nancy chedid

 

Nancy Chedid’s career has straddled music and medicine, Boston and Lebanon, surgical practice and didactic teaching.  She completed her MD at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For two decades she practiced hand surgery and reconstructive plastic surgery at the hospitals of Harvard Medical School. With expertise in the management of difficult wounds in diabetic patients, she contributed to the definitive text on this subject, The Diabetic Foot.  She collaborated on numerous interdisciplinary design projects with biomedical engineers in Boston, and she founded that city’s first networking and focus group for women surgeons and surgeons-in-training.

Dr. Chedid’s “pre-med” degree was a BA from Yale University, where she graduated with Honors in Music.  As a medical student and as a resident in surgery, she sang with the choruses of the Baltimore Symphony and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  She continues to donate musical performances in support of LAU’s Medical Student Association, and she is an invited lecturer at the School of Arts and Sciences on the topic of the relationship between music and medicine.  Dr. Chedid is an avid writer of prose and in 2015 published the memoir Snow on the Barbecue, and Other Wonders of Everyday Life in Lebanon.

At present she devotes most of her time to the teaching of medical students – the best job in the world.  Having gained notoriety at the medical school for her repeated references to the arts, literature, and tales drawn from her own experiences, Dr. Chedid now hopes to make constructive use of these impulses, and develop a proper program in Narrative Medicine.