About Therese Zink M.D.
Dr. Therese Zink is a family physician, teacher, researcher, gardener, outdoor lover, and writer. She tries to do it all. Moving toward retirement, she continues to teach premedical and medical students at Brown University and cares for patients in a community clinic network in Providence, Rhode Island. Between 2019 and 2022 she was a US Fulbright Scholar in Nablus, Palestine where she worked with faculty and students to enhance their teaching and qualitative research skills. Many of those relationships continue virtually which gives her unique insight into the current Middle East War.
Writing is relegated to the mornings and Zink writes “to stay sane” in today’s crazy world and to process the privilege of knowing so much about people’s lives. She continues to help medical students write up their experiences as student doctors and she edited an anthology in Minnesota (2012). Zink’s stories have been published in lay magazines, literary and medical journals, and several anthologies. She has edited two collections, compiled a book of stories and pens the Dr. Ann McLannly Global Health Books which are based on her international health work. During vacations, leaves, and between jobs, she doctored on the Navajo reservation, in Latin America, and the former Soviet Union, including a stint with Doctors Without Borders.
A Midwest girl most of her life, Zink was born in southwestern Ohio, attended college in Milwaukee Wisconsin, medical school in Columbus Ohio and completed her family medicine residency training in St. Paul Minnesota. While providing clinical care and teaching, she spent 10 years researching how to improve care for families living with domestic violence, and another 10 years examining rural medical education outcomes. After hiking the Camino de Santiago in Spain with her partner Reed she landed in Rhode Island, the Ocean State, where she kayaks in Narragansett Bay, monitors Osprey nests for RI Audubon, and is in awe of the theater of sunrises and rainstorms.
Zink is available for speaking engagements and workshops. Writing and reflection have helped her be a better doctor and human being.
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