Dr. Kathy May Tran

Dr. Kathy May Tran is a Vietnamese American hospital medicine doctor who serves patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a medical educator who teaches students and residents at Harvard Medical School. She is interested in writing and storytelling in the academic, professional, and personal domains, as the Associate Editor of the historic Case Records of the New England Journal of Medicine, the co-editor of the upcoming books Becoming a Better Physician (Springer) and 50 Studies Every Hospitalist Should Know (Oxford University Press), and founder and director of the storytelling series Stories of the Mass General. Dr. Tran is a community builder who prioritizes patient and workforce well-being by leading programs for arts and humanities, music and medicine, and diversity and equity. She is a founding member of the Pan Asian Pacific Alliance, a network across the Mass General Brigham system to bring together and support issues for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and director of the Happiness Committee, a healthcare initiative to build resilience and celebrate community. Dr. Tran received her education at Yale College, New York School of Medicine, and Massachusetts General Hospital Internal Medicine. When she is not working in Boston, she is traveling or serving indigenous communities and patients in Rosebud, South Dakota and Kotzebue, Alaska.