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Neuroscientists said humans are hardwired to understand the feelings and needs of others. The Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion studies those neural networks and teaches medical professionals to make the most of them. ....
Social Justice as Part of the Remedy for What Ails Us New center in Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion focuses on issues in health care June 03, 2021 | Scott LaFee; Mario Aguilera News release Eliminating racial inequity demands empathy and compassion, but also social justice. The newest center within the T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UC San Diego will have that focus, created to identify, understand and resolve social justice issues in health care that primarily affect racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ and under-privileged communities. “Across this country and throughout society, we face extraordinary challenges regarding racial injustice, especially those impacting marginalized members of our communities,” said Gentry Patrick, PhD, a professor of neurobiology in the Division of Biological Sciences and the newly named director of the Center for Empathy and Social Justice in Human Heal ....
AHA training aids researchers with heart-to-heart talks The American Heart Association’s Heart of Communicating Science modules are designed to help experts break complex talk into easy-to-understand language. Clinical researchers, medical professionals and other scientific minds often spend their days speaking with and listening to complex, elevated language. However, these professionals frequently need to discuss their work to public officials, patients, and other individuals, and it can be a challenge for life-sciences experts to bring technical talk down closer to a layman’s level which is necessary to make other understand. To that end, the American Heart Association (AHA) has joined with the Compassionate Practice team at TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine to offer the Heart of Communicating Science, a series of training modules geared toward helping scientists talk about and explain their work in ways that non-scientists can more r ....