From Clinic to Page

Margaret (Maggie) studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Princeton University and medicine at the University of Chicago. Her poems, vignettes, and personal essays have been published in The Pharos, The Lancet Psychiatry, The New England Journal of Medicine, and others. She is an active member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, the Loft Literary Center and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

Always working to bridge science and humanities, Maggie is a practicing physician and researcher in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. She leads narrative health seminars for scientists and medical providers at Health Partners and is working to develop a system-wide program in medical humanities.

In her medical career, publishing scientific writing under the name, Margaret B. Nolan, she has a background in Family Medicine, social epidemiology, and General Preventive Medicine/Public Health. Prior to her current position at HealthPartners Institute, Dr. Nolan was a Physician Scientist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, where she had a particular interest in clinical tobacco dependence treatment in cancer patients and traditionally hard-to-reach populations. She was also Associate Director of the University of Wisconsin Preventive Medicine Residency Program. During her post-doctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, her clinical research focused on tobacco dependence treatment in surgical patients and medically complex populations. Other areas of interest include chronic disease epidemiology, risk management, and behavioral or pharmaceutical interventions for chronic disease prevention.

Maggie was born and raised in Minnesota and Maine, and now spends her time in both places with her husband, three children and a rescue dog.