect of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare, she does faculty development and consulting in the areas of team building, negotiation and conflict management, motivational interviewing and shared decision making.
Nan would be happy to mentor faculty in the areas of facilitating small groups, designing communications curricula, mentoring and teaching communication skills such as shared decision making, motivational interviewing, conflict management and providing feedback.