Nicole Piemonte, PhD

Assistant Dean, Student Affairs

Associate Professor

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NicolePiemonte@creighton.edu

Nicole Piemonte, PhD

Assistant Dean, Student Affairs

Associate Professor

Nicole Piemonte, PhD, is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and a faculty member in the Department of Medical Humanities at Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix Regional Campus. She also holds the Peekie Nash Carpenter Endowed Chair in Medicine at Creighton University. Nicole received her PhD in Medical Humanities from The University of Texas Medical Branch where she studied continental philosophy, medical ethics, literature and medicine, and medical pedagogy. Her current teaching and research focus on incorporating the humanities into medical education in order to cultivate future physicians who are attuned to suffering, mortality, vulnerability, and social justice.  Her first book, Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice, was published in January 2018 with The MIT Press, and her second book with The MIT Press, Death and Dying, will be released in September 2021. 
 

Teaching Interests

  • Medical Humanities, Medical Pedagogy, Medical Ethics, End-of-Life Care

Department

Medical Humanities (Phoenix)

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • The MIT Press
    Piemonte, Nicole & Shawn Abreu, MD. Death and Dying. 2021
  • MIT Press
    Nicole Piemonte, Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice 2018

Articles

  • Cancer Care Research Online
    Fisher, Carla L., Kastrinos, Amanda (student), Piemonte, Nicole, Canzona Mollie R., Wolf, Bianca & Pipe, Teri. 'Helping Diagnosed Mothers and Their Adolescent-Young Adult (AYA) Daughters Navigate Challenging Breast Cancer Conversations' 2022
  • Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
    Fisher, Carla L., Kastrinos, Amanda (student), Piemonte, Nicole, Canzona, Mollie R., Wolf, Bianca & Pipe. 'Coping with Breast Cancer Together: Challenging Topics for Mothers and Their Adolescent-Young Adult (AYA) Daughters.' 2021
  • American Medical Association Journal of Ethics
    Piemonte, Nicole & Shawn Abreu. “Some Jokes Aside: Responding to Colleagues Who Make Callous Jokes in Healthcare.” 2020
  • The Clinical Teacher
    Piemonte, Nicole. “Resiliency in Medicine: Staying Connected to What Matters Most”
    Volume 16, Issue 4, p. 423-425 2019
  • The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation
    Piemonte, Nicole. “Turning Back to Oneself: Cultivating Vulnerability and Humility in the Health Professions.” 2019
  • Routledge
    Piemonte, Nicole. “Medical Slang: A Solution or Symptom?” In Handbook of Medical Humanities, edited by Alan Bleakley., p. Chapter 14 2019
  • Oxford University Press
    Piemonte, Nicole, & Kumagai, Arno.  “Teaching for Humanism: Engaging Humanities to Foster Critical Dialogues in Medical Education,” in Teaching Health Humanities, edited by Olivia Banner, Nathan Carlin, and Tom Cole., p. Chapter 2 2019
  • Journal of Medical Humanities
    Robert, Jason, Piemonte, Nicole, & Truten, Jack. “The Reflective Scribe.”
    Volume 39, Issue 4, p. 447-454 2018
  • Rowman and Littlefield
    Piemonte, Nicole and Ramsey, Eric Ramsey. “Health Like a Broken Hammer, or the Strange Wish to Make Health Disappear.” In Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness., p. Chapter 14 2017
  • Journal of Medical Humanities
    Fletcher, Erica & Piemonte, Nicole.  “Beyond the Paradox of Neoliberalism: Cultivating Quiet Subversion in Service-Learning and Curriculum Development for the Pre-Health Humanities.”
    Volume 38, Issue 4, p. 397-407 2017
  • The Review of Communication
    Piemonte, Nicole. “How the Medical Humanities Can Inform Health Communication Studies.”  
    Volume 17, Issue 3, p. 137-148 2017
  • Journal of Clinical Ethics
    McCammon, Susan, MD. & Piemonte, Nicole. “Continuous Palliative Sedation Until Death Should Not Be an Option of First Resort.”
    Volume 25, Issue 2, p. 124-134 2015
  • Peter Lang
    Waldron, Vince. Danaher, Joshua, Goman, C., Piemonte, Nicole, & Kloeber, Dayna. “Which Parental Messages about Morality are Accepted by Emerging Adults?” In Good Relationships: Moral Communication Across the Lifespan, p. Chapter 3 2015
  • Macmillian Reference USA
    Spike, Jeffrey & Piemonte, Nicole. "Persistent Vegetative State." In Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource. Ed. J. Britt Holbrook. 
    2nd ed., Volume 3, p. 356-359 2015
  • Journal of Family Communication
    Waldron, Vince, Kloeber, Dayna, Goman, Carmen, Piemonte, Nicole, & Danaher, J. “How Parents Communicate Right and Wrong: A Study of Memorable Moral Messages Recalled by Emerging Adults.”
    Volume 14, Issue 4, p. 374-397 2014
  • Hastings Center Report
    Piemonte, Nicole, & Hermer, Laura. (July/Aug. 2013). “Avoiding a ‘Death Panel’ Redux.”
    Volume 43, Issue 4, p. 20-28 2013
  • Journal of Business Communication
    Kassing, Jeffrey, Piemonte, Nicole, Goman, Carmen, & Mitchell, Curtis. “Dissent Expression as an Indicator of Work Engagement and Intention to Leave.”
    Volume 49, Issue 3, p. 237-253 2012
  • Liu, Jonathan, & Piemonte, Nicole. "Managing Challenges in Medical School: A Qualitative Study on Medical Student Resiliency." -0001
  • Perspectives on Medical Education
    Liu, Jonathan, Liu, Jonathan & Piemonte, Nicole. 'Opening Up: Medical Student Resiliency and the Need for Vulnerability,” submitted for review to Perspectives on Medical Education. -0001
  • Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies
    Michalec, Barret, Michalec, Barret, Piemonte, Nicole, & Hafferty, Fred.'The Elephant in the Room:Examining the Connections between Humility and Social Status.' Journal of Humanities & Social Studies. 3[4]: 72-79, p. 72-79 -0001
  • Journal of Medical Humanities
    Nicole Piemonte, PIemonte, Nicole. “Last Laughs: Gallows Humor and Medical Education.” Journal of Medical Humanities 36:375–390.
    36, p. 375-390 -0001
  • Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding
    Michalec, Barret, Michalec, Barret, Piemonte, Nicole, Jon Tilburt, and Frederic Hafferty. (Forthcoming 2021). “Humility: A Case Study in the Relevance of Philosophy for 21st Century Health Professions Education,” in Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding, edited by Megan EL Brown, Mario Veen, Gabrielle M. Finn. -0001
  • Journal of Physical Therapy Education
    Berg-Carramusa, Cara A., Mucha, Matthew D., Somers, Kimberly, & Piemonte, Nicole. “The Time is Now: Leveraging the Affective Domain in Physical Therapy Education and Clinical Practice' -0001
  • Teaching and Learning in Medicine
    Smith, James, Piemonte, Nicole. “The Curious Persistence of Tiered Grading in Medical School' -0001
  • Greenfield, Bruce, Piemonte, Nicole, Jensen, Gail & Caston, Sarah. “Turning Toward Suffering: Rethinking Physical Therapy Education” -0001
  • Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions
    Berg, Ingrid , Piemonte, Nicole. (Forthcoming) 'Cultivating Clinical Reasoning: The Need for the Health Humanities' -0001
  • MedEd Portal - AAMC
    Raj, Jaya, Piemonte, Nicole, & Kristina Chapple. "Time to Take Action: Empowering Trainees through Education about Sexual Harassment."

