Winship Cancer Institute Internship

This week has been an incredible culmination of all of my hard work at Winship Cancer Institute. After spending several months tirelessly recruiting new artists to come to our Arts in Health Open House/Orientation event, it finally happened. This past Friday, I held the Arts in Health Open House event at Winship, where 25 artists…

This week marked the final countdown to the Arts in Health Open House event that I am hosting on Friday, November 10th from 2:30-4:30pm at Winship. In preparation for this event, I have continued to send out invitation e-mails to all of those interested in the event, as well as reminder e-mails informing those already…

As I have mentioned in my previous posts, one aspect of my job at Winship is to evaluate and grow our current Arts in Health program. We have had this Arts in Health program for several years, but have not had the appropriate research tools to evaluate the impact of the program or to fully…

At Winship this week, my director had a conference at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Although I had known this, I assumed she would have brought in a replacement to take care of all of her “Director of Guest and Volunteer Services” duties, but that was not the case. DaVida turned to me…

  This weekend we had the Winship Win The Fight 5k Run/Walk, and it was a great success. Over 3,000 individuals participated in the race and roughly 400 volunteers helped us in making the event happen. The Guest and Volunteer Services department was in charge of preparing, organizing, and distributing all of the volunteers, as…

I love my job because working in the Resource Center, I get to interact with patients, caregivers and staff members all day. This week was a week of talking to and learning more about those around me. Now that I have been at Winship for some time, I finally have some regulars in the Resource…

The best feeling in the world is when you’ve found a field of work that you’re passionate about that also highlights all of your personal strengths. When I was young, I always told myself that my dream job would include three things: 1) I would work with different people every day, 2) I would be…

This week was eventful like no other. I usually spend most of my days in the Resource Center, either working on my research or helping volunteers and patients become acquainted with the hospital. Because I’m usually quite sedentary, I decided to wear heels to work one day, with the anticipation that I wouldn’t need to do…

Unfortunately, this week at Winship was cut short due to the destruction caused by Hurricane Irma. Thankfully, Winship itself was able to remain open with power, so those who needed to come in were able to. Experiencing Emory Hospital handle itself during a natural disaster was encouraging and powerful to witness. Every staff member rallied…

This week has been full of new beginnings. Although Labor Day provided us with a shorter work week than usual, I can’t help but feel as though we accomplished a full week’s worth of work in just four days. Starting on Tuesday, I led my first Arts in Health committee meeting. I was joined by…