She has also been a contributing editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. In the last 15 years she’s devoted an increasing amount of time to writing poetry, and received an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in January, 2014. Her work has appeared in The Bellevue Literary Review, The Gettysburg Review, JAMA, Passager, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and is forthcoming in Gargoyle. She is married to Walter Weiss, a doctor and former med school classmate, and has two grown sons. She and her husband volunteer at a safety net clinic in Montgomery County, Md., and teach part-time as adjunct faculty at Georgetown University School of Medicine.