Nicole M. Piemonte

Nicole M. Piemonte, PhD, is an associate dean for faculty leadership and associate professor of medical humanities at Creighton University School of Medicine. She earned her doctorate in medical humanities from the University of Texas Medical Branch, where she studied philosophy, medical ethics, literature and medicine, and medical pedagogy. Her teaching and research explore illness, mortality, vulnerability, suffering, compassion, and the role of the humanities in medical education.

Piemonte is the author of Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice, published by MIT Press in 2018. She also authored Death and Dying, published by MIT Press in 2021.