Our Team

Janet Greenhut, MD, mph

Dr. Greenhut is a physician who specializes in preventive medicine. She has 20 years of experience creating digital health programs that have helped people with chronic illnesses improve their quality of life. She is currently Medical Director at IndividuALLytics, Inc., bringing precision medicine to patients with chronic conditions (individuallytics.com). With Elaine Emeth, she is co-author of The Wholeness Handbook: Care of Body, Mind, and Spirit for Optimal Health. 

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Ryan Hart, pHD

Ryan earned his master’s degree in the graduate philosophy program at KU Leuven in Belgium and his PhD at the Institute of Medical Humanities at University of Texas Medical Branch. His work aims to integrate phenomenological philosophy as stimulus and vehicle for better understanding lived experiences of illness.

 
 
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Idelle Hammond-Sass

Idelle Hammond-Sass is a working artist and educator living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was born in Brooklyn, NY and did undergraduate work in painting and sculpture at the Philadelphia College of Art, earning her BFA in Painting from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975. Idelle has been a Facilitator of the Open Studio Process, since 2013. She did her facilitator training at the Open Studio Project in Evanston, Illinois. She offers workshops based on the Open Studio Process model, combining writing and art making. 

For over 30 years she has run a successful Jewelry Design business while expanding and sharing her abilities through jewelry classes and creativity workshops. Her website is www.idellehammond-sass.com

 

Emily Hiber, MSW

Emily Hiber is a Metro-Detroit native who has lived in Ann Arbor for over 20 years. She earned a BA at Michigan State University, with a major in English Literature and minors in Studio Art and Sociology. After several years of working in the service industry, Emily returned to school and earned her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan. Her studies were geared toward Aging Populations, with a concentration in palliative care.

More recently Emily worked at Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit, where she provided supportive and therapeutic services for older adults and Holocaust survivors. Currently she has a private practice, offering therapeutic services to adults of all ages. Emily's focus has remained Person-Centered and Trauma-Informed as she supports her clients by meeting them “where they are," endeavoring to preserve their dignity, respect, and right to self-determination.

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Havi Carel, Ph.D.

Havi's curriculum vitae can be found at through the Bristol University website. We’re incredibly grateful for the intellectual contributions and continued consultancy from Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol who also teaches at the Bristol School of Medicine.  She was awarded the Senior Investigator Award by the Wellcome Trust, for a five year project entitled 'Life of Breath.' (www.lifeofbreath.org)

She is the author of Phenomenology of Illness (2015) & Illness: Cry of the Flesh (2013). In addition to her books, her publications on the embodied experience of illness, well-being within illness, and patient-clinician communication have greatly contributed to the intellectual foundation of our workshop.   In "Phenomenology as a resource for patients," she articulated a phenomenology toolkit and her experiences of applying it in a workshop setting.