Sarah El Halabi


Sarah is a second year Psychiatry resident at Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College. She graduated medical school at the American University of Beirut in 2018. After that, she pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical ethics and professionalism at her home institution. Prior to joining residency in 2021, she graduated from the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia, where she also taught facilitation. Her interests include storytelling, grief, the intersection of the medical and psychiatric, psychotherapy and cultural psychiatry. She is also heavily involved in both narrative medicine and psychiatric education and has functioned as a reviewer for societies such as the Society for the Study of Culture and Psychiatry, in addition to being a reviewer for several journals. Creatively, she is a growing poet and fiction writer and has contributed in both genres previously to Tendon. She looks forward to reading your work and working with the Tendon team and our wonderful readers.