Bio


Jennifer H. Pien is a Clinical Associate Professor and Stanford Medical Humanities & Arts faculty through the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. She is the Director of Health Narratives at Stanford: The Pegasus Physician Writers, Founder of The Pegasus Review, and is on the faculty editorial team for the Oxford Review of Books x Stanford collaboration. She also serves on the Advisory Board for The Bellevue Literary Press and the Stanford School of Medicine Medical Humanities Fellowship. Her forthcoming debut novel is represented by Lisa Grubka, United Talent Agency, and her nonfiction work is represented by Amy Collins, Talcott Notch Literary. In addition to her work in Medical Humanities, her interests include advocacy for adults with developmental disabilities where she cofounded Puente Clinic through the San Mateo County Medical System, an innovative dev. disabilities subspecialty clinic. She serves on the Regional Advisory Committee to the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities. Currently, her clinical work is in physician well-being through the WellConnect team.

Clinical Focus


  • Psychiatry

Academic Appointments


Administrative Appointments


  • Regional Advisory Committee Member, State Council on Developmental Disabilities (2023 - Present)
  • Director, Pegasus Physician Writers (2022 - Present)
  • Associate Director, Pegasus Physician Writers (2019 - 2022)
  • Affiliated Faculty, Stanford Medical Humanities & Arts (2018 - Present)

Honors & Awards


  • George C. Gulevich Award-humanistic values, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine (2005)
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Member, Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Society (2001)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations


  • Executive Board Director, Pegasus Physician Writers (2022 - Present)
  • Stanford Faculty Editorial Board, Oxford Review of Books (2023 - Present)
  • Advisory Board Member, Bellevue Literary Press (2023 - Present)
  • Advisory Board Member, Stanford School of Medicine Medical Humanities Fellowship (2023 - Present)

Professional Education


  • Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Psychiatry (2007)
  • Residency: Stanford University Adult Psychiatry Residency (2005) CA
  • Medical Education: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (2001) IL
  • BA, Northwestern University, Molecular Biology-HPME (Honors Program in Medical Education) Accelerated BA/MD combined program (1996)

All Publications


  • SUSTAINING A PHYSICIAN CREATIVE WRITING COMMUNITY: CORE CREATIVE WRITING COMPETENCIES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM 15 YEARS OF THE PEGASUS PHYSICIAN WRITERS PROGRAM AT STANFORD Pien, J., Schlozman, S., Ali, T. K., Jamaal, A., Bucknor, M., Srinivasan, M. SPRINGER. 2023: S787-S788
  • Sustaining a physician creative writing community: Core competencies and lessons learned from 15 years of the Pegasus Physician Writers Program at Stanford Hawaii Regional Conference Society of General Internal Medicine Pien, J., Ali, T., Schlozman, S., Jamal, A., Bucknor, M., Srinivasan, M. 2023
  • The Healing Power of Storytelling Pien , J. H. Northwestern Medicine Magazine. Chicago, Illinois. 2022
  • The Pegasus Review The Pegasus Review edited by Pien , J. 2022; 2
  • The Pegasus Review The Pegasus Review edited by Pien , J. 2019; 1
  • Untitled Pien, J. Boston Poetry Magazine. Boston, MA. 2014
  • Untitled Pien , J. East Coast Literary Review. Baltimore, MD. 2014
  • Termination in Inpatient and Residential Settings A Clinician's Guide: Termination in Psychotherapy Harris, K., Pien-Wong, J., Cucciare, M. A. edited by O'Donohue, W. T. 2007: 425-444
  • Weight Gain and Atypical Antipsychotics Directions in Psychiatry Wirshing, D. A., Boyd, J., Pien, J., Wirshing, W. C. 2000; 20
  • The Community Re-Entry Program for Schizophrenia: Neurocognitive and Psychopathologic Correlates of Treatment Response Annual Meeting of West Coast Biological Psychiatry Wirshing, D. A., Gonzalez, L., Rossoto, E., Watson, J., Smurda, J., Sokolov, J., Ballon, J., Pien, J., Marder, S., Wirshing, W. 2000
  • Mechanism underlying the aluminum-induced potentiation of the prooxidant properties of transition metals. Neurotoxicology Bondy, S., Guo-Ross, S., Pien, J. 1998; 19 (1): 65-71
  • Effects of Aging and Gender Estimated by IN VIVO Probes of Cytochrome P450 3A American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research Annual Scientific Session Pien, J., Slimko, J., Schwartz, J. 1998