A visual artist, researcher, health humanities teacher, and skilled facilitator, Alexa has been working with medical leaders, teams, faculty, and teachers for over twenty years.

An original co-creator of Harvard Medical School’s Training the Eye program, Alexa was the first non-MD to hold a Fellowship with the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, the first Teaching Artist to hold a keynote seminar at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the owner of first company to train doctors in the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) facilitation methodology for arts engagement. Alexa grew up in an academic family believing that firsts and credentials were to be idolized, though she now laughs to tears at that and focuses on bringing what actually matters — the work of how we see, communicate, and care — to medical communities. Alexa lives, parents, and makes candles outside of New Haven, CT, where she is unable to leave during the month of May because the gardening is just too spectacular.

Alexa loves the unknown space from which art is made. And the knowledge that art brings out in others.