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Yale Caribe | The Creativity Choice: From Ideas to Making Them Happen
Join the Yale community in Puerto Rico for community building and scholarship. All are welcome!
The Yale community in the Caribbean and beyond is invited to join the Yale Club of Puerto Rico for a series of events to connect, reconnect, build community, and hear from Yale faculty. Enjoy one event or all of the events planned for this celebration of the reinvigoration of the Yale Club of Puerto Rico and the Yale community in the Caribbean.
📅Saturday, February 21 | The Creativity Choice: From Ideas to Making Them Happen, featuring Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the author of The Creativity Choice
⏰10:00 am to 12:00 p.m.
📍Location: AC Hotel San Juan Condado, 1369 Ashford Ave, San Juan
About Our Speakers
Ann Arthur, MD, the proud daughter of Grenadian immigrants, was born and raised in the vibrant borough of Brooklyn, New York. She pursued her undergraduate studies at Brown University, earning a bachelor's degree in political science. Fueled by a desire to serve and improve healthcare, she obtained her medical degree from Yale University. Dr. Arthur began her professional journey with an internship at St. Vincent's Medical Center in New York City. She then completed her residency in the Department of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and specialized further with a fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.
For over 28 years, Dr. Arthur was the sole owner of Park Slope Eye Care Associates in Brooklyn, New York. She currently performs surgical procedures at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and practices medicine part-time with the distinguished team at Union Square Eye Care in New York City. Dr. Arthur is deeply committed to educational opportunity and community service. She has volunteered extensively as a teacher and physician, both domestically and internationally. Her dedication to fostering opportunities led her to establish and serve as a founding board member for multiple student scholarships. She has also co-chaired the diversity and community engagement committee at Brooklyn Technical High, contributed her expertise to the NYS Board for Professional Medical Conduct, and led as PTA president at PS 11 in Brooklyn.
In 2023, Dr. Arthur returned to Yale School of Medicine to serve as the inaugural Director of Alumni Engagement. Dr. Arthur's passion lies in the intersection of healthcare, advocacy, equity, education, philanthropy, and community building.
Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the author of The Creativity Choice. Zorana studies the role of emotion, emotional intelligence, and self-regulation in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills.Her work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, NPR, Big Think, US News, Forbes, Fast Company, Investors Business Daily, Vox, and others, and she speaks at and works with organizations such as Pintrest, Lego, Oglivy, Facebook, and others. Substack newsletter: https://creativitydecision.substack.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zorana-ivcevic-pringle/
Marietta Vazquez, MD, was drawn to her field of pediatric infectious diseases during the AIDS epidemic. “I was a medical student in the early 1990s, when AIDS was still a new infection we knew very little about,” Dr. Vazquez says. Fortunately, the last congenitally infected HIV patient at Yale New Haven Hospital was more than 10 years ago, Dr. Vazquez notes. Now, she treats a variety of infections, from the commonly seen cases of ear infections, pneumonia, and respiratory infections to more rare and complicated conditions, including meningitis, brain and bone infections.
In addition to infectious diseases, Dr. Vazquez practices general pediatrics at the Primary Care Center and runs the Yale Clinic for Hispanic Children (YCHiC) for families with children up to 1 year old. “We run everything in Spanish, and we provide a service to the community in a way that is culturally competent,” she says. “I love the variety of what I do, that I can go from taking care of someone who is very ill to sitting down and talking with parents about vaccinating a very healthy baby to celebrating culture, music, and food while providing child care at YCHiC.”
Dr. Vazquez’s research focuses on vaccines, and she is also involved in global health studies, mostly examining issues such as gastroenteritis in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is an associate professor of general pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and is vice chair of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Department of Pediatrics.
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