Publications

  • “Death, Suffering, and the Medical Humanities.” Television Interview with Lisa New. Center for the Public Humanities, Arizona State University and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) 2022
  • Nicole Piemonte, Death And Dying in Healthcare. The Preventative Medicine Podcast. Interview with Ragav Sharma 2022
  • Nicole Piemonte, “The White Coat Ceremony.” The Level Up Podcast. Interview with Zachary Gabor 2022
  • Nicole Piemonte, “Taking a Different Approach to Death and Dying.” In the Moment Podcast. Townhall Seattle. Interview with Steve Scher 2021
  • Nicole Piemonte, “Humanities in Healthcare: Parts 1 and 2.” Podcast episode. Waves: The Official Podcast of the American Physical Therapy Association Michigan Chapter. Interview with Andy Wicks and Katharine Cline 2021
  • Nicole Piemonte, 'Cultivating the Habits at the Heart of Patients Care.' Podcast episode. Healing Pain. https://www.integrativepainscienceinstitute.com/podcasts 2021
  • “Cultivating the Habits at the Heart of Patient Care.” Podcast episode. Healing Pain Podcast. Interview with Joe Tatta. https://www.integrativepainscienceinstitute.com/podcasts/ 2021
  • Nicole Piemonte, “Rethinking the Humanities in Medical Education.” The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities. Online magazine. www.thepolyphony.org. 2021
  • QJM
    Nicole Piemonte, Piemonte, Nicole. Interview by Lila MacLellan. “Should We be Testing Doctors for Empathy?” Quartz. October 24, 2019. https://qz.com/work/1726642/should-we-test-medical-school-applicants-for-empathy. 2019
  • Nicole Piemonte, “Embedding the Humanities into Medical Education: How Embracing Vulnerability can Transform Healthcare.” Podcast episode. The Level Up Initiative. www.thelevelupinitiative.mykajabi.com 2019
  • The MIT Press
    Piemonte, Nicole. Annotation contributor to annotated text of Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein, intended for students in STEM education. 2017
  • Piemonte, Nicole. “When Suffering Heals: How Embracing Our Shared Vulnerability Can Revolutionize Medical Education and Practice.” 2015
  • Creighton Magazine
    Nicole Piemonte, Interview by Micah Mertes. “We are More than Molecules. Creighton Magazine. Feature article on the medical humanities. Creighton Magazine. Spring 2020. http://www.creighton.edu/creightonmagazine/2020sprfeaturewearemorethanmolecules/ -0001
  • Nicole Piemonte, “Patients at the End of Life: What You Need to Know.” Webinar. The American Medical Association (AMA) Student Group. www.facebook.com/groups/AMAmedstudents/ -0001
  • Omaha World-Herald
    Nicole Piemonte, Interview by Rick Ruggles. “Humanities, Medicine Merge In New UNO Program As More Schools Recognize Benefits To Patients, Providers.” Omaha World-Herald. Newspaper. -0001

Editing and Reviews

  • Hastings Center Report
    Piemonte, Nicole, & Hermer, Laura. “The Authors Reply.”
    Volume 44, Issue 2, p. 4 2015