Evonne Kaplan-liss MD, MPH, FAAP

Evonne Kaplan-Liss, M.D., M.P.H., has joined the faculty of the TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine. Kaplan-Liss is the first-ever medical school dean dedicated solely to the training of students. As the assistant dean of Narrative Reflection and Patient Communication, Kaplan-Liss will develop curriculum and create an environment that teaches medical students to communicate more effectively with patients, colleagues, the community, media, funders, and policymakers.

Kaplan-Liss was previously the founding medical director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Kaplan-Liss is also voluntary faculty at Stony Brook Medicine as a clinical associate professor in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine and continues to speak nationally on behalf of Alda Communications Training Co. in New York City. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completing residencies in both pediatrics and preventive medicine, while also receiving her master’s in public health from Columbia University’s Mailmen School of Public Health.