This conversation was originally recorded in March 2024.
Geriatrician Mireille Norris (Temerty Medical Education Black Health Theme Lead at the University of Toronto) shares how we can continue to engage in important dialogue year-round through the arts and humanities in this conversation with Sarah Kim (Temerty Medicine Health Humanities Theme Lead at the University of Toronto). Reflecting on words that serve as an inspiration, Mireille returns to Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” in which the poet writes:
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
For Mireille, these words “remind me that I am a part of the universe and — like the universe — I am submitted to uncontrollable forces such that whatever is going on that might be hard, will not be forever.”
About Our Guest:
Mireille Norris is an internist and geriatrician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Her practice and work focuses on dementia care, fall prevention, quality improvement, and medical education.
Her interest in underrepresented physician education has been enhanced by the experience of recruiting and mentoring international medical graduates for the Hospitalist Training Program. Her own experience as a Black female French speaking physician was instrumental in empowering her trainees who are now successful in many provinces, the United States, and Europe.
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